PFT: Jeff Fisher on Cowboys' video board: "No one's to blame"

[adamknite]

Vince Young had a great game against us considering they didn't gameplan, he even said so.

We had this preseason game circled on our calendars since our debacle in Philadelphia. Hell, we even had AUDIBLES which completely shocked the Titans defense and they weren't prepared for it. You never see audibles in preseason games!

We are just lucky that they didn't gameplan for us or throw any semblance of a gameplan together at all. They had a single sheet of paper that contained all 20 of their defensive and offensive plays, and that's all they used.

They felt obligated to let us win our first game in our new stadium. It was a nice gesture by them but things would be much different in the Super Bowl.

 

[TNCowboy]

Jeff Fisher is an idiot and a few other names that would be filtered.

Hardly. He's kept a competitive team in Tennessee for a long time, in spite of usually not having a great deal of talent. Amazing that he got them to the playoffs last year essentially without a QB.

His team got its collective tail kicked the other night. He's using anything - even something as insignificant as a one play do-over - to deflect attention off of the poor play of his team. They've talked a lot more in Nashville and on ESPN about the Cowboys' video screen than they have how the AFC's best team during the regular season last year got their hats handed to them by the Cowboys, especially their starting defense. Fisher keeps it in the news and keeps a little heat off his team. He also made some comments about the speaker system, but that's hardly as compelling as the ball hitting the scoreboard.

 

[YosemiteSam]

Lmao...not even close.

...but it is funny to think about those things. My buddy (turns 35 in Dec.) is getting married to a 24 year old early next year, and I always bring up little facts like "when your girl was born, you were sporting a mullet and a pre-teen stoosh....smoking cigs behind the school and comparing notes based on first hand experience on all of the cheerleaders at football practice".

Never gets old.

My wife is 9 years older than I. :laugh2:

 

[speedkilz88]

Hardly. He's kept a competitive team in Tennessee for a long time, in spite of usually not having a great deal of talent. Amazing that he got them to the playoffs last year essentially without a QB.

His team got its collective tail kicked the other night. He's using anything - even something as insignificant as a one play do-over - to deflect attention off of the poor play of his team. They've talked a lot more in Nashville and on ESPN about the Cowboys' video screen than they have how the AFC's best team during the regular season last year got their hats handed to them by the Cowboys, especially their starting defense. Fisher keeps it in the news and keeps a little heat off his team. He also made some comments about the speaker system, but that's hardly as compelling as the ball hitting the scoreboard.

It's pretty indisputable with statements like that in bold.

Fisher guessed that, in planning the structure, the Cowboys relied on language contained in "a game operations book from 40 or 50 years ago."

As we've heard it, however, teams aren't left to their own devices when planning and building stadiums. A league source told us the day after A.J. Trapasso shtoinked a punt off the bottom of the video contraption that the league approves every minute detail of the design and construction of a new stadium.

 

[YosemiteSam]

Where's your humor radar, nyc?:laugh2:

I don't need a radar, I find everything humorous!

<-- should have added this after my last post

On this board, It's a must. Some of these posters write completely asinine stuff and aren't attempting to be funny! :laugh2:

 

[TNCowboy]

It's pretty indisputable with statements like that in bold.

No, it isn't. He may have no idea what the Cowboys relied on, and his lack of that knowledge doesn't make him an idiot. But, even if he asserts that the Cowboys got the plans off a cracker jack box, it has very little to do with his teams' preparations for the season, and I doubt he's concerned about the screen from his position on the competition committee. It doesn't affect his team at all. The only reason he even discussed it is to keep the focus off what happened in the other 100 or so plays last week.

 

[Jay]

No, it isn't. He may have no idea what the Cowboys relied on, and his lack of that knowledge doesn't make him an idiot. But, even if he asserts that the Cowboys got the plans off a cracker jack box, it has very little to do with his teams' preparations for the season, and I doubt he's concerned about the screen from his position on the competition committee. It doesn't affect his team at all. The only reason he even discussed it is to keep the focus off what happened in the other 100 or so plays last week.

I disagree. His comments come off as being ridiculously uninformed, and for a person who is co-chair of the competition committee, it goes without saying that he should realize that the league has to approve everything.

He's trying to keep the focus off his team's crappy performance? As if his team would receive that much media scrutiny?

What's he going to do during film session this week? Loop the punt that hit the screen for 3 hours?

 

[YosemiteSam]

Guys, get over it. I already told you. He is just pissed at Jerry for getting that draft pick back in the Pacman trade. :bang2:

 

[WoodysGirl]

Martz, Mooch get candid regard Cowboys video board

Posted by Tom Curran on August 25, 2009 2:37 PM ET

If a league-sponsored network is going to succeed, it can't be a house organ. And while, if we really ruminated on it, we could come up with a few puff pieces done by NFL Network in its five-plus years of existence, the channel and its analysts are overwhelmingly candid when discussing potentially dicey issues.

Earlier this afternoon, Mike Martz and Steve Mariucci provided another example of that when they shot it straight regarding the Cowboys video board.

The two ex-coaches, featured on a conference call to hype the newly-formed NFL Head Coaches Show, which will air on Monday nights, were asked by Sam Farmer of the L.A. Times what they'd be saying if they were in the meeting that aimed at neutralizing the Great Punt Blocker in the Sky.

"It's a no-brainer," said Mariucci, who previously coached the 49ers and the Lions. "Move it up. I don't know when they set that standard that [anything over the field had to be at least] 85 feet, maybe back in the '30s? They need to find a way to move that up. It's that simple. To spend over a billion dollars to have this problem is . . . amazing."

Martz, who coached the Rams before working as offensive coordinator in Detroit and San Fran, then chimed in by saying, "It's a distraction to the game and shouldn't be tolerated. The game wasn't created to kick and throw around obstacles. It just has to be fixed."

Given his candor on the conference call, Martz is going to be pretty good viewing.

Fired by the 49ers from his offensive coordinator's position after last season, Martz acknowledged that Niners QB Shaun Hill "digests things much better than he appeared to in practice" and that "[Hill] appeared kind of tentative at times but the more he played, the more of a fan and believer he made of me."

As for Alex Smith, who was passed over for the starter's job in favor of Hill, Martz said, "I'd like to see him get another opportunity to start. The biggest issue with the Niners is all [his] history there is not real good history. He probably, ultimately, needs to go to another team. He deserves another opportunity. He can play but it would help him be in another environment. He needs to go find another team and start over again."

Martz, after being fired three times in three years, is starting over again with a very different team. It might be a role in which he flourishes.

 

[Arch Stanton]

I mean...what the hell...it's my damn birthday....and I'M the one peeling shrimp? This **** aint right!

Happy Birthday T75!

 

[links18]

I here I thought we had escaped the soap opera/drama only to have to deal with this video board flap.

 

[Plumfool]

I here I thought we had escaped the soap opera/drama only to have to deal with this video board flap.

Gotta generate something negative in Dallas

 

[Teague31]

given how crappy his team looked the other night, fisher has bigger problems than OUR video board.

 

[BrassCowboy]

Sorry RW.....I'm gonna have to use smileys.

Yeah...I was more or less entertaining myself with my sherlock homie impersonation. I've been peeling 10 lbs of shrimp for the last hour...I need some break in the monotony.

I actually don't give two ****s about this entire situation. Doesn't bother me one way or the other....

You have heard of sarcasm right?

ok settle down here, I was afraid it would be sarcasm so I took it easy on ya...

but look what I found so I'm alll good now --> :sarcasm:

 

[LeonDixson]

I mean...what the hell...it's my damn birthday....and I'M the one peeling shrimp? This **** aint right!

Happy Birthday, tomson75! Do you have to cook the shrimp too?

 

[Everlastingxxx]

You know what? I think the Stadium is beautiful, i love the video board. Most Cowboy fans are thrilled with it. I say they can go **** themselves. Jealous jerks. Don’t move it, they can adjust to our home field.

 

[WoodysGirl]

You know what? I think the Stadium is beautiful, i love the video board. Most Cowboy fans are thrilled with it. I say they can go **** themselves. Jealous jerks. Don’t move it, they can adjust to our home field.

 

[DallasEast]

Three days ago -

Before the game the Titans punter was hitting it over and over again. I think it is poor planning by Jerry Jones. I think this thing is going to be hit at least once a game. They need to move it up.

Two days ago -

Jones knew it was concern, that’s why he had the soccer guys trying to kick it and watched the Titan punters in pre-game. They knew it was too low. So if this was a huge miscalculation...i wouldn’t trust standing under it.

Today -

You know what? I think the Stadium is beautiful, i love the video board. Most Cowboy fans are thrilled with it. I say they can go **** themselves. Jealous jerks. Don’t move it, they can adjust to our home field.

 

[bbgun]

You know what? I think the Stadium is beautiful, i love the video board. Most Cowboy fans are thrilled with it. I say they can go **** themselves. Jealous jerks. Don’t move it, they can adjust to our home field.

Jeez. You'd think the NFL asked Jones to sacrifice his first-born son or something. Only Jerry could turn a simple, sensible request into a Civil War.

 

[DFWJC]

Jeff Fisher is an idiot and a few other names that would be filtered.

LOL I'm sure your kidding. Fisher is one the best coaches in the league and has a pretty good rep as a stand-up, no nonsense guy. He can hurl a joke out there every once in awhile.

I'm sure you already know that, seeing that you're a fan of the NFL ad that is fairly universal knowledge.....just doggin'the guy, I guess...which is all in good fun.