You Practice What You Are!!!!!

[Mansta54]

Folks it's PRESEASON. Relax!

 

[5Countem5]

Just a heads up jimmy got the fatige/coward thing from lombardi. But u are what u are and I'm sure ppl will say the same thing when cleveland puts 40 up! Its just 1 game why is the sky falln and let's go kill ourselves. then when we are 2-2 leading the league in penalties ppl will say its only been a month don't why panic. Then when the boys lose 3 of 4 in december oh we have to rest our playrs n the coaches don't wana show anything 4 the playoffs. Next its 1 and done n ppl will bring out every excuse why they lost including last yrs favorite. Jessica is training camp.

I guess 13 year old girls have opinions too.

Thanks for the text!

 

[iceberg]

I believe in the philosophy of Jimmy Johnson, in that regards to practicing, fatigue makes cowards of you.

Lets see now how I will back this up;
1. In the Cowboys practices with the Broncoes, several denver players said, because of all the hitting, all of the dallas cowboy players didnt seem like they liked all of the hitting, so shoving, hitting, penalities occured.
2. In the game there were sure a lot of dumb penalities.
3. Even the Moose fullback Johnston said there was alot of poor tackling techniques.
4. Cowboys had a problem with special teams last week, so how did they correct that spent, alot of extra time on special teams drills.
5. IN the injury to Miles Austin, Ray Sherman the wide receivers coach said he tried to stop Austin foom getting back onto the field, but didnt in time, is that another poor coaching by special teams coach Read?
6. Finally, the Cowboys as you know dont tackle in practice, etc, and it showed up again in the game last night.

So, YOU ARE WHAT YOU PRACTICE!!!!!!!!!
NOW WHOSE FAULT IS THAT, AS THE HEAD COACH??????????????

so do you practice being so foolish?

 

[Ken]

I believe in the philosophy of Jimmy Johnson, in that regards to practicing, fatigue makes cowards of you.

Lets see now how I will back this up;
1. In the Cowboys practices with the Broncoes, several denver players said, because of all the hitting, all of the dallas cowboy players didnt seem like they liked all of the hitting, so shoving, hitting, penalities occured.
2. In the game there were sure a lot of dumb penalities.
3. Even the Moose fullback Johnston said there was alot of poor tackling techniques.
4. Cowboys had a problem with special teams last week, so how did they correct that spent, alot of extra time on special teams drills.
5. IN the injury to Miles Austin, Ray Sherman the wide receivers coach said he tried to stop Austin foom getting back onto the field, but didnt in time, is that another poor coaching by special teams coach Read?
6. Finally, the Cowboys as you know dont tackle in practice, etc, and it showed up again in the game last night.

So, YOU ARE WHAT YOU PRACTICE!!!!!!!!!
NOW WHOSE FAULT IS THAT, AS THE HEAD COACH??????????????

I had a coach in High School who used to say, "Practice Makes Permanent".

If you practice something a certain way, you will do it that way in a game. If you practice it wrong, you will do it wrong.

Practice doesn't make perfect...

 

[jman]

NOW WHOSE FAULT IS THAT, AS THE HEAD COACH??????????????

Jimmy Johnson?

 

[WoodysGirl]

I believe in the philosophy of Jimmy Johnson, in that regards to practicing, fatigue makes cowards of you.


5. IN the injury to Miles Austin, Ray Sherman the wide receivers coach said he tried to stop Austin foom getting back onto the field, but didnt in time, is that another poor coaching by special teams coach Read?

 

[jackrussell]

the Moose fullback Johnston

:laugh2:

 

[cowboyjoe]

all i can say is this to the posts on my posted message;

To me, you have to fix something when you see a problem. There has been sloppy tackling, poor special teams play and coaching errors. Mark my words, the same thing will happen come December if the Cowboys are winning their divinsion like last year. Wade good ole boy Phillips will come in and say. You all have done good, you need a break, so no more working out in pads in December like last year. Take a week off and go have a party. I am going to do the same, forget about getting the football team ready. I believe in having fun and being with my wife. So, forget about football in late December and the playoffs bye week. Besides, if we win the division, we will have won another playoff game with the bye week.

So, get some rest, forget that your body breaks down from working out after 3 days. Forget all of that, because we will be champs again on paper and we have 13 pro bowlers, heck, the Cowboys might have 15 probowlers this year, and at the end of the year.

So, we dont need rhythm, we dont need to keep our bodies in shape, fine tuned. I will run the team the way i see fit. We all are a bunch of good ole boys, and one season we will knock the door in.

So, when all of this happens, just like now with all of the poor tackling, poor coaching decisions, and players pointing fingers on the defensive side of the ball. Heck, everyone knows that penalities are the main result of not praticing, and fine tuning your team, thats what leads to sloopy errors and penalities, but i am a good ole boy, so you should give me some lead way.

So, when all of this happens again in December, at least I told you so, and you can mark down my words. Just like when everyone finally got on the bandwagon about the Dallas Cowboys having poor seasons in late December and the playoffs. Even one writer finally labeled camp last year, camp cupcake. So, when all of this lack of discipline, studying, comes to fruit at the end of the season, you can mark my words what I tried to tell you.

Just like when everyone has gotten onto Roy Williams for his lack of excection, working hard in offsesaon, etc.. That finally after 3 seasons of some poor playing by Roy, that roy finally admited that he was used to commonplace, he had gotten in a rut, and couldnt see the forest for the trees. Till Wade Phillips sees that and corrects what he needs to fix himself. You dont go to the playoffs and lose every first playoff game you were in without a reason. Wade Phillips has take 4 teams to the playoffs and each time he has lost in the playoffs. There is a reason for that. Till someone can take corrective critism and be willing to change, nothing will change. Sure, change is painful, always is. Heck, I even had to go through some painful issues about 3 months ago, but I am better for it now, seeing what I had to change and fix. Now someone else, or points fingers at someone else for my mistakes, and how I needed to grow as a person. So, the same applies to Wade Phillips, till he sees that this team isnt going very far in the playoffs.

You Are What You Practice!
The Team takes on the Personality of the Head Coach!

 

[PullMyFinger]

I TOTALLY AGREE WITH THIS SENTIMENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ROTFL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[DallasDomination]

One thing is to over work somebody and another is to make them play soft...You dont get ready for the season with camp cupcake...it might of been a relaxing change last year but this year? I hope to god he proves me worng. But i dont like all this camp cupcake, no hitting stuff.

 

[Mr Cowboy]

all i can say is this to the posts on my posted message;

To me, you have to fix something when you see a problem. There has been sloppy tackling, poor special teams play and coaching errors. Mark my words, the same thing will happen come December if the Cowboys are winning their divinsion like last year. Wade good ole boy Phillips will come in and say. You all have done good, you need a break, so no more working out in pads in December like last year. Take a week off and go have a party. I am going to do the same, forget about getting the football team ready. I believe in having fun and being with my wife. So, forget about football in late December and the playoffs bye week. Besides, if we win the division, we will have won another playoff game with the bye week.

So, get some rest, forget that your body breaks down from working out after 3 days. Forget all of that, because we will be champs again on paper and we have 13 pro bowlers, heck, the Cowboys might have 15 probowlers this year, and at the end of the year.

So, we dont need rhythm, we dont need to keep our bodies in shape, fine tuned. I will run the team the way i see fit. We all are a bunch of good ole boys, and one season we will knock the door in.

So, when all of this happens, just like now with all of the poor tackling, poor coaching decisions, and players pointing fingers on the defensive side of the ball. Heck, everyone knows that penalities are the main result of not praticing, and fine tuning your team, thats what leads to sloopy errors and penalities, but i am a good ole boy, so you should give me some lead way.

So, when all of this happens again in December, at least I told you so, and you can mark down my words. Just like when everyone finally got on the bandwagon about the Dallas Cowboys having poor seasons in late December and the playoffs. Even one writer finally labeled camp last year, camp cupcake. So, when all of this lack of discipline, studying, comes to fruit at the end of the season, you can mark my words what I tried to tell you.

Just like when everyone has gotten onto Roy Williams for his lack of excection, working hard in offsesaon, etc.. That finally after 3 seasons of some poor playing by Roy, that roy finally admited that he was used to commonplace, he had gotten in a rut, and couldnt see the forest for the trees. Till Wade Phillips sees that and corrects what he needs to fix himself. You dont go to the playoffs and lose every first playoff game you were in without a reason. Wade Phillips has take 4 teams to the playoffs and each time he has lost in the playoffs. There is a reason for that. Till someone can take corrective critism and be willing to change, nothing will change. Sure, change is painful, always is. Heck, I even had to go through some painful issues about 3 months ago, but I am better for it now, seeing what I had to change and fix. Now someone else, or points fingers at someone else for my mistakes, and how I needed to grow as a person. So, the same applies to Wade Phillips, till he sees that this team isnt going very far in the playoffs.

You Are What You Practice!
The Team takes on the Personality of the Head Coach!

All this from one pre-season game loss?

WOW!

I guess sticking around for the season is a waste of time. Oh well, there's always next year.

Hey guys, will one of you call Jerry and tell him to cancel the season because we lost this last pre season game. Tell him to take the season off and to concentrate on the new stadium.

 

[Mansta54]

All this from one pre-season game loss?

WOW!

I guess sticking around for the season is a waste of time. Oh well, there's always next year.

Hey guys, will one of you call Jerry and tell him to cancel the season because we lost this last pre season game. Tell him to take the season off and to concentrate on the new stadium.

It's ridiculous, isn't it. Unbelievable!!

 

[Little Jr]

ILets see now how I will back this up;
1. In the Cowboys practices with the Broncoes, several denver players said, because of all the hitting, all of the dallas cowboy players didnt seem like they liked all of the hitting, so shoving, hitting, penalities occured.

There are up and downs to tackling in practice. The Texans tackle in practice. Living in Houston I'm forced to see them on the news. I've seen a couple of interviews with players that dont like it but say it's not their decision. They also had 17 players on the IR at the end of the season last year too.

 

[AsthmaField]

Look, I like to see solid play too. However, there were several things that led to this game playing out like it did and level headed people can see that it was no surprise the outcome was what it was.

One, the team was flat out tired. It was the end of camp and they had traveled to Denver's camp for a few days. It was a busy, hectic camp and it had worn on the players and coaches.

Two, Denver was fired up having one of the super bowl favorites visiting their camp and working out against them. We were a measuring stick for their players and coaching staff and they were simply much more fired up about practice and the game that the Cowboys were. Dallas had nearly three weeks in the spotlight and on HBO... this was Denver's first chance. It's no surprise that they were very fired up going against Dallas.

Three, Denver was embarassed last year against Dallas and felt like the Cowboys gameplanned last year and brought too many exotic blitzes. Some of their players even said so, and you could tell that Shannahan was upset. Their players and staff weren't about to let the same thing happen this year... particularly not at their camp and at their stadium. I'm sure they prepared much more than they would for a typical preseason match-up.

Four, I think Dallas was even more vanilla than usual. Because they were accused last year of playing too many exotic blitzes, they played this game very basic. Phillips even alluded to this in his post game PC when he said the tone was set negatively because they applied NO pressure to Denver's offense. Stewart got messages for offensive coordinators around the NFL about his blitzes against Denver last year, so he was sure to run base defense only.

Five, Wade Phillips defenses run off of his pressure packages. Take away the ability to send any pressure and you're going to have a basic defense that is doing NOTHING the way it is supposed to. Doing absolutely zero of what they've been working towards in camp. The whole defense was hamstrung and out of sync. That defense last night is absolutely nothing like the defense you'll see all year long. The only reason anyone runs a 3-4 is because of it's versatility (ability to confuse) and the ability to apply pressure from many places. Take away that and you have a slow 4-3 defense with only 3 defensive linemen.

Of course the defense will look bad. It's basically a 7-on-7 drill in front of a stadium full of people.

Finally, the altitude adjustment (in all aspects of the game) would take more than 3 days to get used to.

So, what we had last night was:

One team with revenge on their mind, who wanted to see what they could do against one of the best teams in the NFL in front of the HBO cameras. They spent a little extra time on the game plan and probably focused more on pass protection in the plays they scripted for the starters. The Denver crowd was acting like this was a playoff game. The Denver coaches know that looking good against Dallas can build a lot of confidence in his young team and will up public confidence and improve his waning popularity.

The other team is probably sick of the HBO cameras and were tired from taveling to another team's camp and practicing and playing in a much higher altitude than they were used to. They had absolutely nothing to prove as a team and their coaches had gone out of their way to put together as basic a gameplan as they could. The defensive coach took away exactly what his unit does best and is built around, and made sure to do nothing that could be misunderstood as gameplanning. A team that relies a lot on it's schemes (Wade's defense and Garrett's offense) was unable to use one of it's biggest weapons: The ability to scheme and use it's talent. Dallas relies on that more than most and it was a non-factor.

Ask yourself: Is it any wonder that Denver came out flying around and Dallas came out flat?

The mistakes are easily correctable and the team and staff seems to understand that work in those areas are needed.

Honestly, things are going to be okay... I promise.

 

[CrazyCowboy]

We should be just fine.

 

[Fletch]

Hey, the Packers lost to the Jets by almost 30 points. The Packers are definitely, in my opinion, the better team. The Cowboys, in my opinion, are more talented than the Broncos. We lost by 10.

Don't let preseason fool you. Preseason is just that. Of course I got pissed, when we lost yet again. But this doesn't mean that we won't be ready to field a damn good team come game one of the regular season.

*Prediction: 13-3, Home field, Tampa Bay bound.

 

[Undisputed]

Breaking news..Cowboys QB Tony Romo respondes to cowboyjoe's post:

“If somebody tell you that I’ve missed practice, if-if the coach says I missed practice and ya’ll hear it, then that’s that,” he said. “I mean I might have missed one practice this year, but if somebody say he doesn’t come to practice,’ then it could be one practice, out of all the practices this year, that’s enough … If I can’t practice I can’t practice man, if I’m, hurt I’m hurt, I mean simple as that … It ain’t about that, its not about that, at all you know what I’m saying? I mean … But it it’s easy to talk about it, it’s easy to sum it up when you just talk about practice.

“We sitting here and I’m supposed to be the franchise player, and we’re in here talking about practice. I mean listen; we’re talking about practice. Not a game, not a game. We’re talking about practice. Not a game, not the-not the, not the game that I go out there and die for, and play every game like it’s my last. Not the game. We’re talking about practice, man. I mean, how silly is that? We’re talking about practice.

“I know I’m supposed to be there. I know I’m supposed to lead by example … I know that, and I’m not shoving it aside you know like it don’t mean anything I know it’s important … I do … I honestly do. But we’re talking about practice, man. What are we talking about? Practice? We’re talking about practice, man … We’re talking about practice. We’re talking about practice. We ain’t talking about the game, we’re talking about practice, man. When you come to the arena, and you see me play, you see me play don’t you? You see me give everything I got, right? But we’re talking about practice right now. We’re talking about pract-man look I hear you it’s funny to me, too, and I mean it’s strange to me, too. But we are talking about practice … How the hell can I make my team better by practice?”

credit: Rototimes

 

[silverbear]

I TOTALLY AGREE WITH THIS SENTIMENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I DON'T!!!!!! AND I DEMAND THAT HOS APOLOGIZE FOR SAYING IT!!!!!!

NEXT THING YOU KNOW, HE'LL BE PUTTING DOWN THE OVERUSE OF SMILIES!!!!?!!!!!!

YOU KNOW I'M RIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:laugh2: :bang2: :laugh1:

 

[silverbear]

so do you practice being so foolish?

I figure it's too many hours listening to "smoaky"...

 

[silverbear]

all i can say is this to the posts on my posted message;

To me, you have to fix something when you see a problem.

Well, let's see-- against the Chargers, PacMan stunk it out... last night, he was much better... against the Chargers, the punt coverage stunk... last night, it was very good...

poor special teams play

The Broncos had 3 kick returns for an average of 25.3 yards, 2 punt returns for an average of 5.0 yards... the Cowboys blocked a kick...

Cowboys punters averaged 46.2 yards on 5 kicks, 1 inside the 20, no touchbacks, only two punts returned-- for 4 and 6 yards... their punt returners returned 2 kicks, for 24 and 9 yards... Cowboys kick returners had 2 kickoff returns, both 35 yards or longer... Nick Folk made all of his kicks...

Sounds like our special teams were REALLY good last night... perhaps you need to pay closer attention...