I believe this was Wade Phillips exact words to the Cowboys before they took the field against the New York Giants last night. Good thing because it came true, the Giants had a rape party last night (again) at Cowboys stadium. Although the Cowboys didn't come out flat, they fell flat, once again, into oblivion. Let’s just get straight to the point. Fire Wade Phillips. Let’s get this over with. He has the Cowboys playing, to quote Ronald Lee Ermey, (Therapist in the Geico commercials) in Mamby Pamby land. The Giants flat out embarrassed the Cowboys, giving it to them so hard as if the Cowboys were Rachel Nichols after an interview.
As if the Cowboys defense thinking that it was their bye week and completely forgetting to show up wasn't embarrassing enough, watching Tony Romo squirm (or as Kevin Harlan said...CONTORTED on the ground...shut up Harlan) about on the ground after a vicious (but very legitimate) knock by LB Michael Boley, this laughing stock of a season for the Cowboys has now become too much to bare. Last week the believers that the Cowboys could salvage their season and make a playoff run were an endangered species. After last nights massacre and the loss of Romo for up to 10 weeks, those believers are now extinct. Pack it up, it is finished. Period. Peer--ee--ud.
Look at what happened to the Cowboys as soon as Romo went out. The players showed that they have the heart of The Grinch before he hears all of those idiots down in Who Ville singing and holding hands as if they didn't have any problems to deal with. I've never seen the Cowboys defense get absolutely shredded like that since the Dave Campo era. (Hey JJ, Campo was a clown as your head coach and he's a clown as your secondary coach....Eli, Hakeem Nicks and Steve Smith were having a toss out there on your secondary!) Brandon Jacobs and Ahmad Bradshaw absolutely gouged the Cowboys defense, running through countless arm tackles and air heaves for a combined 200 yards. On a side note, the Cowboys running backs ran like they were quadriplegics compiling a whopping 41 yards.
At least we had Jon Kitna waiting on the sideline to take over at a moments notice for Romo. Wait! This guy hasn't taken an NFL snap in 3 years? Wait! His last snap was with the Detroit Lions? Thank God! Speaking of which, Romo said that God has a plan for everyone and that his broken clavicle was just part of Gods plan. Good, now I can stop blaming Romo for fumbling the extra point snap in
So with Romo out and Kitna in, the Cowboys tires popped and they spun out of control. It took Kitna 6 drives before he could get a first down. The line looked slow as ever and Kitna's arm goes back and then forward like a rusty trombone. Jason Witten is all of a sudden unreliable (He fumbled in a drive where Kitna actually had the boys moving) and was called for a false start penalty. Both he and Miles Austin have uncharacteristically dropped a number of balls this year. Miles needs to call up Kim Kardashian right now and get back together with her; the Kardashian curse is haunting this team.
Things started off so well for the Cowboys. Eli came out firing pick after pick that seemed to fall into the Cowboys laps. Still they could only manage 10 points off of his first two picks. They also got a fumble from Jacobs and still they could not keep the momentum. The Cowboys probably lack energy, enthusiasm, and preparation because during the practice week they're all falling asleep in Wade Phillips' meetings. Can this guy light a fire under some ones ass please? Get in your players faces, get mad....get some results! Simple Jack, the obvious offspring of Norv Turner and Wade Phillips, could probably motivate this team better and maybe even coach them better as well. I am against firing coaches midseason when there is still is a ray of hope, but the Cowboys light has expired. Wade Phillips needs to waddle out into a pasture and join the rest of the worthless coaches who are not fit for the NFL.
After Eli and the Giants offense were tired of tossing the Cowboys around, they tried to gift wrap them a few plays by handing the ball back to
A few other things: Why not go for a field goal on that 4th down when the score was 38-20? The MNF crew knew that it was an obvious brain fart on the Cowboys but of course the Simple Jack's on the sidelines couldn't figure it out. Give yourself a mathematical chance to stay in the game! Stop acting like your playing a varsity blues game and play real football. However, I do think I'd rather have James Vanderbeek at QB than John Kitna. Can we get Kurt Warner out of his Dancing With the Stars responsibilities, let "The Situation" take that worthless crown, and get the former MVP to play some Q for the boys?
Also, Igor Olishansky: Stop celebrating meaningless tackles in the 4th quarter when your teams down double digits. The loss is embarrassing enough.
Ever since I started this blog the Cowboys have been terrible. Maybe I'll give it a rest and see how they play.
The Cowboys play the Jaguars on Halloween...maybe they can dress up like a football team.
