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The crow-eating comes from my comments about the defense. There are no problems in the Cowboys’ backfield. Phillip Tanner was another pleasant surprise, and a credit to the scouts.

I hope that he can continue this momentum into the next season. DeMarco Murray obviously met all expectations and then some. Felix Jones did middling work, but seemed to step it up when competition made his job a little less secure. find a way to keep a player as in sync with Romo as Laurent was this year.

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Of course, Laurent Robinson was the free agent pickup of the year.

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The leap from first to second year is often one of the most significant, and I hope a full off-season with the training staff will pay even greater dividends. Dez did quite well, but seemed to be one of the players hurt the most by the shortened off-season. Injuries aside, he’s a character guy, and I expect him to be back in full force in 2012. Austin was his superb self, when he could stay on the field. It’s hard to look at receiving corps with Miles Austin, Dez Bryant, and Laurent Robinson and consider it anything but a dream.

I never bought into the chatter that the Cowboys had the most talented roster in the NFL, but undeniably, there have been enough tools available to make Dallas a consistent contender. Dallas’ secondary has long been suspect, but the Boys have also been able to boast a talented linebacking corps and some punishing bodies on the defensive line. The team has consistently had one of the most stacked backfields in the league. “The Cowboys have had a receiving corps that other teams would kill for. Well, in the midst of that acclimation process, the heart of this team is getting older, slower, and shorter on time. He knew that he needed to learn the ropes and acclimate to leading a team. Wisely, JG wanted to be Offensive Coordinator even when Jerry Jones appeared to want to make him the head coach right out of the starting gate. These are the kinks that have to be worked out by a man who’s never carried the big whistle before. JG icing his own kicker is the obvious error, but there were multiple issues with working the clock, using timeouts, and game management, particularly in the fourth quarter. To the point, while no win or loss can be placed one on man’s shoulders, Jason Garrett and his staff did have some significant coaching miscues that cost the team dearly. This nucleus of players is getting older and the Cowboys are running out of time to take advantage of some of the cornerstone talent they have assembled. Add in Jason Witten, who may have just had a down year, but seems to have his window closing as fast as anyone’s. Moreover, DeMarcus Ware had another banner year on a team that couldn’t make the playoffs, and continues to fight nagging injuries. It’s a shame that, as BloggingTheBoys‘ Tom Ryle put it, the team wasted Tony Romo’s best season to date. Romo stepping up his game has been a long time coming, and in a year where he was (relatively) healthy the whole season through, the team as a whole just could not get it done. As this article from the Mothership indicates Tony Romo had one of the best seasons of his career, and it was all for naught. There is simply too much talent at stake to risk it on a man who has never led a team before.”Īnother season in the books, and the core of the Cowboys are another year older. These are prime years for guys like Tony Romo, Jason Witten, and DeMarcus Ware, with the downward slope in sight. What I said at the beginning of the season: Now, with a couple of weeks to digest the 2011 Cowboys season, it’s time to look back and see what was accurate, what missed the mark, and more importantly, what happened to the Dallas Cowboys this year.

I presented some criticisms and made a few predictions.

It’s bitter to see a team with so much potential, so many times when it looked like they were coming into their own, to end their season in absolute mediocrity.įour months ago, I wrote about why Jason Garrett, for all his talents, is the wrong man to lead the Dallas Cowboys to the promised land. A team that had every chance to show they were ready to take the next step. A team that had every opportunity, right to the very last game, to put naysayers like yours truly in their place.