RECAP: Crayton calling out Garrett? *Merge*

[Mr Cowboy]

Blame whoever you want, but ultimately the payers have to execute the plays that are called. We have stupid player on offense, who can rarely go an entire drive without doing something really stupid. A false start, a holding, tripping or other penalty, a missed block or blitz pick up causing a sack or rushed throw.

Go back and look at the 12 drives yesterday and all but 3 had one of these stupid things occur. Our offense isn't playing well enough to continously overcome these mistakes.

They are discipline mistakes, and they have been around for a long time. Ifthese players were to play mistake free football, Red Jesus would be a genious again.

 

[ScipioCowboy]

Crayton's behavior here is symptomatic of a major problem on this team: Players feel perfectly comfortable calling out and publicly criticizing coaches and play calling.

This is indicative of a lack of discipline and respect. It's also indicative of upper management that is far too personally involved with the players.

Regardless of whether or not Crayton is right, this is not his place -- at least not in a public venue.

 

[DallasEast]

I'm sitting back almost lauging in tears at what I'm reading, seems like the Irony has been lost from this thread.

A player calling out a coach, we hated that last year.

For what it's worth, I feel that you have every right to boast and point fingers in this regard.

 

[Vegas_Cowboy]

Yikes. GAC just played a clip of Tom Brady wondering what the heck we were doing throwing at Champ Bailey twice with the game on the line. He was watching the game because they play Denver next week, and said you want to avoid Champ as much as possible.

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I never thought I could hate a Cowboys coach as much as I'm starting to hate Garrett.

 

[Big Dakota]

Yikes. GAC just played a clip of Tom Brady wondering what the heck we were doing throwing at Champ Bailey twice with the game on the line. He was watching the game because they play Denver next week, and said you want to avoid Champ as much as possible.

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They threw out a stat earlier in the day, we threw 16 times at Champ

Holy hell that's gotta be the dumbest thing i've seen in a while.

 

[casmith07]

He was questioning why we went away from the run in the second half during an interview today. Listening on GAC.

Brian Broaddus is agreeing with Crayton. Crayton was saying that they have five "Freaks of Nature" up front that want to run the ball and two backs that can run it between the tackles. They were trying to grind out a win on the road, so why go away from running it?

He also said that the offense can't hang the defense out to dry like they did. Didn't point any fingers at any players that I heard.

Just caught another piece: Paraphrasing here, but Crayton said that the game was not Romo's fault and that he was tired of the game always being placed on Romo's shoulders to be the savior or the goat. He said the line was handling the defense in the run game and they should have leaned on them more in the second half.

He's absolutely right.

 

[dbair1967]

Not if it leads to a possible Mike holmgren running the show with say a jon gruden calling plays?

Gruden is not going to take a job as an offensive coordinator.

and guess what, holmgren knows how to draft lineman and wr....our nemesis.

I dont know that Holmgren really knows anything about personnel. He was so bad at it in Seattle that he was stripped of those duties, and he didnt do it in GB.

 

[dbair1967]

He's absolutely right.

As someone else posted, 10 carries or whatever it was for less than 2.0 yds a carry isnt cause to keep running the ball in the second half.

On the other hand, had they even been having mediocre success running, I'm sure he would have kept doing it. But the vast majority of the run plays in the 2nd half, and probably the few we tried in the 2nd qtr were not successful run plays.

Denver geared up to take away the run game. They gambled that Romo couldnt beat them, and they were right. We're gonna see alot more of it till Romo gets things going well again. If your QB cant hit the broad side of a barn door, your in trouble.

 

[Everlastingxxx]

Also, on the Fox pregame show, Strahan mentioned that they never understand why the Cowboys didn’t run the ball more with that big O-line.

We are long over-due for a coaching change. And not just Wade.

 

[WoodysGirl]

Patrick Crayton wants more runs
5:07 PM Mon, Oct 05, 2009 | Permalink | Yahoo! Buzz
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It's not very often a wide receiver calls for the offense to run the ball more but that's what Patrick Crayton said Monday.

Yes, Crayton would like more passes, but he called the Cowboys' offensive line, "five freaks of nature."

"They love to have their shoulder pads going forward instead of having to take steps backward," Crayton said. "You've got to feel confident in your line and pound it up there. They're able to handle that, keep putting it on them. A lot people are going to keep putting it on [Tony] Romo and it's not Romo's fault. His line can protect him but take the ball out of his hands so you don't put it all on him. He's either going to be the savior or the scapegoat. I'm tired of him being the scapegoat. You guys [the media] keep putting that on him. Dude, to me you've got five guys up front, let Romo turn around and hand it off at times so you don't have that pressure on him."

Crayton said he was not knocking Jason Garrett's playcalling.

"The playcalling is fine," he said. "We just have to execute better."

 

[Maikeru-sama]

How exactly is this calling out Garrett ?

 

[Beast_from_East]

Witten was wide open on first down. Second down was the spike.

On third down and fourth down, the only people running patterns were Hurd, Crayton and Austin.

That is what is just mind blowing.

You have 2 shots at the zone with the game on the line and we send out our 3 scrub WRs against a pair of probowlers on the other side. At the same time, our HOF TE is blocking and our 6-6 TE is standing on the sideline watching.

Where was Roy while we are at it? I know he got jacked in the ribs, but the guy was standing on the sideline all by himself watching the final 2 plays. How bout he shows some balls and at least line up as a decoy to pull coverage. Even if he couldnt catch the ball, he could at least run a route and pull some coverage to help free up Austin or Crayton.

I would have fired Garrett in the lockerroom for pulling crap like this if I was Jerry.

 

[Dave_in-NC]

You guys do know we are talking about GM/Owner/coach Jones right?
JG will be the next HC of the Dallas Cowboys. You can bet your life savings on it.

 

[Bleu Star]

Blame whoever you want, but ultimately the payers have to execute the plays that are called. We have stupid player on offense, who can rarely go an entire drive without doing something really stupid. A false start, a holding, tripping or other penalty, a missed block or blitz pick up causing a sack or rushed throw.

Go back and look at the 12 drives yesterday and all but 3 had one of these stupid things occur. Our offense isn't playing well enough to continously overcome these mistakes.

They are discipline mistakes, and they have been around for a long time. If these players were to play mistake free football, Red Jesus would be a genious again.

Yes.. They are. Practices are most likely a country club atmosphere. Lack of preparation will cause what we see on game day. Blame the players? I blame the frauds that call themselves coaches much more than I blame the players.

 

[Beast_from_East]

Sensabaugh hasn't done much other than commit penalties, get fined and break his thumb. He has no interceptions, no passes defended, no forced fumbles, no fumble recoveries, no tackles for loss, no sacks and no quarterback pressures.

Sensabaugh is garbage just like Hamlin. We have absolutely the worst pair of safeties in the entire league.

There are Div 1 teams with better safeties than us, that is how freaking pathetic we are.

No way in hell we win more than 8 games with safeties that suck like ours do. Man, when we play the Saints we are going to get 60+ dropped on us, seriously.

 

[ThreeSportStar80]

Haaaaaaaaaaaaa so ole' red isn't the genius some thought he was afterall huh? Well now, let's see if T.O. is to blame for all of this mess.

 

[Cochese]

You guys do know we are talking about GM/Owner/coach Jones right?
JG will be the next HC of the Dallas Cowboys. You can bet your life savings on it.

I just dont see how Jerry could justify this to the fans any more.

 

[Beast_from_East]

Yikes. GAC just played a clip of Tom Brady wondering what the heck we were doing throwing at Champ Bailey twice with the game on the line. He was watching the game because they play Denver next week, and said you want to avoid Champ as much as possible.

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Coach Tecmo getting called out by Tom Brady now!!!!!!

I love it

 

[Bleu Star]

Haaaaaaaaaaaaa so ole' red isn't the genius some thought he was afterall huh? Well now, let's see if T.O. is to blame for all of this mess.

If I was to go there I would get burned at the stake... So I will let you take care of it. Enjoy.

 

[ThreeSportStar80]

If I was to go there I would get burned at the stake... So I will let you take care of it. Enjoy.

Brotha we can ride together, I'm down!