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Remember when we kept telling ourselves, "We're just showing our base defense sets I bet!" when we were doing bad?That was definitely dominating but you could tell those were a lot of base defensive sets for the Cowboys.
I remember on one of the Romosacks that Mario stunted A gap and Quinn was already coming in on a blitz. That's certainly fairly exotic for our blitzes.
I remember on one of the Romosacks that Mario stunted A gap and Quinn was already coming in on a blitz. That's certainly fairly exotic for our blitzes.
No, I don't think so. The Cowboys were out 5 starters, I'm more worried that we're going to come in to the regular season game saying they were pushovers in the preseason.
We did the same thing last week against New Orleans. We kept screwing the pooch and killing our own drives with boneheaded mistakes. We probably aren't that much better than the Cowboys or worse than the Saints. I don't want to sound negative after a win or anything. I'm not. I just think that a better game from our opponent would have told us more about our progress and helped us more in the long run.
This is a concern I have. The Texans can't stroll into work in week three expecting a pushover opponent because of this game and until they prove they've matured enough not to do that I'm afraid it might happen.
I really feel like the Cowboys were just miserable tonight and a lot of that was on them. They couldn't get out of their own way and kept making boneheaded mistakes that a focused, in sync team simply won't make. As a result we don't really know how we compare to them.
We did the same thing last week against New Orleans. We kept screwing the pooch and killing our own drives with boneheaded mistakes. We probably aren't that much better than the Cowboys or worse than the Saints. I don't want to sound negative after a win or anything. I'm not. I just think that a better game from our opponent would have told us more about our progress and helped us more in the long run.
This is a concern I have. The Texans can't stroll into work in week three expecting a pushover opponent because of this game and until they prove they've matured enough not to do that I'm afraid it might happen.
I really feel like the Cowboys were just miserable tonight and a lot of that was on them. They couldn't get out of their own way and kept making boneheaded mistakes that a focused, in sync team simply won't make. As a result we don't really know how we compare to them.
We did the same thing last week against New Orleans. We kept screwing the pooch and killing our own drives with boneheaded mistakes. We probably aren't that much better than the Cowboys or worse than the Saints. I don't want to sound negative after a win or anything. I'm not. I just think that a better game from our opponent would have told us more about our progress and helped us more in the long run.
That was definitely dominating but you could tell those were a lot of base defensive sets for the Cowboys. Did the Texans screw themselves a few weeks form now to look good in the preseason?
Defensively, it looked like they knew we weren't going to come after them at all on any of their three wide stuff, which we didn't, and they took advantage of that and then they had four wides and empty sets that we hadn't worked on and thats my fault. We weren't really prepared for that and they did a good job of executing. We had base stuff and its hard to cover all that. Preparation wise, I didn't really do a good job there.
(on anticipating three and four wides) No, I anticipated three wides. I didn't anticipate four wides and they had run it before, but we didn't go over it well with our guys and we had real matchup problem. We just played and the next time we'll have something else for them.
I thought (QB) Tony (Romo) started throwing the ball well. I think he hit thirteen out of eighteen. Of course one of them bounced off our guy and goes to theirs for an interception. We moved the ball and had the ball down there in scoring position and turned the ball over in the pitch and turned the ball over when a ball bounced off one guy to another. We can execute better, but I did see a glimpse of hope there. They've got a good football team. They're ready to play. All our players can see that after this ball game. We go on the road and we're going to have to be prepared to be able to run the ball better and stop the run better.
This is a concern I have. The Texans can't stroll into work in week three expecting a pushover opponent because of this game and until they prove they've matured enough not to do that I'm afraid it might happen.
I really feel like the Cowboys were just miserable tonight and a lot of that was on them. They couldn't get out of their own way and kept making boneheaded mistakes that a focused, in sync team simply won't make. As a result we don't really know how we compare to them.
We did the same thing last week against New Orleans. We kept screwing the pooch and killing our own drives with boneheaded mistakes. We probably aren't that much better than the Cowboys or worse than the Saints. I don't want to sound negative after a win or anything. I'm not. I just think that a better game from our opponent would have told us more about our progress and helped us more in the long run.
Schaub has had some success against teams that try to blitz him.
I have already heard "this was the Texans Super bowl" so .....blaaa
Cowboys have not looked good this preseason esp with all the talk of them wanting home field advantage when it comes to Super Bowl talk
We showed more than the Cowboys did.
In years past the Cowboys would come in and push us around just because they were bigger faster and stronger, times have changed.
I'd also love to read HFrog, and Starstruck's opinions on the Cowboys schemes and packages (heh heh heh).
http://espn.go.com/blog/dallas/cowboysJerry Jones: Fatigue not a factor
HOUSTON -- The Cowboys' training camp/marketing tour has concluded after six stops and more than five weeks.
It didn't end well. The Cowboys' starters were thoroughly dominated in the last two preseason games.
Owner/general manager/ringmaster Jerry Jones doesn't see a correlation between travel or the length of camp and the Cowboys' preseason duds.
"The most bouncing around, the most miles weve ever traveled, we won three championships," Jerry said, referring to preseason games played out of the country before the Cowboys' three Super Bowl seasons under his watch. "Last week, we had a very light week and we had it in great weather. We had the coldest weather probably in the United States and we had a very light week.
"Apart from the fact that youre at the end of a four- or five-week run, you might point to it, but I wouldnt think [fatigue would be a factor] after the week that we had."
Wade Phillips pointed to fatigue last week, offering it as an excuse for the starters' sorry effort in San Diego. He responded by basically making the final week of camp an all-expenses paid resort vacation. The Cowboys hardly wore shoulder pads the last week in Oxnard, and contact was limited even when they did.
There was no reason for the Cowboys to have tired legs in Houston. Maybe they were a mentally fatigued team, but that's sort of a synonym for soft.
The Cowboys didn't look surprised at all. I can't even say how freaking stupid it was we played them in preseason. What a dumb idea. How about next year we schedule 4 teams who aren't on the regular season schedule? Is that too difficult?
I think that is a ridiculous assertion.
We overcompensated with a ridiculous amount of shotgun on purpose to be different from preseason. They had our big passing plays sniffed out. Its ridiculous to assert that this entire past week our staff or the Cowboys' staff never brought up plays they ran in the preseason game. You can bet every play ran was reviewed on some level.
Absolutely they reviewed every possible play. But to assert that the Texans lost this game because the played the 'gurls in the preseason is ridiculous.
All I'm asserting is that the surprise factor of our offense's more basic stuff was taken away when we ran it all in preseason. We had to delve deeper into the playbook into all this shotgun stuff. We had to throw out a chunk of the playbook out because of the preseason game. You don't think the results today would've been different if this was their first look at us in 3 years?