Okay Dez, now that you have your contract...

[Doomsday]

I just have one little thing I wish you would do.

Please, when it is 4th down use situational awareness and secure the catch and get the first down. I know aggressiveness is one of your hallmarks, but can you moderate it in certain situations? 4th down means there's not another play for that drive, if we don't get the required yards.

Like in Green Bay. Yeah, I know they ripped you off. I know you were down by contact before you reached for the goal line with the ball. Hell, the official right there not five feet away from you called it that way. I know. BUT....

Had you just curled up with that ball like it was a little teddy bear we would have had first and goal.

Discretion - the better part of valor. Would you please exercise it in these situations?

Thank you.

 

[Rock Slamdance]

Hey Dez, I know I talked constant off season shit about how we don't need you. That you're Laurent Robinson 2.0. But now that you're signed long term, I'm gonna run my mouth about that ONE time a call got overturned against you. Never mind the countless game changing plays you've made in your career....I still need a soapbox to validate my asinine assertions.

 

[Doomsday]

Hey Dez, I know I talked constant off season shit about how we don't need you. That you're Laurent Robinson 2.0.

Nobody did that.

I'm gonna run my mouth about that ONE time a call got overturned against you. Never mind the countless game changing plays you've made in your career....I still need a soapbox to validate my asinine assertions.

Countless? They do count them. Each and every catch is counted. "Game changing" is pretty relative, quite subjective. Some might say the bad call against him was one of his "game changing" plays too.

And asserting that we should make damn sure we secure the ball on 4th down is far from asinine - it's Pop Warner stuff actually.

Myself, I never said we don't need him. I said I wasn't skerred of being without him. Big difference there. But yeah, it is blasphemous.

 

[DezIrvin]

Dear Dez,

Please stop trying so hard and doing all the things that make you so special.

Sincerely Doomsday

literally what you just wrote

 

[Doomsday]

Dear Dez,

Please stop trying so hard and doing all the things that make you so special.

Sincerely Doomsday

literally what you just wrote

If you didn't read it, or in your case simply can't comprehend what you read.

 

[DezIrvin]

It's not difficult

 

[Doomsday]

It's not difficult

For most, no. For you, obviously.

 

[DezIrvin]

i'll wait for 'most' to show up and give you your props

you're nailing it

 

[Doomsday]

i'll wait for 'most' to show up and give you your props

you're nailing it

MOST understand I am talking about a specific situation, not his entire game. Pretty much every athlete knows there's a time for discretion, in every sport. All I have done was said what I am sure none of the Cowboys coaches would dare say.

But they're thinking it. Every football coach who saw that play, thought it. Troy Aikman even dared say it.

Asking a guy we're paying 14 million a year, to exercise situational awareness and discretion in critical situations like 4th down isn't asking him not to "try so hard." It's actually asking him to try harder. To use his brain.

It's a lot to ask someone who scored 18 on his Wonderlic test, I realize.

 

[DezIrvin]

who is this MOST group

do they post on some other forum

 

[Doomsday]

who is this MOST group

A large majority of people who can read, and actually understand what they read.

 

[NoShame]

Save it, Dooms.

Even the new guy recognizes your bullshit.

 

[Doomsday]

Save it, Dooms.

Even the new guy recognizes your bullshit.

It's superpunk, hardly new.

But, it's bullshit to say exactly what Troy said? It's bullshit to ask a player to use situational awareness and employ discretion in certain situations? They teach that ya know, as early as Pop Warner.

 

[Doomsday]

It's 4th down. We NEED this first down. I have caught the ball, have the first down yardage, and am falling in the grasp of a tackler but am near the goal line. Should I risk a fumble, or a stupendously bad call from the replay booth, and reach for the goal line? Or should I just curl up protecting the ball and live to fight another play?

It's really basic stuff. Protect the football.

 

[DezIrvin]

A large majority of people who can read, and actually understand what they read.

could you invite them here

do they have internet at the methadone clinic

 

[Doomsday]

could you invite them here

Oh wait - you're assuming because they don't reply they don't exist.

Your world must be a nice tight cocoon of numbing idiocy.

 

[Everlastingxxx]

Anyone who is competitive knows its not easy to just “not try as hard”. I have zero beef with Bryant on that play. He gave everything he had on that play and i wouldn’t want it any other way. It’s a dumb rule.

BTW, please Dooms, i don’t want to debate with you on Dez Bryant, just giving my 2¢.

 

[Doomsday]

Anyone who is competitive knows its not easy to just “not try as hard”. I have zero beef with Bryant on that play. He gave everything he had on that play and i wouldn’t want it any other way. It’s a dumb rule.

BTW, please Dooms, i don’t want to debate with you on Dez Bryant, just giving my 2¢.

Re: the bolded. Me either. It just was what it was, he got screwed. The original on the field call should have stood because it was the right call. Down by contact inside the 1, first and goal Dallas. I'm addressing the future. The whole point of "going for it" on 4th down is to get the first down. To secure the required yardage. I'm not asking anything that isn't fundamental football. And when you are getting 14 million annually to play, this is not at all above your pay grade.

That's really not debatable.

 

[Doomsday]

On the other hand.... When we do go for it on 4th and 2 and the play is a deep throw, the goal really is a TD not just getting the first down. This all or nothing approach - feast or famine - throws the rest of the situational awareness stuff out too. We were going for the jugular there, and missed. The assignment likely was, the end zone.

Carry on Dez.

 

[Rock Slamdance]

Doomsday is a ******..even super punk knows it.