A Practice Post

I am so ready for football to start that I was going to write a long, well crafted, finely detailed post about how the Boys looked last night at the Crystal Cathedral against the Chargers.

I was going to go into great detail about how it looked like our offense is going to need to be heavy on the run game and the short, quick passing game because the offensive line doesn’t seem like it’s going to be able to give Romo much time to throw many deep balls.

I was the going to draw X’s and O’s all over this blog to explain how dazed and confused our Defense looked every time the Chargers threw one of those short passes to an area that had been cleared out and they picked up an easy first down.

I was so ready to write that post.

Then I thought about it.  I am not the biggest, most well informed, smartest Cowboy fan in the world, BUT I do keep up with them on a daily basis.  I have looked at the roster so I am familiar with who is in training camp, who is injured, who has already been cut, who has been added.  I have more than a fleeting interest in The Good Guys.

So at the game last night as I am seeing the not-so-great results of blocking and defending and catching, my first thought was to react like it was a real football game.  You know, moan and worry and cuss the coaches and bad mouth the players.

Then it hit me.  Half the time I didn’t even know WHO the player was that I was griping about.  1/3 of those guys won’t be anywhere near Cowboys Stadium when the regular season starts.

This game was for the coaches to try stuff, get film on guys so they can evaluate their performance, move the pieces around and try to make the puzzle complete.  See what works, who does what better than the other guy. 

So, if you are fretting or foaming at the mouth today over the performance last night, try to remember…its PRESEASON.

I’m not saying you can’t or shouldn’t be a little worried.  I am.

but I could be wrong, later Poke

Procrastinate

Definition of PROCRASTINATE

transitive verb

: to put off intentionally and habitually

intransitive verb

: to put off intentionally the doing of something that should be done

That’s what I have been doing with this Blog.

I didn’t want to write while the Lockout was going on, no sense subjecting ya’ll to whatever my thoughts are on labor-management issues.  Chances are we wouldn’t have agreed and since I only get paid if I have a million or two readers I couldn’t risk losing all that big money.

Plus, I hate preseason football.  I can’t seem to let my hatred for having to buy preseason tickets at full price NOT cloud my thinking and since I know that I purposely don’t spend much time writing about what is or isn’t happening with the Boys.

I am getting excited about the upcoming season though.  Sure I wish Mr. Jones would have gotten a few more players, especially some proven vets to shore up the O-line and the D-secondary but hey I am also smart enough to know you can’t just go buy the best team.(unless you are the NY Yankees in baseball )

Right now oddly enough I am more worried about our kicker than anything else, neither of them has been consistent during Camp and we all saw how that hurts when you don’t get at least 3 points when you get in close.

It will be interesting to see what cuts are made and who starts but to me it seems like this year the Heroes of Our Youth are going to rely on coaching and culture changes to be the difference between this years team and last years.

We will see if that pans out, until next time, later Poke