The Dallas Cowboys Thread

[wags6817]

Just saw on the bottom line that Bledsoe is still the starter. They better play alot better in the next few weeks or it will be over.

[Troy McClure]

Originally Posted by wags6817

Just saw on the bottom line that Bledsoe is still the starter. They better play alot better in the next few weeks or it will be over.

Bledsoe starting was never in question. Don't let ESPN stir up fake QB stories. Peter King already did in the preseason, and he was dead wrong.

[wags6817]

I say this, the Cowboys will win this week and look good doing it. But then we go to New York (giants) and if they get any pressure what so ever we will loose and the season will be over. Start Romo now.

[Troy McClure]

Originally Posted by wags6817

I say this, the Cowboys will win this week and look good doing it. But then we go to New York (giants) and if they get any pressure what so ever we will loose and the season will be over. Start Romo now.

If they start Romo, the season is over.

[klingsor]

Originally Posted by wags6817

I say this, the Cowboys will win this week and look good doing it. But then we go to New York (giants) and if they get any pressure what so ever we will loose and the season will be over. Start Romo now.

The Cowboy season will not be over if you lose to the Giants on the road.

[wags6817]

No they will be 3-3 on there way to another 8-8 season.

[Transplanted Caper]

The Monday night game is going to be massive for this team. We need too see what the defence can do against a very good opponent and what Bledsoe and the offence can do against a very good defence. If we lose this we're 3-3 and 1-2 in divisional play.

[triumph]

Yeah I can not do anything but laugh at anyone who thinks Romo should replace Bledsoe. If that happens Bledsoe is either injured or the season is absolutely over.

No way it is going to happen.

Monday Night will be a good game. Looking forward to a hot time in the old time that night.

[gridmonster]

Can we do this? Week 7 vs. NYG

[gridmonster]

This should be a good game to watch . . .

[Transplanted Caper]

More and more it's looking like this team is simply not ready to contend. Hopefully after tonight people realize that Bledsoe isn't the team's biggest problem. The O-Line is average and when it goes against a defence as good as the Giants, the QB is going to spend a lot of time on his back. For all the flack Bledsoe has taken about his immobility, 3 of the 4 sacks he had no chance on. The Line collapsed and the Giants D was on him before he could look up.

Another problem this weak O-Line causes against good defences is that it neutralizes the running game. Jones was invisible tonight and the team was forced to rely on the pass, which made the offence as a whole dead in the water because neither QB was able to do much.

Owens was okay tonight, he made some classic T.O. catches and used his strength to his advantage, but once again dropped the ball (literally). The defence showed it can take down the weaker opponents fine, but much like the Eagles game they're in trouble against strong offences. Barber ran for over a hundred yards and the corners got picked apart by the Giants wideouts.

At 3-3 this team isn't DOA yet, but tonight showed that it's clearly NOT an elite team. Simply put at every position the Giants had the edge. And given that a pretty decent argument can be made that when fully healthy there are a few teams better or at least equal to the Giants in the NFC, then the Cowboys seem to be in that second tier of teams in the Conference. Good enough to go .500 and maybe sneak into the playoffs, but not good enough to make an impact against good teams.

We're off to Carolina next week to face a Panthers team looking to bounce back from a loss against the Bengals this week (as an aside I really missed making fun of the Bungles for sucking, good thing there's a bunch of legal jokes at my disposal now). Given what Burress and Company did to Newman and Henry, I hope the Boys work out a plan to at least contain Steve Smith. And the O-Line better be at least somewhat ready for Julius Peppers, or it'll be another long week and the Boys will be dropping below .500

[Big Blue]

At times like this I miss Owens81, lol.

[Troy McClure]

Originally Posted by klingsor

The Cowboy season will not be over if you lose to the Giants on the road.

I don't think this one loss sinks the season. I think the team not being very good sinks the season.

- The defense is average, so we can all ignore the hype. They can't make plays.

- The offensive line blows, and I'd like to thank Parcells and Jones for doing nothing at all to improve it three years straight. They dumped Dan Campbell because he criticized TO, and Fasano has been a big downgrade as a blocking TE. Everyone inside the tight-ends is crap.

- QB is a mess. Bledsoe sucks. Romo looks like total panic. Going with Romo guarantees this season is done. By the time he gets this worked out, it'll be 2007.

- Parcells is probably done after this year, and he'll be remembered for having all the success of Dave Campo or Chan Gailey. He hasn't won anything. The team is a little better, but it still has all the same questions it did at the critical spots when he got here: crappy o-line, crappy QB, and spare pass rush.

[David Puddy]

Originally Posted by Troy McClure

I don't think this one loss sinks the season. I think the team not being very good sinks the season.

- The defense is average, so we can all ignore the hype. They can't make plays.

- The offensive line blows, and I'd like to thank Parcells and Jones for doing nothing at all to improve it three years straight. They dumped Dan Campbell because he criticized TO, and Fasano has been a big downgrade as a blocking TE. Everyone inside the tight-ends is crap.

- QB is a mess. Bledsoe sucks. Romo looks like total panic. Going with Romo guarantees this season is done. By the time he gets this worked out, it'll be 2007.

- Parcells is probably done after this year, and he'll be remembered for having all the success of Dave Campo or Chan Gailey. He hasn't won anything. The team is a little better, but it still has all the same questions it did at the critical spots when he got here: crappy o-line, crappy QB, and spare pass rush.

I think Romo is a better option than Bledsoe. In last night's game, Romo had a QB Rating of 73.67, which isn't very good, but it is better than Bledsoe's 54.51 QB Rating.

Don't put Parcells on the level of Campo and Gailey. They were a disgrace to the Dallas Cowboys. I really wonder if those two even tried to win games.

The Cowboys need a franchise quartback. Maybe Romo can become that. Teams rarely win it all in football without a great QB just like teams almost never win in hockey without a great goaltender or baseball without great pitching. The Cowboys need a great quarterback. I don't know if Romo can become that type of quarterback, but I certainly Bledsoe isn't going to be that type of quarterback these days.

If Bledoe remains the starting QB, the season is a loss. Romo might be able to get the team into the playoffs with ten games left to play. At the very least, it gives him an audition to see how he functions in the NFL. He does have a 89.4 QB Rating in his one half-plus of work this year. He was also the QB for 15 of the Cowboys 22 points last night.

[Troy McClure]

Most of Romo's numbers were padded in the garbage time of the 4th quarter when the game was already lost. I don't think it matters much to point to his QB rating when the Giants are just sitting on a fat lead waiting for the game to end.

Don't put Parcells on the level of Campo and Gailey.

If he accomplishes something, I'll give him more credit. Up til now, he's a guy whose greatest accomplishment in Dallas has been losing one playoff game. He still doesn't have a good QB or an offensive line worth a crap.

Overall, the talent level is much better than when he found it, but I don't think I'm going to praise a guy too much for taking a 5-11 team and turning it into a 9-7 team that still misses the playoffs.