Cowboys-Giants Part Deux

So maybe I can put my thoughts down without using all the words I learned in the 8th grade lockerroom and the 24 years working on the railroad.

The easy thing to do would be for me to say Romo sucks.  Sure he played terrible, I mean really terrible but do you want his backup, Jon Kitna in there ?  I don't.  It's kind of silly to say the Cowboys QB is what makes them a terrible team just one short week after he threw for more than 300 yards.  He was definitely a large part of the problem Sunday night.  I saw Eli do a 360 and throw without looking, if Romo would have done that last night it would have been a disaster, Eli got a completion.  Some games you just don't have "it", whatever the heck "it" is.  

The next easiest thing to do would be to blame the secondary.  Orlando Scandrick in particular but not forgetting Terence Newman and Ken Hamlin.  Heck throw Mike Jenkins in there too because he wasn't exactly shining.  Sensabaugh looked like he came ready to play.  The Good Guys just looked lost against Little Eli.  I am going to look a little deeper though and suggest that maybe the secondary coach Dave Campo just isn't that good of a coach.  Anybody remember the 5-11 seasons he had as head coach ?

Since I am looking for easy answers lets just all scratch our heads and wonder what has happened to our pass rush.  DeMarcus Ware had 20 sacks last year.  This year he has zero.  Nobody else has any either.  Has something changed ? Different coach ?  New scheme ?  The answer is no.  The biggest thing I think is that Greg Ellis is no longer on the other side of the field bringing what he always brought to the field.  I know there are fans who were tired of hearing him gripe about his role or his contract or all the other things he griped about.  For all his griping though he played a good game.  His replacement Spencer just doesn't seem to have any consistency. 

It is hard to judge our wide receivers.  When balls aren't thrown close to where they should be I find it hard to say somebody sucks if they don't catch it.  For whatever reason Romo doesn't look that hard for Williams and Bennett yet.  His security blanket Witten is the only thing that saves him when he is having the kind of night he had Sunday.

Hats off to the O-line.  They gave up no sacks versus a team that lives by the sack.  It's amazing but they also opened up holes for over 250 yards rushing.  Should we have rushed more ? 

Special teams were okay but the fumble by Felix didn't help.  The defense held them to just a field goal so that may be getting overlooked.

So where does that leave us ?  The answer is...there is no SIMPLE answer.  I don't care what the local idiots are saying in their columns or on the radio.  ESPN doesn't give answers, they give sound bites.
So if your QB played terrible (he did ) but your offense gains 250 yards rushing and scores 31 points can you put all the blame on them ?
So if your defense gets no pressure and defends the pass poorly ( it did) but keeps the Giants out of the end zone after turnovers do you put all the blame on them ?

Nope it's a team game and you win and lose as team.  That's the way football is.  Each part has to win their battles or one part has to perform at a level that can't be reasonably expected.  That doesn't sound near as good as saying Romo lost us that game but it really is the truth.

of course I could be wrong...doesn't matter though because next week I still expect the Boys of the Blue Star
to win.  That's what fans do.