It said he played today but had no receptions… did he try to go and couldn’t?

The team has obviously either quit on him or refused to buy into what he is selling.

Fire Wade.

Do it now, while there is still time.

Tashard Choice runs hard, hits holes like the winninglottery ticket is on the other side and shows good burst.

He should get more touches….

When you bring a squirt gun to a gunfight

been saying it for two years, Brad was never going to get it done, Bollinger is nothing special at all, never understood that signing. Thats the fault of your GM, Mr clueless, jerry Jones

was an extreme long shot, nobody should be surprised by this at all, it was expected. If the Giants came into Texas Stadium with David Carr and other key personnel out, we’d kick their azz too, no big deal.

We’re a game above .500 and very much in the the wild card race. So what if we don’t win the dvision, look where that got us last season.

With Romo, the Cat, Kosier, and Newman back I see us making as serious run in the second half. Its not how you start, but how you finish.

Was it just me or did anyone see Wards touchdown and Mike Jenkins pretty much let him go through as a gift. He did not make an effort at all our team has absolutely no heart and it is because of our coach. Bill Parcells would have been all in Jenkins ear but no Wade will just blame it on himself like usual and not set a fire inside of anyone. Get me Bill Cowher right now. Pay him 30 million I dont care but do it JJ.

we have a really good team as long as romo gets healthy. I didn’t watch the game because I had an inkling this would happen, but with all the turnovers we had on offense I don’t think you can really blame the D for giving up 35.

Since I live here in NY, and am a Cowboy fan, I have alot of friends that are Giant fans, and I predicted with them that they would score around 30-40 points. What we would score I had no idea since it was really a question of QB, and since Wade decided to play Brad the entire 1st half, we pretty much gave the game away there. No way the Giants beat us if we cut down the penalties and Turnovers, even in this game. I like Wade, and i think he is a great defensive mind, but even I will say “enough is enough” with the laid back attitude.

I didn’t blame Bollinger in the 2nd half for his turnover as much as Garrett, because there was no reason to go to a short pass in that situation. Bollinger should have been in there earlier any way. He at least would have given us some semblance of a chance in the game.

I agree with thejanusman, we need to make Campo our D-coordinator (since we were dumb enough to let Capers get away) and scrap the 3-4 and go to 4-3. OUR TEAM HAS THE DEFENSIVE PERSONNEL TO RUN THE 4-3 EXCELLENTLY AND ONLY AVERAGE PERSONNEL IN THE 3-4. I’m not venting, just saying what I feel. I also said in a post last week that Tashard Choice is a touchdown waiting to happen, but I was also right in saying that the coaching staff is slow in figuring out things, so of course he wouldn’t play much.

The only way the Cowboys will truly start winning games like this handily is if they go back to the 4-3. Where we really that bad on defense when we scrapped the 4-3 in favor of the 3-4?

If they come out and play well and beat the Skins, we’re going to the playoffs and make some noise there.

If we continue to play poor and lose, then the season is over and all the doom and gloom will be justified.

Arrogant a-hole.

Let me point something out here. Yes we are in last in the East, but we still have a 5-4 record. We still have Key players returning after the bye week. Romo, Kosier, El Gato, T-New. Those are not some scrubs that won’t help.

Also note that when they come back, this offense will have their full compliment of starters back on the field, PLUS Roy Williams as the #2 WR. Nobody has seen how good this offense will be yet.

A good offense that can put up points and control the clock takes a lot of pressure off the defense. The defense plays well when they can rest and not have to start defending an opponents drive that starts at mid-field. We also will have T-New back and hopefully healthy.

A lot of talking heads are making a big deal about Dallas being 5-4 and behind teams that are 5-3. Well guess what, Dallas was 5-3 before this week too. A lot will change over the next couple weeks, so stay strong Cowboy brothers and sisters, this season is not decided by a long shot.

I’d cry but I’ve been all dried up since the first quarter. I need some water. Goodnight BTB brethren

just a hope that jerry sees the defensive scheme inability to produce an effective and feared defense, because our offense will become terrifying again, but will Jerry see this teams problems for what it is and what we have talked about her on the board- coaching attitude and decisionmaking? Jerry must do something, because we can’t have that inefficient a coaching staff- or do we?

The Cowboys could have easily won this game. I hate sounding like a broken record, but coaching decisions, defensive scheme, and offensive playcalling once again under-utilized our talent and has led us down this path. Yes, our offense will be back, and when our offense plays to it’s abilities, we usually win because our offense is lethal. But can you imagine if our defense was a strength of our team too?

He can hardly lift his right arm. How can you expect to block Kiwaunuka and Tuck with one arm?

When the Giants beat us in the playoffs. This game is just part 2 of the same movie. Nothing has changed because the scheme hasn’t changed. Just because you get great players doesn’t mean you’ll be better especially if the scheme is flawed. I’m not saying the 3-4 is flawed, I’m saying our defensive philosiphy with and about the 3-4 is flawed. We have the Personnel that seems to me to be a team that would run a 4-3.

Man, it was ugly at the Meadowlands..It’s was a blood bath like I said it would be and it was worse in person. The Giants fans were as**holes like I knew they would. It was evident they exposed James in the first half on coverage. He was god awful…The OL was even worse…Something is wrong with Flozell. He was real bad. What a mistake resigning him. This team is real bad bad on both sides of the ball. We are not making the playoffs.

 I can’t believe we are this bad with this much talent. I say again, Hudson Houck is a awful OL coach. They were playing bad even when Romo was healthy. Johnson..enough said. He should be cut tomorrow. Blame Jerry for not getting a reliable backup in the offseason.

Jenkins, Scandrick, Choice, Bennett, Spencer, Austin? and none are “starters” on our real depth chart so when everybody comes back, we’re going to have the pro bowlers doing what they do and the team’s going to be real tight with all of our subs playing great….and after the bye week is when RW2 is going to finally be set in with this offense and it’s right when Romo’s coming back…..

but so come playoff time when Jenkins and Scandrick are playing the nickel and dime, they’re going to be real players in there and not just back ups as is the case when we run 2 TE’s sets with Bennett, etc…

i think it’s been said above, but once Romo and some of the other key guys come back, there’s no reason why this team couldn’t get into the playoffs. if you look strictly at the Wild Card outside of the division, the other contending teams are the three AFC South squads (TB, Atlanta, NO), GB, and Minny. with Romo and the rest back, i think the Cowboys can be better than all of those teams.

within the division, they still have one game against each team. with the way that shit usually goes down in the NFC East, i wouldn’t count the Cowboys out from winning in Washington or Philly (or obviously against the Giants at home). what makes this division so great, is that all four teams routinely win road games against division opponents. a 5-2 finish is within the realm of possibility and with four home games remaining, they’ll have to hold serve and steal one on the road (Pittsburgh, Philly, Washington – easier said than done, i know).

do i think this team has underachieved? yes. but considering the circumstances, and the Romo injury (who knew he’d be so important to this offense?), 5-4 isn’t 3-6. this team can still make a run after the bye week.

i’d wish you good luck the rest of the season, but i just can’t go against my nature. i will say that i hope they improve because i like tough, down-to-the-wire games like last year’s playoff game instead of laugh-factory games against inept quarterbacks.

How many times do you have to see Bradie James in coverage on a TE and see him get burned? or trailing a RB? If it isn’t scheme, then it is definitely coaching decisions in regards to putting the right players in the right positions to make plays. Our brand of 3-4 scares no one (face reality). All they have to do is double Ware, and the rest of the defense becomes average in a heartbeat. Our young DB’s are playing great, and I hope that is not getting overlooked by us.

It’ll be a tough road, but this team can rebound from 5-4 with the right mentality. I’m just not sure if the personnel to provide that exists in the locker room as presently constructed.
Start reading up on Cowher, Bill in preparation for next year.

also had an interception for a touchdown- but I’m verrrry happy with Scandrick and Jenkins. They will be great players, they just need time. We need to get better pressure on QB’s

is a good player, but he excells in the scheme. If our scheme is flawed, then it doesn’t matter what players we have.

Would anyone posting on this board be against a hypothetical? Here it is….

What 4 D-lineman would be your lineup at the line of scrimmage if we went to 4-3?

Here is mine- Canty, Johnson, Spears, Ratliff

Why didn’t we go after Kris Jenkins?

here is my real question though-Would D-Ware be a DE in the 4-3 or an OLB?

Does anybody think that Romo will improve the team, not only stats wise, but confidence-wise. I mean..if you look at the Patriots and other teams in the past, losing a starting quarterback does not only hurt the skill of the team, but the morale. He might not be the vocal leader, but when he is on the field he makes plays and works well by utilizing his weapons (something brad johnson is simply incapable of). Do you think him stepping back in there can create a spark of momentum for the team?

Here on the board, we can hash out these hypothetical defensive schemes- because it may be more creative than what our defensive coaching is capable of drawing up as a gameplan.

One more thing TrueBlue24 (I’m calling you out since you are questioning my questioning of the defense- not in a bad way though) and at least you admit that our Personnel seems to be tailored for a 4-3. Do you believe that the pressure our defense would bring with such a 4-3 personnel on the field bring alot of heat on an opposing QB?

I myself believe that the Cowboys should not scrap the 3-4, but rather we should become the NFL’s first legitimate “morphing defense”. Think about it for a moment- against a team like the Giants, we would use a 4-3 and probably stop the run alot better.

The discussion so far with the posts has not been offensive related, but rather turning the clock back to a time (not that long ago) when the Cowboys were tops in the NFL perennially on defense, and what to do to make that happen again.

I have no doubt that Romo’s return will be a big boost. What I do have doubts about though is Jason Garretts ability to squeeze the best out of the team offensively. We are too predictable, and play a “i don’t care if you know what I’m gonna do, try and stop me” brand of offense that would be fine if you had the 90’s offensive line, but we don’t , so some creative offense is called for. Sadly for us fans, we now see the coaching staffs inabilites and weaknesses.

How could the Giants gameplan against us if they saw a 4-3 all of a sudden? I say it’s worth a try, especially since the vaunted 3-4 isn’t applying the pressure on the opposing QB that it was supposed to. We wouldn’t have to stick with it either, and all because we have the personnel to do either defense. No one else is capable of morphing like we could BECAUSE of the type of personnel we have, and if I recall, weren’t we supposed to run some 4-3 more this year anyway? That was the rumor.

If I was a real Cowboy fan (which I am Quincy) of course i would be interested in anything that would increase pressure on an opposing QB. You are talking about changing from a 3-4 to a 4-3 as a mistake, and I’m talking about the 3-4 as never having proven to me as a COWBOY FAN as ever proving to be an upgrade over the 4-3 when we ran it. We used to consistently get sacks and pressure QB’s in the 4-3, and we always were one of the top defenses in the NFL, even if we didn’t have a good QB or a winning record. In games like today’s loss to the Giants, your defense has to pressure the QB. We did not do that very well today, and in fact I may go so far as to say that the Dallas Cowboys have not done so well pressuring the QB since we scrapped the 4-3 in favor of the 3-4. It really wasn’t that long ago Quincyyyy.