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:wha?Deion Sanders: Jason Witten is the Cowboys' true No. 1 receiver and needs more touches
01:10 AM CDT on Thursday, September 16, 2010
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Former Cowboy Deion Sanders recently appeared on the Ben and Skin Show to discuss a number of Cowboys-related topics. Here are some highlights:
On the questionable call right before halftime: A lot of the fans here in Dallas have a tremendous propensity to just stone Wade Phillips. And that defense is great! They didn’t give up anything, I don’t understand it. And offensively, you got problems. I don’t believe that you can turn it on like a light switch. You can’t turn it on like that. I understand if you have a Troy Aikman led offense when you won Super Bowls, where you can kind of minimize you offense in the pre-season to just not to show what you’re going to do in the regular season. But this isn’t a team that can do that, so what were the expectations, that they were going to go to Washington and light it up against a top-10 defense led by Jim Hasslett. There’s no way.
On whether Jerry Jones is to blame for a long and grueling pre-season schedule for the Cowboys: They’re not gassed, they weren’t gassed enough to not walk up to that window to get a paycheck. Football is football man. This is your job, this is your occupation. This is the life that you chose so don’t say that you’re gassed, let’s just stop giving excuses and say we just didn’t execute, especially against the Washington Redskins, who were supposed to be the doormat of the NFC East.
On how much better the Cowboys are than the performance that had in Week 1: I’m not going to say it because I hadn’t seen it in preseason. At the end of last season we saw that they had picked up right where they had left off. Last season against the Vikings there were offensive line problems, you have offensive line problems now. You’ve had the whole off-season to address that. I know there are going to be injuries but you have to prepare for those injuries.
On if after a poor offseason, Jerry Jones might have too much on his plate with the Cowboys and trying to schedule other events such as Manny Pacquaio fights: I’m not going to put that on Jerry. One thing about Jerry is that he reminds me a lot of Dan Snyder. If you tell him what you need they will go out and break their neck to get what you need, you just have to tell them. They’ve always been those type of guys to try to get you the best product that you can have to have, in order for your team to win. So I can’t fault Jerry for getting the personnel that he has. The personnel that was selected, I don’t understand when you start the season with the same problems that you ended the season with.
On Tony Romo’s performance in Week 1: I think it was alright. I don’t know if the play calling put him in the situations. A lot of gadgets, quick screens, rolling him out to get him away from pressure, you got away from your running game a little bit. But the major factor to me is Jason Witten . This is your horse, your bell cow, this really is your number one receiver. I know Miles Austin is deemed to be that guy but Jason Witten is that guy. So when he catches three balls for 27 yards, it’s a problem because he is the guy that ultimately moves chains. When his production is down, the Cowboys lose.
On whether Cowboys offense is more under-coached or over-hyped: I’m not going to say under-coached because I’m sure red is doing a great job of preparing them but if you don’t have blocking up front then you can forget it, it hurts your play-calling.
01:10 AM CDT on Thursday, September 16, 2010
SportsDayDFW.com
Former Cowboy Deion Sanders recently appeared on the Ben and Skin Show to discuss a number of Cowboys-related topics. Here are some highlights:
On the questionable call right before halftime: A lot of the fans here in Dallas have a tremendous propensity to just stone Wade Phillips. And that defense is great! They didn’t give up anything, I don’t understand it. And offensively, you got problems. I don’t believe that you can turn it on like a light switch. You can’t turn it on like that. I understand if you have a Troy Aikman led offense when you won Super Bowls, where you can kind of minimize you offense in the pre-season to just not to show what you’re going to do in the regular season. But this isn’t a team that can do that, so what were the expectations, that they were going to go to Washington and light it up against a top-10 defense led by Jim Hasslett. There’s no way.
On whether Jerry Jones is to blame for a long and grueling pre-season schedule for the Cowboys: They’re not gassed, they weren’t gassed enough to not walk up to that window to get a paycheck. Football is football man. This is your job, this is your occupation. This is the life that you chose so don’t say that you’re gassed, let’s just stop giving excuses and say we just didn’t execute, especially against the Washington Redskins, who were supposed to be the doormat of the NFC East.
On how much better the Cowboys are than the performance that had in Week 1: I’m not going to say it because I hadn’t seen it in preseason. At the end of last season we saw that they had picked up right where they had left off. Last season against the Vikings there were offensive line problems, you have offensive line problems now. You’ve had the whole off-season to address that. I know there are going to be injuries but you have to prepare for those injuries.
On if after a poor offseason, Jerry Jones might have too much on his plate with the Cowboys and trying to schedule other events such as Manny Pacquaio fights: I’m not going to put that on Jerry. One thing about Jerry is that he reminds me a lot of Dan Snyder. If you tell him what you need they will go out and break their neck to get what you need, you just have to tell them. They’ve always been those type of guys to try to get you the best product that you can have to have, in order for your team to win. So I can’t fault Jerry for getting the personnel that he has. The personnel that was selected, I don’t understand when you start the season with the same problems that you ended the season with.
On Tony Romo’s performance in Week 1: I think it was alright. I don’t know if the play calling put him in the situations. A lot of gadgets, quick screens, rolling him out to get him away from pressure, you got away from your running game a little bit. But the major factor to me is Jason Witten . This is your horse, your bell cow, this really is your number one receiver. I know Miles Austin is deemed to be that guy but Jason Witten is that guy. So when he catches three balls for 27 yards, it’s a problem because he is the guy that ultimately moves chains. When his production is down, the Cowboys lose.
On whether Cowboys offense is more under-coached or over-hyped: I’m not going to say under-coached because I’m sure red is doing a great job of preparing them but if you don’t have blocking up front then you can forget it, it hurts your play-calling.
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