It has taken longer than I thought, but finally someone else has had enough of the crap that comes out of the speakers on my television during Monday Night Football. Just to be clear, Mike Tirico is as good as it gets as a play-by-play man. However, those other two clowns were horrible. It was bad enough to turn the volume down. They announced last week that Jaworski is out of the booth for next season.
Out coached! No bigger Garrett fan than Cowboyblog, but this trap game just happened.
The best way to tell who the better coach is to compare the 1st half and 2nd half for the half-time adjustments. Rob Ryan proved today that he is not ready to be an NFL head coach. He has the talent, but just cant put an entire game together. Arizona made adjustments at half to not only beat the defense, but to keep the offense at bay.
D-Ware injured is not a good sign. He is the MVP just because of the amount of preparation time he takes away from the other teams during the week.
Garrett wasn’t to blame for field goal timeout.
Romo and the offense did an OK job with limited opportunities until the last series when he took 40 seconds to spike a ball with two time outs in his pocket. We were just out of field goal range and needed to run a couple more plays, which we could have. Poor clock management at the end, but it shouldn’t have been that close.
How many plays did you see the boys one half step to slow to get Kolb in the backfield?
If we played them nine more times, we would lose all nine, they figured us out after the first half. Actually, they just went to the Redskins playbook.
Sadly, I keep getting reminded that this is a rebuilding year. The only that will help me sleep is knowing that Donovan McNabb had a worse weekend than the Cowboys.
Its a good time to look at the progress of each team compared to my power rankings from the beginning of the season. Some of these comments are the opposite of what everyone else was saying, and they were correct.
I’ll update with a new power ranking after this week. Hint: Cowboys will probably still be number one and the Redskins will probably be last.
Here are the power rankings and comments that I posted before the season. Highlighted in green are the ones I hit correct. Red are the ones I missed on. Blue is TBD.
Here we go. It is the eve of the first game of the season. The most promising day of the year we have had in a while. I couldn’t be more excited. I’ll wake up early and watch all the pre-game coverage even though the Cowboys don’t kick off until Sunday night. I don’t know what to think, I hope I am this excited next Saturday night.
Are we rebuilding or building on 2009? As a fan, I am not really sure. I hope that the new young offensive line fits perfectly with a big part of Jason Garrett’s philosophy to win now. I hope the injuries from the that last week turn out to be incidental. I hope that Rob Ryan is the real deal and has our team disguising our defensive calls for the first time in a decade. I hope our kicks are straight and long. I hope the new culture will eliminate the useless and careless drive-killing penalties. I Hope.
I find I’m so excited I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it is the excitement only a free man can feel, a free man at the start of a long journey whose conclusion is uncertain. I hope I can make it across the border. I hope to see my friend, and shake his hand. I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams. I hope.
It seems like we are heading for a youth movement at best, a rebuilding year at worst. I had no idea. I thought the Cowboys were close and just needed the motivation and culture change of the coach to be back in the mix for a Superbowl run.
Surprising to me, the Cowboys have been busy cutting veterans. Here are the starters from last year that will not have a star on their helmet for the first game.
I have released my 2011 Power Rankings. I will attempt to update them throughout the season as I feel they have changed.
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I have to say, I am little concerned about the boys getting rid of all of their veteran offensive linemen. Is this a rebuilding year that no one else knows about? I’m not sure I would have turned over the roster like this if I was planning on making the superbowl this year. Does Garrett have a five year, three year or even a two year plan?
Look at this short list of ex-Offensive Lineman that were in place during the successful 2009 season, just two years ago:
All of these guys are capable of starting on many other teams in the NFL. There are a lot of pro-bowls from guys on that list.
Looks like Kyle Kosier and Doug Free are the last men standing from the last couple of seasons. The other guys will be making their debut.
The preseason sucks. It’s great to see the stars on the helmets out on the field, but the games do not really mean anything for a team that is not rebuilding.
I really cant watch an entire game with the same intensity that I watch regular season games. Not even close. I end up just checking the news the next morning hoping to see no major injuries.
I guess a preseason win against the Vikings is better than listening to news about Demaurice Smith and Roger Gooddell having dinner together talking about the lockout.
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