Yakuza Rich
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- Before the 2009 season, I think it was a writer over at the BleacherReport.com wrote something about Tony Romo that drew the ire of fans on this message board. Generally, I think the Bleacher Report is a joke. This comment was very harsh and I think in the end a bit too harsh for Romo, but I don’t think it was too far off and it was one of those ‘when you think about, it’s pretty true and the truth hurts’ type of comments.
Anyway, the comment was that Romo was more or less the Paris Hilton of football in that he’s more or less ‘famous for being famous.’ Meaning that in the NFL he’s an ‘A List Celebrity’, but what exactly had he accomplished? And there was certainly some truth to that at that point because he had yet to win a playoff game. And truth be told, it still applies as I don’t think winning 1 playoff game should let somebody off the hook.
But even worse, this really applies to the entire team.
I don’t think we are overrating the actual talent and skill level of the team. But more or less they’ve become ‘famous for being famous’ instead of being famous based on the merits of their accomplishments. And there’s only a handful of guys that play with a sense of urgency (Miles, Dez, Free, Ratliff, Ware and Brooking).
To me, THAT is the entire problem with this team. We as fans are too eager to bath them with anointing oil because they ‘look great on paper’, but have not really done much outside of individual goals in their career.
You would think that a team with Ware, supposedly the greatest defensive player in the league, Romo…supposedly an elite QB, Miles an elite WR, Witten…supposedly the best TE in the game, Ratliff supposedly the best NT in the game, etc…that this team could be coached by Lou Holtz and win 13 games. Instead we look like a 6-10 team…and that might be generous.
It’s like Irvin said about Roy not too long ago, not having any rings on your fingers should serve as motivation. Yet the team in general just seems to want to get the rock star treatment without the actual team accomplishment.
- As bad as Wade’s lack of fire is, at least I can say he’s gotten mad at players before. Can’t say that for Garrett. I still feel that Campo has done a worse job than Houck so far. To Houck’s credit, they’ve yet to really draft a player in the first 2 rounds that he wanted. He’s developed Free into a very good left tackle. But I wouldn’t say he’s done a great job by any means…although I’ll say the jury is still out for me. Campo OTOH got Jenkins and Scandrick and inherited Newman and Scandrick hasn’t progressed like we thought and Jenkins has regressed this year and we still can’t get anything from our safeties.
- Don’t blame Buehler, his kickoffs were excellent yesterday. Even the one after the Witten/Colombo penalty. He angled it well, hit it deep and got plenty of hangtime. But we couldn’t stop the returner.
- Here’s something I don’t understand about this coaching staff. They seem to want to tell the entire world the gameplan. Like how heavily they are going to focus on Chris Johnson. That’s why I said that my pre-game thoughts was I was worried about Vince Young. I thought that the Cowboys would overly focus on Johnson and make things easy for VY. And that’s what we did and we made VY look like Joe Montana. But somebody explain to me the advantage of telling the Titans that we are coming at Johnson at all costs?
- Gotta say, I’m down on Romo as well. I just don’t see a true leader in him. I think somebody like Aikman or Peyton or Brees or Brady or Rivers would let these guys know that this nonsense will not be tolerated. I put a lot of the blame on Wade, but the QB can still let the players know that regardless of what the coach thinks…he’s still the franchise and that their level of play is not acceptable. But, we will never get that from Romo.
And Romo seems to be good for one comeback/game winning drive at the most in a game, but not two. There’s going to be times when you think they’ve made a comeback or a game winning drive and the other team surprises you a bit and comes right back and now you have to make a game winning drive again. Romo doesn’t have that extra game winning drive in him. I suspect the big issue is that teams know that eventually he’ll key on Witten…which is what happened against the Titans on the final offensive play of the game.
- We all saw what Felix can do when he gets the touches. So why does it take a coaching staff and executive meeting for this to be pointed out to Garrett?
- Helluva game, Roy Williams. But with a team filled with C- guys, I just can’t help but be skeptical that you too will ‘do enough to get the critics off your back and then revert to your old ways.’
- I think we need fresh blood on our coaching staff. I think Gruden would probably be more into coaching again right now than Cowher, although I prefer Cowher the coach over Gruden the coach (Gruden’s overly complex offensive scheme drives me nuts and we can’t execute simple stuff with our current roster). People make the mistake of believing that Cowher had complete control over personnel when it was pretty similar to what we have here. He just knows how to motivate and not put up with slackers and their slacking ways. Still though, we need a younger HC with fire and the stamina to ‘keep on these guys’ in order to get the best of them. I vote for Ron Rivera, the San Diego D-Coordinator and make the SD Tight Ends coach Rob Chudzinski the O-Coordinator.
Rivera is a tough guy who gets his defenses to play disciplined football and create turnovers (he learned from the best in creating turnovers in Lovie Smith). Chudzinski grew up in football laden Ohio and was a very good, tough tight end at the U. of Miami and is learning from one of the best offensive minds in the game in Norv Turner. I don’t think you’ll have to tell him that Felix needs more touches.
I see Garrett politicking his way into the HC job and they’ll probably make Pasqualoni the D-Coordinator. If that happens, I ain’t watching much Cowboys football anymore. Sorry, I put up with Pasqualoni’s nonsense for 13 straight years, I ain’t putting up with it again.
- And that’s kind of the point of this team. They are horribly UN-FUN to watch. It’s funny that back in ’08 they remarked about not liking Martellus Bennett’s ‘body language’, but the entire team outside of a handful of players has an unlikeable body language. And instead of wanting to watch football it’s become more or less a chore to watch these guys and their sloppy, uninspired play. If I had season tickets, I’d probably look to sell them on eBay right now
YR
Anyway, the comment was that Romo was more or less the Paris Hilton of football in that he’s more or less ‘famous for being famous.’ Meaning that in the NFL he’s an ‘A List Celebrity’, but what exactly had he accomplished? And there was certainly some truth to that at that point because he had yet to win a playoff game. And truth be told, it still applies as I don’t think winning 1 playoff game should let somebody off the hook.
But even worse, this really applies to the entire team.
I don’t think we are overrating the actual talent and skill level of the team. But more or less they’ve become ‘famous for being famous’ instead of being famous based on the merits of their accomplishments. And there’s only a handful of guys that play with a sense of urgency (Miles, Dez, Free, Ratliff, Ware and Brooking).
To me, THAT is the entire problem with this team. We as fans are too eager to bath them with anointing oil because they ‘look great on paper’, but have not really done much outside of individual goals in their career.
You would think that a team with Ware, supposedly the greatest defensive player in the league, Romo…supposedly an elite QB, Miles an elite WR, Witten…supposedly the best TE in the game, Ratliff supposedly the best NT in the game, etc…that this team could be coached by Lou Holtz and win 13 games. Instead we look like a 6-10 team…and that might be generous.
It’s like Irvin said about Roy not too long ago, not having any rings on your fingers should serve as motivation. Yet the team in general just seems to want to get the rock star treatment without the actual team accomplishment.
- As bad as Wade’s lack of fire is, at least I can say he’s gotten mad at players before. Can’t say that for Garrett. I still feel that Campo has done a worse job than Houck so far. To Houck’s credit, they’ve yet to really draft a player in the first 2 rounds that he wanted. He’s developed Free into a very good left tackle. But I wouldn’t say he’s done a great job by any means…although I’ll say the jury is still out for me. Campo OTOH got Jenkins and Scandrick and inherited Newman and Scandrick hasn’t progressed like we thought and Jenkins has regressed this year and we still can’t get anything from our safeties.
- Don’t blame Buehler, his kickoffs were excellent yesterday. Even the one after the Witten/Colombo penalty. He angled it well, hit it deep and got plenty of hangtime. But we couldn’t stop the returner.
- Here’s something I don’t understand about this coaching staff. They seem to want to tell the entire world the gameplan. Like how heavily they are going to focus on Chris Johnson. That’s why I said that my pre-game thoughts was I was worried about Vince Young. I thought that the Cowboys would overly focus on Johnson and make things easy for VY. And that’s what we did and we made VY look like Joe Montana. But somebody explain to me the advantage of telling the Titans that we are coming at Johnson at all costs?
- Gotta say, I’m down on Romo as well. I just don’t see a true leader in him. I think somebody like Aikman or Peyton or Brees or Brady or Rivers would let these guys know that this nonsense will not be tolerated. I put a lot of the blame on Wade, but the QB can still let the players know that regardless of what the coach thinks…he’s still the franchise and that their level of play is not acceptable. But, we will never get that from Romo.
And Romo seems to be good for one comeback/game winning drive at the most in a game, but not two. There’s going to be times when you think they’ve made a comeback or a game winning drive and the other team surprises you a bit and comes right back and now you have to make a game winning drive again. Romo doesn’t have that extra game winning drive in him. I suspect the big issue is that teams know that eventually he’ll key on Witten…which is what happened against the Titans on the final offensive play of the game.
- We all saw what Felix can do when he gets the touches. So why does it take a coaching staff and executive meeting for this to be pointed out to Garrett?
- Helluva game, Roy Williams. But with a team filled with C- guys, I just can’t help but be skeptical that you too will ‘do enough to get the critics off your back and then revert to your old ways.’
- I think we need fresh blood on our coaching staff. I think Gruden would probably be more into coaching again right now than Cowher, although I prefer Cowher the coach over Gruden the coach (Gruden’s overly complex offensive scheme drives me nuts and we can’t execute simple stuff with our current roster). People make the mistake of believing that Cowher had complete control over personnel when it was pretty similar to what we have here. He just knows how to motivate and not put up with slackers and their slacking ways. Still though, we need a younger HC with fire and the stamina to ‘keep on these guys’ in order to get the best of them. I vote for Ron Rivera, the San Diego D-Coordinator and make the SD Tight Ends coach Rob Chudzinski the O-Coordinator.
Rivera is a tough guy who gets his defenses to play disciplined football and create turnovers (he learned from the best in creating turnovers in Lovie Smith). Chudzinski grew up in football laden Ohio and was a very good, tough tight end at the U. of Miami and is learning from one of the best offensive minds in the game in Norv Turner. I don’t think you’ll have to tell him that Felix needs more touches.
I see Garrett politicking his way into the HC job and they’ll probably make Pasqualoni the D-Coordinator. If that happens, I ain’t watching much Cowboys football anymore. Sorry, I put up with Pasqualoni’s nonsense for 13 straight years, I ain’t putting up with it again.
- And that’s kind of the point of this team. They are horribly UN-FUN to watch. It’s funny that back in ’08 they remarked about not liking Martellus Bennett’s ‘body language’, but the entire team outside of a handful of players has an unlikeable body language. And instead of wanting to watch football it’s become more or less a chore to watch these guys and their sloppy, uninspired play. If I had season tickets, I’d probably look to sell them on eBay right now
YR
