Cowboys Faithful, say hello to your 2011 offensive line. While you're at it, take a very close look at the attached signs. Aberration or Reality? Which will it be? In exactly 6 days the Cowboys front office and coaching staff are going to roll out this apparatus in NYC and pray. How strong is your Faith, Silver and Blue Nation? Do you have the stomach for it? If anyone has connections with a Higher Power, now might be the time to hit your knees and ask for mercy and grace. Tony Romo will appreciate any and all connections you have. To call the front office and coaching staff's decisions regarding the offensive front wall a "gamble" would be a gargantuan understatement. Youth, inexperience and lack of a full off-season is standing at the roulette table with your entire life bet on red or black. Right now the wheel is spinning wildly, and the ball is yet to land. Where will it ultimately fall?
Fall is a formative word, and the Cowboys cannot afford to have QB Tony Romo take another season-ending fall. You can bet the house that these newcomers will give it their all, and they will be ultra determined to prove the brain trust correct, but reality says there will be mistakes. Football is a game of inches and mistakes, and these two factors are usually the determinants in deciding winners and losers every week. Mistakes, as long as they're miniscule, can be tolerated, but missed blocking assignments, especially in max protect alignments will send a 100K screaming, home fans into a state of shock, gasping for air. It's not going to be a season for faint-hearted and the non-tolerant.
And if that weren't enough unrest of your Blue and Silver hearts, try these two gigantic question marks on for size as you pull on your game-day jerseys. Are you totally comfortable with these two trying to keep Santonio Holmes and Plaxico Burress under wraps Sunday night in front of multi-millions of onlookers world-wide? Cowboys Nation, you must remember the defensive unit is still trying to rapidly digest and comprehend the Rob Ryan scheme. If the front seven, and any blitzing personnel, are not able to get to Mark Sanchez with regular consistency, you can just replace both jersey nameplates with "Toast."
Fair?
Maybe not, but until thrown to the field of live bullets, no one will know. Neither of these guys the Cowboys are banking heavily on have seen the field of play this year, and no one has confidently said Newman is even going to be "a go" come Sunday night. Could be high-time for Mr. "Money Bags" Scandrick to start earning those "Big Faces" and the mucho dinero Jerry decided to toss his way. Folks, seriously, how's the confidence level as it pertains to CB play?
None of this is being presented as a "wet blanket." It's reality of the strongest dose, and the question needs to be asked, "How tolerant and patient will you be?" The famed Six Flags theme park out the Arlington way doesn't have this many twists, turns, curves, ups and downs. If they haven't built it yet, the Cowboys roller coaster is coming to television sets everywhere. Just make sure your safety bars are securely-fastened. We don't want anyone falling off the bandwagon as soon as Mr. Jerry's wild ride takes it's first sharp left-hand turn. Screaming, however, is always permitted. Please keep all appendages in the passenger compartment at all times.........
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