Wildcard Sunday Chatter | Cowboys and Lions | 1/4/2015

[NoDak]

Can Bernadau maybe play RT? Martin can't work with inferior talent like Parnell.

Parnell isn't a bad player. He just isn't somebody I'd want to rely on as a long term starter. And neither is Bernadeau. They both are decent backups, but I'd never look past the opportunity to improve their roster spot if the opportunity presented itself. I'd put them about on the same tier, with Parnell being slightly better.

 

[Cowboysrock55]

Nobody has said Church played great during that game.

Nope, just figured since we were talking about god awful performances that I'd actually bring up someone who really was god awful in that game.

 

[NoDak]

Nope, just figured since we were talking about god awful performances that I'd actually bring up someone who really was god awful in that game.

Church was no worse than Parnell. They both had their good moments, along with some really terrible plays. Yeah, Church got beat bad by Tate on the early TD. Parnell nearly got our playoff chances killed by forgetting the snap count. We overcame that early TD. Would we have overcome a dead Romo?

 

[Cowboysrock55]

Church was no worse than Parnell. They both had their good moments, along with some really terrible plays. Yeah, Church got beat bad by Tate on the early TD. Parnell nearly got our playoff chances killed by forgetting the snap count. We overcame that early TD. Would we have overcome a dead Romo?

Dead Romo. Considering Romo didn't die and still posted great stats it's hard to factor in that play as destroying much.

That wasn't the only bad play by Church though. There were a couple really ugly plays were he could have stopped a guy for little or no gain and just whiffed horrifically.

 

[ravidubey]

There were a couple really ugly plays were he could have stopped a guy for little or no gain and just whiffed horrifically.

One player admitted the defense especially felt over-amped and needed to settle down. I think Church was one of them.

 

[Texas Ace]

One player admitted the defense especially felt over-amped and needed to settle down. I think Church was one of them.

Not just against the Lions, but this is an adjustment they we need to be better about making in general.

I honestly thought midway through the 3rd quarter that this was going to be a repeat of the Redskins game.

It shouldn't take more than a quarter or so to make that change when we're heavily under pressure like that.

 

[Jiggyfly]

Not after that shit performance he had on Sunday. He had a direct hand in about half of the sacks allowed. He was awful.

This is not true at all he had maybe 2 instances of missing stunts but he was not the only one and he was never beat one on one and the way he played in the 2nd half more than made up for that.

This what happened with Free everything bad he did was magnified and any good was ignored, Parnell has never been as bad as Free was when he struggled.

Just last week Callahan was praising the job Parnell was doing.

Go back and look at that last TD drive that DE just stopped trying to rush.

 

[Jiggyfly]

Can Bernadau maybe play RT? Martin can't work with inferior talent like Parnell.

So the 30 plus points we have scored down the stretch is not performing with Parnell?

 

[Jiggyfly]

And I know everybody is going to shit on PFF but they actually look at every play unlike us.

Parnell was far from awful.

 

[boozeman]

This is not true at all he had maybe 2 instances of missing stunts but he was not the only one and he was never beat one on one and the way he played in the 2nd half more than made up for that.

This what happened with Free everything bad he did was magnified and any good was ignored, Parnell has never been as bad as Free was when he struggled.

Just last week Callahan was praising the job Parnell was doing.

Go back and look at that last TD drive that DE just stopped trying to rush.

Broaddus essentially disagrees:

As bad as it was for this Cowboys offense to surrender six sacks on the day, how the Lions managed to get them at times was more difficult to understand. Let me walk you through each of them and try to explain what happened:

On the first one, Jermey Parnell never got out of his stance, and Darryl Tapp just ran right by him untouched. On the next one, early in the second quarter, it appeared that there was some confusion between Tyler Clutts and Parnell in how they were supposed to sort out the blitz on the outside. Romo even moved Clutts to the right to help with the rush. At the snap, both DeMarco Murray and Clutts started working wide -- but Parnell went with them instead of working back inside, leaving defensive end Devin Taylor a free run at Romo.

Murray did his best to adjust back inside to block Taylor, but that allowed James Ihedigbo to come off the outside unblocked. Romo was able to avoid Taylor but not Ihedigbo for the sack. On the play, Witten was running a “Hot” route, but because of the pressure Romo was unable to get the ball out.


On the next sack, the Cowboys went with max protection on the right side, with Witten and Hanna staying in to block. There was a play action fake to the right with Murray, which took him in that direction. On the left side, Ronald Leary blocked down inside, and Smith stayed outside, allowing linebacker Tahir Whitehead a free run at Romo – who couldn’t avoid him.

Next, Romo tried to throw the ball to Bryant on the crossing route, but the big wide out got knocked to the ground. Romo pulled ball back and started to search the field. Terrance Williams came open late, but Parnell got beat late by Ezekial Ansah, which didn’t allow Romo the opportunity to see him.

Later in the game there were back-to-back sacks by Suh, both of which were total coverage sacks by the secondary. To their credit on both plays, they managed to double Bryant and Witten which meant that Williams and Beasley had to win on the outside and they didn’t. Romo could have tried to get rid of the ball both times, but it has always been his nature to try to extend the play and he was unable to do so.

 

[Jiggyfly]

Broaddus essentially disagrees:

Yeah those two plays out of 60 plus really show how awful his day was.

Maybe saying his day was great was hyperbole but he ended on a very high note.

You are acting like he was the only one who struggled early.

 

[Jiggyfly]

Well this should change Smitty's mind.

From Sturm.

Jermey Parnell has been fantastic. What If I told you that the Cowboys would have to go with a backup right tackle for 6 starts this season? How many sacks would he be responsible for would you predict? 0 is the answer. What about his run blocking? He might actually be better there. I appreciate Doug Free’s 2013 and 2014, but the Parnell performance as the one place on this offense that has been really affected by injury has been very impressive (even though it hardly is mentioned anywhere). As far as I am concerned, you can consider that a place where either guy (perhaps the one with the lesser contract requirement) could be your RT in 2015 as both are free agents.

 

[NoDak]

Huh, who knew that Sturm is either blind or retarded?

Zero sacks.

 

[boozeman]

 

[boozeman]

 

[Texas Ace]

Marc Colombo is on the scout team, eh?

 

[Texas Ace]

Oh, wonderful.

More ammunition for an already retarded football fanbase to use to minimize oir accomplishments.

So, did those assholes also admit to screwing up the offensive P.I. the play before Williams' TD that wiped out a 1st down?

Jerks.

 

[Rev]

So damn sick of seeing them tell the lions they missed something. How about just admitting that it was a bad officiated game all around? Is that really so hard to do?

 

[Smitty]

And I know everybody is going to shit on PFF but they actually look at every play unlike us.

Parnell was far from awful.

So.... Romo was the worst player on the field?

 

[Simpleton]

The media can go suck a bag of dicks, there are horrendous calls and missed calls in every single game, every single week.