Great post man.
Thats why the arrogance of the RJ lovers is so annoying. You'd think we were 3-13 last season and he's done this with a bunch of scrubs like 2003.
Let's be real, all our big plays, hell almost every one of our TDs have resulted from either a play breaking down and guys improvising and going back yard, or Romo making a huge play.
Go back each week, even most of Murray's big runs were a result of him cutting back or going against the grain of the runs initial design.
We score points because we have some of the most talented skill posiition guys in the league, Romo, Witten, Murray, Austin, Bryant, guys just make plays. The offense lacks balance, always has formation penalties, never can establish a sense of rythem, and our receivers never seem to get any seperation. Offensive line can't establish the run or open running lanes, we can't create a consistent pocket, and never seeems to get any push.
I understand we lack quality personel at guard and center but Garrett has had 4 years to pick these guys. It's not like he's inheriting a group and installing a new system.
He's not terrible, but he's not great, he's a guy that probably needed a few more years to learn the ropes and have a veteran voice in the booth (ie Reeves) to help him with some of those 'situational football miscues' we saw so commmonly this year.
The most important thing I hope the fans, Jerry, Garrett, and the entire team now understand is - Tony Romo makes this team go, he's a hell of a quarterback that doesn't get much help at all. Drops, penalties, poor coaching, piss poor defense, no turnovers from the defense, no return game, etc, etc.
Couchscout said it best, no quarterback in the league does more with less help than Tony Romo, he just failed to mention that includes from his coach as well. This Sunday would be a resting starters kinda situation, Romo would be media-clutch and this team would have all the momentum in the world had Garrett not iced Bailey, and saved his team those :12 seconds when the Giants got down to the goal line.
These guys aren't good enough to overcome their own mistakes, let alone their own coach dropping the ball too. Oh well, tis a process, we'll go back and look at the tape and hopefully establish a newfound sense of perspective on this board because it was starting to get outta hand there for a while. Your post was incredible and absolutley sums up the blind faith put in Garrett, that they were failing to see that none of the problems were going away, they were just choosing to ignore them.
