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[TD-33]

Sapp will be right if the O-Line doesn't run block well this season and if Garrett doesn't have a MUCH better game plan. Teams will key on our rbs and just like teams successfully do vs the eagles by taking Westbrook's impact out of the game it forces mcnabb to beat you (under pressure.)
And teams know that hitting TR is the way to beat the Cowboys. All he's saying is that if we don't get a reliable running game going we are screwed and he's right. If Garrett is figured out by game 4 and doesn't adjust it will suck.
If he get's creative and makes defenses pause it will give Tony time and life will be good.

 

[SMCowboy]

sapp isnt cool why?

cause he didnt give yall the homer response yalll wanted to hear?

if he had said cutting owens made us better team no one would be bashing him.

but because he said the obvious on how losing a player of owens caliber can affect how defenses play us especially since were reallying on unproven guys. somehow hes a fool for saying so

ok that makes a lot of sense. what was he thinking. its a fact, and written in stone that all are unproven wr are gonna break out this yr.

im hoping for our sake roy finally plays to his potential and miles breaks out to but im not foolishly going to act like a homer and thinks thats a given when i know it can easily go the other way

No, the stupid part, is exactly what Mike Maylock brought up. We are not a team of unproven WR's. We have more than Austin (who has proven he can run more than JUST a 9 route by the way), Hurd, Crayton and Stanback. There is also a certain WR named Roy Williams.

If you want to argue that Roy Williams is not a proven WR, you are arguing a losing battle, he put up numbers every year he was in Detroit. If you want to argue that Roy Williams has not lived up to his potential, you would be 100% correct. If you want to argue that Roy Williams has never put up true #1 WR numbers, once again you would be 100% correct. Roy Williams definitely is FAR from an elite #1 WR right now. But, he has proven that he can put up solid numbers (very comparable to the numbers that TO put up last year) with a whole lot LESS talent around him than he has hear in Dallas now.

Also with all the talk about how teams are going to shutdown the Dallas offense without TO, have people forgotten that numbers that San Diego and Kansas City were able to put up for several years with a great TE, a great running game, and a questionable WR corps? Does anyone really think that Eddie Kennison scares teams more than Roy Williams/Crayton/Austin?

 

[Woods]

As long as our guys on offense are healthy AND our OL is playing solid football (which they can and have done in stretches), we will be fine on offense.

 

[Verdict]

What Sapp said was correct, in terms of defenses not having to be concerned about a WR like Owens and now they can stack the line against the run and single cover the other WRs.

But he is still an idiot.

If he thinks that a LB can cover Witten, he is crazy. If he thinks that all we will do is try to run the ball with our RBs, he is crazy. Having Felix healthy again gives us a real weapon in the passing game out of the backfield.

He also doesn't give Roy Williams any credit whatsoever, and that is not right. We will have to see about Miles Austin and Sam Hurd but I believe Austin can be a very good WR and if they single-cover both he and Williams then Romo will have a field day.

The bottom line is that we won't be as explosive as we were in 2007, but we will be a solid football team on offense and won't miss Terrell Owens a bit.

I really think that Sapp is uninformed. T.O. version 2008 was a receiver who feasted on bad competition, and really strugged against better defenses, especially db's that pressed him. The current formula for negating T.O. is to give him "press coverage" and make him prove to you that he can beat your press coverage.

Last year, T.O. could not win the individual battles he needed to win when pressed. Unless he was playing hurt last year (no evidence to support that fact) or that he was sick (also not supported by the evidence) the only conclusion you can draw is that he either wore down as the season progressed, or he was slacking. It is possible that T.O. will light the world on fire (more likely early in the season) against inferior, or inexperienced db's but the days of T.O. carrying a team on his back look to be laregly over.

None of this takes into account the drives that T.O. killed with his "drops". I think you will start to see teams less willing to accept the drops since he is no longer an elite receiver.

Even if T.O. turns out to be superman this year, father time will prove to be his kryptonite at some point. Last season indicates that father time may be starting to catch up with T.O. In other words, T.O. cannot get enough separation from father time to overcome the locker room cancer and general overall liability he became. Even if he plays better in 2009, the Cowboys made a good long term decision for the team, and the team's salary cap.

 

[WoodysGirl]

The NFL.com vid

http://www.nfl.com/videos?videoId=09000d5d80f89d81

 

[jswalker1981]

Felix Jones has the absolute talent to play the Marshall Faulk role in the offense. I predict that you will see him in that role. Dallas is going to get him the rock.

Second, Martellus Bennett is a monster, and he is going to get the football.

Third, Sapp acts like "the player" was "all that" last year, and he wasn't even close to "all that". He must be thinking about the 2007 version.

Fourth, the biased against Tony Romo is obvious by certain people in that clip. It wouldn't be the first time, and it will not be the last.

Tony Romo is absolutely a franchise quarterback. Who are the 6 or 7 that are better players?

Perhaps, they want the Cowboys to play with Chad Hutchinson or Quincy Carter or past their prime vets like Testeverde or Bledsoe.

It isn't like Owens had 120 catches, 1700 yds, and 20 tds last year. His numbers can easily be spread around to other targets/weapons.

The only other QBs that I think they could say is better than Romo is Brady, Peyton Manning, Brees, and you could argue Rivers and McNabb, but not really. I would take Romo over those last two easily.

But to be honest, what they said is fine with me. Go ahead Warren, hate us (by the way, I would never want Sapp on our team anyways, so thanks for doing us the favor). Assume we can't win, I like the underdog role better than the Super Bowl favorite role. I hope this team plays with a chip on its shoulder, and takes it out on every team they face.

 

[RESIN8]

He was right about one thing. Keyshawn was a lot more annoying than TO. At least TO knows what the endzone looks like.