When Did You Realize Drew Was Done???

[BulletBob]

Beast is bored and was curious as to when others on here started to realize Drew was done.

For Beast, it was the Philly game. The Jax game I wrote off as being openning day jitters, but after watching the Philly game, I knew we were going nowhere with Drew. TO was open twice for walk-in TDs and Drew just could not or would not get the ball to him.

Does Beast think we are going to win the SB with Romo this year.....NO.

Reality is that Romo is going to struggle, but considering Drew was near the bottom in just about every statistical QB category, Romo cannot be any worse. If he sucks, it is a push.......Drew sucked also. If he shows any signs at all, it is a positive for us.

Our main problem is trying to fix the O-line and the D....the G-men were taunting us every play the other night and our D just laid down like a $2 hooker:laugh2:

"Oh yeah! Jimmy couldn't jump at all before he got these."

 

[MichaelWinicki]

In 2003...

An "no" I'm not kidding.

 

[Yakuza Rich]

I knew Drew was done for in the Texans game. He hadn't really played well. The Jacksonville game was somewhat excusable because of the rain and JAX has a decent team. Played solid against the Skins. Play so-so against the Titans.

But up to that point when he got time he wasn't making the same good throws and decisions like last year. He made decent decisions in the Texans game, but his anticipation of the receivers was dreadful. I knew that he was skating on thin ice, although I didn't really expect Romo to come out in the second half of the Giants game. That being said, I think it was the right move by Parcells.



YAKUZA

 

[Juke99]

Done?

He's been done for quite some time.

My initial reaction to the signing was that we had signed Vinny Testaverde again.

 

[CowboyManDan]

Bledsoe has been done since his benching in Buffalo. Like Juke, it was clear to me we were signing a stopgap retread when we signed him. He's a great person off the field, but his best years are far behind him.

 

[BrassCowboy]

Beast is bored and was curious as to when others on here started to realize Drew was done.

For Beast, it was the Philly game. The Jax game I wrote off as being openning day jitters, but after watching the Philly game, I knew we were going nowhere with Drew. TO was open twice for walk-in TDs and Drew just could not or would not get the ball to him.

Does Beast think we are going to win the SB with Romo this year.....NO.

Reality is that Romo is going to struggle, but considering Drew was near the bottom in just about every statistical QB category, Romo cannot be any worse. If he sucks, it is a push.......Drew sucked also. If he shows any signs at all, it is a positive for us.

Our main problem is trying to fix the O-line and the D....the G-men were taunting us every play the other night and our D just laid down like a $2 hooker:laugh2:

My opinion of him changed when and knew he was gonna take us nowhere at the Eagles game. That just did it for me. Drew confirmed it the next week against Houston.

 

[chinch]

i really felt last year vs seattle we were in trouble... his play down the stretch was abysmal but i was totally unsure about Romo and had zero use for Henson.

 

[PAISAN247]

right at about this point... http://images.google.com/images?q=t...hof.com/images/content/photos/1993bledsoe.jpg

 

[LD Fan]

Me agreeing with a Skins fan, or maybe I should say a fan living in the Northeast. Funny how Cowboys fan like Mike W., Juke and others like me even...Living up here had little to no faith in him.

The things that we are complaining about him now are the same things that many friends of mine....Them being NE and Buffalo fans, had been complaing about for a few years now.

Seriously, ask a Buffalo or NE fan, if you know any. I'll bet you more than 80% will say "I told you so".

I think the Buffalo fans coined the term the statue, at least that was the first place I heard it. I just hope it goes better here with Romo than it did there with Loserman

 

[wileedog]

Suspected in Jacksonville.

Knew it in Philly.

 

[kartr]

His last year in Buffalo.

Same here. When a 14 year vet qb makes the same mistakes as inexperienced 1st,2nd and 3rd players, he's toast. Only a coach who the game has passed him by would think different.

 

[ABQCOWBOY]

I watched a game in 1999 when Bledsoe was still in New England. This was when Aikman was struggling and we were having a hard time protecting him. As I watched that game, it struck me that New England was having a tough time doing the same for Bledsoe. New England won that game 13-6 and I figured it was just a bad game. However, NE and Bledsoe went on to lose several games to close that season. I watched Bledsoe the next season and they were horrible. They started the season 0-4 and went on to win something like 4 or 5 games that year. I knew then that Bledsoe was on the down hill. I didn't expect 2002 because I honestly didn't expect Brady to be as good as he was and I knew Bledsoe had a contract. When Brady came out of the gate the way he did, I new it was over for Bledsoe. I just amazed that it has taken this much time. I agree with the poster who said Bledsoe could be effective if he could be protected in the right way. Unfortunatly, I never believed that we could do that. NFL has changed too much. It's too hard to keep a solid OL in place any longer. Cap and FA changed everything where that is concerned. Unfortunate really. If Bledsoe had played his football in the 80s and had the good fortune to play on a good team, I think he would have went down as one of the all time greats. JMO

 

[WittenFan]

I suppose he's been "done" for awhile but managed to fake it through a few games here. However, I was one who was willing to give Drew a whole lot of rope with this offense. I certainly didn't want Testaverde anymore and I wasn't sure about either of the young bucks we had at the time. Bledsoe didn't look like a horrible option. My personal "THAT'S IT, BENCH HIM" moment came on the third sack of the Giants game. The first two sacks (even the safety) I gave him a pass on because the defenders came so free that I wasn't sure anyone could have gotten away from the pressure. That third sack though, I blew my top. He patted the ball about 24 times before the defenders got to him. I just wonder if Bledsoe missed the "throw the ball away" lessons in QB 101.

 

[Juke99]

Bledsoe has been done since his benching in Buffalo. Like Juke, it was clear to me we were signing a stopgap retread when we signed him. He's a great person off the field, but his best years are far behind him.

He's tough as nails...And I respect that, tremdously.

He's got a great arm.

And I've always liked the fact that he stands in the pocket (too long though) because he wants to make a play.

The problem isn't Bledsoe. He is what he is. People beat the daylights out of him as if he was supposed to say to the Cowboys "I know you want to sign me but reallllly, I'm not very good anymore...so, no thanks"

It was Jerry and Bill who should have had the football smarts to realize he shouldn't have been brought here to begin with. AND THEN, as if signing him wasn't bad enough, they magnified his weakest traits by putting him behind a bad offensive line.

Pure insanity.

 

[iceberg]

Beast is bored and was curious as to when others on here started to realize Drew was done.

For Beast, it was the Philly game. The Jax game I wrote off as being openning day jitters, but after watching the Philly game, I knew we were going nowhere with Drew. TO was open twice for walk-in TDs and Drew just could not or would not get the ball to him.

Does Beast think we are going to win the SB with Romo this year.....NO.

Reality is that Romo is going to struggle, but considering Drew was near the bottom in just about every statistical QB category, Romo cannot be any worse. If he sucks, it is a push.......Drew sucked also. If he shows any signs at all, it is a positive for us.

Our main problem is trying to fix the O-line and the D....the G-men were taunting us every play the other night and our D just laid down like a $2 hooker:laugh2:

before he got here.

 

[Luther]

Yup...

Jax, yup

 

[iceberg]

He's tough as nails...And I respect that, tremdously.

He's got a great arm.

And I've always liked the fact that he stands in the pocket (too long though) because he wants to make a play.

The problem isn't Bledsoe. He is what he is. People beat the daylights out of him as if he was supposed to say to the Cowboys "I know you want to sign me but reallllly, I'm not very good anymore...so, no thanks"

It was Jerry and Bill who should have had the football smarts to realize he shouldn't have been brought here to begin with. AND THEN, as if signing him wasn't bad enough, they magnified his weakest traits by putting him behind a bad offensive line.

Pure insanity.

where have you been sir juke???? (great, now i got "sir duke" in my head!)

i've been saying this since before the last FA period started. it's stupid to get a QB you know as well as parcells knows drew and not even attempt to "fully" address his flaws.

i got so tired of hearing best case scenario out of each and every player as if it were possible it would happen but i so fully agree - that was just ignorance in motion to do that.

 

[31smackdown]

I suppose he's been "done" for awhile but managed to fake it through a few games here. However, I was one who was willing to give Drew a whole lot of rope with this offense. I certainly didn't want Testaverde anymore and I wasn't sure about either of the young bucks we had at the time. Bledsoe didn't look like a horrible option. My personal "THAT'S IT, BENCH HIM" moment came on the third sack of the Giants game. The first two sacks (even the safety) I gave him a pass on because the defenders came so free that I wasn't sure anyone could have gotten away from the pressure. That third sack though, I blew my top. He patted the ball about 24 times before the defenders got to him. I just wonder if Bledsoe missed the "throw the ball away" lessons in QB 101.

I agree.. that play was the last straw for me as well..

There were just too many times this year that plays didn't develop because of Bledsoe. It wasn't like he was making bad throws,etc.. he wasn't even getting the ball out.. and that's just unacceptable. I would try to rationalize with the whole oline blocking better, but the guy doesn't move or help them out at all and after watching a few other games you realize that all these other QB's do move around some.. a step here, a quick dodge there.. and Drew was incapable of doing this. Then the Oline blocks for longer than any qb could want and he just stands there and takes a sack.. that was all on him.. I had no one left to blame. Not to mention, he has been throwing off his back foot way too much this year and feels pressure that doesn't exist. Gunshy and shell shocked are not two good qualities I look for in a qb and Bledsoe is both.

 

[DipChit]

Suspected in Jacksonville.

Knew it in Philly.

Well for me.. not so much when *I* thought he was done.. cause as others are saying, you could go back years if you wanted to.. but when I figured BP would say he's had enough, was when you couldnt hardly count on him to play well in home games for the most part anymore either.

As last year wore on we saw the struggles on the road.. but still did ok at home from the standpoint of scoring some points against teams that werent exactly low level.. Philly, Den, KC, whatever.

This year you could say the same thing to a degree.. struggle at Jax and Philly which was bad enough when you hoped to be improved.. but then here most recently it's been the doubt creeping in on the home games. 3 in the first half against the Texans at home? I dont care bout the second half. 7 against the G-Men punctuated by a "I'll do it my way" play that resulted in disaster? C'mon man.

In other words it doesnt take a rocket scientist to realize that the games we won, we didnt win because of anything he did. The other teams couldnt score on us. When he's not bringing anything to the table... holding you back as much as taking you forward.. whats the point. Move on, even if you're unsure of what you'll get instead.

 

[Juke99]

where have you been sir juke???? (great, now i got "sir duke" in my head!)

i've been saying this since before the last FA period started. it's stupid to get a QB you know as well as parcells knows drew and not even attempt to "fully" address his flaws.

i got so tired of hearing best case scenario out of each and every player as if it were possible it would happen but i so fully agree - that was just ignorance in motion to do that.

*singing* do do-do-do do-do-do....

that song doesn't translate very well to the written word.

Well yeah...I had the same gripe about Campo. People fried the guy. But was he supposed to say "Uh, I'd like to be head coach Jerry but nah, I'm not good enough"

The blame for Campo rested with Jerry...or should have.

Same with Bledsoe. He is what he is. WE ALL KNEW IT. How come the genius brass and I mean BOTH Jerry and Bill didn't know it?

And if they DID know it, why didn't they do something to help protect Bledsoe's weaknesses.

This is the stuff that has amazed me over the past few years.

We want to play ball control, mistake free offense and we start two of the all time poor decision makers and turnover machines, Testaverde and Bledsoe.

We know we're starting two immobile QB's for the past three years...but...the O-line is swiss cheese.

We want to keep the game close...and win in the 4th quarter...but let's not have a good PK until this year.

Sometimes, I just don't get it.

Bledsoe is what he is. I actually applaud his efforts. He took a beating and stood in the pocket and tried to make plays.

Problem is, he should never have been here in the first place.

As far as where I've been...I am now the owner of my company..so if anyone wants high quality printing with wonderful customer service, give me a call.