Week 11 Analysis: 9-1

Well, a win is a win...right? uh...Right?

Offense:
Romo and the player must be telecommunicating. That's the only way to explain it. They think the same thing at the same time.

As you can tell from my opening sentences, this was a frustrating game to watch. Even though the offense dominated most of the game, a few of the mistakes were too much for me to take. We had a snap sail over Romo's head, another snap bounced off of his head (but conveniently into the hands of JuJo).

It was sloppy, but the offense still managed to put up some amazing numbers. Romo threw for 293 yards, 4 TDs and 1 INT. All four of the TDs belonged to the player, who was by far the leading receiver of the game, piling up 173 yards. Witten was a distant second with 8 catches for 67 yards, but for the past few games has been pulled back to block much more than the first half of the season.

Running the ball was a struggle. MB3 was the lead rusher with 43 yards on 15 attempts. JuJo had 27 on 9. Eh...let's hope for a better turkey day.

Defense:
Ouch! There's not really much I can say. The defense continues to be incredibly inconsistent.

This game should not have gone down to the last play as it did. We were excellent at stopping the run...but we have a few kinks to work out when defending the air attack. Everything just shut down in the fourth quarter, giving the skins a chance to comeback.

Roy Williams led the team with 8 tackles. T. Newman had an INT. Oh, and Anthony Henry saw some action...good to see that his recovery is going well. Hopefully he'll be back to 100% in no time so that we can get both of our top corners in the game at the same time (for pretty much the first time all season, knock on wood).

Other than that, i really don't have a lot to say about the defensive performance. First - Third quarter we were great. Fourth quarter we were non existent. It really looked like the skins were just running some plays as if it was a practice. I guess some credit goes to the Skins offense. So kudos to the skins, but I can think of several times when the closest defender was in a different zip code from the ball. I saw a lack of effort from many of the DBs, hardly jumping for a ball that looked like it could have been batted down, at the minimum. Ugh.

We need to work on some stuff before the Packers game in two weeks. But before that game, we got the Jets on turkey day. Perhaps we'll get it straightened out then?

I'll have another post tomorrow, but that will probably be it for the week. I'll be out o town Wed. - Sat.