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Hey, a win. Yay team!

I am just amazed at how week in and week out, this cant put any consistency together in any phase of the game. I know we have alot of injuries, but those injuries dont excuse how stupid this team is coached.

1) Thought Romo had by far his best game of the year, not only just in terms of numbers but in terms of how well he threw the ball too. The pass protection started out shoddy (as usual) but seemed to improve as the game wore on, and he had time to make some plays downfield. His downfield accuracy was by far the best it had been all year. Seemed the extra few days off might have done his arm some good, as he appeared to have a little more zip on the ball. Didnt see any of the ducks or bad mis-throws we'd seen most games all year either.

2) Demarco Murray will be a superstar if he can eventually have a healthy season. He's a stud. Has all the talent in the world and a great atttude to go with it.

3) Dez Bryant is really turning into th player I think we all hoped he would be. His route running is vastly improved. I think its clear now that this thing that hovered over him most of the year (the charges from his mom) had some impact on how he was playing, because since its been resolved he has really been alot better. He now has 71 catches, 978 yds and 8 tds. He has 6 tds in his last 4 games, came up just 2 yds short last night of his 3rd straight 100+ yd game. Along with Murray and Tyron Smith, he can be a cornerstone player on offense for years to come.

4) Thought Jason Witten had a superb game too. Finally was able to hook up with him on some downfield routes.

5) Apparently Broaddus asked Garrett if they considered benching Doug Free at halftime. He was absolutely putrid and is arguably the worst player on the team. Garrett said no. What a fucking joke. Free and Bernadeau were both terrible (as usual) and yet niether is in any danger of being benched. This is whats wrong with this franchise. Bad play is consistently tolerated and rewarded. If they had no other options it'd be one thing, but everyone could clearly see how well Parnell played in the basically two games that Tyron Smith missed.

6) I said it last night. I said it last week. I've said it several times this year. Rob Ryan is the worst DC this team has ever had. He is a clueless putz. His defense was shredded by a team playing without their starting QB, best offensive player (McCoy) and most explosive playmaker (Jackson), and they had a hodge podge OL blocking for them. Nick Foles said after the game that "they played really soft coverages all night". Collinsworth and Michaels said during the game that nobody blitzes less than Dallas, and nobody plays more 3 man rush/cover 8 than Dallas. The defense is garbage. The scheme is garbage. I am 99.9% sure he'll never get another DC job in the NFL after this year.

7) Nice game by Josh Brent though. I think he's a good bet to be a fixture here for a longtime too. Got held repeatedly (never called) and had several pretty athletic moves rushing the passer. Saw him hurdle a guy once and get away to pressure Foles. Also had the only really big play of the night defensively with the forced fumble that Claiborne took back.

8) Dan Bailey is now 23/25 on kicks this year. What a freaking find he was. And he had multiple touchbacks too.

9) How the hell does a team give up a 98 yd punt return after the other team tried to block the punt? How does Joe DeCammilis stay employed?

I still think this was probably the last win of the year, although 1 or 2 more wins wouldnt be totally shocking either if the offense continues to play well. Team is going nowhere though and Jones has absolutely got to fire this inept HC and staff after the season.
 

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Its the first time in NFL history that a team has faced a Rookie Qb and RB in 3 straight games

I am convinced it is not Rob Ryan. The same thing happened when Wade Phillips was here and when the coaches prior to him were here.
Wade has a turnover machine defense in Houston.
It has to be the players
 

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Its the first time in NFL history that a team has faced a Rookie Qb and RB in 3 straight games

I am convinced it is not Rob Ryan. The same thing happened when Wade Phillips was here and when the coaches prior to him were here.
Wade has a turnover machine defense in Houston.
It has to be the players

The players have been turned over too much. It isnt the players, its what they are being asked to do.

Ryan was mediocre in Oakland. He was mediocre in Cleveland. He's been downright terrible here this year.
 

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The players have been turned over too much. It isnt the players, its what they are being asked to do.

Ryan was mediocre in Oakland. He was mediocre in Cleveland. He's been downright terrible here this year.

How do you explain the Success that Wade has had in Houston the last 2 years?

I actually agree with you but it just doesnt add up to me
 
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I think Wade and Ryans failures can be laid at the feet of bad secondaries, which you can't win with in todays NFL. You can mask them for a game or two, but not for a season.

Carr is far less than what we all hoped.

Claiborn is a rookie.

And our safety play is terrible. TERRIBLE.
 

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Carr is terrible

We could get this same play from Scandrick for 1/4 of the money
 

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I think our absolute lack of pressure is the real problem. You can have 2 Deion Sanders on the field but if your d line gets no push or pressure any competant QB can complete a pass

That being said. Our safeties are horrible
 
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Well, it goes both ways. You can scheme pressure with a respectable secondary. And on the flip side, a dominant pass rush can make an average secondary look great.
 
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JJ Watt could make any coach look like a genius. He's the consummate shit disrupter.

QBs are too comfy in the pocket against Dallas. They really should have fixed the dline long ago. Ryan does seem clueless overall though. Neither of these coaches (OC and DC) have shown an ability to adjust within games. The offense sputters until Romo finally just says "fuck it" and starts speeding things up.

Oline is pathetic but Romo hides its flaws fairly well. Imagine if we had Bledsoe, Aikman (circa 1999) or Testaverde back there.

I cant believe Jerry has learned basically nothing over the course of 20+ years on the job. He really must be just as stupid as jimmy and his staff used to think.
 

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Lack of success is traced to spending 2, 3rd round picks, a supplemental 7th on the dline since 2006.

How many lb's do we have on the roster that we brought in through the draft? Basically half an olb a year since 2005.

Ilb? lol
 

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Jason couldn't have benched Free or he would have answered to Jerry.

If that were Parcells he would have benched Free and put in Parnell.

Red has no balls.
 

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The ex-scout and coach who now watches film for ESPN Dallas has said for weeks now that many of Ryan's schemes are so unsound they make him tear his hair out. He doesn't dislike Ryan, he just doesn't understand what he's trying to do. Like he says, with several of these offenses, we have better talent than them and we'd beat them if we just played straight up. But instead we try all these tricky things that only put our guys in bad positions.

There was one play last night, I think maybe late in the third quarter, where they had 3rd and 12 or something and at the last second our safeties switched so that Sensabaugh was running 20 yards backwards at the snap. And they completed a pass in the middle of the field to pick up the first down. I have to believe that some of that is our guys running around to supposedly confuse the offense that puts our guys out of position.

I really think Ryan sees himself as this mad scientist type and he thinks he has to live up to that. Besides that one good year in Oakland, he really made a name for himself that time the Browns beat the Pats when he confused Brady into a bad game with the walk-around "psycho" rush and all the different looks. I really believe he's trying to confuse QBs into throwing easy interceptions so he looks good (and to help his head coaching chances) instead of just playing sound defense and letting our talent win.
 
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Yea, the defense is riddled with injuries all over the place but let’s just use this as a reason to bash the coordinator. Watch McCray and tell me he is a starting safety. The Cowboys have nobody for middle linebacker.

The Brown kid looked pretty good. They still have Maclin (their #1 Wr). Jackson is so fucking overrated. Vick was having one of his worst seasons.
 
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Agree with TE.

There was a lot of praise for him after he shut down Drew Brees and Tom Brady with a very undermanned Browns defense.

I bought in because I like the idea of an aggressive defense. Especially after years of seeing Zimmers passive read and react schemes.
 
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There is like no perspective in dbairs posts anymore. Not a single mention about the injuries on defense but had no problem mentioning the injuries to the offense they were playing against.
 

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There is like no perspective in dbairs posts anymore. Not a single mention about the injuries on defense but had no problem mentioning the injuries to the offense they were playing against.

Actually Dblair is finally having some perspective. He isn't looking at things through blue colored glasses this season

Have you taken a look at the injuries that Philly is dealing with. Starting QB, RB, WR and 4 out of their starting lineman
 

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Yea, the defense is riddled with injuries all over the place but let’s just use this as a reason to bash the coordinator. Watch McCray and tell me he is a starting safety.
Did you happen to notice that Eagles offense was riddled with injuries, too? They were missing their best QB, WR, RB, and some on the O-line. And they were starting a third round rookie QB.

I sorta like Ryan, too. Like him a lot better than Garrett. But he hasn't done a good job lately.
 
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Actually Dblair is finally having some perspective. He isn't looking at things through blue colored glasses this season

Have you taken a look at the injuries that Philly is dealing with. Starting QB, RB, WR and 4 out of their starting lineman

Yea, the OP was sure to mention the injuries to Philly. I was trying to balance it by mentioning that the Dallas D is also heavily injuried. Also, the Cowboys did sweep the Eagles last i saw. Defense also scored 7 points.
 

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Yea, the OP was sure to mention the injuries to Philly. I was trying to balance it by mentioning that the Dallas D is also heavily injuried. Also, the Cowboys did sweep the Eagles last i saw. Defense also scored 7 points.

For the first time in NFL history a team faced a rookie QB and rookie RB 3 games in a row

Our defense gave up 20, 38, 32

Blame injuries all you want
 
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