You Blew It!: Cowboys 18, Redskins 16

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqPRwq3QJsk

You were offered a chance to be 3-0, beat the Bama Cowboys on Monday Night Football, and you blew it.  YOU BLEW IT.

Romo was in too much pain to breathe much, his center snapped the ball at-will (of course we never recovered any of the fumbles), and the wide receivers didn't know where to run, but you blew it, Redskins coaches, you blitzed on third and a million, and you couldn't run the g-damn ball.

And Rex Grossman?  You are a friggin' horror movie.  You can only watch him peeking through the hand that his covering your eyes in sheer terror.

Without a strong running game, Rex Grossman is not going to be that great.  And by not great, I mean extremely dangerous.  Hightower couldn't get more than 2 or 3 yards a carry, so as the game went on, the play action to set up downfield passes became less and less effective.  By the end of the game, DeMarcus Ware was in the backfield ruining everything.  Grossman had 1 terrible interception, but could have had at least 2 more.


And Jim Haslett, why blitz on 3rd and 21?  Why?  We're not asking for loser-prevent defense--we're asking for normal defense.  If you give up a 16 yard pass there--that's OK!  Because 21 - 16 = 5.  Get it, Jim?  The defense kept the Cowboys out of the end zone, but we're talking about hospital bed Romo.  He could not go downfield.  His fragile state must have crept into their subconscious because they did not pummel and pound him into Romo bits.  It reminds me of that scene in Swingers--"How am I supposed to kill the bunny.  With these claws!?  How?"  They didn't destroy Romo because that would have been the obvious thing to do.

3rd and 21.  Here's the dialogue that went through my head in the 2 seconds before the ball was snapped and the ball got into Romo's hands:

How much time is going to be left when they punt it....how many timeouts...no, no, no its Romo on ESPN oh shit...shit....shit.....

So 2-1 feels like kind of crap.