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Truly one of the most pathetic OL performances in franchise history yesterday. It was butt fucking ugly. As I said yesterday, those who clamored all offseason about Jones and Garrett's refusal to seriously upgrade the OL talent, and instead try to plug in stop-gap guys who werent going to be re-signed by their own teams anyway were right. I was wrong. I had really believed that Callahan could get these guys to at least form an average to above average unit, but instead the OL has gotten worse every week so far.
1) Cowboy RB's attempted 19 rushing plays yesterday. On an unheard of 8 of them they were stopped for a loss of yards. Not 1 yd, not no gain. A LOSS. The OL yielded 4 sacks and were responsible for both fumbles by Romo because of awful protection. Then you factor in all the OL penalties. Doug Free had 3 more false starts, Tyron Smith had another false start. They had at least a couple of holding calls. This wasnt the 85 Bears defense were playing, its the fucking Tampa Bay Buccaneers. A team that gave up over 600 yds total offense, over 40 pts, over 30 first downs and over 500 yds passing LAST WEEK. Then Garrett and Jones have the gall to come out and say after the game they are ok with the OL? WTF??? Fuck you Garrett. Fuck you Jones. You are both dumb as bricks.
2) Hopefully Romo's wife didnt watch the game, if she did she might be imploring him to retire. I am still amazed that not only he was able to get up and walk off the field after that helmet to helmet hit, but actually came back in and played more. He took a beating yesterday.
3) Solid performance by the defense, otherwise we'd have gotten blown off the field again. Hopefully Carter and Claiborne's injuries arnt serious. Both got injured on the final drive of the game. Big game by Ware, 2 more sacks+ forced fumbles. And he was getting blatantly held on the 2nd one (of course there's no call). Never has the league seen such a dominant pass rusher who amazingly according to refs, is never held. Really liked the games by Carter, Lee, Lissemore, Brent and the CB's too. Jenkins showed why someone is going to pay him big coin in the offseason. he locked down on every Tampa WR he was on.
4) Joe DeCamillis is the worst special teams coach in the league right now. Guy is utterly clueless. WTF was that motion thing on the punt return play where they fumbled? (Should have easily been a blocked punt). Then an ill advised onsides kick, which he blamed after the game on faulty execution. Hey fuckwad, Bailey is one of the best kickers in the league. Having him onsides kick right into the middle of the field and become one of the primary recovery guys and potentially get piled on or etc etc is STUPID. FUCK YOU DeCamilis
5) This Jason Witten stuff is painful to watch. Love the guy and he is one of the all time greats, but he is hurting the team by being on the field. Having him trot out there opening night I'm sure was uplifting for the team, but his play on the field has gotten worse every week. He is obviously not right. He cant catch a cold and his blocking is awful, plus he's had a multitude of false starts himself. Its time to sit him down and not let him back out there until they know for certain he is 100%. James Hanna should be getting some snaps on passing downs, and yet the last two games I dont think I've seen him on the field for one offensive play.
6) Tough loss with Barry Church's injury. He had really improved as a player and was playing good football. I'm sure we'll see Mario Butler or someone else off the street signed by tomorrow to replace him. Butler makes sense, he knows the defense and was playing some safety anyway. I dont think we can count on getting anything out of Matt Johnson this year, even once he is healthy. He's just missed too much.
7) I think getting Jay Ratliff back could be huge for the defense. The one thing we're lacking is that push up the middle on passing downs, and the one game he did play in preseason he looked as explosive off the ball as he has in a couple of seasons. Would be great to have him for MNF vs Chicago. And its a pipe dream, but Kevin Kowalski is due back not long after the bye too. Maybe he can come in and solidify the middle of the OL by taking Cook's position. Everyone got excited when Cook came in vs NYG and the offense did ok, but he was pretty mediocre last week and he was terrible yesterday. He got blown up ro just flat beaten on alot of plays. Not that he was alone, the rest of the OL was horrendous too.
8) It makes too much sense so I am sure our staff wont do it, but they should bench Doug Free for Parnell ASAP. Free has totally lost it as a player and is probably the worst player on the team at this point.
9) Refs were absolutely horrible yesterday. They mis-spotted the ball badly on several plays. They totally blew the call on Claiborne's PI (was obviously offensive PI, their WR had BOTH hands on Caliborne's back and pushed off, putting Claiborne on the ground) and on Romo's 2nd fumble there should have been a hands to the face call on the Bucs DE opp Tyron Smith. He had the face mask the entire play before the fumble. Then there's the b/s no call on Romo's play where there was helmet to helmet contact, in plain sight for all to see. Nobody could have simply "missed" it. Ware was held probably 4 or 5 times that could have been easily called, yet none were. One was on his 2nd sack/fumble play. Also, for the 2nd or 3rd time this year they allowed the other team to have like 13 guys in the huddle offensively. That happened on the play where Ryan was seen cussing at the ref.
Just a pathetic performance. If they play this way next Monday vs Chicago we'll get beat by 5 tds. very disappointing to see this kind of garbage, just no progress at all offensively (its worse) and defensively, while two of the performances have been pretty good we still have a lack of consistent pas rush and still cant force turnovers. We havent had an int by a DB in forever. The special teams, minus Bailey and Bryant's occasional big return are just atrocious. The team is plagued by stupid penalties (usually by the same 2 or 3 players). Its just pathetic.
1) Cowboy RB's attempted 19 rushing plays yesterday. On an unheard of 8 of them they were stopped for a loss of yards. Not 1 yd, not no gain. A LOSS. The OL yielded 4 sacks and were responsible for both fumbles by Romo because of awful protection. Then you factor in all the OL penalties. Doug Free had 3 more false starts, Tyron Smith had another false start. They had at least a couple of holding calls. This wasnt the 85 Bears defense were playing, its the fucking Tampa Bay Buccaneers. A team that gave up over 600 yds total offense, over 40 pts, over 30 first downs and over 500 yds passing LAST WEEK. Then Garrett and Jones have the gall to come out and say after the game they are ok with the OL? WTF??? Fuck you Garrett. Fuck you Jones. You are both dumb as bricks.
2) Hopefully Romo's wife didnt watch the game, if she did she might be imploring him to retire. I am still amazed that not only he was able to get up and walk off the field after that helmet to helmet hit, but actually came back in and played more. He took a beating yesterday.
3) Solid performance by the defense, otherwise we'd have gotten blown off the field again. Hopefully Carter and Claiborne's injuries arnt serious. Both got injured on the final drive of the game. Big game by Ware, 2 more sacks+ forced fumbles. And he was getting blatantly held on the 2nd one (of course there's no call). Never has the league seen such a dominant pass rusher who amazingly according to refs, is never held. Really liked the games by Carter, Lee, Lissemore, Brent and the CB's too. Jenkins showed why someone is going to pay him big coin in the offseason. he locked down on every Tampa WR he was on.
4) Joe DeCamillis is the worst special teams coach in the league right now. Guy is utterly clueless. WTF was that motion thing on the punt return play where they fumbled? (Should have easily been a blocked punt). Then an ill advised onsides kick, which he blamed after the game on faulty execution. Hey fuckwad, Bailey is one of the best kickers in the league. Having him onsides kick right into the middle of the field and become one of the primary recovery guys and potentially get piled on or etc etc is STUPID. FUCK YOU DeCamilis
5) This Jason Witten stuff is painful to watch. Love the guy and he is one of the all time greats, but he is hurting the team by being on the field. Having him trot out there opening night I'm sure was uplifting for the team, but his play on the field has gotten worse every week. He is obviously not right. He cant catch a cold and his blocking is awful, plus he's had a multitude of false starts himself. Its time to sit him down and not let him back out there until they know for certain he is 100%. James Hanna should be getting some snaps on passing downs, and yet the last two games I dont think I've seen him on the field for one offensive play.
6) Tough loss with Barry Church's injury. He had really improved as a player and was playing good football. I'm sure we'll see Mario Butler or someone else off the street signed by tomorrow to replace him. Butler makes sense, he knows the defense and was playing some safety anyway. I dont think we can count on getting anything out of Matt Johnson this year, even once he is healthy. He's just missed too much.
7) I think getting Jay Ratliff back could be huge for the defense. The one thing we're lacking is that push up the middle on passing downs, and the one game he did play in preseason he looked as explosive off the ball as he has in a couple of seasons. Would be great to have him for MNF vs Chicago. And its a pipe dream, but Kevin Kowalski is due back not long after the bye too. Maybe he can come in and solidify the middle of the OL by taking Cook's position. Everyone got excited when Cook came in vs NYG and the offense did ok, but he was pretty mediocre last week and he was terrible yesterday. He got blown up ro just flat beaten on alot of plays. Not that he was alone, the rest of the OL was horrendous too.
8) It makes too much sense so I am sure our staff wont do it, but they should bench Doug Free for Parnell ASAP. Free has totally lost it as a player and is probably the worst player on the team at this point.
9) Refs were absolutely horrible yesterday. They mis-spotted the ball badly on several plays. They totally blew the call on Claiborne's PI (was obviously offensive PI, their WR had BOTH hands on Caliborne's back and pushed off, putting Claiborne on the ground) and on Romo's 2nd fumble there should have been a hands to the face call on the Bucs DE opp Tyron Smith. He had the face mask the entire play before the fumble. Then there's the b/s no call on Romo's play where there was helmet to helmet contact, in plain sight for all to see. Nobody could have simply "missed" it. Ware was held probably 4 or 5 times that could have been easily called, yet none were. One was on his 2nd sack/fumble play. Also, for the 2nd or 3rd time this year they allowed the other team to have like 13 guys in the huddle offensively. That happened on the play where Ryan was seen cussing at the ref.
Just a pathetic performance. If they play this way next Monday vs Chicago we'll get beat by 5 tds. very disappointing to see this kind of garbage, just no progress at all offensively (its worse) and defensively, while two of the performances have been pretty good we still have a lack of consistent pas rush and still cant force turnovers. We havent had an int by a DB in forever. The special teams, minus Bailey and Bryant's occasional big return are just atrocious. The team is plagued by stupid penalties (usually by the same 2 or 3 players). Its just pathetic.
