Williams: Terrance Williams is growing into a dependable target for Tony Romo

[Cotton]

Terrance Williams is growing into a dependable target for Tony Romo

Cowboys coach Jason Garrett has said repeatedly that rookie Terrance Williams "is growing up right before our eyes." Williams took another step Sunday with two catches for 27 yards and a touchdown, the team's only passing touchdown.

"Terrance has done a really nice job," Garrett said. "He's certainly a very good athlete. He's a big guy. He's got speed and quickness and good natural route running ability. But as much as anything else, it's just his work ethic. It's really important to him. He works very hard at it. He learns from the experience he has, both good and bad, and he really grows. A real tribute to the approach he takes each week."

Williams entered the game with 16 catches for 282 yards and a touchdown. That included 11 catches for 222 yards and a touchdown in the two games Miles Austin missed with a hamstring strain.

Williams, a third-round draft pick, has made huge strides since he ran a wrong route on an audible call against the Giants in the season opener, costing Tony Romo an interception.

"I think that he’s got just a lot of will," Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said. "He’s a player that it just breaks his heart to basically mess up, so to speak, and he’s just continually fighting through that and trying to get better, and you’re seeing him right before our eyes and Romo seeing him really be the playmaker that we hoped he might become when he was at Baylor. He made a lot of plays there, but he was under different circumstances than right here. But he again, he really gave us a lift there in the early going of this game."

-- Charean Williams

 

[VA Cowboy]

I hope TW becomes a consistent reliable starter and we can be done with Miles Austin. I also like what I see of Beasley and his Welker impersonation.

 

[lostxn]

I hope TW becomes a consistent reliable starter and we can be done with Miles Austin. I also like what I see of Beasley and his Welker impersonation.

I agree the kid looks great. I just wish Austin would get his fire back. He just looks pitiful out there.

 

[ravidubey]

I hope TW becomes a consistent reliable starter and we can be done with Miles Austin. I also like what I see of Beasley and his Welker impersonation.

I'm begrudgingly beginning to agree about Beasley. He's a very limited player, but he does short yardage very well and it made a difference last night.

The sky is the limit for Williams. This guy can be as good as anyone if he remains coachable.

 

[Rev]

I agree the kid looks great. I just wish Austin would get his fire back. He just looks pitiful out there.

Ive been done with him for awhile. He was just a shiny piece for awhile but he is just going through the motions after the contract. I would love to cut him and see if we can get Tevin Reese from Baylor as a slot guy.

 

[VA Cowboy]

I agree the kid looks great. I just wish Austin would get his fire back. He just looks pitiful out there.

He's awful. When he's not hurt he just disappears for long stretches at a time. Very consistently inconsistent and unreliable.

I'm begrudgingly beginning to agree about Beasley. He's a very limited player, but he does short yardage very well and it made a difference last night.

The sky is the limit for Williams. This guy can be as good as anyone if he remains coachable.

If we use him correctly he can fill a niche and fill it quite well. I agree I didn't expect much out of him but he could very easily be a Welker type for us.

 

[jester]

I'm begrudgingly beginning to agree about Beasley. He's a very limited player, but he does short yardage very well and it made a difference last night.

The sky is the limit for Williams. This guy can be as good as anyone if he remains coachable.

There is a role for a short yardage possession receiver on this squad. And I'm ok if Beasly fills that spot.
As for Williams' he's shown weekly improvement from a rookie wr not seen in a while

 

[boozeman]

I just wish we didn't have cap albatrosses like Ratliff and Austin killing this team. We could actually do something.

 

[Angrymesscan]

The only problem I have with Beasley, is I think Harris should be that guy, he's sure handed and might break one every now and then.

 

[ravidubey]

I just wish we didn't have cap albatrosses like Ratliff and Austin killing this team. We could actually do something.

And there will be many more fill-in-the-blank cap albatrosses to follow. It's Jerry Jones' way: Use preposterous, huge contracts as a cover for...

1) Boasting that the Cowboys' awesome wildcatting GM has found yet another "elite" player.
2) Lazily and incompetently passing over other talented players because the need is "already covered" because "the salary cap dictates it".
3) Purchasing friends (granting them direct owner-to-buddy access and undermining coaches).
4) Maintaining the illusion that the Cowboys are "loaded with talent" to sell and stay rich.

Then to perpetuate all of the above, Jerry does his best to guarantee starting positions to any purchased trophy case player or coveted draft choice (crippling team competition).

Daniel Snyder does this too as he's already got RGIII believing the hype that he's bigger than the coach and all the other players combined.

This shat is the worst kind of poison for the game.