InmanRoshi
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Bob: What an amazing, amazing team this is to cover. Is it fun out there?
Mickey: It’s a barrel of laughs out here.
Bob: In the textbook of “How to prepare for a big game”, what chapter does this come in?
Mickey: Chapter 30.
Bob: Where does this rank with 90’s Cowboys .
Mickey: I don’t remember anonymous opinions voiced like this. It seems like when you have two different factions in the lockerroom,you got a problem. You can have a guy shoot himself in the leg, all he does is hurt himself. When something like this is festering in the lockerroom, it bothers everyone.
Dan: So what were they saying out there today?
Mickey: All that they would talk about in the lockerroom today was the Giants. They wouldn’t talk about anything else.
Dan: Well, that’s good. Don’t you think?
Mickey: TO wouldn’t talk to anyone. I didn’t see Romo. RW and Crayton weren’t talking about much, other than the Giants. Its not like people were airing things out today. I guess Terrence Newman said what he wanted to say on ESPN.
Bob: He certainly had some opinions on the coaching staff.
Mickey: I imagine he had his feathers ruffled when Wade said “if there wasn’t a mistake on that 3rd down, the field position wouldn’t have turned”. When he said it, I thought “Boy, Newman wont be happy about that.”
Dan: Well that’s unlike Wade. He typically says that players don’t make the mistakes, he makes the mistakes. And a player didn’t jump offsides, he jumped off sides. And a player didn’t fumble the ball, he fumbled the ball.
Bob: We’re not out there, but we’ve seen this rodeo enough to know … it looks like chaos out there.
Mickey: I guess we will see on Sunday. But I think the QB has enough to think about after the snap without wondering “Gee, I wonder how many times I’ve thrown it to this guy? Have I thrown it to this guy enough?”
Bob: He’s always been so self assured, but I guess now we’ll see what he’s really made of … because this can ruin a QB.
Mickey: Wade thinks he’ll do his job. He said so in the press conference that he doesn’t think this will be a distraction. The thing that’s amusing to me … okay, if you’re a QB and you have a 26 mph wind blowing in your face and Steelers collapsing your pocket, people actually believe Romo has time to think “Well, I don’t want to throw it to TO, I’m going to throw it to my good buddy.’
Dan: Well, that's what the secret meeting we're all about ... Witten and Romo would lie awake at night before the game and come up with secret plays.
Bob: Just look at the objective facts … Owens and Witten got a good number of targets their way n that game.
Mickey: You know, he comes back from injury with a splint on his hands, for the first time in his career, and they put up 30 points back to back games. Which say what you want about the competition, that’s hard to do in the NFL. And then in the next game they have some of the worst weather conditions I’ve seen in some time, not just the cold but the wind, they are facing the #1 defense in the NFL and they come within a yard from putting up more yardage than a Steelers have had an opponent put up on them all year, and that team was the Colts.
Bob: Just looking at the facts … Witten had 9 passes directed at him. Williams 6. TO had 5. And Steelers are well known for rolling coverages to the offenses #1 target.
Mickey: So I guess I just don’t understand. I understand in those conditions he might have rushed things, but in those situations he didn’t have time to just wait things out .. and for most QBs your safety outlet is your TE.
Dan: Just looking at any QB in the NFL .. TO or Witten .. they both run a slant across the middle … both with great coverage on them and it requires a tough catch with a defender drapped all over him … who do you trust .. the guy who catches the ball 70% or the guy who catches the ball 48%?
Mickey: Or the guy who quits on routes makes everyone think “Boy Romo just doesn’t take care of the ball.” You know, there are QBs who have been known to just quit throwing to guys for stuff like that. Im sure Troy won’t mind me telling this story … in 1991, Alexander Wright was a 2nd year player who wouldn’t cut in front of the DB. He would always cut behind the DB, for some reason. And one preseason game Aikman throws a perfect pass on a deep post that would have been a long completion if Wright had cut in front of the defensive back like he was supposed to. Instead he cut behind the DB and it was intercepted. Aikman comes marching to the sideline and walks right up to Babe Laufenberg and says “If I ever throw the deep post to Alexander Wright again, shoot me !!!!” Bill Jones did some breakdown that he’s targeted as much, catches the ball the same amount of balls for even more TDs than he did with the Eagles. So I don’t know what he’s imagining.
Dan: But I guess facts get in the way. I think TO is already making excuses because he’s lobbying for his next contract.
Bob: I just can’t see the Cowboys signing up for this again next season.
Mickey: Did you see the first story that came out with Joe Theisman came out about Romo saying “This is a make or break game for his career”. How about that? What are we doing? What are we doing here?
Bob: So what about this “make or break “ game?
Mickey: I don’t like what I’m seeing. Earlier, I thought we were going to win this game, but I don’t like my QB having to drop back in his pocket and have to think about anything more than what’s going on in front of him. And say what you will ... where there's smoke, there's usually fire. It reminds me too much of the end of last year … too beat up and too many distractions going on. And just looking at Barber on the field, I doubt he plays. Neither one of the starting safeties did anything in practice today.
Mickey: It’s a barrel of laughs out here.
Bob: In the textbook of “How to prepare for a big game”, what chapter does this come in?
Mickey: Chapter 30.
Bob: Where does this rank with 90’s Cowboys .
Mickey: I don’t remember anonymous opinions voiced like this. It seems like when you have two different factions in the lockerroom,you got a problem. You can have a guy shoot himself in the leg, all he does is hurt himself. When something like this is festering in the lockerroom, it bothers everyone.
Dan: So what were they saying out there today?
Mickey: All that they would talk about in the lockerroom today was the Giants. They wouldn’t talk about anything else.
Dan: Well, that’s good. Don’t you think?
Mickey: TO wouldn’t talk to anyone. I didn’t see Romo. RW and Crayton weren’t talking about much, other than the Giants. Its not like people were airing things out today. I guess Terrence Newman said what he wanted to say on ESPN.
Bob: He certainly had some opinions on the coaching staff.
Mickey: I imagine he had his feathers ruffled when Wade said “if there wasn’t a mistake on that 3rd down, the field position wouldn’t have turned”. When he said it, I thought “Boy, Newman wont be happy about that.”
Dan: Well that’s unlike Wade. He typically says that players don’t make the mistakes, he makes the mistakes. And a player didn’t jump offsides, he jumped off sides. And a player didn’t fumble the ball, he fumbled the ball.
Bob: We’re not out there, but we’ve seen this rodeo enough to know … it looks like chaos out there.
Mickey: I guess we will see on Sunday. But I think the QB has enough to think about after the snap without wondering “Gee, I wonder how many times I’ve thrown it to this guy? Have I thrown it to this guy enough?”
Bob: He’s always been so self assured, but I guess now we’ll see what he’s really made of … because this can ruin a QB.
Mickey: Wade thinks he’ll do his job. He said so in the press conference that he doesn’t think this will be a distraction. The thing that’s amusing to me … okay, if you’re a QB and you have a 26 mph wind blowing in your face and Steelers collapsing your pocket, people actually believe Romo has time to think “Well, I don’t want to throw it to TO, I’m going to throw it to my good buddy.’
Dan: Well, that's what the secret meeting we're all about ... Witten and Romo would lie awake at night before the game and come up with secret plays.
Bob: Just look at the objective facts … Owens and Witten got a good number of targets their way n that game.
Mickey: You know, he comes back from injury with a splint on his hands, for the first time in his career, and they put up 30 points back to back games. Which say what you want about the competition, that’s hard to do in the NFL. And then in the next game they have some of the worst weather conditions I’ve seen in some time, not just the cold but the wind, they are facing the #1 defense in the NFL and they come within a yard from putting up more yardage than a Steelers have had an opponent put up on them all year, and that team was the Colts.
Bob: Just looking at the facts … Witten had 9 passes directed at him. Williams 6. TO had 5. And Steelers are well known for rolling coverages to the offenses #1 target.
Mickey: So I guess I just don’t understand. I understand in those conditions he might have rushed things, but in those situations he didn’t have time to just wait things out .. and for most QBs your safety outlet is your TE.
Dan: Just looking at any QB in the NFL .. TO or Witten .. they both run a slant across the middle … both with great coverage on them and it requires a tough catch with a defender drapped all over him … who do you trust .. the guy who catches the ball 70% or the guy who catches the ball 48%?
Mickey: Or the guy who quits on routes makes everyone think “Boy Romo just doesn’t take care of the ball.” You know, there are QBs who have been known to just quit throwing to guys for stuff like that. Im sure Troy won’t mind me telling this story … in 1991, Alexander Wright was a 2nd year player who wouldn’t cut in front of the DB. He would always cut behind the DB, for some reason. And one preseason game Aikman throws a perfect pass on a deep post that would have been a long completion if Wright had cut in front of the defensive back like he was supposed to. Instead he cut behind the DB and it was intercepted. Aikman comes marching to the sideline and walks right up to Babe Laufenberg and says “If I ever throw the deep post to Alexander Wright again, shoot me !!!!” Bill Jones did some breakdown that he’s targeted as much, catches the ball the same amount of balls for even more TDs than he did with the Eagles. So I don’t know what he’s imagining.
Dan: But I guess facts get in the way. I think TO is already making excuses because he’s lobbying for his next contract.
Bob: I just can’t see the Cowboys signing up for this again next season.
Mickey: Did you see the first story that came out with Joe Theisman came out about Romo saying “This is a make or break game for his career”. How about that? What are we doing? What are we doing here?
Bob: So what about this “make or break “ game?
Mickey: I don’t like what I’m seeing. Earlier, I thought we were going to win this game, but I don’t like my QB having to drop back in his pocket and have to think about anything more than what’s going on in front of him. And say what you will ... where there's smoke, there's usually fire. It reminds me too much of the end of last year … too beat up and too many distractions going on. And just looking at Barber on the field, I doubt he plays. Neither one of the starting safeties did anything in practice today.
