Jerry Stop the Bleeding Tomorrow
January 13th, 2008 by Joe Rodriguez
Ok, I’m still fuming over the loss, but its time to think about the direction of the Cowboys, and this starts tomorrow! Since the Cowboys lost, teams are now open to negotiate with our assistants; knowing this, Jerry Jones will need to act quick. By acting quick, I mean firing Wade Phillips and his losing playoff record and promoting Jason Garrett.
Jerry needs to stop the bleeding, and he’ll be right at work tomorrow morning if not by tonight! We’ve had a bad end of the year again, we’ve lost Jeff Ireland to Miami, and we’re going to lose Tony Sparano tomorrow as well. Jerry cannot mess around with this decision. Get the new blood in there, someone who will take a better command of the team, and someone who can build on their own record.
Jerry’s offseason priorities start now, and it starts with naming Jason Garrett the new HC of the Dallas Cowboys. Next, will be a new contract for Marion Barber. Barber is the undisputed heartbeat of this Cowboys offense. He gets the team motivated, and pumps up the team with his hardnosed football. Barber is the guy you can count on every single snap.
There it is everybody, this either happens or we’re in for the Campo Era all over again.
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January 13th, 2008 at 8:55 pm
How do you play a play-off game like it was a pre-season game?? Penalties, dropped passes, poor passes, missed blocks, missed tackles. Pre-season football. Way to go guys. Mexico had nothing to do with it, T.O.’s ankle had nothing to do with it. It was an overall team effort choking under pressure again.
12 pro-bowlers, what a joke. Roy Williams has no business going to Hawaii, totally overrated. Trade him for draft picks and get some defensive players that can cover. Get rid of Reeves too. Phillips was a 3-4 expert, well the 3-4 sucks!! We don’t have the inside LBs to play it!
Come on Jerry get with it. By the way, remember when you made the decision to trade down and draft Julius Jones instead of Stephen Jackson?? Well then why didn’t Jones start today if he was the answer? Why start a smaller Jackson look alike? When are you going to quit screwing around with this team and get a GM that knows what he’s doing? You’re as much at fault for this collapse as the players are. Ever since your ego got between you and Jimmy Johnson this team has lost it’s edge. You did prove your statement though that anyone could coach that team to a Super Bowl win when you hired that idiot Switzer! But he wound up ruining the team just like he did his Oklahoma team.
Oh well, how long until training camp? At least we’ll kick butt from August through Thanksgiving and then we may as well put the equipment away because we sure as hell don’t use it the same in December, January.
January 13th, 2008 at 9:25 pm
It is obvious things should have been different during the ‘off’ week. Too much vacation and not enough preparation for the game. this includes players and coaches. What a WASTED season!
January 14th, 2008 at 9:00 am
Where is that bug-eyed fool Patrick Crayton now? Remember “IF they make it to Arizona, we’ll see them again!” Well I hope you can get tickets Partick, you moron. Then you have TO crying to the media, because he can’t get hot chicks like the QB can. This was much more fun to watch than last season when it was just a dropped snap!!!
January 14th, 2008 at 3:22 pm
Jones should have drafted Brady Quinn. Quinn, has a work ethic. He would have prepared for a game and not have taken a vacation to Mexico with a “mental midget.”
January 14th, 2008 at 6:17 pm
I am a die-hard Cowboys fan. Having said that, I will tell the world(or the 2 or 3 people who end up reading this post) why the Cowboys lost to the Giants. The Cowboys lost not because of Tony Romo and the stupid vacation with Jessica Simpson and all that bullshit that got so much attention from the media and the pundits. They lost first of all because they became too damn full of themselves after averaging 33 points a game for their first 13 games! I think at some point, they got to thinking that all they had to do was show up at a game and an offensive explosion bigger and badder than Jerry Jones’ ego would take place and 33 points would be handed to them in a silver platter with a side of fries. Second of all and as a corollary to the above premise, they lost because of lack of preparation and discipline: the dropped balls by Anthony Fasano, Patrick Crayton and Terrell Owens. The stupid-ass penalties (I think they had 8 for 60+ yards) which show that lack of discipline they had been getting away with all year the most galling of which, to me, was the 15 yards Dallas was set back on a drive because of an asinine play by an offensive lineman whose name escapes me right now, who decided to put a very late hit on Giants defensive end Michael Strahan when the play had been long over and Strahan was on the ground! And there is Pro Bowl tackle Flozell Adams who has a nasty penchant for jumping offside and all of a sudden it is not 3rd and short but 3rd and 6. Adams has been doing it all year and continued to do it in the most important game of the season for Dallas. And what can I say about Tony? Lets see..on one drive, he held on to the ball when he should have thrown it away and instead took a sack and a 14 yard loss. On another drive with Dallas behind and needing to score, Romo, unable to find an open man, threw the ball away prematurely and was called for intentional grounding ’cause he was still inside the tackles and was not being pressured by the Giants defense. As a result, Dallas was penalized for 10 yards. The aforementioned Crayton meanwhile, dropped a perfect 3rd down pass on a drive that could have put Dallas in very good position to score. Tight end Fasano who is used primarily for blocking, dropped a right-on-the-money pass a couple of yards from the end zone and Dallas had to settle for a field goal. Center Andre Gurode who was on the disabled list for the last regular game of the season, seemed to have trouble delivering the snap on time all game long. The secondary, especially CB Jacques Reeves, got exploited by Giants QB Eli Manning for some long passes. The list goes on and on and all of these happened while the Giants played with a decimated secondary that could have been and SHOULD have been exploited with the weapons on offense Dallas has.
Roy Williams, Dallas’ hard-hitting strong safety, said a few days ago in reference to first year Cowboys head coach Wade Phillips’ relaxed style of coaching that he was used to some yelling and screaming and people getting in his face (can you say Bill Parcells?). Well, maybe that’s what this team needed. Some yelling and screaming. And some damn discipline! Holding on to the ball would not have been a very bad thing either.
Oh yea. I forgot the obligatory “give the other team credit” thing ’cause I don’t wanna sound like a sore loser….ummmm. Whatever.