got to get it working.

I just hope Austin continues to be at least half as good as he’s been and Roy to start producing. If this bad game was the result of playing hurt, then they need to rest him until he’s healthy…..

is always having to defend yourself. With every loss last season, there was a bunch of finger pointing and separation in the locker room. … IMO Romo felt the unrightful responsibility to put the team on his shoulders. It was a burden that overcame him.

Injuries, the lack of chemistry, and the undue pressure to force “certain” players the ball … caused the fall-off.

A few weeks ago, after the Denver loss, plenty fans were calling for Romo’s head, but I tell you, there is not another guy I’d rather be rooting for.

There is always something special about watching a player on your favorite team face advercity … and nothing more powerful than watching him overcome it!!

Patrick Crayton has a 7.4 YPA to date. Crayton is the second most reliable target for Romo on third down: only Witten has converted more third down pass attempts into first downs.

I am not so sure that Roy Williams will be able to improve his statistics this season. In 2006, when Owens and Glenn were taking turns burning defenses, Witten ended up with the short straw. When Glenn was lost for the 2007 season, Jason picked-up the slack and posted career numbers: 96 receptions, 1,145 yards, and 7 touchdowns. All of those statistics are jason’s career highs for a season.

As Owens began to fade in 2008, Witten’s production stayed roughly the same if adjusted for Romo’s absence during three games. This season, Witten is close to the great numbers he has posted the last few years.

In other words, with Austin performing at his current level, I find it hard to believe that Romo will target Roy Williams rather than Jason Witten when coverage rolls to Miles Austin. I see Roy destined to match Patrick Crayton’s number from 2007 (50 receptions, 697 yards, and 7 touchdowns) at best.

Then again, Crayton is still on this team, and from what I see, his numbers are similar and superior in some ways to Roy Williams’ at this point. Perhaps achieving Patrick’s modest 2007 season numbers may be out of reach for Roy.

Everyone wants to make him the next coming of Jerry Rice or even Terrell Owens, but he is not.

Williams does 2 things extraordinarily well:

1.) uses his body to get in between the ball and the defender

2.) uses his height and leaping ability to catch high passes

The best coaches in the NFL are the ones who understand what they have and utalize each player’s skills. I have seen so many times in the NFL were coaches play to the WR strengths. Like Plaxico and that throw to his back shoulder. Heck, Randy Moss has made a living out running the fly route and skinny post. Even Dallas in their hey-day had Alvin Harper.

• When teams tried to change Moss and Harper into route running WRs, they failed miserably. Look at Harper’s numbers with Tampa and Moss’s with Oakland .. not pretty!

In this case Roy is extremely skilled in fades to the corner of the endzone, getting good body position on slants, and great at making plays on “jump balls”. In fact when Dallas was driving against Denver there in the last minutes .. I was screaming at the TV “throw a fade to Roy!!” .. I think with practice Romo-Roy can also “steal” a page out the Giants play book and add that back shoulder throw.

In any case, Roy warrants 6+ throws a game .. under the right circumstances.

IMO Crayton, Austin, and Ogletree have a different skill set than Williams, but used all together properly Dallas can be extremely dangerous.

I’m not sure why the Williams deal gets offset by the Austin deal. If they don’t trade for #11, it seems like they are even more inclined to keep Miles. I don’t think they are necessarily connected such that the Williams trade should be evaluated with the benefit of the Austin signing.

and a solid offensive line. Romo is playing better not only because Austin is breaking on through to the “other side” and showing that he’s made the turn, (catching almost everything thrown in his vicinity or keeping the defender from getting an interception, running the correct routes) but also because he’s getting solid protection up front. There were a few breakdowns on the OL resulting in a sack or two, and even on the amazing TD before the end of the 1st half. For all those succesful throws to Austin, the line was giving Romo a great pocket from which to throw — yes, he can throw well from the pocket. A lot of that mojo comes from great protection. Look at how good Ryan looked on that first Atlanta drive when he had good protection, and contrast that with how he looked when the Cowboys D was pressuring him the rest of the game. I think the mojo comes from both having Austin get open and be elusive after the catch ( being a playmaker, if you will) AND the offensive line doing a great job allowing Romo time to throw.

this top photograph would be the picture. No, I’m not talking about the win. I’m talking about the lighting, so complained about.

I know, random. Just looks like football in heaven to me.

Just because the FO made a wise decision on keeping Austin, it doesn’t pardon the ridiculous trade for Roy.

It was a stupid trade, plain and simple.

“You can’t judge trades strictly on draft points. You have to evaluate value to the position and to the team. Right now, I think that the value Dallas preserved by keeping Miles Austin outweighs any value the team lost obtaining Roy Williams”

Rafael. I think you have lost your mind.

There was no value preserved in keeping Miles. He’s an undrafted free agent who has been at the bottom of the roster for years. He was basically the last man on the roster.

So your telling me that keeping Mile’s on the bottom of the roster for years offset’s trading 3 draft picks and overpaying for Roy.

I will state again that if we would have drafted a WR in the 2008 draft Roy Williams would have never been on this team. So if we would have drafted a WR say Manningham in the third round we would still have our 1st,3rd, and 6th from the 2009 draft and the cap space.

How about drafting Deshaun Jackson instead of Felix “Mr 10 carry a game” Jones.
Would you rather have Manningham and Miles or Deshaun Jackson and Miles.

Heck. The Cowboys could have had Manningham Jackson, Miles and Crayton.
No Roy and our 2009 picks. Let me also add we could have just signed Roy since he was going to be a free agent anyway.

Since they knew T.O was coming to the end rounding up a bunch of WR which the teams in the East did in 2008 would have been a good move.

So Miles offsets all that.

Miles has done great but our entire season has been placed on the hopes of a Free agent WR who doesn’t have a great track record of staying healthy.

That’s not the position I want to be in but here we are.

I’m still holding out to see if he’s truly a #1. Teams will start to prepare for him now and try to take him away. When the gameplan is to stop Miles and he still performs then he is a true #1 WR. That has not been the case yet.

We played the Chiefs who are terrible and the Falcons who were missing a starting CB.

Slow down homer…

Two games and you have Mile’s value at a Multi-Year First team All-Pro level.
What do you think Miles trade value is right now.

In your view he’s worth a 1st, 3rd, 6th and a ton of cap space that Roy is sucking up in two games without seeing one team go into a game saying shut Miles Austin down. .

Have you lost your mind.

I think if Dallas did get the Jet’s 2nd rounder, they would have seriously tried to trade up into the first round to get Maclin. Whether they would have been able to make that trade to get in front of the Eagles would be a question, but my considerations will be based on how Maclin, Austin, and Williams (LB) play in the future.

and that opens things up for the other players, that doesn’t mean he did a bad job because he caught 3 passes for 28 yards.