was how Romo’s blossoming connection with Crayton was subdued by the team bringing in RW and immediately giving him gametime. I thought in 07. Crayton was a very reliable receiver especially in red zone situations.

Miles Austin is bigger, faster, and can make more plays than Crayton.

Crayton is a solid player but I hope Austin earns the #2 spot. Austin’s speed better compliments RW11 and Crayton has proven he can be a dangerous 3. If Austin can stay healthy and play to his potential this becomes a scary good offense. If Austin stays at #3 and has the same injury problems that has plagued him in the past this is just a very good offense that has to lean on the running game to march down the field. Either way I’m good.

good article…sums up my feelings about Crayton pretty well. His on-field performances have been very solid, considering he is a former college QB drafted in the 7th round out of a tiny college.

Yes, the Giants playoff game hurt, and his two miscues contributed greatly. But he didn’t allow the Giants to drive for a TD just before halftime, or allow a 25 yard punt return. And he did score a TD in his only other playoff game.

I read once that Bob Hayes completely blew chunks in his first ever playoff game, the 1966 NFL title matchup against the Packers. Not only did he catch one pass for one yard, but I believe he ran a punt out of the end zone and pinned the offense deep. Then, in the Ice Bowl, h caught 3 for 16 yards, and telegraphed every play to the Packers by keeping his hands in his jersey when it was a running play. What I’m saying is, if a Hall of Fame WR like Hayes can still earn our respect after playoff gaffes like that, then let’s cut Crayton a little slack. For this year, at least. Then all bets are off!

Is a better blocker?? With the 3 headed monster at RB, I believe the boys will having a lot of runs being bounced outside. From the group that we currently have, i don’t know who stand out as good run blockers.

that writes checks his play can’t cash. “We came in and marked our territory (referring to Giants stadium)”. Possibly the dumbest thing anyone has said ever. Now the Giants are a powerhouse, and I’m sure they haven’t forgotten about how the Cowboys said they pissed all over New York.

The one thing I like about him is he can stay healthy, which is more than I can say about our other receivers.

Just out. Don Banks ranks us 20th out of all teams since 2000. Ouch. Yeah, yeah… no playoff wins. But I don’t think our rank should be that low.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/don_banks/06/01/decade/index.html

Will do what Crayton did in the playoffs.

How could you possibly expect more.

You get what you got.

Expecting Austin to all of a sudden be a viable #2 is also asking a lot.
How’s that Isaiah Stanback experiment working out.

Roy Williams
I’m always wary of good players on bad teams. Especially a team like the Lion’s

I question the players numbers because when a team plays Detroit it’s human nature not to take them as serious as the New England Patriots.

This year he will get everyone’s best. We will see.

Sounds like Jones is trying to get golden milk out of a monkey’s ass.
This team needs to completely fail before Jerry gets it.

Get the hell out of the GM seat or at least get a designated driver.

If it makes you feel any better ESPN has us ranked 13th.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/powerranking?season=2009&week=0

on keeping his mouth shut based on changes the team has made and how he was perceived when he opened his mouth when he did and couldn’t back up his smack.

Life is full of lessons and nobody’s perfect. Hopefully Crayton has learned that distractions centered on an individual person isn’t greater than the team concept. I think he will keep his mouth in check and let his play speak volumes because the moves this team has made, has made it clear that distractions will not be tolerated.

I personally think he will have a very good year because he does find the seams, has good hands and stays healthy. From what I’ve read, he’s looked good at the OTA’s.

Having Austin as the #2 and Crayton working the slot will help this offense bigtime. Austin’s health will be very important for this offense. Having him stretch the field which will allow Williams, Crayton, Witten and Bennett to work underneath will enhance our passing game. Our deep passes won’t be as potent without TO, but our mid to short range passing will be very effective, even more so providing Austin stays healthy.

Can you imagine the defense’s problems trying to figure out who we are going to throw to this coming year? The last few years it was largely TO and those plays took awhile to develope because of how they played the man, to which the line would have to block a little longer for the plays to develope. We were telegraphing where we wanted to throw before the snap.

This year, who’s our go to guy? I will say Witten will probably lead in catches, but how can you ignore the rest? Williams has something to prove, Austin has speed to stretch, Crayton works the slot very well, Witten and Bennett are matchup problems, Barber is very, very tuff one on one to bring down, Felix and Choice have speed to burn coming out of the backfield. And that’s the passing game! Our mid level passing game will be very difficult to defend not to mention be easier for the line to block for.

Garrett has everything he needs to move the offense. He has more weapons than most teams have. There will be no excuse for failure in moving the chains barring a lot of injuries. How will defense’s defend our mid level passing attack? Good luck on that one, especially when everyone expects us to run the ball more and we probably will, but we won’t ignore the pass either.

that include TEs and WRs. we have a lot of players that can create mismatches. I look for bennett and Witten to create defensive matchup problems that will open up the WRs and put them in a lot of one on one situations and I like our odds then. Both Witten and Bennett can block, both play some snaps at HB position and they both can catch and run as we know it. I can see us moving these guys around pre snap and create mismatches against the defense.

Roy Williams is not going to consistantly beat double teams, but I like his chances in one on one situations. I also think Austin, barring injuries will blossom. he is going to surprise the heck out of everyone. Crayton is steady as she goes.

this is a very under rated group. right now its sort of “in” to bash the cowboys. next year they will sing a different tune.