The Dallas Cowboys: Maddeningly Frustrating

I expect mediocrity from this bunch; anywhere from 7-9 to 9-7. Our QB continues to make mistakes and our defense is downright pathetic.

They’ll probably get swept by the Giants and Eagles, and split with Washington. That’s 5 losses right there. Add losses to the Saints, Chiefs/Broncos, and Chargers and we’re looking at an 8-8 team.

because if Romo had pulled this one out, Wade would have blown sunshine up everyone’s azz and they would not be focusing on the problems.

I hope Romo feels terrible and that this loss burns him to the core – maybe he will remember the feeling the next time he considers launching a wounded duck into double coverage.

For the secondary, I have to question the coaching. No matter who plays back there, it is like the keystone cops, bumping into eachother and pointing fingers while no-name recievers ring up career days. Can anyone get them on the same page?

The O-line and RBs are beasts and if they can keep that up, Romo can stop trying to be a hero and just manage the game.

In the end, Grizz is right – we gave this game away to the NFC favorites and even though we lost a division game, its not like we got 48 hung on us like the Eagles.

Everyone on the ledge, settle down. A lot of good teams lost yesterday including New England, Pittsburg, Tenn. and the chargers. The loss won’t kill us but they have to react strongly.

Checkdown McGee could be breathing down his neck in one or two years.

prospects if everyone starts doing their jobs.

a game that tests them like winning a div game on the road or against a good team. I will still follow this team, and hope they can come through but I cannot trust this team (coaches and players) until they show it on th field I have to hold back my expecetations.

Are we a good team with some serious flaws or simply an average team ?

Dave, you make some good points but we can’t overlook the Giants weaknesses, either.

First, the Giants’ running game wasn’t very good against Washington. Second, the injury list for the Giants defense is about 6 guys deep, and four of those are either start or have a healthy split-time in games. Third, the Giants haven’t been good in the red zone for years.

I wouldn’t say the Cowboys dominated in the first half. I just did not see that. Nor the second half. I’m not saying the ‘Boys won’t contend for the playoffs but like a lot of teams, the dust is still clearing on where this team stacks up.

I know it was the first home game of the season and the team amde an adundance of mistakes, but with all that went wrong, they still were one play away from winning a game in which they played horribly. I don’t get why people are talking like the season is over after week 2 and 1 loss. I mean seriously, get a grip people. It’s week 2. We lost to the media favorite winners of the NFC East and NFC representatives in the Super Bowl by 2 points on a last second field goal after turning the ball over 4 times and playing horrible pass defense….Now if we had got blown out then I would be worried but overall I am not. They have got to get the secondary fixed, Romo will be fine. Let’s just hope Barber isn’t out for any extended period of time.

All you’d hear was that Romo overcame his inner demons, led the team down the field to win the game, Brady-like, and that the Boys were the best in the world.

I’m a Romo supporter, I’ll admit. He was much to blame for the loss. But there were 21 other guys out there, and almost 21 of them were screwing up at one point or another.

I don’t even want to go into how disappointed I am in Romo’s performance last night. But the fact that he was having a stinker was evident to anyone watching the game, and it was pretty clear by halftime. At the same time, it was clear that we could run the ball down their throat.

Yet SOMEHOW, Romo kept getting to throw the ball over and over again leading to numerous 3-and-outs.

I wrote a fanpost after the Iggles loss asking for Romo to be leashed when necessary. Yesterday was the perfect opportunity to rein him in when he was in one of his funks. It seems everyone but Garrett was able to recognize that we should be pounding the rock, and Romo should not have been chucking it.

Aargh, for all his great gameplanning yesterday, Garrett was too obstinate to take control from Romo and run the ball.

Romo can’t go on thinking he’s the coolest dude to ever wear a cap backwards forever. Next time he throws a pick that is solely a bad decision and then compounds it with another…….Take a seat.

Wade and Jerry have to concede that accountability is not only necessary for the role model on the team but the supposed team leader as well.

Let’s add the opening of Cowboys Stadium to the list… closing out Texas Stadium, the Philadelphia Phlop, Cancungate, and the Seattle Slip.

In three short years, this un-drafted signal caller has brought more heartbreak to the franchise than any player in memory. Is Romo a Giant mole left stashed inside the Ranch by the Parcells regime? More likely, the best quarterback never to win a playoff game is just unintelligent and folds under any sort of pressure like origami.

A pick six, a floater pic in the red zone, and a 29% passer rating. Wow. Romo hasn’t made any progress, and with his limited ceiling and advanced age, he is who he is… A mediocre quarterback in a league and a town where good isn’t good enough.

Tex says you can’t have a soft quarterback who has never won a playoff game AND a soft coach who has never won a playoff game. Time to bring in a dog or two who can hunt.

PS: Newman and Flozell are two over paid, under achieving cancers who continually piss in the punch. A coach with some bite wouldn’t allow the same mistakes by these two to happen over, and over, and over again.

Agree that Flo still is a plus, but the timing of his penalties is maddening.

Anyone note the writeup on NFL.com stated, ’ D Ware did not finish the game because of injury?’

Romo, you are to run the play that’s called, no checking off what is called, I don’t care what the defense is showing, if they have nine in the box and we have a running play called, you run it. All I hear is this is one of thee most talented teams in the league and one of thee biggest offensive lines, impose your will, this team doesn’t do that enough. The cowboys of the ninties had four running plays, and they ran it regardless how many were in the box or what defense was called.

For all the Romo’s talk during the offseason and training camp about taking what the defense gives him and taking care of the football, I saw the same mistake prone quarterback I’ve seen the last three years. He talks the talk, but doesn’t walk the walk. He’ll probably play well enough for the next five games, since our scehdule is pretty weak, and everyone will start forgetting this performance, and when the next big game on the schedule comes up, he’ll revert back to what we saw last night…

I said I’d give him the first four games of this season to show that’s he’s a quarterback that’s learned from his mistakes and take care of the football, but clearly watching last nights game, he clearly hasn’t learned, he looks exactly like the same player that failed down the stretch last year. You can’t still say he’s a young quarterback still learning his craft, he’s been here seven years. His poor play can’t be called an aberration, it’s the norm, his good games are an aberration.

there is no one else but Romo really stunk it up. Throwing behind, forcing balls.

Games like that Buffalo game gave me some tolerance for bone headed mistakes but I can’t take it anymore. Dallas was humiliated by Baltimore at the close of Texas Stadium and now Romo just embarrassed himself.

If he keeps throwing the ball 2 feet behind his recievers we’ll never win a Super Bowl

When the next week’s power rankings come out, the Giants will be No. 1 in the NFL. and for 59:56 you were the better team on the scoreboard, and matched up almost exactly: Our passing game for your running, the failure of the vice-versas. The only difference in the game was the turnovers, and every QB has his bad days. Romo’s a fine quarterback, he just needs to win a playoff game or 4 and he’ll be accepted by the fans. I wanted Eli shot when he threw 4 picks to the vikings a few years ago.
Convincingly — no question about it — Dallas is better than the Eggles. Based on last night’s game, they should move UP in the power rankings They’re a top-10 team in the League right now. Just a few things to shore up.
Good luck until Dec. 6. — and p.s. your BtB visitors have been an absolute class act at BBV, before AND after the game.

Because I am just raw from this one. Wasted opportunity compounded by glaring flaws make for a hard week until we get a chance at redemption

He is playing just like him. Hot and cold, throwing A LOT of INT’s. Except for one thing, Brett took his team into the post season and the Superbowl many times.

There’ll be a Romo mic’d up vid from last night.

That would be must-see TV.

Dumbest OC in football. Wow, what a choke job by him…

5 Big Game Blunders, when will it stop? Was this Bernie Madoff really as good as billed or was he selling us a bill of goods? were we so eager to have a starting QB under the age of 30 who could throw and look pretty? Were we just so tried of Vinny, Drew, Chad and Quincy? If anybody still believes in this fraud after last night, I’ve got a good investor I’d like you to meet.

Let’s all remember my campaign a couple of years ago. “Flo must go” and “Don’t resign T New”. But here they are still making foolish penalties and getting burned deep.
That was money well spent. Just listen to the Captain next time.

By the way were’s the Romo love today Terry?

Who was he throwing it to?

literally :)

I’m talking big games here my friend, not last week.

If this whole community can collectively agree that he doesn’t have or will ever get what it takes it might makes it’s way to the Cowboys front office. But guys that keep where the Romo covered glasses will only delay this process. He needs to go.

Over 105k in the stands…. showing off his new baby, celebs in the stands, camera on him 50% of the time… who cares if there was a game being played.

Save the fumble on the KO return

Also I’m starting to think this non-existant pass defense could give up 300 yards to Brad stinking Johnson.

is making me feel worse… and I didn’t think that was possible.

I think we need to bond together as a battered community and put him on suicide watch.

Seriously, where is he?

Time after time, I saw him get held up at initial contact and then give up on the play. Meanwhile, Mannning still had another second or two to make his reads.

WTF Demarcus?!

Read this paragraph, from Dave’s excellent post (which I agree with whole-heartedly, by the way):

“We just put up 31 points on the Giants defense, supposedly one of the better in the league, and we did that while turning the ball over four times. Seriously, that’s quite an accomplishment. Our running game has been really good, the offensive line looks great (except for Flo losing his mind a couple of times), and this offense will score points. The defense has got to get better, I know, and I think they will, I mean, they have to start getting sacks at some point, and hopefully start getting some turnovers. The redzone D is great, so that’s a big plus in the NFL. Even with our defense playing like it did, the Cowboys were that close to winning.”

Okay. Now is that not a paragraph that could have been written almost word for word after last year’s Week 2 MNF Cowboys/Eagles game? There would only be one notable difference: we actually WON last year’s game. So the situation was not seen as nearly as dire. But the building blocks of the paragraph were there: Good OL performance. Solid run game. Defense that performed well in a few situations (red zone this year; 2nd half last year). Us trying to smooth over some of the wrinkles of a defense that had given up a lot of points.

This team’s 3-4 year historical trend is to regress as the season goes on, not improve. Last year, we had some warts in the early going and wrote posts very much like the one above and reasoned that “Well, this and this part of the team are good, and now we just need to improve these other areas.” But in reality, the problem areas remained problems, the aspects of the team that were strong early on did not stay quite as strong, and the season ended in a very disappointing way.

I agree that it’s very early in this season. My concern is that we do not have 2 weeks of history to judge this team on— we have about 3.5 years. Or at least 2+, if you confine it to the Wade era (although Wade’s teams and Parcells’ teams bear some similiarities, IMO).

And the mistakes that I saw last night— defense that could not maintain consistency; Romo careless with the ball; pass rush that vanished at important moments; negative turnover ratio— are mistakes that we’ve seen pop up on a pretty regular basis over the past 2+ seasons.

So that’s my concern. That last night we saw problems pop up that we hoped had been fixed, problems that have doomed us a few years in a row now and don’t seem to be gone. And that the positive elements in Dave’s post, which I agree are all true, were pulled out of last year’s early games in exactly the same way, and were actually even MORE positive for that 2008 team. And look at how that season turned out.

My hope is that this team finds the ability to improve as the season goes on, rather than crumbling as has been their wont. We’ve seen it happen in small areas— last year’s defense improved as the year went on (at least through Week 16), for instance— but this group of players and coaches haven’t been able to do it as a whole at any time in their tenure.

Soooooo…yeah, I guess I’m worried and a little sad.

…during the Pete Carroll years. They always had solid and talented that would win some games but would always underperform when it counted most. Carroll was the coach in New England for 3 seasons, taking over for a squad that Parcells had built (sound familiar). Those Patriot teams always flirted with the playoffs but never seriously threatened to be a Super Bowl contender. Carroll at the end of his 3rd disappointing season and was replaced Belechik. Two years later New England was winning the 1st of 3 super bowls.

I’m not suggesting that Dallas will turn out the same way but it is eerily familiar. When I look at this Cowboys team over the past few seasons they just look like a poorly coached team to me. I had some hope coming into this season because of Wade focusing more intently on the defense but after two games my hope is dwindling.
Two games does not a season make but if things continue like this team will finish 8-8 or worse. If that happens the Cowboys are guaranteed a coaching change and maybe in the long run that’s not such a bad thing.

caught Jerry picking his nose?

I know my jaw dropped when I saw that.

Note to Jerry: After the other team scores, the cameras love to show your dejected look. Man, NBC struck gold with that shot.