Hello,
I'll start off with the good thing about the Cowboys performance today. Their defense was very tough.
On October 28th the Cowboys completely collapsed at home against the Giants. Behind 3 early Romo interceptions, the Giants quickly roared to a 23-0 lead. (Where have I heard that before?) The Giants held on for a 29-24 victory. New York is now 4-0 in the new Cowboys Stadium. This game featured many reasons why the Cowboys are so mediocre. Starting with Jerry's decisions and the people he chooses to run the team. Again his reliance to stick with a player or coach that he thinks he discovered. He keeps on hoping that eventually they'll come through and then that everyone will think he's a football genius. But sadly he isn't even close to that or will he ever be. Honestly I've begin to cheer for the Cowboys to lose, this team needs to be blown up this off season.
He's still sticking with Tony Romo, although he only has one playoff victory in 4 trips. He's 1-4 as a starting quarterback in the playoffs. Romo showed yet again why he's so average. Three of the first four Cowboy possessions ended with a Romo interception. That third interception was a pick 6- taken back to the house by Jason Pierre-Paul. Romo also missed on 26 passes. Some of the blame deservedly will go to the equally terrible Cowboy receivers. However Romo missed many wide open receivers. Later Romo threw his fourth interception of the game. Then his final throw of the game was a Hail Mary. By definition that's a desperation play. There's only so much a quarterback can do. However he overthrew the end zone so badly that Dallas had no chance for a winning touchdown. Romo finished with a horrific 58.3 quarterback rating.
Through 7 games Romo has thrown 9 touchdowns and 13 interceptions. Some of the interceptions are the receiver's fault, but Romo still has way too many interceptions.
Another person Jones is sticking with that he shouldn't stick with is the terrible Jason Garrett. Part of the blame for Romo's bad day has to be placed on Garrett. That's because Garrett called 62 pass plays, 62! Of course with the Cowboys having terrible running backs, they don't give him many options there. Still the Cowboys should have a few more running plays. Garrett's offense is very predictable and thus not very successful.
Finally Jones must get rid of his terrible GM, himself. Who is the idiot that wants to sign Romo to an extension? Who is the one that keeps on sticking with Garrett? Who's the one who traded up to get Dez Bryant? The same player who had issues even before joining the Cowboys and who now has a baby sitter because of his incredible lack of maturity? Who's the person who signed Miles Austin to a big contract after having one good season? The tissue soft Austin will continue to be an average NFL wide receiver. The answer of course is Jerry Jones. Ultimately all the blame must lay at his door. He's the one making the decisions and sticking with terrible personnel way too long.
Who'll never fire himself as GM? Even though if Jones was GM with any other team, he would have been fired a long time ago. This team has been a bad team for a long time and will continue to be so until Jones gets a real GM. But Jones doesn't care if the Cowboys win, he's making so much money. They even recently added a Victoria's Secret store to the new Cowboy's Stadium. Obviously his main goal is to make money, he's very successful at that. If he really wanted to win, he'd try something else. The Cowboys results on the field says all you need to know about Jerry's priorities.
Somewhere I'm sure Jones, Romo and Garrett are making excuses why they lost to the Giants today. They are doing that instead of trying effective replacements for them, Dez Bryant and many others. Dallas next play on Sunday Night Football as they'll play the 7-0 Falcons in Atlanta.
Good luck to the Giants on their flight home. I hope they can land in New York safely.
I know I promised that I wouldn't be writing this blog yet again. But I just can't take how bad Dallas is and the culture that allows that. I'm 45 years old and won't live forever, I'd love to see one or two more Super Bowl victories in my lifetime. However I'm fearful that the Cowboys won't be relevant again for several years. Missing the playoffs 4 of 5 years is the very definition of irrelevant. This team literally defines the word mediocrity. Over the last 15 years the Cowboys are right at .500 winning percentage. They finished 8-8 last season and are now 3-3 this season. Although after they lose their next 3 games they'll be 3-6.
No one can question my love of the Cowboys, I've stuck with this team over the last several years. I've been with them through thick and thin, mostly thin. When my oldest boy was born the Cowboys were in the midst of winning 3 Super Bowls in 4 years. When he was born, reading USA Today I also realized that was Emmitt Smith's birthday. Just like that a white couple in Salt Lake City named their child after Smith. Emmitt is a middle name for my boy.
As always I'd love to be proved wrong, but I just don't think it will happen. The Giants have won all 3 times they've played at Jerry's World and I predict they'll do it again this weekend. The Giants have a better coach than Dallas, who doesn't? They also have a much better quarterback than the Cowboys. Although I can't wrap my head around the fact that the weasly Eli Manning has won two Super Bowls. You've got to give him credit though for those two titles.
Jerry Jones is the dictator of the Cowboys. Like any other dictator he'll only give up power when he dies or when someone takes the power away from him. Now I'm certainly not suggesting anybody do anything drastic, but can someone declare him senile? As basis of proof for his senility they can cite Jones' many terrible decisions the last several years. Not only did he hire Wade Phillips as head coach, but he also hired Jason Garrett for the same position. He also paid Garrett $3 million dollars a year to be an offensive coordinator. Which is really insane as his offenses have never been particularly explosive. As someone commented earlier on espn.com, Jones hired someone who used to be part of the problem when Phillips was coach. But the final thing to prove Jones senility is that he wants to sign Romo to a contract extension.
His love of Tony Romo. Romo recently tied with Mark Sanchez as the second most overrated player in the NFL in a Sports Illustrated poll of 180 players. (Tim Tebow "won" the vote as he received 34% of the vote. Does this mean he'll be going away soon? Although knowing that Jones is such a hype fan, it wouldn't surprise me if Tebow ends up with the Cowboys sometime in his career.) It's too bad Romo didn't win that vote as then he could have claimed that he won something in his career. While Manning has won two Super Bowl titles, Romo has only claimed one playoff win. In the following game the Cowboys came out flat and were absolutely destroyed.
The sad thing is that Jerry Jones acts like he believes all his hype. He keeps on saying the Cowboys have the potential to be a Super Bowl team. They do? In what alternate universe is this possible? I don't think that's possible even if everybody was healthy.
He's been running this line of bull crap for several years now. However I have to admit when Tony Romo had his decent game against the Giants in the first game of the season I was fooled yet again. But no one is more fooled than Jerry Jones.
I read an article about since Jerry Jones is both the Cowboys owner and GM he can take chances other GMs wouldn't take. But that's the problem Jerry, you take too many dumb chances. Dez Bryant was a bad draft pick. It's too bad the Cowboys GM has such job security.
Just a side note: I love that many people are thinking that ex-Cowboys Martellus Bennett is now a solid tight end. He's caught 25 balls for 305 yards and 3 touchdowns. I agree those are respectable numbers. However people that followed the Cowboys closely the last few years know what a head case Bennett is. Not only is he a head case but he's also lazy. I guarantee he'll screw up sometime this season and it will probably hurt the Giants quite badly. Giant executives I suggest that you don't trust him, and for hell's sake don't rely on him. He'll also miss games due to injuries. That's been his m.o. the last several years. A leopard doesn't change his spots and all of that. What no one will officially say in Dallas is that Bennett was a bust. The Cowboys claimed they tried to resign him, but I don't believe him. They were glad they could get rid of him and save face.
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