10-19-2021, 04:07 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-20-2021, 12:20 PM by KillerLeft.)
Honestly, for the first time in my life I think the media and local fans are being too hard on one of my teams.
Yes, the team was sloppy and over penalized at times against Bellicek. (It's Bellicek!) Yes, McCarthy has made some questionable decisions this year with clock management.
But come on...if you have been watching this team since the 90's and don't see signs that they're finally doing some things right, I don't know what to tell you. They are physical. They are confident. The stars are all in shape (almost never happens with the Cowboys) and seem motivated. The coordinators seem to understand how to create opportunistic situations for those stars.
All over the field on both sides of the ball there are peripheral players who aren't stars but seem like talented, competent professionals capable of doing their jobs. I'm talking about guys like Kazee, Kearse, Neal, Cox, Jarwin, Schultz, Steale, McGovern, Wilson, etc, etc, etc.
Hell man, this staff is even managing to make freaking Connor Williams look like an NFL lineman most of the time!
It's really obvious (at least to me) that the current coaching staff as a whole is up to the standard that the personnel department has been inching towards since Will McClay started running the draft. I don't want to count the chickens before they hatch, but this FEELS like a different Cowboys team, and that's coming from someone who literally never for one second bought into the Romo/Dez era teams.
Yes, the team was sloppy and over penalized at times against Bellicek. (It's Bellicek!) Yes, McCarthy has made some questionable decisions this year with clock management.
But come on...if you have been watching this team since the 90's and don't see signs that they're finally doing some things right, I don't know what to tell you. They are physical. They are confident. The stars are all in shape (almost never happens with the Cowboys) and seem motivated. The coordinators seem to understand how to create opportunistic situations for those stars.
All over the field on both sides of the ball there are peripheral players who aren't stars but seem like talented, competent professionals capable of doing their jobs. I'm talking about guys like Kazee, Kearse, Neal, Cox, Jarwin, Schultz, Steale, McGovern, Wilson, etc, etc, etc.
Hell man, this staff is even managing to make freaking Connor Williams look like an NFL lineman most of the time!
It's really obvious (at least to me) that the current coaching staff as a whole is up to the standard that the personnel department has been inching towards since Will McClay started running the draft. I don't want to count the chickens before they hatch, but this FEELS like a different Cowboys team, and that's coming from someone who literally never for one second bought into the Romo/Dez era teams.