Its the question every Cowboys fan asks themselves, and it unfortunate. I cannot remember the last time this team put together consecutive, convincing wins; however, the Cowboys have a chance Sunday to start a winning streak against the Giants. The chips seem to big stacked against the Cowboys, they haven’e played sound football on offense, and defensive leader, Sean Lee is out for the year. So, what can the Cowboys do to win this game? Its simple: Limit penalties and no turnovers on offense. Simple as that. The Cowboys and Giants usually have some epic games because their players matchup and cancel each other out, so it will come down to mistakes. So, which team will show up? We’ve seen this team all over the map with turnovers and miscues. Whether its the special team, defense, or offense, there always seems to be one squad that just sinks us early and sets the tempo for the rest of the game. Here’s who I’ll be looking at closely: – Anthony Spencer better have another solid game, and he’ll need to step up the pass rush too. We know that Spencer is a run stopping specialist, but we need him to create some havoc. – Phillip Tanner will likely
The Cowboys were able to defeat a bad 1-4 Carolina Panthers team, but barely and now the Cowboys get back to a very mediocre 3-3 record for the year. After six games, the Cowboys have an identity, which is a conservative and penalty making thirsty team. We are still a bad team, and you can definitely expect more of the same type of games. The Cowboys have absolutely proven the penalty issues are not correctable and this will be what ultimately sinks this team in 2012. Here are a few things that need to change relatively soon moving forward: - Kevin Ogletree We need to get him out of the game, that’s it, I’m done with this experiment. Outside of week 1, Ogletree has been a bust on offense, and he has bad hands. He can’t catch, get him the hell of the field. The Cowboys need to put in Holmes, Beasley, or Harris in the game. Enough is enough. Seriously. Garrett said he would make some changes if things continue, so back it up. - Dez Bryant Keeping Dez on punt return duty is not doing the Cowboys any good. He’s too careless with fielding the ball, and too reckless when he’s running around. Put one of the other backup wide receivers back there asap. - Pass rush Its
Take a look at Football Gameplan’s Week 7 Preview Cowboys @ Panthers. What do you think the Cowboys should do, and how will this game turn out? I’m looking for better clock management and better play calling at the line of scrimmage. Thanks to Emory from Football Gameplan for posting this up. Share
I think we’ve seen enough over the years to know Jason Garrett is not going to get this team anywhere, and with another blundering loss under his belt the seat should be getting warm for Garrett. The burner is on, inching towards a medium heat this coming Sunday against the Panthers. The Cowboys are last place in the division at 2-3, and the rest of the division is playing better ball, so its going to be an uphill battle the rest of the year. The Cowboys have carried over their December slump into the 2012 season. Since December 2011 until now we are an abysmal 3-7. Holy crap, that’s sorry. We are in serious trouble, this team is not buying into Garrett, and the penalties which are suppose to be correctable are not correctable under Garrett. Its the same BS, the same press conference optimism with no results. So, how did we get this far with Garrett in the first place? Lets go over a refresher: - Parcells resigned in 2006, and in 2007 Garrett was named the Offensive coordinator BEFORE the head coach (Wade Phillips) was hired. Tony Sparano was a carry over and stayed for one season. - Here’s Garrett’s Total offensive yards ranking, and records: 2007 shared duties
I’m not going to be one to sugarcoat this and say we competed, so now we have a chance moving forward because that’s just a bunch of BS! We are now 2-3 and in last place in the division. We are NOT getting it done and our record reflects our shortcomings. If its not one thing, its another. Today it was costly penalties that killed us, we had too many idiotic illegal formation penalties, holding, and then two defensive penalties that kept drives alive and turned in 14 points against us. Yes, we ran the ball better, and we protected Romo better; but, ALL of that is a moot point if we can’t pull together a win! This whole notion that we played better and competed is ridiculous. It would be fine if we played the same team again next week, but we aren’t. We play a new team every week that gives us a new problem to contend with. So, to say we can beat the Panthers on the road because we played better today is just dumb. I’m literally wondering what is going to sink us next week. We may cut the penalties, but will it be turnovers that kill us, or will it be the offense inability to move the ball, or what? This team is such a mess, I can’t believe it, its
The Cowboys came out looking like a completely new team, by running the ball down the Raven’s throat, but the game plan has once again been sabotaged by penalties. The penalties have put us in 3rd and longs, making us abandon the run which has been working! And then you have the weekly Romo turnover. Its very frustrating knowing we have a game plan that is working, but we can’t execute it due to mental errors. Dumb. Penalties are killing us. If we can cut the penalties in the 2nd half, we have a chance, if not, then its a loss. Let’s hope Claiborne is ok, I don’t want to imagine the rest of the season without him. Share
Who’s ready for the huge game today in Baltimore? Fans are ready, but we’re all on pins and needles waiting to see what squad Garrett musters up for this game. The Cowboys need to match the Raven’s physicality and protect Romo or its game over. Like every game, the Cowboys show how this game will go with their first drives, we’ll see if they are playing with fire and confidence. I honestly don’t see us winning this game, the offensive line is horrible. This game is going to either be the start of a winning streak or a start to a downward spiral to the bottom of the division. At 2-2, we cannot afford to lose out the next five games. Today, we have the Ravens, then @Panthers, Giants, @Falcons, @ Eagles. That’s epically difficult considering how bad we’ve shown up to most of our games this year.We need to come out of this stretch with at least 3 wins, anything less and we’re ins serious trouble for the second half of the schedule. To me, if we go on some sort of losing streak here, our playoff aspirations will be sunk and Garrett will be officially on the hot seat. Today’s game will be the start of winning streak or a losing streak,
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Well, we’ve been waiting for some roster changes, and the only significant one was the activation of RB Lance Dunbar to the 53-man squad. We all know this is to see if Dunbar can be more productive than 1st round bust Felix Jones. What we really wanted to see was a change at RG. Mackenzy Bernadeau has been a free agent bust, you can mark this up as the same category as Marcellus Wiley, its been that bad. Jason Garrett, and Stephen Jones have been on the defensive saying the line has played well, and this and that, but come on, this line is horrendous. Jerry Jones seems to be more direct even suggesting that Derrick Dockery could be an option for the interior line, which means Bernadeau has one more game to show us something. I’d even go out and say that if Bernadeau has a bad start, we could yank him in favor of Dockery. Jerry on Dockery: “Our offensive, I’d like to see us more consistent in there,” Jones said on KRLD. “We’re going to need to be pretty physical, and we can be physical and one thing we got is more size in there and Dockery, we got a player you haven’t seen play much. But he’s got some big size in there, too.”
I don’t know about you, but the Bears game is still on my mind, and I’m looking for answers. What is this team going to do to be competitive and win some games? I surely thought we would see some changes on the offensive line since that’s the weakest unit on the team. Changes need to be made, and we’re mainly talking about RG Mackenzy Bernadeau - he stinks. Garrett apparently thought the pass protection was good against the Bears, you have to be kidding me!: “We like the five guys who are playing up front as we talked yesterday,” Garrett said. “I think collectively as a group they blocked that front fairly very well, particularly in the passing game the other night against Chicago, and Mackenzy is apart of that.” (DMN) I’m sorry, but that is just delusional. Romo was running for his life, and was forced into a lot of bad, hurried passes under heavy duress. These sort of statements Garrett is saying just makes me believe in him less and less. Despite what Garrett is saying, we had better see some changes on the offensive line. Put in Dockery or make a trade of some sort, and I’m not talking about trading for a backup like we
Wow. Just Wow. I’m almost in a state of shock, but I shouldn’t be. These Cowboys say all the right things in interviews, and Garrett says all the right things in his press conferences, but its not translating. People, we are in serious trouble here, this team is a mess. The offensive line shuffle has been an abysmal transition, we rolled the dice with cheap free agents and now we’re paying the price. Romo won’t finish the season at this rate – no way. This 2012 version of the Cowboys look bad, and nothing, NOTHING has changed. The culture is the same, the letdowns, the chokes, turnovers, penalties are still there. If anyone thinks this team is going anywhere I want your medicinal prescription, we are bad. You’ll have the homers saying 2-2 is not bad and we can still turn this thing around, but let’s be real. History tells you we aren’t going to be better than 8-8. The way we are playing I wouldn’t be surprised if we go 6-10. Look at the immediate schedule: Oct. 7 -BYE WEEK- Oct. 14 @ Baltimore, Noon Oct. 21 @ Carolina, Noon Oct. 28 vs. New York Giants, 3:15 p.m. Nov. 4 @ Atlanta, 7:20 p.m. (SNF NBC) Nov. 11 @ Philadelphia, 3:15 p.m The
