Where is the accountability?

[BourbonBalz]

You had me at 14.

They still marched the ball 40 yards after the third INT. It was still possible for the defense to hold them to the FGA in that situation.

Sure they could've, but the interception was the catalyst to that TD. You give up the ball in your own territory and more than likely it's gonna bite you in the ***.

 

[el_chevo]

Romo mentioned in his post-game conference the need to protect the ball in the second half. He fell short of this goal. Hopefully, this will be something to learn from. But, how many games do we have to lose in order to learn this lesson?

 

[Eskimo]

Sure they could've, but the interception was the catalyst to that TD. You give up the ball in your own territory and more than likely it's gonna bite you in the ***.

Maybe so but I'd say you have a 60-70% chance of not giving up a TD in that scenario. The opposition is still a far way from the end zone. If they go 3 and out they may not even be in FG range.

The defense definitely had a very good chance to at the very least leave the field with a tied game and they failed.

 

[Fletch]

If you are going to bash the same play calling that gave us 30 points, then there is no point in talking to you. If you want to blame our experienced 31 year old QB for going brain dead in the second half. Then I agree with you

THIS! This game was not Jason's fault. I don't get it. This game was not the defense's fault either. This loss falls squarely on the shoulders of Tony Romo!!!

3 damn, costly INT's by Romo to breathe life back into the big bad Lions who were whipped!

Turnover Tony reared his ugly head again. He will never shed the choker label with games like this because when it's bad, it's really bad. We should be 3-1 with no excuses.

 

[Fletch]

You had me at 14.

They still marched the ball 40 yards after the third INT. It was still possible for the defense to hold them to the FGA in that situation.

Sure it was possible. But let's not blame the defense for this one. The D was playing a very good game and got no help whatsoever from Tony.

 

[Fletch]

Yes, it did, but that wasn't because of the play calls, it was because of Romo not being smart with the ball. All a coach can do is call the plays, he can't run them and make the decisions at the LOS or in the middle of the play. The QB has that burden.

Every time a player throws an interception or fumbles or makes a mistake you could say it wouldn't have happened if the coach had called a different play. Knowing the result after the fact doesn't condemn the play called before the fact.

Bingo! Yeah, let's deflect the blame from Romo and lay it at Jason's feet.

Again, this one is not on JG. It's not that hard to figure out!

 

[Stautner]

So, should he have never thrown the ball in the 2nd half knowing Romo can make mistakes?

What is the acceptible percentage, and how does the fact that it was still very early in the 2nd half come into play?

Do you think we could have run out the clock with 26 minutes left to play?

Do you think pulling back a little, but still trying to do some of what had built a 24 point lead was unreasonable?[/quote]


No, I don't, but you and I have a different opinion on what pulling back a little means. We could've pulled back more than a little and still ran a successful offense AND used the clock AND made the Lions work for any scores instead of just giving them away.

We were running 43% of the time, and most of the passes were dump offs, screens etc ..... dinks and dunks. We weren't throwing downfield and/or throwing risky and/or low percentage passes.

If Garrett felt pulling back more than that would risk losing our tempo and consistency, and would cost us momentum, I have no problem with that.

Again, 26 MINUTES LEFT in the game, and against a team that had been averaging over 30 points a game. You can't risk turning the tide in their favor then trying to scratch and claw to hold on after the momentum has turned.

A mere 2 TD's and suddenly Detroit is back in the thick of things, and the tone of the game has changed with a lot of time left for Detroit to score more. With a team averaging over 30 points per game that is entirely possible, and easily something a team has to try and prevent.

Had Garrett started calling shots downfield I would agree with you, but a safe dink and dunk passing game mixed in with a lot of runs is not being risky.

Bingo! Yeah, let's deflect the blame from Romo and lay it at Jason's feet.

Again, this one is not on JG. It's not that hard to figure out!

It's also not that hard to figure out that short of a completely insurmountable lead teams don't completely back off a highly successful game plan with 26 minutes left in the game, especially when playiing against one of the highest scoring teams in the league.