Sturm - Marinelli Report - Aaron Rodgers

[Sturm1310]

I think your stories will be slanted favorably to your favorite team. Those who read the article felt it leaned that way. Why would I as cowboy fan even entertain that. I wont.

Well, 1) they aren't. 2) If I was wrong, my employers would not employ me since 1998. 3) Travis Frederick is a life-long Packers fan and you seem to look past that.

Good luck, Sunday. I am just here to cover your team.

 

[Wood]

Well, 1) they aren't. 2) If I was wrong, my employers would not employ me since 1998. 3) Travis Frederick is a life-long Packers fan and you seem to look past that.

Good luck, Sunday. I am just here to cover your team.

your missing the point here. Many have been fans of other teams and gone to Dallas. Over time they develop affinity for Cowboys on some level. You haven't. Mickey Spagnola is fan of Chicago or Green Bay, Mike Fisher is fan of Minnesota but they lean Cowboys these days. If i want purely unbiased right down the middle analysis...I will tune into national writers. What I don't need is local writer not giving a dam about team I support.

 

[Sturm1310]

your missing the point here. Many have been fans of other teams and gone to Dallas. Over time they develop affinity for Cowboys on some level. You haven't. Mickey Spagnola is fan of Chicago or Green Bay, Mike Fisher is fan of Minnesota but they lean Cowboys these days. If i want purely unbiased right down the middle analysis...I will tune into national writers. What I don't need is local writer not giving a dam about team I support.

ok, guy. I tried to talk like adults, but I will let you be. I doubt anyone does anything - like study your favorite football team - as closely as I do 12 months a year and "not give a dam" or "damn" or whatever. I clearly care, or I wouldn't have written more than 5,000 stories about them.

But, you do you.

 

[perrykemp]

your missing the point here. Many have been fans of other teams and gone to Dallas. Over time they develop affinity for Cowboys on some level. You haven't. Mickey Spagnola is fan of Chicago or Green Bay, Mike Fisher is fan of Minnesota but they lean Cowboys these days. If i want purely unbiased right down the middle analysis...I will tune into national writers. What I don't need is local writer not giving a dam about team I support.

So you want your Cowboys journalists to tell you sweet nothings to make you feel better?

There is plenty of that at fan sites like CZ.

Your nuts if you want don't unbiased, fair, and honest reporting.

 

[waving monkey]

I read and listen to you (Sturm) often. I've never sensed any bias in your reporting in regards to the Cowboys and Packers. In fact I've wondered if you are as big a fan as you were when Farve was the QB. I assume that you are, but it seems that your love of analysis has almost overtaken your fan emotion.

I know personally that when I started to focus on analyzing games on DVR and later All-22 that I became less emotional after loses. I'm actually much more obsessive about analyzing the Cowboys after they lose than after they win.

There is another thread here where somebody mentions you as the only person they consider a true journalist in regards to people covering the Cowboys. I find that great but also sad that all the horde of media covering the Cowboys can't contribute more than a guy doing his side job or hobby in regards to your print media work.

kudos

 

[Doomsay]

With Claiborne back, Rodgers will not have faced a secondary as deep and talented all year long. The Giants were without DRC which was a huge blow for them.Their OT are better than their OG and our interior rush should be able to get in his face at a decent pace.

Cobb is a deep threat certainly but this defense just doesn't give up big plays. They don't run the ball. Cook doesn't concern me. Combine that with Nelson being out and I like our defense's chances.

Rodgers did face NY's full defensive backfield earlier in the season with a much better pass rush than ours. Minni's 2dary is pretty good as well. I thought the Dallas 2ndary played pretty well in the first GB game, but the real story there was Rodgers, uncharacteristic level of unforced errors, which I don't believe is too repeatable.

Not sure if Claiborne will be fully recovered by Sunday, given that he couldn't participate in full practices last week after having setbacks a few weeks prior. If he is near 100%, we will clearly have our best 2ndary configuration of the season especially with all of the experience Brown has had in the interim and how the safeties have grown around the leadership of Jones and a better situated Church.

You are correct that we good at preventing the deep ball and in our first meeting almost all the deep damage was accomplished by Jordy.

I still think that we will have to score more than 30 points to win....and I believe we can do that.

 

[DandyDon52]

I know personally that when I started to focus on analyzing games on DVR and later All-22 that I became less emotional after loses. I'm actually much more obsessive about analyzing the Cowboys after they lose than after they win.

yeah analyzing games are fun win or lose.

 

[DandyDon52]

Good defenses -- in particular, the Vikings and Giants -- both had 38 points put on them by Rodgers (Seattle, too) during this streak the Packers are on. They are trying their normal ideas against the two-time MVP, and the normal ideas are maybe slowing him down a bit, but certainly not coming close to stopping him.

neither of those teams, and throw in seattle had a good offense.
Also giants held rodgers to 7 in first half, and then let that hail mary happen.
He can be stopped, but with no offense, that means he gets more possessions .
Best thing is to keep him on sideline, and fewer possessions.

Rodgers is good, I would also put a spy on him so he cant run and take away cook.

 

[CCBoy]

Nelson is out and Claiborne is in. Dallas is healthy defensively, and that will slow Rogers enough for Dallas to build a lead.

Sturm, thanks for always giving us meat on our table...that's from the heart.

 

[yimyammer]

your missing the point here. Many have been fans of other teams and gone to Dallas. Over time they develop affinity for Cowboys on some level. You haven't. Mickey Spagnola is fan of Chicago or Green Bay, Mike Fisher is fan of Minnesota but they lean Cowboys these days. If i want purely unbiased right down the middle analysis...I will tune into national writers. What I don't need is local writer not giving a dam about team I support.

You tell em' Wood! It's noble work you're doing.

 

[BigD5]

ok, guy. I tried to talk like adults, but I will let you be. I doubt anyone does anything - like study your favorite football team - as closely as I do 12 months a year and "not give a dam" or "damn" or whatever. I clearly care, or I wouldn't have written more than 5,000 stories about them.

But, you do you.

If somebody doesn't appreciate your work Bob then the hell with them. I for one love your articles and look forward to reading them each week. I don't care if you like the Boys or Green Bay or the Browns. The work you do to put out REAL articles about ACTUAL football is simply amazing in this day and age. I wish more teams/sports leagues had more in depth analysis on the actual games being played instead of the TMZ culture that perpetuates the 24/7 sports talk and basically ruins it for true fans of the sport like me.

 

[perrykemp]

If somebody doesn't appreciate your work Bob then the hell with them. I for one love your articles and look forward to reading them each week. I don't care if you like the Boys or Green Bay or the Browns. The work you do to put out REAL articles about ACTUAL football is simply amazing in this day and age. I wish more teams/sports leagues had more in depth analysis on the actual games being played instead of the TMZ culture that perpetuates the 24/7 sports talk and basically ruins it for true fans of the sport like me.

You said it better than I could have. Thank you.

 

[BigD5]

You said it better than I could have. Thank you.

I've been reading Bobs articles for years now and I never knew he was from Wisconsin or a Packers fan until I read it on this site. I'm just so glad we Cowboy fans have somebody like him that puts together the kind of articles he does.

I hate all the drama that surrounds sports. I'm truly a fan of the game of football and the strategy involved

 

[FuzzyLumpkins]

Rodgers did face NY's full defensive backfield earlier in the season with a much better pass rush than ours. Minni's 2dary is pretty good as well. I thought the Dallas 2ndary played pretty well in the first GB game, but the real story there was Rodgers, uncharacteristic level of unforced errors, which I don't believe is too repeatable.

Not sure if Claiborne will be fully recovered by Sunday, given that he couldn't participate in full practices last week after having setbacks a few weeks prior. If he is near 100%, we will clearly have our best 2ndary configuration of the season especially with all of the experience Brown has had in the interim and how the safeties have grown around the leadership of Jones and a better situated Church.

You are correct that we good at preventing the deep ball and in our first meeting almost all the deep damage was accomplished by Jordy.

I still think that we will have to score more than 30 points to win....and I believe we can do that.

Our pass rush is better than it was the first time we played and we still have the DT to exploit them. NYG DT don't rush worth a flip.

 

[Zekeats]

I forgot just how bad Rodgers was early in the season. Wow. He missed a ton of throws that he makes in his sleep normally.

This will be a dogfight.
As long as Dallas, wins, that's fine.

This is true. We should change it up and play press man and blitz the **** out of him.

 

[Bullflop]

Hey, Strurm1310 -- your contributions to this site are well received and appreciated by this fan. Keep up the good work and don't let some of the turds that lurk here buffalo you, OK? You put out some good stuff, sir! Keep it coming . . .

 

[Scotman]

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Sturm: Aaron Rodgers playing best football of his career, so can Cowboys stop him again?

Great article. I have a question.

I've read a lot about how Rodgers has improved his game since we played them earlier in the year... deservedly so. In your opinion, how does our defense actually compare to the defense we rolled out in our previous meeting? If I remember correctly, we played a pretty good defensive game that week. I think that's the week that we first caught a glimpse of David Irving. I felt like our defense inched forward all season long.

If Rodgers had been playing the way he is now earlier in the year, it could have been a very long day for us. Is our defense actually playing better the second half of the year? If so, what do you see as the key match-ups that would help bring Rodgers' game back into the earth's atmosphere?