Ask Blogging the Boys

Nope. We love ’em all.

I really can’t emphasize what a difference Garrett has made in the way this team handles things. Most of us are thinking 10-6 or 11-5 by the end of the regular season – but the team is just thinking about this Sunday.

Offensively, it all starts with the O Line. If they have a good week, Dallas should be able to move the ball well.

Defensively, it has to be the secondary. I think the front seven will be OK against the run, but the defensive backs have made some pretty pedestrian receivers look great. I shudder to think what Larry Fitzgerald might do if the pass rush doesn’t get some pressure on Kolb (assuming he gets the start).

I am not much of a draftnik. If you are lucky, a guy named ChiaCrack will drop by. He is our resident draft guru, and much more capable of answering this. Having said that, the secondary is the most obvious area of need, and it looks like a pretty deep class for cornerbacks.

Spencer is not getting it done. They will be looking for a pass rusher to compliment Ware.

Robinson may have an edge on both of them at the moment, but Dez is such a beast. Most teams are taking him out of the game, though, so it is hard to say for certain.

We loves us some Tyron. He doesn’t even turn 21 for a couple of weeks, and he is rated by some as a top five NFL tackle. The expectation is that he and Doug Free will swap positions, possibly to start next season.

See my answer above on the draft.

Yes, Tony Romo is good enough to take this team all the way. When he has the right players around him (O line, running back, defense), he can win the big one. The only question, we think, is whether the parts will be put in place before he starts to fade, talent-wise. Given that he is low milage for his age, we are hoping that his chance is coming. And those early bad games have pretty much been forgiven the past few weeks.

Laurent Robinson would be my first guess, although he has been getting some good press of late. Outside of that, there is a kid on the defensive line named Sean Lissemore. He is not getting too many snaps, but his grades at places like Pro Football Focus are really high. Ryan is rotating the D line in and out a lot, but there are some of us who think this guy is a comer, and he just seems to keep making plays.

No question. You would have to watch the past few games, and then have watched the team last year. The difference is as clear as distilled water.

He is the face and voice of the franchise, to a degree that I think is unique in the NFL, with his own radio show and weekly pronoucements on the team. However, when you actually study how things work with the Cowboys, he is not a dictator, but relies much more on consensus with his coaches than most believe. Here is a great fanpost by one of our regulars, CoachGary, that does a great job of explaining how Jerry really works.

As irritated as we sometimes get with him, there is no denying his passion to make the Dallas Cowboys the dominant sports franchise in the known universe, both financially and in terms of championships. And the man is not going anywhere. One day, we think he will turn over the operation to his son, Stephen Jones, who seems to have most of Jerry’s strengths and few of his weaknesses.

That may be a slight exaggeration. Or not.

Based on his performance so far, he may be the most effective running back since a fellow named Emmitt left Dallas and headed your way. If he continues, he will go down as one of the greatest third round picks the team ever made. And many of us at BTB thought the pick was a mistake.

Boy, that crow tastes mighty good.

oh yeah, that cat can lay a stiff arm too lol ,,, there’s a certain redskin mlb would attest hahahaaaa

He moves people around, puts all kinds of personnel packages on the field. Doesn’t always work, but it is certainly better than last year.

He also has made his contribution to the change in culture. And he is largely doing things with the players from last year. We expect he will get a lot of the draft picks this year, and hope for things to just get better.

Although some may want to work out a deal involving McGee – just don’t know if Skelton and Kolb will get it done.

McGee is actually a bit of an unknown for us – he only has had one offseason due to things like the lockout (which, if no one has ever mentioned it, sucked) and we still don’t know how well he will develop.

We hope that trend has changed. And we also want to see lots of punts go out of bounds. The receivers against our secondary is actually your best bet, I think.

TD total for Punt returns, we are McBriar can kick it out of bounds all day long :-)

The team is hopeful, and he has been practicing, but don’t know if he will make it or not.

*who can’t stop the run

He has had an outstanding season this year and if he stays healthy he will be a stud in the middle of the defense for years. His ability to read and respond to the play is just excellent so far. Lee broke out in the first game of the season and, except for the injury, has pretty much just continued with the great play.

We are waiting to see if Bruce Carter, our rookie ILB, comes along in a similar fashion. He has a resume rather like Lee’s, right down to missing a lot of the rookie season due to injury. He looks good on ST so far, and if he is anything at all like Lee, the middle of the Dallas defense will be a danger zone for running backs and receivers.

If he plays we are often effective.
Without him we are defenceless.
Possibly our MVP.
No matter the input of Ware, Romo, Bailey or Robinson.

Your mind changes a lot.

Eagles had 2 weeks to prepare and reid is like 14-0 off bye weeks. They got ahead very fast.

we need the 49ers to lose 2 games lol