Cowboys Only Ones To Blame

It has been a week since the Cowboys let a 13-3 season go down the toilet with a loss to the New York Giants. It seems longer than a week since that game was played, but they have no one to blame, but themselves. I knew this game wouldn’t be easy for the Cowboys and a part of me was worried that we would lose. Our December play was shitty and you would think after a second straight year of the team collapsing down the final stretch that coach Phillips would be doing everything in his power to get the team ready for the playoffs. Well, that would be the logical thing to do, but instead of watching the Giants/Bucs game Coach Phillips decides to let everyone have a few days off. Days off the team should have been practicing and watching film.

It’s no secret that Romo was in Cabo with his latest squeeze Jessica Simpson. Tagging along was Witten and a few other teammates. I just found out today that Julius Jones and half the offensive line was partying in Vegas the same weekend. Romo says he doesn’t regret the trip and he said it was a better choice then partying and drinking in Vegas. Both trips were equally stupid. It obviously affected their playing because well, the Packers and Giants are playing as I type this. As far as I know Cabo and Vegas are still open this week. The trips could have waited. Those 13 wins and that bye week don’t mean shit now.

On top of that Jerry Jones decides to let two coaches go interview on the bye week for head coaching jobs. Sparano and Garrett were in Baltimore, Atlanta, and Miami. Well, it is obvious by how the offensive line collapsed in the fourth quarter that Sparano should have been spending more time with them instead of interviewing for a new job. We knew Parcells wanted him, why couldn’t the interview wait until the season was over? It is evident that it effected the team because when he returned they all yelled when he came back "Don’t Leave Tony." Garrett has decided to stay. That’s fine with me, but I sure hope he learns to call a better game then he did in the last month. It was beyond pathetic play calling.

We had every opportunity to win that game and there was no reason for us to lose it. I feel bad for those that were there to play. Barber played his heart out. For the most part we looked like a pretty sloppy team to be the number one seed in the NFC. Crayton and his big fat mouth dropping perfectly thrown balls that were right in the numbers. Yeah, I don’t see you talking now you shithead. One of my biggest pet peeves is when players shoot their mouth off before or after games. I’m talking all players - not just the Cowboys. I wonder what Crayton is saying now that New England is good enough to go to the Super Bowl? "If they make it to Arizona, we will see them again. Seriously, I'm not backing down from that statement," receiver Patrick Crayton said Monday, a day after a 48-27 loss to the Patriots. Well, unless Crayton has tickets to the Super Bowl – he’s not seeing them in Arizona anytime soon. Play the game and shut your mouth! Do your talking on the field because otherwise you look like a complete idiot!

It is going to be an extremely long offseason and we need to improve on a lot of things. I hope Marion Barber gets the contract he wants because I would hate to see him go and a lot of teams would love to have him. Our special teams needs a serious over haul as does our defense. Roy Williams either needs to drop some weight or put more on. He is far too slow to be a safety anymore. We get burned deep too much because of him. I think he would be better suited as a linebacker. We need to find a new corner or two. We could be so much better going up against wide receivers. Our defense gave up too many points. Offensively we are pretty sound. A few changes to the offensive line for protection would be ideal. We have a great offense when we want to use it, but it could use a few additions too.

We had a bye week to prepare to take down the Giants, recover from injuries, but it sounds like partying and relaxing was done more than anything. If we are lucky enough to make it to the playoffs next year, I hope we don’t get a bye. I hope we learned from these stupid mistakes.