I will admit I'm not a stats guy. I don't follow them nor do I assign much credance to them, as has been said, because the context of what you're trying to point out can be accomplished with the same numbers. One thing I do know though, is that when you watch the 'Boys play, I would shudder to think what that team would be without Romo. I mean, untimely dropped passes, fumbles, defensive letdowns, penalties and dropped passes by that set of receivers in general are enough every time you watch them to think that even BMarshall wasn't that bad. The 'Boys are the unluckiest team in the NFL if you look at what has kept them from reaching their 'potential'... Again, I'm not talking about what the numbers say, just a feeling you get when you watch that team...
Shelby continues to get playing time, and like Vernon, sets a good base for holding his ground. I think Shelby can only get better.
Like I said earlier, if there was a ever a time to criticize a player or a team for not being clutch, it's Romo and the Cowboys. Ultimately though, when a team continually fails in crucial situations, the first place you usually look at is the coaching staff. Of their 8 losses last year, 5 of them were by 7 points or less, and 4 of those by 4 points or less (including HUGE choke jobs against the Jets and Lions). I think Jason Garrett has been abysmal as their HC.
I watch every Cowboy game. "Clutchness" is not an issue. They have a lot of idiots on that team, and their defense was terrible last year. Just yesterday Romo brought them all the way back, and threw a strike for the 2 point conversion to tie it....and........Dez Bryant dropped it.
Not necessarily, IMO. A franchise QB is a QB whom a team is built around. Teams can build around a QB who is not elite. Chad Henne was a franchise QB. Actually, after the last three or four years of drafts, almost every team in the NFL has a franchise QB. The journeyman QB has been relegated to the 3rd string, where he belongs.
A talented, roaming, ball-hawking type safety would really compliment Jones's game by freeing him up to move around and make even more plays than he does now IMO.
Romo's had a lot of late-game failings. Of course it's not entirely his fault, but he's come up short in quite a few situations.
Good point. I didn't originally have him as a top 5, but I may have been mistaken. A good overall discussion about franchise vs. elite, by the way.
ReShad Jones is making plays all over the field. How on earth can people say they aren't seeing it? You're simply not watching! PFF has him graded as a top 5 SS right now. That's impressive as hell. Clemons is so bad that he took our Reshad Jones on that deep bomb in the 1st quarter. Clemons has got to go.
Hey guys, remember those times when we'd be so down in the dumps about The Dolphins that we the usual joke is that "We'd end up losing the bye week"? Yeah.... isn't it nice NOT hearing it for a change?
Irish absolutely needs to draft either a pass rusher DE, cover corner, or FS with that 1st pick. If we hit on any of those picks our defense can be elite! A cover corner or DE pass rusher would be ideal but I doubt we have a chance to get one if we're drafting in the middle of the first round.
That just depends on individual interpretation. There is no hard and fast rule that only 5 QBs can be considered elite.
I'll give you 29 guesses as to who has been in the top 5 in 4th quarter QBR the last 3 years. and the first 28 guesses don't count.
Hey, wait a minute, you changed the girl after we won even though we won last week right? "Why the hell wasn't I notified about these things"
Not only do we not lose the bye, but no matter what happens, we move ahead of either the jets or patriots this weekend! Yeaaaaaaaaa buddy!
That's not the point I was trying to make, though. St. Louis moved the ball up and down the field, but our defense consistently stiffened. A.K.A - 'Bend But Don't Break' defense.
It was not holding because it was not called... and if it would have been called it would have been overturned upon further review... all the other calls were...
That might've been the weakest TD I've ever seen scored in the NFL. One team absolutely obliterates the other, but because the tiny tip of the ball, barely under the control of the ball-carrier if at all, crosses an imaginary plane, the team that's getting obliterated gets six points.
Goal line situation won by the dolphins, reward, 6 points, it's ok, it's how you use your depth of analysis to project more accuratly.
