The offense is quite a bit different from last years. And it's not reasonable to expect us to be playing the same offense Callahan played in 1998 or whenever it was. The personnel are different, the offense was established when he got here, and the head coach is different.
I can't figure out why all you guys are pointing fingers at the offensive system and the play calling today. Our defense did a wonderful job taking the ball away, and a horrible job defending the pass. When you can still pass more effectively than the team you're playing after turning the ball over 5 times, that ought to tell you what the problem is. Either way, it's on the head coach, but the problem with this team has been the pass defense, the turnover differential, and the red zone offense for years now. We've managed to address two of those three effectively this year. The third has become a gut wound that we can't overcome against good QBs.
It's going to happen again against the Saints, and again against the Packers, so get ready for it. We'll handle teams with lesser QBs in the interim, until we get to the playoffs, where it's going to take a game from Romo like we got against the Broncos to even give us a shot.
This isn't rocket science. It isn't inconsistency. We've been remarkably consistent in this regard for years now, but for whatever reason, we as fans talk about dumb things like the play calling on a run-the-clock-out series and avoid the gaping wound of our pass defense over and over. Then percy, or somebody else, makes a great, illuminating post re: the scope of the actual problem, and, for whatever reason, the import of it never really sinks in. I don't understand it.
