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We all anticipated a Cowboys Championship before the start of last season. Let’s face it most of us expected them to walk through Pittsburgh, Baltimore, and Philadelphia at the beginnning of the season as well. So where did we go wrong?

Well Romo’s thumb injury, against the Arizona Cardinals, no doubt sent the Cowboys into somewhat of a funk towards the end of the season but what or who was really to blame? For starters, I have watched Terrell Owens his entire career and I must say that during his time in San Francisco and Philadelphia I really despised him. I thought he was immature, he played for teams I considered Dallas rivals, and he went and danced on our star….our star readers.

I was quick to forgive him when he waltzed into a Parcell’s led engine and caught long bomb after long bomb, for touchdown after touchdown. At this point though I began to realize something. You cannot win football games with a big time receiver without taking a huge gamble. What I mean is if you can score from your own 20 yard line every time, you are on the wrong end of time management. For example, in a 15 minute fourth quarter you have the ball for two minutes and score a touchdown, then the opponent has it for nine minutes and scores a touchdown. The score is 7-7 (the rest of the game was a slump for both teams) and you now have four minutes time left to score. If you score too quickly with TO again then you give your opponent time and a tired defense. This is not a good plan. Especially, on a team that now has three powerful runners, a manageable quarterback who can escape crisis, and a hell of a defense when healthy and energetic. So goodbye To, you weren’t such a bad seed just a bad plan.

Next on our list is Roy Williams. When I was younger I loved Roy Williams. He could hit people so hard and dominate at the safety position. Let’s face it though, the NFL banned Roy’s finishing maneuver. It is like telling Hulk Hogan, yeah buddy no more leg drop or you get fined and can cost yourself a win. They took his horsecollar. A tackling maneuver that he had been using since high school (and probably before). I understand that this tackle can hurt people and did hurt McNabb and TO, which hurting other players intentionally is a part of football I despise, but could you not have completely targeted a good player during his career. He only hurt two people and neither was intentional. It is not like the AFC Championship game where on several consecutive plays Willis McGahee’s knee was targeted and then he just happened to get a helmet to helmet concussion. Regardless, of Roy’s tackling maneuver, he became a stigma and could not cover the tight end worth a damn. Here is the real problem with Roy. Let’s say you have thirty defensive downs in a game. Let’s say on twenty of them Roy tackled the crap out of people and stopped them from advancing. Now, let’s say on every single solidary third down he blew coverage on the tight end and gave up a first down. This is exactly the opposite of TO’s downside of letting the offense stay on field for two minutes, Roy was awesome sixty percent of the time. Then when it came to coverage, he couldn’t do it and kept the Cowboys Defense on the field. So on offense we score too quickly and on defense we keep the team on the field. A bad combination in any sense. Sorry Roy you weren’t such a key player, as a key troublemaker.

Then their are Pacman, Tank, and Canty. Well, they just cause trouble and weren’t used. Enough said. I am glad the ownership has made the decisions it has made. It has restored some order and class to our franchise. Looking forward to the upcoming season.

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