Now that the Dallas Cowboys season is over, the Liver has to wonder now if he wants them to completely go in the toilet so that one Wade Phillips will be exorcised from the franchise like a bad demon. Now if Jerry Jones could just realize that the way he is running this organization is part of the reason why it hasn’t won a playoff game in 13 years.
Why so glum at 2-2 you ask? Because this team just isn’t consistent enough. They make too many mental mistakes and commit too many penalties.
Because the Cowboys already trail the Giants by two games in the NFC East and they still must make a trip to New York in December. December also includes road trips to New Orleans and Washington, and home games against San Diego and Philadelphia.
Last weekend’s kick in the nuts against the Broncos was just more evidence that the 2009 Dallas Cowboys aren’t even waiting for December to do their annual swoon. The offense can’t score points and the defense is good until when it counts in the fourth quarter. They only led a winless Carolina team by six points late in the fourth quarter and could have lost that game had Jake Delhomme not given Terence Newman six points.
They led a Denver team in the fourth quarter that couldn’t get out of its own way on offense up until an improbable 51-yard Brandon Marshall TD that displayed some of the poorest give up tackling you’ll ever see courtesy of the Cowboys secondary.
Tony Romo continues to show why he can’t be depended on to be this team’s leader as he reverts to his old form of turning over the ball at the worst times every other week. A Romo fumble gift-wrapped seven of the Broncos 17 points and another interception recovered by Champ Bailey at the Broncos six cost the Cowboys three if not seven points. As Coach Tony D’Amato says that’s “the f***ing difference between WINNING and LOSING between LIVING and DYING!”
I won’t bother to go into the horseshit holding call on Martellus Bennett early in the fourth quarter that wiped out a 21-yard Tashard Choice run to the Denver 40 OR the final play of the game where Champ Bailey hooked his right arm around Sam Hurd’s waist so he could reach with the left over Hurd’s shoulder to knock away what would’ve been the game tying TD.
It seems that the NFL is interested in rivaling the NBA for poor officiating but I guess it could be worse. Your team could be playing against Mr. GQ QB and the Patriots who will most likely get EVERY borderline roughing the QB penalty known to man this season.
The Cowboys had every opportunity to put away a Denver team that isn’t nearly as good as their undefeated record would indicate and couldn’t. Not having their home run hitter Felix Jones didn’t help nor did Jason Garrett’s idiotic abandonment of the run in the second half as the Cowboys ran the ball 7 TIMES while leading for most of it. And that’s not taking away anything from a Denver defense that has gotten a superb makeover by Mike Nolan.
The Cowboys offensive line gave up five sacks and Romo got his ass kicked all over the field. Maybe that explains why the majority of his passes as the game progressed were too high and off the mark. I don’t think Roy Williams liked him very much this week. I probably wouldn’t like my QB either if he led me into a hit that nearly gutted me like a fresh Thanksgiving turkey waiting to be devoured by a band of homeless people.
It’s hard to say which is more troubling; the Cowboys offense or defense. After four games Tony Romo has four TDs and four INTs. Incidentally, three of those TDs came courtesy of a winless Tampa Bay team that is lucky to know what zip code their own stadium is in. That’s two games in a row with no TDs for Romo.
In a way, I feel bad for him. He is possibly, the most talked about, under the microscope professional Dallas sports athlete I have ever seen. In this day and age where ANYONE can purport to be a sports expert, WHICH I DO NOT, and You Tube, blog and publish their opinions just about anywhere; high-profile athletes are under the microscope more than ever. I’m just an asshole who keeps a bottle of Glenlivet next to my bed so I can have breakfast in bed when I wake up.
His story was impossible not to like at the beginning. An undrafted QB who had been holding a clipboard since 2003 comes off the bench in 2006 and leads the Dallas Cowboys to early success and is, literally, an overnight sensation. With the odds stacked against him, only the most ardent of Cowboys haters could not like him. But with that early success came Hollywood girlfriends, numerous commercials and big pay days; all without winning a Super Bow
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