Preparing to have to play a third string center during the season would be a disservice to the rest of the line.
Likewise, scraping the entire plan your prepared all week would be a disservice to the nine remaining players who practiced it.
Simple suggesting that a team stop doing something with no knowledge of what the week of game prep looked like is the kind of thing that is easy in theory from the booth with no skin in the game, but more difficult in practice on the field.
This is not to excuse the poor performance and embarrassing loss, but the GB game was a different flavor of embarrassing.
Dallas kicked their teeth in. In GB, circumstances kicked their teeth in.
Also, criticizing the most consistent unit on the team (Special Teams) because one player got out of their lane seems profoundly ignorant.
Re: the C issues, no-one expects Mick Tinglehoff or Jeff Christy to be available. The problem last game was continuing to try and audible, use dummy counts and otherwise throw Reed into the deep end of the pool when he clearly couldn't handle it. Romo repeatedly pointed out that they should stop doing this, and they didn't.
Tomlinson is an interesting decision. It's irritating that if he leaves as a UFA, he'll have a $7.5 MM dead cap hit, but that's spilt milk. I'm a big Linval Joseph fan, he was a great signing coming off his rookie contract and (like many non-RBs) played his best ball on his second contract. I was happy he got a third contract, but his body started breaking down. Tomlinson is going to be 29 next year, and expecting he'll play this well into his 30s seems a poor bet.
I hope they focus on Jefferson getting the ball and breaking the record...
Preparing to have to play a third string center during the season would be a disservice to the rest of the line.
Likewise, scraping the entire plan your prepared all week would be a disservice to the nine remaining players who practiced it.
Simple suggesting that a team stop doing something with no knowledge of what the week of game prep looked like is the kind of thing that is easy in theory from the booth with no skin in the game, but more difficult in practice on the field.
This is not to excuse the poor performance and embarrassing loss, but the GB game was a different flavor of embarrassing.
Dallas kicked their teeth in. In GB, circumstances kicked their teeth in.
Also, criticizing the most consistent unit on the team (Special Teams) because one player got out of their lane seems profoundly ignorant.
Re: the C issues, no-one expects Mick Tinglehoff or Jeff Christy to be available. The problem last game was continuing to try and audible, use dummy counts and otherwise throw Reed into the deep end of the pool when he clearly couldn't handle it. Romo repeatedly pointed out that they should stop doing this, and they didn't.
Tomlinson is an interesting decision. It's irritating that if he leaves as a UFA, he'll have a $7.5 MM dead cap hit, but that's spilt milk. I'm a big Linval Joseph fan, he was a great signing coming off his rookie contract and (like many non-RBs) played his best ball on his second contract. I was happy he got a third contract, but his body started breaking down. Tomlinson is going to be 29 next year, and expecting he'll play this well into his 30s seems a poor bet.