Saturday, November 24, 2007
The Vault
1. Well this was a tale of two different games. One game the defense could not stop the passing game and was letting receivers get open left and right. The other, the passing game is getting crushed. So what defense will show up? We need consistency on this side of the ball. The offense is just fine. In fact, it is a great offense. But I cannot say that about the defense. You win championships with defense. Remember the '85 Bears and the '00 Ravens? They virtually had no offense. The defenses were just that good. I am not saying an elite offense can't win the Super Bowl. But even teams that had elite offenses also had great defenses. The problem is that the offense gets the glory. The 49ers of the 80s and the Cowboys of the nineties all had great defenses. So that was able to offset that. This Cowboys defense is good but I cannot say with a straight face that it is an elite group. The offfense I can but if we make it to the Super Bowl, I just have a feeling what team it will be and you know we will have trouble all day if this group the way it does.
2. On the other hand you can make the argument the Jets offense is just that much worse than the Redskins offense and the Redskins had more weapons. But the playoffs are not typically filled with bad offenses. But why was Chris Cooley getting so wide open. Every time they throw I knew he was going to get going. I do not know if it was personnel, meaning we did not have the talent to match the receivers or poor defensive play calling. I think our run defense gets too much credit for stopping the run because most of the teams we face are trailing so they tend to abandon the run and start passing. Now having said that I do think the passing defense is mediocre. I mean the numbers do not take into account the clutch catches or completions for first down. I mean Chris Cooley was getting wide open and does not always translate to big yards. I mean the key to any good defense is stopping the third down play.
3. TO is just amazing me. I would name him offensive player of the year and Romo MVP. Of course I feel that Randy Moss and Tom Brady will get those accolades but hey I am biased.
4. Terence Newman has played like a Pro Bowler the last couple of seasons and has not gone because he lacks the big plays. Hopefully that interception TD return against the Jets plus the game winning interception against the Redskins will let him go. Plus he is still battling that plantar fasscitis.
5. I guess someone reminded Julius Jones that he was in a contract year because lately he is tearing it up. I still feel he will be gone at the end of the year and the Cowboys will draft a running back in the upcoming draft.
6. Roy Williams start streak was snapped. Who cares? That is so overrated. I mean you get in on the opening play and that is considered a start? I think the majority of snaps taken should be the deciding factor on how much a guy plays.
7. I feel that was Joe Gibbs last visit to Texas Stadium. As much as I dislike the Redskins, you can not help but like Gibbs. I will miss him. I wish Jason Campbell was leaving though. He is going to be a threat to the Boys for the next few years.
8. The special teams has got to get going. I do not feel like the special teams is a necessary evil, where I would just put random people in there. I would use the draft to draft players specifically for special teams and to look at a players ability to play special teams alongside his own position. The kicking/punting is fine, it is the coverage that is soft.
9. Now comes the game of the year part 2. Part 1 was the Patriots. I guess the Giants could have been a part 2 but I am not going to give it that. The Packers have now discovered a running game with the emergence of Ryan Grant. Donald Driver is the big play threat with Donald Lee the huge tight end. Charles Woodson and Al Harris are the corner threats and the two huge pass rush in Aaron Kampan and Kabeer Gbaja-Biamila. Almost sounds like the Cowboys doesn't? And I have not mentioned the quarterbacks with Romo being a younger version of Brett Favre, with that gunslinger mentality. I predict an average score, Cowboys 24, Packers 17. I don't feel the offenses will get a lot of points, most of the Packers games have come down to the wire and have been low scoring, but I don't think it will be a shootout like the Patriots or Giants game.
10. Why NFL do you want to hold this game on the NFL Network? Where is the strategy on that. If I am in charge of making sure America sees my product, I want to make sure 95% of the households can see my product. Not 35%. I blame both sides but I strongly blame the NFL. I mean no one will watch this network except for the games and the games have to be close. If it is anything like the Colts-Falcons, no one will watch. I have taken a glimpse at NFL Total Access and I am sorry, if ESPN jumped the shark with all the overexposure and over analysis, then you have done the same as well.
11. Obviously my cable company does not carry NFL Network but I am not worried. I will be at the game in section 133 so I do not have to worry. Go Cowboys!
12. On the other hand, shame on all you ebayers trying to make a profit from the true fan. I wish someone would come up with a way to sell these tickets to the fan and not these ticket brokers and merchants looking to cash in on the true fans. Of course I gave in but hey what is a guy to do huh?
2. On the other hand you can make the argument the Jets offense is just that much worse than the Redskins offense and the Redskins had more weapons. But the playoffs are not typically filled with bad offenses. But why was Chris Cooley getting so wide open. Every time they throw I knew he was going to get going. I do not know if it was personnel, meaning we did not have the talent to match the receivers or poor defensive play calling. I think our run defense gets too much credit for stopping the run because most of the teams we face are trailing so they tend to abandon the run and start passing. Now having said that I do think the passing defense is mediocre. I mean the numbers do not take into account the clutch catches or completions for first down. I mean Chris Cooley was getting wide open and does not always translate to big yards. I mean the key to any good defense is stopping the third down play.
3. TO is just amazing me. I would name him offensive player of the year and Romo MVP. Of course I feel that Randy Moss and Tom Brady will get those accolades but hey I am biased.
4. Terence Newman has played like a Pro Bowler the last couple of seasons and has not gone because he lacks the big plays. Hopefully that interception TD return against the Jets plus the game winning interception against the Redskins will let him go. Plus he is still battling that plantar fasscitis.
5. I guess someone reminded Julius Jones that he was in a contract year because lately he is tearing it up. I still feel he will be gone at the end of the year and the Cowboys will draft a running back in the upcoming draft.
6. Roy Williams start streak was snapped. Who cares? That is so overrated. I mean you get in on the opening play and that is considered a start? I think the majority of snaps taken should be the deciding factor on how much a guy plays.
7. I feel that was Joe Gibbs last visit to Texas Stadium. As much as I dislike the Redskins, you can not help but like Gibbs. I will miss him. I wish Jason Campbell was leaving though. He is going to be a threat to the Boys for the next few years.
8. The special teams has got to get going. I do not feel like the special teams is a necessary evil, where I would just put random people in there. I would use the draft to draft players specifically for special teams and to look at a players ability to play special teams alongside his own position. The kicking/punting is fine, it is the coverage that is soft.
9. Now comes the game of the year part 2. Part 1 was the Patriots. I guess the Giants could have been a part 2 but I am not going to give it that. The Packers have now discovered a running game with the emergence of Ryan Grant. Donald Driver is the big play threat with Donald Lee the huge tight end. Charles Woodson and Al Harris are the corner threats and the two huge pass rush in Aaron Kampan and Kabeer Gbaja-Biamila. Almost sounds like the Cowboys doesn't? And I have not mentioned the quarterbacks with Romo being a younger version of Brett Favre, with that gunslinger mentality. I predict an average score, Cowboys 24, Packers 17. I don't feel the offenses will get a lot of points, most of the Packers games have come down to the wire and have been low scoring, but I don't think it will be a shootout like the Patriots or Giants game.
10. Why NFL do you want to hold this game on the NFL Network? Where is the strategy on that. If I am in charge of making sure America sees my product, I want to make sure 95% of the households can see my product. Not 35%. I blame both sides but I strongly blame the NFL. I mean no one will watch this network except for the games and the games have to be close. If it is anything like the Colts-Falcons, no one will watch. I have taken a glimpse at NFL Total Access and I am sorry, if ESPN jumped the shark with all the overexposure and over analysis, then you have done the same as well.
11. Obviously my cable company does not carry NFL Network but I am not worried. I will be at the game in section 133 so I do not have to worry. Go Cowboys!
12. On the other hand, shame on all you ebayers trying to make a profit from the true fan. I wish someone would come up with a way to sell these tickets to the fan and not these ticket brokers and merchants looking to cash in on the true fans. Of course I gave in but hey what is a guy to do huh?
# posted by ttheman @ 8:58 PM 
