13 Things I Think About The Dallas Cowboys And Stuff

and the only cure, is more cowbell!

I wonder sometimes why ? a) Some of the players that look great in preseason and are kept on the team, especially rookies rarely see real playing time to be evaluated. Other than special teams we saw very little of Albright at LB. He has to be faster than Brooking or Bradie. We saw a bit of Carter at the end of the season. b) Why we keep hearing about dumbing down the defense. I get a lot of Cleveland radio and they never spoke of that when Rob was there. The radio guys in Cleveland are tough, so if that was a problem they would have done a week of shows on it.

Love the rules.

Should photoshop a robot suit on JG at his press conferences.

Nice. Vielen Dank.

to throw flags on the referees. When a crew misses calls, the ref ref puts them in a penalty box for five minutes.

because not many would go for it on 4th and 5 at the 49.

I’d say, 4th and 4 or less at the opponents 40 or less. But then, I favor the conservative playcalling. Anybody who watched the 1:00 games saw what an edge not giving a F can do for teams…

He’s exactly the type of player this defense needs. He brings a lot of intensity and can get under the skin of receivers. Then draft a pass rusher with the 14th pick and all of sudden the defense isn’t terrible.

He plays with an egde….something missing from this defense.

Actually thats a no brainer.

Just for the Sergei Bubka reference

Just to see the moves the front office is going to make. Its going to tell us a lot on what to expect next season. I fear the worst after JJ stats comment.

It became invalid when high-first round contracts got so out of hand, but not that sanity has been restores to rookie contracts, much like what ruled in the late 80s, when the chart was created, I’d surmise that the chart more accurately reflects the values of the different picks.

a quick mention on the whole “America’s Team” thing (that along with the “Dream Team” are the two things that get me seething the most)…and this is in quick reference to that article that the Cowboys aren’t well liked….I’d say the ratings are really high on SNF w/ the Cowboys for two reasons:

1) Regardless of their inconsistency, the Cowboys are always a good matchup with whatever team.
2) A lot of people tune in, quite frankly, to try and see the Cowboys fail.

There’s a lot of Cowboys hate out there. And I’d take that as a compliment.

On my hour long drive to work this morning I was thinking about the 14th pick and about our secondary. My first thought was that Morris Claiborne is the man. My second thought was that there is absolutely zero chance we can get our hands on him. So, after thinking about that I realized that there might not be another corner in the draft that I would want starting right away. So I drifted to Free Agency and the first name in my head was Courtland Finnegan. Then I though, “na, that guys a thug.” Then i came to my senses. He is a physical cb that likes to play man and would be a perfect fit in RR’s defense. Then to get to the office and see OCC mention him just confirms my thoughts. It is now written in the “stars”. He will be a Cowboy.

I don’t think the Cowboys will be able to afford him and the ballance of T New’s contract when he gets cut this year, plus account for Jenkins new contract in future years. I think the Cowboys are more likely to sign a mid-level free agent (or two) for depth purposes and focus on improving the defense with early draft picks at corner, Dline, and OLB (not necessarily in that order).

MORE cowbell:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4royOLtvmQ

A math challenge: Every time we talk about Dez Bryant and his production, somebody will bring up the argument that he is “constantly double- or sometimes even triple-teamed.” Every time we talk about DeMarcus Ware’s pass rushing, somebody will explain that Ware is “constantly double teamed.” Every time we talk about Jay Ratliff and the absence of pressure up the middle, somebody will point out that Ratliff is “constantly double teamed”. Notice a trend? Elementary school math tells me that if six defenders are covering three Cowboys, there should be a couple of Cowboys running around the field completely uncovered on every play. Can somebody please inform Jason Garrett about this?
Offensively, we saw this team take advantage. Laurent Robinson’s production was directly tied to defenses selling out to erase Dez leaving him single-covered by the #2 CB.

Defensively there wasn’t the talent to overcome. Despite Anthony Spencer only being singled up against RTs and TEs all season, the only team he was able to exploit this against was the Dolphins and terrible Marc Colombo.

There’s also a need for better ILB and safety blitzes up the middle. Efforts to slow down Ratliff should open up the middle to the kinds of blitzes and stunts that had such an amazing effect at shutting down the Cowboys this year. Unfortunately, Sean Lee, Gerald Sensabaugh, Abram Elam, Keith Brooking, and Bradie James combined for zero sacks this year. Once you took out Ratliff there was nothing for a QB to fear from the middle of the Cowboys defense.

I’m on board.

Not sure what everyone else thinks about McGee, but I think he is in a tough spot. Regardless of how good he is now or will be in the near future, he will be nothing more than an insurance policy in Dallas behind Romo, or a bargaining chip for trade. The best case for the Cowboys might have been that he followed the Kevin Kolb path, spent a couple years in the league developing, got into a few games where he looked good, then have Cowboys flip him to a needy team for a high pick or needed upgrade elsewhere. By the time McGee was drafted, Romo was a 3 year starter that was 28 years old who was well on his way up in the league. In a scenario like this, the only way he was going to get any significant playing time was if there was a major injury to Romo, and they had already signed Kitna for that duty. It is rare that a team takes a QB anywhere in the draft and has that pick play significant time or supplant the incumbent during the span of their first NFL contract when they already have a QB of Romo’s age and caliber starting. I don’t think he has been horrible to date, but he seems to turn quickly to his check down options on passes and doesn’t appear to have a lot of full-time starting potential.