Here's a few things that are going through my mind right now...
- I grossly overrated this team, as I have every off season for the past (countless) off seasons. I need to reign in my homerism. While most were penciling us as 8-8, 9-7, I was full bore 12-4, 13-3. Shoot me in the face.
- Jason Garrett might be the man for the job, and I think/hope he is, but he's got a lot to learn. I wasn't only riding his train, I was the motherfucking conductor. You know how Cr122 likes to mention he liked Sean Lee coming out of the draft? Yeah, well, I was the guy saying I heart Garrett any chance I could.
But his offense is screwing this team. I literally feel bad for Rob Ryan. The guy and his defense is turning in heroic performances, and the offense is letting him down time and time again.
Garrett needs to drastically improve in playcalling, clock management, and roster management. - Our offensive line is putrid. To suggest otherwise is ridiculous. Because of our lack of an offensive line capable of creating a push or reliable running lanes, our red zone playcalling, specifically inside the 5, is terrible.
You ask why Garrett calls the plays he does? It's because our line is seriously limited. An overhaul is needed, and I'd start by moving Tyron to LT and Free to RT. This week. - Some people were railing on Garrett for his playcalling when we got the ball with 3+ minutes left. Three sorry run attempts came. Reality is, Garrett was in a lose-lose situation there. Run, which we did, and we see what happens. But Romo isn't someone you can rely on to reign it in and make smart throws in that situation. On top of that, if the ball is incomplete, the Patriots don't have to burn a time out. There really wasn't aynthing that Garrett could do there, correctly. He was just handicapped by a shit team.
- I don't understand how Dez is regularly taken out of games. Not literally out of the lineup, rather, he becomes invisible. I read where a few of you speculated the reason why in the gameday thread, but lets be honest, most of you are retarded. So I don't give a shit what you have to say. Instead, I'd like to see what Broaddus or a few other learned football people have to say.
- I want Choice gone from the team. I don't even want compensation at this point. Screw a trade. Just get rid of the player. He's useless. In fact, he's worse than useless because he makes so many ridiculously bad plays. He has no situational awareness. He'll spend all week tweeting about how he's overcoming adversity and learning, then he'll get a few carries and dick shit up. I hate him more than I hate Marion Barber last year.
Which brings me back to my roster management concern from earlier. Why was TC getting carries late in the game? I'm sure it had to do with FJ being injured, and DM and TC being the only active backs. Was TC just going in to spell DM? I hope so. Nevertheless, I would've preferred that a message be sent to the team, TC not get any carries or snaps after that fumble, and be released from the team. - You look at our schedule, and we've played some tough games. We've also got a losing record as a result. You know what that means? We're not a good team. Sure, we can compete with the good teams, but we can't win against them. In fact, we'll find a way to lose more times than not. Watch us destroy St Louis next week, and then flop against Philly two weeks from now.
- This is such a disappointing loss, because, quite frankly, we had two weeks to prepare, the Patriots were coming off a tough divisional game against the Jets, Tom Brady had about as bad a game as Tom Brady will ever have, we held them to 20 points total..... and our offense with Witten, Dez, Austin, FJ, etc... couldn't win the game.
- Can we stop with the Felix Jones is sooooo talented stuff? The guy does have some talent, but his lack of any semblence of durability undermines his talent. He can't be relied on because he can't stay on the field. Outside of that incredible game against the Eagles his rookie year, have you ever ended a Cowboys game thinking to yourself "Wow, that guy can play!" I'm not going to say he's a bust, but... well.... he kinda is.
- I hate all of you. And I hate this team.
