Coaching staff to blame for this one
From previous post: (I know they probably wanted to keep Young in the pocket and I know that the scheme worked today, but if they go into Philly next week with the same gameplan, they will be torched by McNabb. They have to put pressure on McNabb... they just have to.)
This is exactly what I was afraid of and I was worried for a good reason. They had the same gameplan. It worked against a wet-behind-the-ears rookie QB, but there was no way that scheme would work against one of the best Qb's in the league. The coaching staff should have known this. The defense looked horrible, there's no denying that, but the coaches didn't give them a chance in this game. There isn't a defensive backfield in this league that should be expected to blanket receivers for 4 or 5 seconds on every pass play. Almost every QB in the league will have a field day with that much time no matter what receivers they throw out there. The Cowboys should be embarrassed that they let McNabb go through our defense like Ex-lax with the likes of Hank Baskett and L.J. Smith. But that's what happens when you send four guys to rush and let an All-Pro QB do whatever he wanted all day long.
There are a lot of people blaming the O-line and Bledsoe (although I'm not real sure that I can stick up for ol' cement feet), but I blame the coaching staff here also. Is this some new thing that the Eagles have employed to their defensive gameplan? Bringing the team picture on a blitz? Is that new? NO. No it's not. They have been doing it to us and other teams for years. You mean to tell me that with all of the weapons that we have on this team, and knowing that we have a QB back there who can't move, that you don't have any kind of adjustment or counter for that? Heck, what's stopping every team on the rest of our schedule from doing the same thing?
As for Bledsoe... man, I just don't know. After all that went wrong in that game, we were sitting on the goal-line with a chance to tie it up and BAM... game over. One of many lousy decisions by him tonight. Would Romo have given us a chance to win in that game? I don't know. Maybe, maybe not. I'm not sure that we won't see him very soon.
- S
posted by Shawn @ 7:10 PM
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You are SO right.
Defensive apathy. As you and Mike have maintained all along this D has the talent to be an absolute nightmare, all it lacks is aggression. So what did the 'Boys do? Lapsed into Tom Landry's"Prevent D", which prevented nothing except a W. Can't someone besides Mike see that 31 should be attacking instead of back pedaling in a Zone?
Where the heck is Buddy Ryan these days?
And let us not forget Bledstone and the OffensIVE line, or the O game-plan. Remember, when they blitz we must throw screens. Instead, they blitzed and we tried 7-step drops.
One bright note to take from the "Phlounder in Philly" yesterday- at least TO passed one test. He didn't turn the whole trip into a soap opera, despite Aikman & Buck's on-air encouraging. Maybe it's too early to mention, after all he has plenty of time to slander, rant and rave about not getting enough catches.
Maybe he'll release another new book:
Little T Don't Get The Ball.
Should be:
Little T Can't CATCH the Ball.
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