Yakuza Rich
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- This is a big game for obvious reasons. If Dallas can win, that puts us at 8-4 and if the G-Men lose to the Packers, that puts them at 6-6. Having a 2-game lead going into the last quarter of the season is a beautiful place to be.
- However, the Cowboys have lost their last 2 tries against Arizona at Arizona. It's obviously a big game for the Cardinals even though it appears they are pretty much out of the playoff picture. As one poster put it, it's a good reason as to why the Cowboys cannot take anybody lightly because of Phoenix being in somewhat close proximity to Dallas and a lot of teams treat playing the Cowboys like a homecoming game.
- The good news is that the Cardinals are not a good team from a metrics standpoint. In fact, most of their metrics are quite poor so it's not quite like they may be good at 1-2 things and stink at the rest and use those 1-2 things to beat us.
- But, that then brings into question 'how does a team like Dallas lose to an inferior Cardinals team?' Coming out flat, silly turnovers, stupid penalties like a holding call on a 2nd and short running play or Jesse Holley getting a personal foul call. I also believe the big key...special teams. DeCamillis' unit, outside of Dan Bailey, has been terrible this year
- I think we should dominate the sacks game. I think we'll see Ware get back on track. I know the Dolphins shut him out, but they overloaded to protect against him and that allowed the other defenders to get to Matt Moore. I wouldn't be too surprised to see the same thing here, although I think Ware is going to have a big game.
- I'm actually glad that the team called up Chapas. Even if he fails, it shows to me that Garrett has recognized that this offense performs best when we have the fullback in the game and use 21 personnel more than 12 personnel. It's kinda funny because so many teams revere Bill Walsh's offenses, but use different personnel than Walsh. As Pat Kirwan said, Walsh never had have a problem using 21 personnel on 3rd and 12. Why? Because that's the best personnel he had in the game. And while Tom Rathman wasn't a great receiving threat, he could pass protect and then you had Brent Jones, Rice, Taylor and Roger Craig going out for passes.
- We've got to use a lot less shotgun that we did against Miami. I could live with it a little if we were better running from the shotgun and kept defenses honest. But, this is a team that runs far better with a fullback as a lead blocker. And I think we generate more deep, big pass play potential when Romo is under center than when we are in the shotgun.
- I think that the rest of the year will dictate what we do at center (or need to do) for 2012. Costa had a good game against Miami and maybe he's now finding his groove. I've been unimpressed with Costa for the most part, but he's a young player who may have some potential in this league. I'd hate to see him become a Casey Wiegmann who got dumped early in his career and turned out to be an elite center later on. But, we need to see some good play down the stretch from Costa.
- I think the obvious key here is to contain Fitzgerald. Hopefully, that means Alan Ball isn't covering him. Well, after last week, I hope Alan Ball isn't covering anybody.
- Is it me or does anybody else think we should see a helluva lot more or Barry Church? The guy seems like he can play in this league.
- I think the team has to cut down on the amount of time they run off the playclock. It just makes the O-Line's job more difficult and I think the WR's struggle with it as well. Plus, the defense gets a better idea of what Romo is going to do and can just continue to move blitzers around. I think that's one way the Patriots have attacked the Jets, get the snaps off earlier and not allow the Jets defense to move around and confuse Brady and the O-Line.
Unfortunately, we probably can't pick up the pace this year since we've spent so much practice time winding down the playclock. I would like to see us speed it up early in the game to see if we can get off to a good, fast start.
YR
- However, the Cowboys have lost their last 2 tries against Arizona at Arizona. It's obviously a big game for the Cardinals even though it appears they are pretty much out of the playoff picture. As one poster put it, it's a good reason as to why the Cowboys cannot take anybody lightly because of Phoenix being in somewhat close proximity to Dallas and a lot of teams treat playing the Cowboys like a homecoming game.
- The good news is that the Cardinals are not a good team from a metrics standpoint. In fact, most of their metrics are quite poor so it's not quite like they may be good at 1-2 things and stink at the rest and use those 1-2 things to beat us.
- But, that then brings into question 'how does a team like Dallas lose to an inferior Cardinals team?' Coming out flat, silly turnovers, stupid penalties like a holding call on a 2nd and short running play or Jesse Holley getting a personal foul call. I also believe the big key...special teams. DeCamillis' unit, outside of Dan Bailey, has been terrible this year
- I think we should dominate the sacks game. I think we'll see Ware get back on track. I know the Dolphins shut him out, but they overloaded to protect against him and that allowed the other defenders to get to Matt Moore. I wouldn't be too surprised to see the same thing here, although I think Ware is going to have a big game.
- I'm actually glad that the team called up Chapas. Even if he fails, it shows to me that Garrett has recognized that this offense performs best when we have the fullback in the game and use 21 personnel more than 12 personnel. It's kinda funny because so many teams revere Bill Walsh's offenses, but use different personnel than Walsh. As Pat Kirwan said, Walsh never had have a problem using 21 personnel on 3rd and 12. Why? Because that's the best personnel he had in the game. And while Tom Rathman wasn't a great receiving threat, he could pass protect and then you had Brent Jones, Rice, Taylor and Roger Craig going out for passes.
- We've got to use a lot less shotgun that we did against Miami. I could live with it a little if we were better running from the shotgun and kept defenses honest. But, this is a team that runs far better with a fullback as a lead blocker. And I think we generate more deep, big pass play potential when Romo is under center than when we are in the shotgun.
- I think that the rest of the year will dictate what we do at center (or need to do) for 2012. Costa had a good game against Miami and maybe he's now finding his groove. I've been unimpressed with Costa for the most part, but he's a young player who may have some potential in this league. I'd hate to see him become a Casey Wiegmann who got dumped early in his career and turned out to be an elite center later on. But, we need to see some good play down the stretch from Costa.
- I think the obvious key here is to contain Fitzgerald. Hopefully, that means Alan Ball isn't covering him. Well, after last week, I hope Alan Ball isn't covering anybody.
- Is it me or does anybody else think we should see a helluva lot more or Barry Church? The guy seems like he can play in this league.
- I think the team has to cut down on the amount of time they run off the playclock. It just makes the O-Line's job more difficult and I think the WR's struggle with it as well. Plus, the defense gets a better idea of what Romo is going to do and can just continue to move blitzers around. I think that's one way the Patriots have attacked the Jets, get the snaps off earlier and not allow the Jets defense to move around and confuse Brady and the O-Line.
Unfortunately, we probably can't pick up the pace this year since we've spent so much practice time winding down the playclock. I would like to see us speed it up early in the game to see if we can get off to a good, fast start.
YR
