Dallas Cowboys news & notes

by Dave Halprin on Oct 21, 2008 4:54 PM CDT in Dallas Cowboys News

Roy Williams, the safety, is now on IR. His replacement is Daren Stone.

The Cowboys signed Daren Stone, who worked out for the team earlier in the day. Stone played in 12 games for Atlanta last season and had 10 tackles. He had an interception in the preseason before he was cut. The 6-3, 215-pound Stone played at Maine.

Standard article from the AP documenting our demise.

Meanwhile, Clarence Hill rips us good.

This article over at the Sporting News ponders changing the head coach.

It is hard to believe that Jones will not fire Phillips if the Cowboys (4-3) reach their bye week at 4-5, if they lose to both the Buccaneers on Sunday and to the Giants in Week 9. If that happens, bye week likely will mean bye-bye for Phillips. And he acknowledged during his press conference Monday that when people start talking about the coach's status, the season is not going as planned.

It's got so bad, even Eagles executives are taking shots at the Cowboys.

"Our goal is to win a Super Bowl, forget win a playoff game, which is something [Dallas] are still working on,'' [Joe] Banner said.

In a Q&A session in Pittsburgh paper comes this exchange.

Rivers_Jaw: Any known interest from [Bill] Cowher to go save the big D?

Ed Bouchette: I have heard that Jerry Jones might secretly be checking out Bill Cowher to see if he has any interest in becoming the coach of the Dallas Cowboys. I don't know if Bill's interested, but it would be a perfect spot for him and just what the Cowboys need.

And there's the ever-optimistic Jerry Jones, saying something which needs to be decoded for me.

"We've got a situation where if everyone of us would step back, not necessarily totally be critiquing in a very negative way, but step back and look at what we're doing best, let that encourage us and go address what we're not doing good, that's the way to take what we've got and get better."

Anybody fluent in Jerry Speak?

And from a BTB reader, I received an email linking to a Fire Wade petition.

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Should someone tell Banner from Philly

That you win playoff games on the way to a Super Bowl championship? Which we have 5?

by mhuff13 on Oct 21, 2008 5:03 PM CDT reply actions

It's a big no-no in these circles to talk crap

about other teams. He’s not even a smart exec.

Never wrestle with a pig. You both get dirty and the pig loves it.

by dunkman on Oct 21, 2008 5:41 PM CDT up reply actions

Amen

Can’t believe any Eagle exec would have the brass cajones to make a comment like that. Obviously the Philadelphia method is to come close but to never touch the Lombardi trophy. What a jerk.

by Benthere on Oct 21, 2008 9:33 PM CDT up reply actions

At least don't be a complete tool

And say that the Cowboys haven’t won a playoff game in 12 years. He forgot that part.

by mhuff13 on Oct 21, 2008 9:38 PM CDT up reply actions

Yes I speak Jerry.....

But this isn’t Jerry speak it’s Wade speak…..Sorry I haven’t understood a work Wade has said since day one……can’t help ya…….

Damn you know things are bad when some dude from Philly starts talking shit and there record is worse than ours……

by jvw on Oct 21, 2008 5:22 PM CDT reply actions

Easy...profanity a no-no

by Dave Halprin on Oct 21, 2008 5:31 PM CDT up reply actions

lol ^^

I’ve got a feeling, you’re going to have to post much, much more of those warnings in the ugly weeks to come as a Cowboys fan.

by DieSlowKeyshawn on Oct 21, 2008 5:49 PM CDT up reply actions

Lemme try to decipher

I think he’s saying, let’s look at what we’re doing well as a team first, and gain some confidence in that. Then use that confidence to help work on the stuff we’re not doing well.

Or, he might have had a few drinks before rambling on.

T-New, shutting down WR's for Dallas since 2003

by APerfectStar on Oct 21, 2008 5:29 PM CDT reply actions

I'd love Cowher as HC under any circumstances

Unlike Phillips he’s passioante. Unlike the Tuna, he’s compassionate. A player’s coach without being captured by them.

But Phillips hasn’t forgotten how to coach. There’s a lot more at play here: injuries;young coordinators who don’t know how to respond to the league’s adjustments to them; intense pressure that they haven’t dealt well with. And yes, the HC needs to figure out how to push the buttons. I think Parcells left Dallas for that very reason – no matter what he tried, he could not get through their bony little eggs.

I think the defense can improve with the simplification strategy. I really do think whatever they were trying to do was more complicated than these guys can comprehend and execute. Some teams have a high football IQ (NE and Philly for example). These guys are not that.

In addition to getting healthy, the offense needs to re-think itself. They need fewer 5 and 7 step drops. They need more organized line play. They need a lot more nasty and a lot less finesse. Maybe they need to sit Flo because on his worst day, I doubt Free would play revolving door with mediocre DEs and LBs. And yeah, they need Romo.

Never wrestle with a pig. You both get dirty and the pig loves it.

by dunkman on Oct 21, 2008 5:38 PM CDT reply actions

Agree with you

Flo is not right, and Procter is a liability in pass protection. I hope the team has some confidence in Free to play if he has to, and isn’t scared to sit Flo if necessary.

I was the O-line’s biggest defender until the AZ game, but I guess you saw the beginning of the problems to come. You were right.

Good job Dunk .

T-New, shutting down WR's for Dallas since 2003

by APerfectStar on Oct 21, 2008 5:51 PM CDT up reply actions

I didn't want to be right!!

It’s nuts that they could be playing as badly as they are. How did this happen?

Of course I also watched Cricket AND Flo double team a guy who hit Romo, so there you go. They all have the disease.

Never wrestle with a pig. You both get dirty and the pig loves it.

by dunkman on Oct 21, 2008 8:45 PM CDT up reply actions

If Cowher came here forget about Garrett as the OC

The only way Cowher would come here is if he had complete control of his staff and that would mean cleaning house.

Look up... get up...Don't ever, ever give up!!

by Boyzfan94 on Oct 21, 2008 7:37 PM CDT up reply actions

Maybe

But I bet they could co-exist. And after these first 7 games, they won’t be beating down Jason’s door for HC either.

Never wrestle with a pig. You both get dirty and the pig loves it.

by dunkman on Oct 21, 2008 8:46 PM CDT up reply actions

Jerry wants to

… ac-cen-tu-ate the positive.

Guess he figures we don’t need players worrying what not to do so much as concentrating what to do.

Keep doing what you been doing, keep getting what you been getting.

by OskieOskie on Oct 21, 2008 5:47 PM CDT reply actions

What he's really saying

1. step back and look at what we’re doing best, [He’s being facetious – meaning NOTHING]
2. let that encourage us [I’ve got a decision to make here about what’s best for the Dallas Cowboys]
3. and go address what we’re not doing good,[COACHING]
4. that’s the way to take what we’ve got and get better [I’M REPLACING WADE WITH JASON]

by Doomsday on Oct 21, 2008 6:58 PM CDT reply actions

a petition to fire Wade

thats absolutely hilarious, like Jerry would ever consider what the fans want. LOL!

Jerry blew his chance when he didn’t hire Singletary, now he has to suffer the consequences.

In Romo we Trust

by Terry on Oct 21, 2008 8:05 PM CDT reply actions

Banner sounds like sour grapes

Since we all know that he wanted a WR to add and was in the bidding for RW2 as well. But he did not get him; so he gets bitter about the missed opportunity and blasts JJ. That is how I read those comments, when dallas was struggling in years past has that balding f#$& ever talked about the boys, no but now he feels the itch.

Ignore the Mainstream Media, EMBRACE THE HATE!!!!

by cowboy78 on Oct 21, 2008 8:27 PM CDT reply actions

Point

Eagles fans were BITTER that they didn’t land him instead of Dallas.

Never wrestle with a pig. You both get dirty and the pig loves it.

by dunkman on Oct 21, 2008 8:43 PM CDT up reply actions

I also feel that he makes these brash

comments because he knows that if dallas plays to its abilities that they will have become that much harder to stop with RW2. So part of his statements are him speaking out to fight back the fear he must feel in the back of his mind if dallas does not collapse.

Ignore the Mainstream Media, EMBRACE THE HATE!!!!

by cowboy78 on Oct 21, 2008 8:59 PM CDT up reply actions