Perfect Storm--

by Wmillion on Jan 23, 2009 4:30 PM CST Comment 14 comments

QB-Romo’s decision making not were it needed to be, he did a good job, but he is capable of great. Out with injury for 3 games, and then played hurt every game there after.

RB- Marion YPC down, he played injured for all of December. Felix missed 10 games this season. Choice played well.

WR/TE-This group overall wasn’t bad, but injures to Miles Austin, Roy Williams, and Jason Witten affected the team. Tough to establish continuity with guys who can practice or play.

OL-This group missed way too many assignments in pass protection and did a so-so job run blocking.

DL-Group stayed healthy, Rat played well, but we needed more from this group especially rush defense.

LB-Strongest group on the team last year.

Secondary-banged up-Newman missed time, Roy Williams out, Pat Watkins out, and Hamlin barely healthy enough for game day. Plus, you add in the Pac-man experiment -the suspension, the injury, and the distraction.

HC-I just don’t think Wade did enough to inspire the team. In my opinion he didn’t spend enough time with the defense last year. Our Defense was way too inconsistent.

DC-Fired for a Reason

OC-Good job early, but defenses caught up to his scheme.

Injuries-Dallas just couldn’t beat the injury bug..

After reflecting on the season, I realized that the team failed in many phases, and you can just blame one person. Everyone is scrambling looking for someone or something to blame, but the simple answer is just wasn’t our season. We had too many mental errors, too many injuries, and too many distractions. I am no longer looking for someone or something to blame, I am jsut going to chalk it up as a loss, and hope we learned from last years mistakes. Playing the blame game does us no good. The media is feeding on this..

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I agree

Blame should be headed in a bunch of directions… atleast we are working on re-signing Ware…

by commoncents on Jan 23, 2009 4:34 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

Without a high draft pick or much money for free agency we will probably have the same team next year. There are three players that might not be back next year, Owens, Roy Williams and Zach Thomas. Thomas is the only one that would want back.

by jack dein on Jan 23, 2009 4:44 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

yeah.....no more blame games...enough already...

we sucked and underperformed…live with it…or move forward.

by CowboysRnumba1 on Jan 23, 2009 5:12 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

You might add

ST- one of the leagues worst. Losing McBriar only made it worse.

by Benthere on Jan 23, 2009 5:37 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

+1000

"Protect the Romo, Save the Cowboys!!"

by Wmillion on Jan 23, 2009 6:12 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Losing McBriar hurt

and I can’t believe there wasn’t a better option than Peaulescu

(Romo) still gets excited when he buys a new t-shirt at Target for crying out loud

by I_miss_Switzer on Jan 23, 2009 6:23 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

yea

i remember the ravens game where koch averaged 14 more yards than paulescu
i think we’ll all be glad to see matty mcbriar back next season

"Aw Shucks" - Wade Phillips

by MrMinority on Jan 24, 2009 1:20 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Punting ability is overrated in punters

Sammy made that hit in the TB game. So what if he cant kick

"Ask Philly was it hard tryin' a stop TO, he da main reason that the fans would come fo'."

by aussie_cowboy on Jan 24, 2009 6:08 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

they're called punters for a reason

just like a kicker is called a kicker

"Aw Shucks" - Wade Phillips

by MrMinority on Jan 24, 2009 10:10 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Just in case you didnt realise

I was being sarcastic

"Ask Philly was it hard tryin' a stop TO, he da main reason that the fans would come fo'."

by aussie_cowboy on Jan 24, 2009 6:45 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

yea i knew

and matt mcbriar is an aussie
just like brian moorman, weird how the league’s best 2 punters are australian

"Aw Shucks" - Wade Phillips

by MrMinority on Jan 25, 2009 9:08 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

yeah what the hell happened to our camp leg Ottevegio?

Did he get another gig? He was kickin the lining out of the ball.

IF YOU'RE LOOKIN FOR ME...I'M AT THE SCRIP CLUB WITH PACMAN......AND WE'RE BEING REBELLION!!

by Carl Shelton (GloryDayz88) on Jan 24, 2009 11:11 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

+1 McBriar's loss was huge

"Ask Philly was it hard tryin' a stop TO, he da main reason that the fans would come fo'."

by aussie_cowboy on Jan 23, 2009 9:46 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Good stuff

I agree, for the most part, that blaming any one person for the season is pointless. It’s good to see people are calming down and coming around to the conclusion that things can improve, and it doesn’t require an overhaul the coaching staff or players.

My Dad just recently came around to not hating Jason Garrett. I think I finally wore him down a bit. Same with Wade. He was calling for his head earlier, and now he seems to agree that he should get one more year. Time heals all wounds. I’m glad Jerry didn’t jump the gun and do something crazy in anger. If it were many of us, myself included, I think some rash decisions would have been made, potentially to the detriment of the team.

Sure, things went bad, and as you said, it could very well have been the perfect storm. Upon further review, the team was really awfully close to being what we expected. A recovered onsides kick here, a successful drive in OT there, one or two less picks, maybe a starting QB without a broken pinkie, a corner who doesn’t fight his bodyguard, etc. and the team could have been right where we thought they should be. I’m actually pretty optimistic the team will be back on track in 09.

by the red scare on Jan 26, 2009 2:43 AM CST reply actions 0 recs