Six tough truths facing the fans and the Cowboys

[GimmeTheBall!]

From a sizzling 50,000 watt confluence of plain truth, logic and the Armenian way, Air Cowboys America in Farmers Branch where we pride ourselves on cheap real estate values.

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Men, Zone fanatics, recent parolees and sheet metal workers, like many Cowboy fans, I am getting over the debacle that was the visiting giANTs.​

My concerns are several, truths that many take lightly. Yea, ye might too walk the dark valleys of postseason regrets.​

We have some good athletes in the secondary yet no-name QBs can slide and dice the unit.​

We love MB, but really, don't we all crave and want those 50-year runs of yesteryear?​

With these superb athetes in Ware, Ellis and Ratliff and a blitzing Roy Williams, etc. why can't the Cowboys pressure opposing QBs?​

Romo, no question, is a blue-chip QB. Not his fault passes were dropped in the playoffs. But if he goes down, who steps up? C'mon, Johnson is like a million years old.​

As far as sharing the ball, I think Witten should bide his time and next year, let Romo give the ball even more to T.O. If they develop an even better sync, watch them light up the scoreboard.
T.O. thrives for fanfare, so give him the ball. And Witten can be truly a secondary but effective blocking TE.​

Just when I thought Jerra was a smart personage and stuff he goes and gets back Campo. Retread. The law of the universe is that all coaches were good under Jimma Johnson. When they leave -- unless you are a Norval Turner or a Wanntstadt after counless debacles on his own -- you don't do squish.​

That is all for today I hope you all will offer your takes.
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[TellerMorrow34]

Can't pressure the QBs? Didn't we just get like 48 sacks this year, our best total since 94?

We didn't do awful at pressuring the QBs. Of course we'd all like to see more of it, but really, we weren't that bad. I shudder to think how much worse our secondary could have looked, when up against those 3-4 reciever sets if not for our pass rush.

 

[Mr Cowboy]

Just when I thought Jerra was a smart personage and stuff he goes and gets back Campo. Retread. The law of the universe is that all coaches were good under Jimma Johnson. When they leave -- unless you are a Norval Turner or a Wanntstadt after counless debacles on his own -- you don't do squish.

Remember that it was Campo that put together the talent that gave Parcells his best season as HC of the Cowboys. He can't be all that bad!

 

[notherbob]

All interesting concerns, bat all wide of the mark. This team's problem for several years now has been that it simply quits in late November. Until that problem is fixed what happens in FA and the draft just doesn't matter. What does it matter who your players are if they quit on you?

No matter who the Cowboys pick up this off-season, we won't know anything worth knowing about the team until December and January if they get that far.

 

[UVAwahoos]

"We have some good athletes in the secondary yet no-name QBs can slide and dice the unit."​

This is obvious and will hopefully be a top priority in free agency and the draft.

"We love MB, but really, don't we all crave and want those 50-year runs of yesteryear?"​

"50-yard runs" is perhaps what you meant? Not sure. Anyway, we can kill teams with the pass and keep them in check with our running game even if we don't have somebody that can break for huge runs, so I think platoon backs is a pretty effective strategy for the mold of this team.

"As far as sharing the ball, I think Witten should bide his time and next year, let Romo give the ball even more to T.O. If they develop an even better sync, watch them light up the scoreboard. "
T.O. thrives for fanfare, so give him the ball. And Witten can be truly a secondary but effective blocking TE.​

I don't think Witten actively has control over who Romo throws the ball too. I'm pretty sure that defenses probably covered TO tightly, and thus opened up receiving options such as Witten. That's like saying that Welker and Faulk from the Pats should let Moss have more catches since Moss only had one in the AFC championship and Faulk had like a dozen. I'm pretty sure that everyone on the team, including Witten, would've loved for TO to score multiple TDs every game and get "fanfare". The game is a bit more complicated than that unfortunately.

"Just when I thought Jerra was a smart personage and stuff he goes and gets back Campo. Retread. The law of the universe is that all coaches were good under Jimma Johnson. When they leave -- unless you are a Norval Turner or a Wanntstadt after counless debacles on his own -- you don't do squish."​

Campo is a good defensive coach...particularly in the secondary. This was true even after Jimmy left. Our defense was one of the only consistent things during the Switzer and Gailey years, and that's in fact why Campo got promoted to HC anyway.

 

[theogt]

Wow. I was really going to give this a go, but I just couldn't make it past a few words.

 

[GimmeTheBall!]

All interesting concerns, bat all wide of the mark. This team's problem for several years now has been that it simply quits in late November. Until that problem is fixed what happens in FA and the draft just doesn't matter. What does it matter who your players are if they quit on you?

No matter who the Cowboys pick up this off-season, we won't know anything worth knowing about the team until December.

Quitting might be the fault of the leadership, and I don't mean Romo.
Still, you have to admit, the Cowboys have some awesome physical talent and skills. Yet, the team just sagged at the end of the season. Again, I fault the coaches.l

This offseason, look for us getting secondary help in FA. None of that developing a player to play in a unit that needs help NOW.
The draft will probably yield running back help and a WR

 

[GimmeTheBall!]

Wow. I was really going to give this a go, but I just couldn't make it past a few words.

That is OK. Iffen you quit smoking you wouldn't lose yer breath mouthing and writtin' the words.
Good luk with all.

 

[UVAwahoos]

Wow. I was really going to give this a go, but I just couldn't make it past a few words.

What's the deal with the Air Cowboys radio thing? I don't get it. Is that where u stopped reading?

 

[Vintage]

We couldn't rush the passer? But we got 48 sacks...

We have a great TE in Witten who went over 1000 yards, but he needs to be a blocking TE...?


Hmm.

I like beer too. (This thread has promise!)

 

[Skinsmaniac]

I would add: the new stadium. Large stadiums just don't have the same kind of atmosphere as the old ones. You get lots of lukewarm fans, and its hard to get the place really rocking. Maybe your new stadium will be the exception, but I'd much rather have a smaller stadium.

 

[UVAwahoos]

I would add: the new stadium. Large stadiums just don't have the same kind of atmosphere as the old ones. You get lots of lukewarm fans, and its hard to get the place really rocking. Maybe your new stadium will be the exception, but I'd much rather have a smaller stadium.

Because you've been to every new stadium? Just because your high-priced, yet crappy new stadium has fans too embarrassed to cheer for their garbage team with no draft picks, head coach, or hope...doesn't mean this is the case for all new stadiums.

Plus, the insane fans who do wanna cheer openly for your useless team probably choose to stay at home so as not to be seen in public.

 

[Nexx]

LOL @ roy blitzing... have you seen him blitz lately? running back stone him cold, rofl.

 

[CrazyCowboy]

LOL @ roy blitzing... have you seen him blitz lately? running back stone him cold, rofl.

 

[jman]

Quitting might be the fault of the leadership, and I don't mean Romo.
Still, you have to admit, the Cowboys have some awesome physical talent and skills. Yet, the team just sagged at the end of the season. Again, I fault the coaches.l

This offseason, look for us getting secondary help in FA. None of that developing a player to play in a unit that needs help NOW.
The draft will probably yield running back help and a WR

Which one?

Switzer, Gailey, Parcells, Phillips? This thing has been going on for ten years or so.

It ain't the coaches at least not fully, but more so it's the players.

 

[Hostile]

From a sizzling 50,000 watt confluence of plain truth, logic and the Armenian way, Air Cowboys America in Farmers Branch where we pride ourselves on cheap real estate values.

​

Men, Zone fanatics, recent parolees and sheet metal workers, like many Cowboy fans, I am getting over the debacle that was the visiting giANTs.​

My concerns are several, truths that many take lightly. Yea, ye might too walk the dark valleys of postseason regrets.​

We have some good athletes in the secondary yet no-name QBs can slide and dice the unit.​

We love MB, but really, don't we all crave and want those 50-year runs of yesteryear?​

With these superb athetes in Ware, Ellis and Ratliff and a blitzing Roy Williams, etc. why can't the Cowboys pressure opposing QBs?​

Romo, no question, is a blue-chip QB. Not his fault passes were dropped in the playoffs. But if he goes down, who steps up? C'mon, Johnson is like a million years old.​

As far as sharing the ball, I think Witten should bide his time and next year, let Romo give the ball even more to T.O. If they develop an even better sync, watch them light up the scoreboard.
T.O. thrives for fanfare, so give him the ball. And Witten can be truly a secondary but effective blocking TE.​

Just when I thought Jerra was a smart personage and stuff he goes and gets back Campo. Retread. The law of the universe is that all coaches were good under Jimma Johnson. When they leave -- unless you are a Norval Turner or a Wanntstadt after counless debacles on his own -- you don't do squish.​

That is all for today I hope you all will offer your takes.​

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Gimme, where is the 50,000 watt blowtorch located? I don't mean in Farmer's Branch. I'm hoping it's high on a hill because then I can tell you to come down off your perch.

In all seriousness I don't disagree with most of what you said. Although I do assume you meant 50 yard runs instead of 50 year runs. You have the runs for 50 years and I say invest in the toilet paper stocks.

I'll tell you why I'd rather have a Marion Barber than a Darren McFadden (the 50 yard run guy I assume you're speaking of acquiring). It's called wearing a team out. Punishing them in the fourth quarter. Embrace the sadism Gimme. I am one of McFadden's first advocates on this forum and once Cleveland started winning I was seriously bummed. Thank goodness I had truth from the blowtorch to read now and then and light the way.

Let me shed some light back. Or try to at least. Combining an explosive player like McFadden to an explosive offense is all well and good and thinking about it can make you drool like ending a 3 day forced hunger with a nice rare steak. It isn't as long term satisfying though as is a steady, smart game plan designed to crush a team's spirit and take their diginity. That's exactly what an Emmitt Smith, John Riggins, and Larry Csonka led running attack can do. That's what the Barbarian brings to the table too. There are other home run hitter type RBs in the Draft and the price to acquire them is to simply take them when it is our turn. Steve Slaton, Chris Johnson, Jamaal Charles to name a few. Even McFadden's backfield mate Felix Jones has some home run in him.

I would rather keep our top 3 picks and use them to solidify an already solid team with even greater depth. In truth, the only off season trade I would go for would be to acquire Roy Williams from the Lions. WR is a roll of the dice. For every Michael Irvin you find, you find 2 Mike Sherrards. Teaming that Roy with TO and Witten would be every bit as dangerous as any Offense in the NFL, including the Patriots, and it would provide insurance for the day TO officially hangs them up.

I'll get down off my soapbox now. Enjoyed the thread.

One question...Armenian way?

 

[Doomsday101]

From a sizzling 50,000 watt confluence of plain truth, logic and the Armenian way, Air Cowboys America in Farmers Branch where we pride ourselves on cheap real estate values.

​

Men, Zone fanatics, recent parolees and sheet metal workers, like many Cowboy fans, I am getting over the debacle that was the visiting giANTs.​

My concerns are several, truths that many take lightly. Yea, ye might too walk the dark valleys of postseason regrets.​

We have some good athletes in the secondary yet no-name QBs can slide and dice the unit.​

We love MB, but really, don't we all crave and want those 50-year runs of yesteryear?​

With these superb athetes in Ware, Ellis and Ratliff and a blitzing Roy Williams, etc. why can't the Cowboys pressure opposing QBs?​

Romo, no question, is a blue-chip QB. Not his fault passes were dropped in the playoffs. But if he goes down, who steps up? C'mon, Johnson is like a million years old.​

As far as sharing the ball, I think Witten should bide his time and next year, let Romo give the ball even more to T.O. If they develop an even better sync, watch them light up the scoreboard.
T.O. thrives for fanfare, so give him the ball. And Witten can be truly a secondary but effective blocking TE.​

Just when I thought Jerra was a smart personage and stuff he goes and gets back Campo. Retread. The law of the universe is that all coaches were good under Jimma Johnson. When they leave -- unless you are a Norval Turner or a Wanntstadt after counless debacles on his own -- you don't do squish.​

That is all for today I hope you all will offer your takes.
​

Pretty much the same non sense as normal.

 

[Signals]

You have the runs for 50 years and I say invest in the toilet paper stocks.

Montezuma's revenge has plagued this poor soul. Either that or he/she has parasites multiplying in the digestive system.

 

[Fletch]

Remember that it was Campo that put together the talent that gave Parcells his best season as HC of the Cowboys. He can't be all that bad!

Interesting indeed. Nobody has put it like that. And go ahead and say that Parcells was strapped until the following year. But after Parcells had his first draft and free agency, we still didn't do as well.

Hmmm.

 

[notherbob]

It's Jerry Jones team and he can run it any way he wants, my approval is not required. I just wish the team well.

I've been way too cynical recently and I apologize to the entire board for the negative attitudes I have expressed lately. I just need to let go of some old emotional trash.