Something to consider about our WR's, JJ are you listening?

This seems to me a legitimate concern. I just hope that the WRs are working on getting a good jump off the line and keeping their heads up on their routes this off-season.

Hurd and Austin were green. the injury came late in the season. When your offense has moved though one guy and suddenly he not there it throws you team off. A veteran team could probably handle it but even they would struggle some. Roy also wasnt there.
You always have concern when turning to a new direction but having Roy, Austin, Hurd, and Clayton from OTAs to the season should give us a good idea on how to utilize the guys best. throw in Felix and we should actually have more fire power than then.

Whatever happened to timing patterns?
It would seem to fit Romo’s strengths, he has the arm and accuracy.

I can’t remember many quick outs the last few years. was it too dificult a route for TO?

Slants, yes, but we seemed to substitute that ridiculous quick “screen” out to WR way too often last year, instead of a well-run out or QB rollout.

Roy, Crayton, and Hurd typically catch everything thrown in their general vicinity. We’ll be fine with what we’ve got…lest we forget, we have the best TE in football, and another player maker at the second tight end spot as well…Oh, and a Pro Bowl RB, with two incredibly gifted second year pros to keep defenses on their toes.

The potential for injury is the only thing that concerns me about our WR corps. If even one of our 3 top receivers(Roy, Austin, Crayton) goes down, we may be in a great deal of trouble…Hate to beat a dead horse, but I REALLY wish we would have gone after Matt Jones or Holt. Oh well…all we have to do is hope our injury prone receivers actually manage to make it through an entire season…

It’s really not as cut and dry as you make it out to be.

The Dallas offense had slowed down in the Philly game before Owens got hurt. Then he gets hurt into the first quarter of the Carolina game and the offense did slow down, but it could be partially attributed because they had get used to a change in style without his prescence.

The Washington game IMO you weren’t going to see much. There was nothing to play for besides not getting any other injuries.

Then in the Giants game, Dallas scores 14 points in the first half only to be held to 3 in the second.

Also you said that the defenses stuffed the running game but in 2 of the three games played without Owens, Marion Barber had over 100 yards

The common concensus in these very threads at that time, is that Crayton, Austin, Hurd don’t get much separation. This has been talked about in training camp as well. They can at times against mid-level CB’s, but against really good top level CB’s they struggle big time. You have to have at least two WR’s that can get open against top CB’s to win playoff games. This is my point. You and I haven’t seen anything yet from any of these guys. Patrick yes, but he’s always in the slot. Two years have gone by, they may have (hopefully) learned to run better routes and use their body better.

SPEED is what really gives you separation and you cannot teach that. We only have one speedster in Austin, he’s fast in pads but not blazing.

The running game always suffers when the passing game suffers. That SS starts making plays. CB’s play man up. Dallas wasn’t run stuffed, your right, but looking forward to this year, if Dallas’ WR’s cannot get separation, the running game yds will go down. I’m just not satisfied with the current roster of WR’s that are a bit slow, unproven and injury prone.

If we can run it well, we will throw it well. Period. End of story.

I hear ya! Dallas will run the ball more, no doubt. You still need to be able to stretch the field or your carries will be shorter. Keeps the SS and CB’s honest.