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2008-2009 Regular Season: Postgame -
On-The-Job Receiver Training Will Bring Your Star Quarterback One
Step Closer To Early Retirement
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- October 12, 2008 At
1:39 AM EST
- By
Eric M. Scharf
I will take this moment to make another final plea to Jerry Jones to
see logic. How long did it take for Miles Austin to finally get
involved in the offense? Too long. Where was Sam Hurd? Mostly on the
sideline, taking turns with himself being hurt or barely healthy and
just plain useless.
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- Where was Patrick Crayton (outside of that
lovely TD catch against the Cardinals, which was helped, again, by
poor tackling – which seems to be a league-wide disease)? And, T.O.?
He was busy enjoying another big helping of bump-and-run,
double-and-triple coverage all game long. Jerry: the fans do not
want you to get Roy Williams or anyone else just to have him (or
just to prevent a division rival from procuring him).
If Romo continues to get beaten about for the rest of the season
(from a combination of poor offensive line play, injuries to that
line, and memory loss of how to scramble away from defensive
pressure), then, what is the very best, most-reasonable decision you
can make to help him?
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- Get him an additional weapon or two who you
know will get open more quickly, earlier in a game (the way for
which Austin, Hurd, and Stanback simply have been ill-equipped . . .
no matter how wonderful these three allegedly looked in
vanilla-schemed training camp). Romo will continue to not perform as
expected and T.O. will continue to look miserable until you get
Michael Irvin's Alvin Harper onto our damn team.
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- Get a decoy for the
decoy, Jerry. No, Felix flanked wide will not make the difference if
his hamstring prevents him from playing. OR, you could simply demand
that Red Ball come up with some of the most creative offensive
play-calling you have ever seen.
And what about Wade? He is a non-factor, a pre-programmed creature
of habit. There is no purpose in getting angry with him or accusing
him of this and that. You knew when you hired him that he is the
polar opposite of Bill “I Am Forever Watching You” Parcells.
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- Wade
has a standard approach he takes to each game, which only works well
when his teams are executing like clockwork. It will be a cold day
in Green Bay, however, before he changes that approach, either
publicly or behind closed doors, to really-and-truly get his team’s
total and complete attention when times are tough.
What we also need to admit, in all fairness and to our collective
disgust, is that Wade is not alone. Wade, Red Ball, Brian Stewart,
Dave "Trust Me Because I Know What Makes Roy Williams Tick" Campo,
and everyone else on the coaching staff need to get creative, before
we get beaten worse than before by a team that was worse than before
. . . they play us.
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- Suggesting that the coaching staff needs to get
more creative would be to suggest that they have been creative in
the first place, which would be false.
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