OK guys,It's the day after,and I'm coming to terms with the loss,or at least trying to. The scary part is...as bad as this team performed...we were a Sam hurd recovery of an onside kick from celebrating a "Great" come from behind victory. I for one am glad that Sam couldn't bail us out of this one. Dramatic last second wins tend to mask major weaknesses for this team. We've,thus far ,gotten by based solely on our normally outstanding offense. It caught up with us yesterday!

Theres plenty of blame to go around for this one.

Defense 

1. Pass defense- The Redskins had a great scheme to battle our defense and chew up the clock. The skins were more than happy to throw quick slants and hitches against our "soft" coverage on the outside.Heck I saw T-New playing 8 yards off the line of scrimmage more times than not. We never seemed to change our coverage on the wideouts,we gave them way to much cushion and they chipped away...4,5,7,8 yards at a time. They ran the ball to keep us honest. When we brought more pressure to the outside recievers they got the ball to TE chris cooley in the middle. And they chewed up clock....and drove the length of the field REPEATEDLY. I mean all day long....They drove on us,sometimes only 2 or 3 yards at a time,but they dinked and dunked us all day long,they chewed up clock and wore our defense out! We were lucky that we held them to 3 FG's in the second half or this one could have become really ugly really quick. Oh Yeah....And for Santana Moss to get open....and I mean WIDE OPEN.....when we're already giving him a 10 yard cushion is totally unacceptable. T-New got burned Repeatedly. Our defense looked anemic,and in the fourth quarter they rammed the ball right down our throats. I'm used to seeing it...But its usually us that are wearing out the other teams defense. Man I hated watching the Skins dominated our Defense like thar.

OFFENSE

Well what can you do when you only get the ball for 20 minutes? apparently not much. 24 points was actually a pretty good total for 20 minutes Time Of Possession. What went wrong? The short answer is everything.

1. The Run- Well,as most of you know,we were unable or unwilling to establish the run.We only ran the ball 11 times. That's right guys 11 times. It gets worse...2 of those 11 rushing plays went to Terrell Owens.MBIII only got handed the ball 8 times. The other running play,was not a running play at all but a scramble for a first down by Romo. This,to me is where we lost the game. We never tried to establish the run.Who is to blame? It's hard to say....Wade? He is the head coach...Garrett.....He says he called running plays but Romo Audiblized out of them. Whomever the blame lies....this needs to be addressed,was it a lack of communication...to say the least.

2. The Pass- Well at least we didn't Ignore this part of the offense. Tony Romo and the offense,Passed early and often. We passed 47 freakin' times.To start the 3rd quarter,the team seemed hell bent on getting the ball to TO....No matter what...Once even lining TO up in the backfield and running a halfback toss to TO. It seemed to Defy all logic.OK...well it did work...Save for a rare MBIII run it was all TO on that drive....And we did score a touchdown to tie the score up at 17. One would imagine that this would have been the perfect time to try to start running the ball,But,down 20-17,with Shawn,Springs and Fred smoot on the bench,Romo proceeds to throw the obligatory INT...at the worst possible time. We pretty much dropped back into the shotgun and Tony's gunslinger alter ego was here to stay. I will say that Miles austin looked good in this game seems to improve weekly. The skins pass defended us well and we had no answer. Thier defense handled our high powered offense pretty darn well,and quite frankly...Made it look easy!

COACHING

Pam Oliver,the sideline reporter,said she asked Wade Phillips what he said to the team at halftime. She Reported that wade said He didn't make a speech , that this team knew what it needed to do and They'd have to get their own selves motivated....

WTF.....Dude,you're the head coach,You are losing by a touchdown to an 11 point underdog AT HOME....and you got nothing to say to the team? The head coach is supposed to lead this team into battle....not leave them hung out to dry!

You wonder why Stewart didn't make any adjustments or why Stewart had 12 men on the feild during a crucial 3rd and 2? LACK OF COMMUNICATION. It all comes right back to Wade and his "AW SHUCKS" hillbilly attitude. He was thoroughly outcoached by a rookie coach. It was as if we hadn't schemed or had no game plan whatsoever. Like wade thought we'd win just because we are the Dallas Cowboys.

Garrett....Ahhh Yeah Jason Garrett,the offensive GURU. Never tried to run the ball,there is no excuse for a lackluster performance like this,not with all the offensive weapons this team has. Was it Garrett or Romo? Garrett says he called runs and Romo changed them at the line of scrimmage. That is no excuse.I know the QB has the right to aubible out of a play if he sees something on defense that he doesn't like, but at some point....the play caller has to demand that we run the ball. Hell we had plenty of 3 and outs...I'd have been fine with running MBIII on all 3 downs just to make the defense work a little....we made it way to easy for the Redskin defense!

In conclusion,It is one thing to lose,it is another thing to be totally dominated in every phase of the game ,especially by an 11 point underdog,AT home ....and to be outcoached by a Rookie head coach. I don't remember a game like this since the 10-6 loss to Philly last year (also at home). this one exposed a lot of weaknesses that we may not have noticed if sam Hurd grabs that ball with 30 seconds to go. Thank you Sam....We've got a lot of work to do....Offensively,defensively and coaching. At least we won't have to listen to how we're the best team in the league anymore,because we're obviously not,...not at this point anythow . But its a long season and realistically,this is just a bump in the road,and hopefully a wakeup call to this team.

That being said....Lets get ready for the Bengals!

Go COWBOYS