Captain Caveman played great Friday night? Was I watching a different game?
Granted, I didnt really key on him much until the second half but he wasn’t doing squat from what I saw. Cleanup tackles aside.
Last night in the Open game thread, Deke declared Read would be quoted after the game as saying “I dont coach poor kick coverage teams”. Well Deke was close. Instead Read threw Folk under the bus. I fail to see how Folk not getting the ball high enough causes an 8 yard wide hole to open up in the friggin middle of the field. Is Coach Joe back on the payroll yet?
I also didn’t understand how Jefferson’s stock was down. He hasn’t done anything this preseason until last night. Had a couple of nice plays and one drop, so his stock’s down all of a sudden?

The O-line was outstanding
Cricket Anderson really played well, blocking, catching and running the ball
Romo played great, liked his setup and his footwork in the pocket throwing over the top BBall hitting receivers in stride. Except for the int, a pass he should of never had thrown on a second and goal on the two, why we were throwing it when this offense was running at will is a Garrett questionable play call and besides a couple of bad throws where Romo reverted back to his old ways, throwing off his back foot slinging the ball, Romo looked great.
Barber, what else can you say, preseason or not, he likes to find contact. Looked great
T.O,Crayton,Witten and Hurd looked good, ran crisp routes.

Defense.
Everyone has been down on Spears, but I for one thought he played very well the last eight games of last season and has really carried it over this year into the preseason, he looks like a different player. He was creating havoc in the backfield constantly disrupting the run and pressuring the Qb.

The D-line played great, some what still vanilla, getting alot pressure with just four rushing on passing downs

I also thought carpenter play well in the first half, but tailed off a bit in the second half

I know some were not happen with the long drive against the defense after the INT, but I think its good for the defense to get some drives against them in preseason, that will help a great deal during the season in helping them with building some stanima. I’d like to see better tackling in the secondary though, too many times seeing guys using their shoulder or diving at the feet of receivers.

Special teams especially kick coverage was horrible. You cant continue to give other teams starting field position near the fifty year line every time, buthey, Read doesn’t coach poor kickoff coverage teams…….. can we not bring in Joe Avezanno as a consultant or better yet, to replace Read…

The injuries are starting to pile up
 Stanback has to protect the ball better, that fumble took away from a pretty good night for him. Hope the injury isn’t a prolonged one.

Hopefully the MRI for Kosier is just recautionary and with two weeks off the ankle and he’ll be fine and ready to go for week one.

I saw the game and the guy was in on alot of tackles and almost had a sack on Shaub. The interior line appeared to get pushed around at times. Too many running holes. One thing is certain. Bradie James is horrible against the pass. The linebackers in all didn’t seem to have a great night.

I had a feeling that he had broken a vertebrae… :(

Very impressed…. keep it up Nick

where to begin, first off i’d like to thank the 6lb 3oz . baby jesus….

we played much better and i do hope this williams guy gets better and i hope he fully recovers, that makes you put the whole game in perspective….

so please 6lb, 3oz baby jesus watch over him and also help anthony spencer heal along with any of the other cowboys i’ve fogotten to mention…..

Carpenter was mediocre at best, Jefferson was the only guy on the second team unit making plays, and Romo, and by extension the Cowboys, continues to be awful in the Red Zone, ours or theirs.

Deon Anderson looked good, and I hope he can stay healthy this year. I can’t wait to see our D in real packages with Newman in the game. Spears is looking good, but I am concerned about the way the rest of the D line is getting pushed around. We might be missing Ferguson.

Special Teams and turnovers were responsible for almost all of their points. I really think they should think about just kicking it out of bounds and taking their chances from the 45, since they give up at least the 35 and often much more every kickoff.

He’ll be riding the pine just like the last 2 seasons.