Looked tired and ready to go home. I know we wanted to see Johnson get some time with the starters, but I wanted to see Romo stay in there a bit more. So far this preseason he has just 3 series under his belt. While we all know what he can do, It would have been nice to see Romo try and get a good rhythm going with the offense. He just missed hitting a long ball to Hurd. Just have to wait until next week when we should see the starters play at least a full half.

It’s nice to see Greg Ellis step up and their heads back into the game. After his pep talk, the team seemed to get a bit more fire in their step.

This is not the time of year when playoff games are won or lost. Like special teams became a focus, hopefully getting the offense back in synch and cutting out the penalties will become the next thing to fine tune.

They gotta send somebody out there. Now if Austin solidifies himself as the 3, which I think he may be close to doing, then he probably wont be out there. But look at Roy, he’s a pro bowl starter and he plays a lot of special teams.

He just about had 2 picks in a row. good to see that.

The only thing that bothers me is the stupid penalties. Yeah, maybe the boys came out just a little flat, but the were still playing pretty well. They just had some back breaker penalties, and when you block a punt and the other team ends up with a first down, it aint your night. Looked like both sides of the ball were keepin things pretty vanilla so that can be misleading.

Special teams were better, too bad Prater wouldnt let us return any damn kickoffs, Stanback look like he was ready to set off the fireworks. Scandrick too.

Lets hope Austin is only out a week or two, he’s lookin pretty good.

All in all

I’d revert back to a high school style of coaching and make them run a lap per 5 yards in penalties or worse.. Whatever Wade is doing ain’t working. Avoiding penalties is a very, very important part of this game. Hell I’d rather have 0 penalties than 5 sacks in a game.

Special teams will be fine.

1st team offense looked good. Last week they worked Witten in to the offense, this week it was TO. I think in 1st 2 weeks they intentionally limited the hits on there two stars.

1st team defense had some back breaking penalties. Jenkins learned a valuable lesson, when he got burnt on a double move. Our pressure on the QB wasn’t good.

All in All I give the performance a B-. Some of the positives out way the negatives.. Austins play at WR, AJ is looking better, ST stepped up, and no major injuries..

• I just hope Austin can play in the last pre-season game*********

Participation Status
Return to activity is dependant on the severity of the MCL sprain. Progression through rehab along with pain levels will also determine when an athlete is permitted to return to participation. An athlete should be functionally tested to make sure drills such as cutting and pivoting will not cause further injury. With a grade I MCL sprain, athletes will return to full play after up to 10- 14. Grade II MCL sprains will keep athletes out of play for about 3 weeks and grade III sprains will keep athletes out for an average of 5 weeks. Each athlete is different with progression and if progression is slow, re-evaluation for other injuries is necessary.

http://www.stockton.edu/ospreys/ComInjuries/MCLSprain.htm

2 weeks. Week 3 sounds about right if it’s a grade 1. Man, that sucks. When I heard it last night I couldn’t believe it. I think it was clear before last night Austin pretty much locked down the #3 Wr spot.

Anyone want to disagree with me now that Amendola doesn’t make the team?

Moose commented that this game was the toughest as the guys have been non stop since camp opened and most of them were ready to get back to Dallas. Then Ellis commented during his sideline interview that he was tired and ready to see his family. It did look like the starters played flat with a few exceptions, and we did have more injuries than the first game. Hopefully, next weeks performance will give credence to that theory.

It is your time to shine. I am trying to take something positive out of this and maybe one of the two will step up. Then we will have 4 WR’s that are making big time plays..

I expect Austin’s hunger to only grow while he rehabs and I faith he will pick up were he left off..

not really. That ball was catchable. That ball woud’ve been caught by TO or Austin no problem.

starters did"nt get in the game until they realized ,oh,Denver"s tryn to beat us, & finally got them off the field.
backups & special teams lookd better, but they should look better.
Still got stuff to work on(penality’s)
we still got a lil time to work out the kinks, but id not like to take anymore loses.
Time for some Home Cookn