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Fuck these coaches and fuck this team. 
aper
I didnt post after the game because I was so mad, and today I'm still as mad as I was last night. This is the most frustrating team to watch year after year, and yesterdays was an all timer type bad. We blew a golden opportunity by losing this game, as we were set up perfectly for a really special night next week vs NYG on Sunday night to clinch the East.aper
1) I dont know how anyone who graduates from a school like Princeton, grows up in a football family and then actually plays in the league himself for a decade or so before then becoming a coach for a number of years can be so painfully fucking stupid when it comes to clock management and when (and when not) to use freaking timeouts. Why not call the FREAKING TIMEOUT AS SOON AS BRYANTS CATCH IS OVER????? WHY WHY WHY? Fuck you Garrett and fuck you Romo. Dumbest fucking idea ever. Hey we've got 25 seconds or whatever it was left, and we're on the fringe of FG range. We've already seen our FG miss badly on one long one and get lucky on another. WE HAD TWO FUCKING TIMEOUTS LEFT. Why waste forever in trying to spike the ball? Why play for a 48/49 yd FG when you have PLENTY OF TIME LEFT??? Even if your worried about a sack you could call at least 1 or 2 safe plays. Call a screen or quick sideline throw to a WR or TE. Hell you could even run the ball, you still had another timeout!!!!!!!!!! I've watched this team since 1975, and this was probably the single most boneheaded thing I have ever seen a coach do here.aper
2) Hey Garrett you stupid ass, dont NOT call timeout after the catch, then turn around and ice your own damn kicker right before he kicks it. I must admit I fully expected Whisenhunt to do this, but your excuse for why you called it yourself doesnt hold water when the holder and kicker both say they had plenty of time left on the play clock. Again if you are worried about getting set up, YOU HAD TWO FUCKING TIMEOUTS, call one after the freaking catch by Bryant instead of watching your stupid shit QB waste almost 20 seconds trying to spike the ball. This said, it should also be noted that it appears his special teams coach is the one who pushed for the timeout to be called (see below. I still ahve a much bigger problem with #1 above than this.aper
3) Offense was terrible the entire game. I didnt expect us to hang 40 on them, but 13 freaking points is all you can get? With no turnovers? I rarely complain about playcalling, but when the other team is throwing every blitz they can think of at you, wouldnt calling some screens or quicker passes be smart? I get that their secondary stinks and you want to be aggressive in attacking them downfield, but when they constantly rush 6-7-8 guys and you cant block it (nor can the QB read it) then change up what you are doing some. Murray wasnt targeted for a single pass, and Jones only 2 (and 1 of those was the wheel route where he never looked back for the ball)
4) I thought Romo had another so-so game. Several of the sacks they got were ultimately his fault and he threw some passes downfield that were poor decisions, bypassing several open guys underneath. One of the worst plays came on a 3rd and 5 in the 4th qtr and they rushed 3 guys. Romo had all day to throw and ultimately several huge lanes to take off and easily run for the first down, instead he kept trying to extend the play to throw downfield and took a sack. There was also another play earlier in the game where taking off and running, even if only for a couple yards would have been far better than taking a 7 or 8 yard sack, but he didnt do it. The other thing that bothered me was several times you could easily see them putting 8 or 9 guys up to stuff the run, and rather than audible to whatever the other play call was, he stayed with the run and it was stuffed. He's done this quite a bit this year.
5) Whoever is in charge of getting the right spikes on these guys should be canned and replaced with someone else. We had guys slipping all over the field the entire game. I saw their guys slip a few times too, but nowhere near as many times as our guys did.
6) Was not a good game for the OL, I suspect it will be by far the worst graded game of the season. The run blocking after the first drive or two was lousy and the pass protection was off all day. Ray Horton's blitzes had them off balanced and confused all day (as did Mike Nolan's in the Miami game last week). The team as a whole needs major work on blitz protections, all the way from the QB reading it, to the pass routes against it to the blocking assignments. This would be a definite benefit of hiring an offensive coordinator like Norv Turner after the season.
7) Defensively the first half was great, maybe the best we've seen this year. They stuffed the run game easily and got consistent pressure on the QB, along with 4 first half sacks. The second half was garbage. They gave up almost 280 yards of offense, tackled and covered poorly and had several stupid penalties. The pass rush other than a couple plays was non existant. The run defense was lousy in the 2nd half. Dave Campo and Brett Maxie would have no chance of coming back and coaching on this team next year if it were up to me, and honestly I dont care if Rob Ryan leaves.
8) There's no way in hell Orlando Scandrick would be on any return unit (punt or kickoff) the rest of the year. Its fine if they want to leave him on kick blocks and kick coverage, but he had two really stupid penalties and the 2nd one probably lost the football game for us, negating a tremendous return by Dez Bryant. As an aside, Joe DeCamillis' job status should be shaky at best too, as the coverage units have been bad all year and we continue to get stupid penalties. Further, it looks like he is the one who told Garrett to call the timeout on Bailey's FG. Now if I had been Garrett I would have ignored him, but it did appear on the replay that DeCamillis was telling Garrett we needed the timeout.
9) I've been too pissed to check out the injury situation, maybe someone can update us on Ware, Bennett (who left early and never came back I think) and anyone else who got hurt.
I just dont get this team and maybe never will. We should have won this game and yet invented another incredibly stupid way to lose, something we have done for years now regardless of who the coach is. I am not a big proponent of firing a coach after only one season, but the team doesnt appear to be getting better in any area and #1 above is really infuriating to me. At the very least I think there needs to be some significant staff changes and I would strongly consider people like Sparano and/or Turner, Mike Nolan and Todd Bowles or maybe Todd Grantham, among others.
aperI didnt post after the game because I was so mad, and today I'm still as mad as I was last night. This is the most frustrating team to watch year after year, and yesterdays was an all timer type bad. We blew a golden opportunity by losing this game, as we were set up perfectly for a really special night next week vs NYG on Sunday night to clinch the East.
aper1) I dont know how anyone who graduates from a school like Princeton, grows up in a football family and then actually plays in the league himself for a decade or so before then becoming a coach for a number of years can be so painfully fucking stupid when it comes to clock management and when (and when not) to use freaking timeouts. Why not call the FREAKING TIMEOUT AS SOON AS BRYANTS CATCH IS OVER????? WHY WHY WHY? Fuck you Garrett and fuck you Romo. Dumbest fucking idea ever. Hey we've got 25 seconds or whatever it was left, and we're on the fringe of FG range. We've already seen our FG miss badly on one long one and get lucky on another. WE HAD TWO FUCKING TIMEOUTS LEFT. Why waste forever in trying to spike the ball? Why play for a 48/49 yd FG when you have PLENTY OF TIME LEFT??? Even if your worried about a sack you could call at least 1 or 2 safe plays. Call a screen or quick sideline throw to a WR or TE. Hell you could even run the ball, you still had another timeout!!!!!!!!!! I've watched this team since 1975, and this was probably the single most boneheaded thing I have ever seen a coach do here.
aper2) Hey Garrett you stupid ass, dont NOT call timeout after the catch, then turn around and ice your own damn kicker right before he kicks it. I must admit I fully expected Whisenhunt to do this, but your excuse for why you called it yourself doesnt hold water when the holder and kicker both say they had plenty of time left on the play clock. Again if you are worried about getting set up, YOU HAD TWO FUCKING TIMEOUTS, call one after the freaking catch by Bryant instead of watching your stupid shit QB waste almost 20 seconds trying to spike the ball. This said, it should also be noted that it appears his special teams coach is the one who pushed for the timeout to be called (see below. I still ahve a much bigger problem with #1 above than this.
aper3) Offense was terrible the entire game. I didnt expect us to hang 40 on them, but 13 freaking points is all you can get? With no turnovers? I rarely complain about playcalling, but when the other team is throwing every blitz they can think of at you, wouldnt calling some screens or quicker passes be smart? I get that their secondary stinks and you want to be aggressive in attacking them downfield, but when they constantly rush 6-7-8 guys and you cant block it (nor can the QB read it) then change up what you are doing some. Murray wasnt targeted for a single pass, and Jones only 2 (and 1 of those was the wheel route where he never looked back for the ball)
4) I thought Romo had another so-so game. Several of the sacks they got were ultimately his fault and he threw some passes downfield that were poor decisions, bypassing several open guys underneath. One of the worst plays came on a 3rd and 5 in the 4th qtr and they rushed 3 guys. Romo had all day to throw and ultimately several huge lanes to take off and easily run for the first down, instead he kept trying to extend the play to throw downfield and took a sack. There was also another play earlier in the game where taking off and running, even if only for a couple yards would have been far better than taking a 7 or 8 yard sack, but he didnt do it. The other thing that bothered me was several times you could easily see them putting 8 or 9 guys up to stuff the run, and rather than audible to whatever the other play call was, he stayed with the run and it was stuffed. He's done this quite a bit this year.
5) Whoever is in charge of getting the right spikes on these guys should be canned and replaced with someone else. We had guys slipping all over the field the entire game. I saw their guys slip a few times too, but nowhere near as many times as our guys did.
6) Was not a good game for the OL, I suspect it will be by far the worst graded game of the season. The run blocking after the first drive or two was lousy and the pass protection was off all day. Ray Horton's blitzes had them off balanced and confused all day (as did Mike Nolan's in the Miami game last week). The team as a whole needs major work on blitz protections, all the way from the QB reading it, to the pass routes against it to the blocking assignments. This would be a definite benefit of hiring an offensive coordinator like Norv Turner after the season.
7) Defensively the first half was great, maybe the best we've seen this year. They stuffed the run game easily and got consistent pressure on the QB, along with 4 first half sacks. The second half was garbage. They gave up almost 280 yards of offense, tackled and covered poorly and had several stupid penalties. The pass rush other than a couple plays was non existant. The run defense was lousy in the 2nd half. Dave Campo and Brett Maxie would have no chance of coming back and coaching on this team next year if it were up to me, and honestly I dont care if Rob Ryan leaves.
8) There's no way in hell Orlando Scandrick would be on any return unit (punt or kickoff) the rest of the year. Its fine if they want to leave him on kick blocks and kick coverage, but he had two really stupid penalties and the 2nd one probably lost the football game for us, negating a tremendous return by Dez Bryant. As an aside, Joe DeCamillis' job status should be shaky at best too, as the coverage units have been bad all year and we continue to get stupid penalties. Further, it looks like he is the one who told Garrett to call the timeout on Bailey's FG. Now if I had been Garrett I would have ignored him, but it did appear on the replay that DeCamillis was telling Garrett we needed the timeout.
9) I've been too pissed to check out the injury situation, maybe someone can update us on Ware, Bennett (who left early and never came back I think) and anyone else who got hurt.
I just dont get this team and maybe never will. We should have won this game and yet invented another incredibly stupid way to lose, something we have done for years now regardless of who the coach is. I am not a big proponent of firing a coach after only one season, but the team doesnt appear to be getting better in any area and #1 above is really infuriating to me. At the very least I think there needs to be some significant staff changes and I would strongly consider people like Sparano and/or Turner, Mike Nolan and Todd Bowles or maybe Todd Grantham, among others.
