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UpSideDown · October 2011

Getting stuffed on the goal line in the first half was as big as any of the interceptions..........lack of running game puts everything on Romo and it is just not balanced enough.

Flagg · October 2011

UpSideDown wrote:

Getting stuffed on the goal line in the first half was as big as any of the interceptions..........lack of running game puts everything on Romo and it is just not balanced enough.

And in that case, Garrett should have overruled Romo and kicked the field goal no matter how much Romo argued about it.

But I agree with you. The running game or lack thereof is starting to really hurt them.

SatansFuton · October 2011

I've noticed today a lot of the media blaming Felix Jones for running out of bounds on 4th down. And while it was a brain fart, he wasn't going to get that first down anyway. It was 4th and 20 and Romo throws a short pass for 7 yards and puts it on Jones to try and get the rest and also stay mindful of getting out of bounds? Jones beat one tackler, but there were two more Lions closing in on him, he wasn't going to get 20 yards. So either way you look at it the game was about to be over. On 4th and 20 you have to go longer than some short pass. But for some reason a lot of the media is throwing Felix Jones under the bus for that final play, which wasn't going anywhere anyway, instead of on Romo who threw 3 interceptions and that little short pass that led to Jones' "mistake".

The Waiting Trophy Man · October 2011

SatansFuton wrote:

But for some reason a lot of the media is throwing Felix Jones under the bus for that final play, which wasn't going anywhere anyway, instead of on Romo who threw 3 interceptions and that little short pass that led to Jones' "mistake".

All of the media I've been watching is blaming Romo, lol

I'm just curious, who does the play-calling for the Cowboys? Romo? Garrett? Their offensive co-ordinator? Who's deciding to pass it on 1st and 10 with a 24-point lead from their own 20 yard line??

Also, whose decision was it to go for it on 4th down, instead of kicking a fg? You do things like that when it's late in the game and you're losing; not when you're already ahead 7-0 early in the first quarter.

Cowboys aren't playing smart football, obviously, but who's to blame???

SatansFuton · October 2011

The Waiting Trophy Man wrote:

SatansFuton wrote:

But for some reason a lot of the media is throwing Felix Jones under the bus for that final play, which wasn't going anywhere anyway, instead of on Romo who threw 3 interceptions and that little short pass that led to Jones' "mistake".

All of the media I've been watching is blaming Romo, lol

I'm just curious, who does the play-calling for the Cowboys? Romo? Garrett? Their offensive co-ordinator? Who's deciding to pass it on 1st and 10 with a 24-point lead from their own 20 yard line??

Also, whose decision was it to go for it on 4th down, instead of kicking a fg? You do things like that when it's late in the game and you're losing; not when you're already ahead 7-0 early in the first quarter.

Cowboys aren't playing smart football, obviously, but who's to blame???

Well I haven't heard what ESPN has to say, but I saw Michael Wilbon posted something online about what a bonehead Jones is. But the Dallas media has been jumping all over Jones. Babe Laufenberg, Dale Hansen, etc. have jumped all over Jones as well as the articles I've read in the papers. I don't think they're letting Romo all the way off, but I think the mindset is that even with all of Romo's mistakes they still had a chance to come back and win, then Jones messed that up. But I still think it was dumb to toss that little pass out to Jones in the first place, he wasn't going to get a first down. I think that's a situation where the pass needs to be at least 20 yards in the air, not 5-6.

SatansFuton · October 2011

The Waiting Trophy Man wrote:

I'm just curious, who does the play-calling for the Cowboys? Romo? Garrett? Their offensive co-ordinator? Who's deciding to pass it on 1st and 10 with a 24-point lead from their own 20 yard line??

I don't think Dallas has an offensive coordinator, that WAS Garrett, and I think he's now the offensive play-calling head coach and lets Rob Ryan call the defense. So Garrett calls the plays, but in a situation like the end of that game without timeouts and stuff, Romo may have been calling the plays, or calling them from a set of guidelines or hurry up plan set up by Garrett.

The Waiting Trophy Man · October 2011

SatansFuton wrote:

Well I haven't heard what ESPN has to say, but I saw Michael Wilbon posted something online about what a bonehead Jones is. But the Dallas media has been jumping all over Jones. Babe Laufenberg, Dale Hansen, etc. have jumped all over Jones as well as the articles I've read in the papers. I don't think they're letting Romo all the way off, but I think the mindset is that even with all of Romo's mistakes they still had a chance to come back and win, then Jones messed that up. But I still think it was dumb to toss that little pass out to Jones in the first place, he wasn't going to get a first down. I think that's a situation where the pass needs to be at least 20 yards in the air, not 5-6.

Yeah the media can't blame Jones for that. The bottom line is, the Cowboys shouldn't have had to fight back in the dying seconds of that game to win. All they had to do was protect the ball and protect the lead and they blew it, largely because of Romo. Again.

dougfloyd · October 2011

The Waiting Trophy Man wrote:

Yeah the media can't blame Jones for that. The bottom line is, the Cowboys shouldn't have had to fight back in the dying seconds of that game to win. All they had to do was protect the ball and protect the lead and they blew it, largely because of Romo. Again.

Yeah when you're up 27-3 in the 3rd quarter and then blow it, you can't just pin the loss on 1 play. Lots of mistakes to go around and I haven't been impressed with some of the decisions made by Garrett so far through 4 weeks, some questionable play calling to say the least. Romo is what he is (kinda like Favre), you're going to get the good and the bad with him. On the list of things wrong with this team I don't think he's in the top 5, it's just that he's the QB so his mistakes have a much bigger impact and are more noticeable than other areas.

cowboypjfan · October 2011

Flagg wrote:

But I agree with you. The running game or lack thereof is starting to really hurt them.

I am not buying that argument. Cowboys rushed for over 100 yards yesterday averaging over 4 yards per carry. The O line did an AWESOME job yesterday. Even if they chose to run and went 3 and out on those 2 pick sixes, the Lions would still have to drive down the field to get those 14 points. The problem yesterday was the INT's and the play calling in the end(whether that was on Romo or Garrett).

I don't get all excited about the 4th week of the season(unless you are 0-4). There are plenty of games left and plenty of opportunities for Romo to silence his critics. Although the only thing that would get everyone to stop flip flopping on the Romo train would be a Super Bowl win.

Flagg · October 2011

crazypjfan wrote:

Flagg wrote:

But I agree with you. The running game or lack thereof is starting to really hurt them.

I am not buying that argument. Cowboys rushed for over 100 yards yesterday averaging over 4 yards per carry. The O line did an AWESOME job yesterday. Even if they chose to run and went 3 and out on those 2 pick sixes, the Lions would still have to drive down the field to get those 14 points. The problem yesterday was the INT's and the play calling in the end(whether that was on Romo or Garrett).

I don't get all excited about the 4th week of the season(unless you are 0-4). There are plenty of games left and plenty of opportunities for Romo to silence his critics. Although the only thing that would get everyone to stop flip flopping on the Romo train would be a Super Bowl win.

That's a sign that Garrett either doesn't trust the running game or just wants to pass it. Either way it is hurting them.

I don't know. We can go back and forth forever, but if you piled up 100 yards rushing, you should be rushing in the 2nd half and if you have to punt, so be it.

Flagg · October 2011

The Waiting Trophy Man wrote:

SatansFuton wrote:

But for some reason a lot of the media is throwing Felix Jones under the bus for that final play, which wasn't going anywhere anyway, instead of on Romo who threw 3 interceptions and that little short pass that led to Jones' "mistake".

All of the media I've been watching is blaming Romo, lol

I'm just curious, who does the play-calling for the Cowboys? Romo? Garrett? Their offensive co-ordinator? Who's deciding to pass it on 1st and 10 with a 24-point lead from their own 20 yard line??

Also, whose decision was it to go for it on 4th down, instead of kicking a fg? You do things like that when it's late in the game and you're losing; not when you're already ahead 7-0 early in the first quarter.

Cowboys aren't playing smart football, obviously, but who's to blame???

On the 4th and goal from the one, I place the blame strictly on Garrett. You take the points and make it a two-score game. Any chance you get to make it a two-score game you do it. You don't let your QB argue to get his way. Maddening.

cowboypjfan · October 2011

Flagg wrote:

I don't know. We can go back and forth forever, but if you piled up 100 yards rushing, you should be rushing in the 2nd half and if you have to punt, so be it.

Exactly. I wish we knew who really was calling those pass plays..

cowboypjfan · October 2011

Flagg wrote:

Any chance you get to make it a two-score game you do it. You don't let your QB argue to get his way.

Unless his name is Tom Brady. or maybe Aaron Rodgers.

cowboypjfan · October 2011

Looks like we will be healthy after the bye week.

Who's ready for a nice stretch of wins? It looks like we can win at least 6 of the next 8 games. Maybe 7 if we can beat the Pats this Sunday.

I'm getting excited for the remainder of the season. Amidst the bullshit mistakes, we have a solid team! There are teams with problems that can't be solved easily and that makes the NFC East wide open for our taking!

dougfloyd · October 2011

crazypjfan wrote:

Looks like we will be healthy after the bye week.

Who's ready for a nice stretch of wins? It looks like we can win at least 6 of the next 8 games. Maybe 7 if we can beat the Pats this Sunday.

I'm getting excited for the remainder of the season. Amidst the bullshit mistakes, we have a solid team! There are teams with problems that can't be solved easily and that makes the NFC East wide open for our taking!

And I was glad to see the Eagles and Giants lose during the bye week. I think if they win those games that they should win then they will be in good shape and just need to win their divisional games later in the year. I don't see the Redskins running away with the division.

I'm not as hopeful as you about facing the Pats though, that would be quite an accomplishment to pull out a win there.

cowboypjfan · October 2011

dougfloyd wrote:

I'm not as hopeful as you about facing the Pats though, that would be quite an accomplishment to pull out a win there.

I was at Texas stadium in 06 for the Colts/Cowboys game when everyone thought I was crazy to say we would win that one. And we did, 21-14.

I don't think it's far fetched. We have a good team. Really. We do. Besides the Jets, we played 3 teams in 1st place and beat 2 of them and should have won the Lions game. Now to beat another 1st place team!

Man, I must be smoking the same stuff that Andy Reid was when he hired Juan Castillo!

cowboypjfan · October 2011

One more thing...the fairweather fans are hibernating until the Boys win again. Then, they'll be back. You know who you are!

tybird · October 2011

Glad to see that we are not the only team in the NFC East that loses games that they were supposed to win....yeah....I'm talking about the Giants and the Eagles.

cowboypjfan · October 2011

Nice!

Cowboys LB Ware flattered after Belichick compared him to Lawrence Taylor: 'That's a pretty big thing to say'

Cowboys outside linebacker DeMarcus Ware was flattered when he heard that Patriots coach Bill Belichick had compared him to former New York Giants star Lawrence Taylor earlier Wednesday.

"That's a pretty big thing to say something like that," Ware said, "especially because that's the guy that I idolized and I try to play like him."

Just hours before Ware met with reporters, Belichick raved about Ware in a conference call.

"I mean, he's the best player we've faced this year," said Belichick, who was the Giants' defensive coordinator from 1985-1990. "He does all of the things you want him to do. He's strong against the run. He can rush the passer. He's great in pursuit. He's got power. He's got speed. He's got good technique. He's good in pass coverage. He gets a lot of depth. I mean, he's an asset to your pass coverage. If you want to drop him, I'd say all those same things about Lawrence Taylor.

"Lawrence had a tremendous career. Ware has had a great --what is it -- six years or whatever it's been. He's been great in that time and looks like he's still going strong. I'm sure he'll be able to continue at this level for quite a while longer here as far as what it looks like right now. He's a guy you've got to account for on every snap. You've got to know where he is and he could definitely disrupt any play if you don't handle him."

The Juggler · October 2011

crazypjfan wrote:

Nice!

Cowboys LB Ware flattered after Belichick compared him to Lawrence Taylor: 'That's a pretty big thing to say'

Cowboys outside linebacker DeMarcus Ware was flattered when he heard that Patriots coach Bill Belichick had compared him to former New York Giants star Lawrence Taylor earlier Wednesday.

"That's a pretty big thing to say something like that," Ware said, "especially because that's the guy that I idolized and I try to play like him."

Just hours before Ware met with reporters, Belichick raved about Ware in a conference call.

"I mean, he's the best player we've faced this year," said Belichick, who was the Giants' defensive coordinator from 1985-1990. "He does all of the things you want him to do. He's strong against the run. He can rush the passer. He's great in pursuit. He's got power. He's got speed. He's got good technique. He's good in pass coverage. He gets a lot of depth. I mean, he's an asset to your pass coverage. If you want to drop him, I'd say all those same things about Lawrence Taylor.

"Lawrence had a tremendous career. Ware has had a great --what is it -- six years or whatever it's been. He's been great in that time and looks like he's still going strong. I'm sure he'll be able to continue at this level for quite a while longer here as far as what it looks like right now. He's a guy you've got to account for on every snap. You've got to know where he is and he could definitely disrupt any play if you don't handle him."

belichick's just trying to butter him up

this better be a 4pm game.

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