Averaging 110 yards a game. 47 carries. #3 in rushing in the league. Has NEVER started in an NFL game. Go Tate GO! http://www.nfl.com/videos/auto/09000d5d8226475a/Tate-s-great-start (He's not much of an interview though from what I've seen / heard this season)
Houston Texans inside the game. 20min video on the week 2 win, and what lies ahead in week 3 vs the Saints. http://www.houstontexans.com/tv-med...ember-18/b6488c61-d677-4c06-9234-988c976ce37f
Situations do matter but in this case, I am not sure. The players in Dallas were well versed in his system and had enjoyed success with said system and then last year poof! And this was a veteran, experienced defensive team full of players who definitely did not suck that crashed and burned. Garrett actually had more to overcome on the offensive side with the loss of Romo to injury and he did a far better job than did Wade who faced no such obstacle. By the time he was let go, Wade was completely befuddled as to just what went wrong with his defense and that is what concerns me the most about him.
Setup for failure you say? Well nearly everyone in this universe apparently understands this fact with the exception of the Jones family. Wade was HC in name only - all of the true decisions were made by Stephen and Jerry behind the scenes. Wade was the talking head that showed up for press conferences to tout the official line. But he had complete control over the defense from design to play calling. Point is, the Cows defense should not have been that bad especially considering how well they'd performed in the previous years. That was a major crash and burn job all right. But hey! It got Jason Garrett hired so maybe it was worth it (note the extreme sarcasm of that last remark). Thanks for clearing that up. I thought Ogbonnaya had shown enough in preseason to pass both Ward and Slayton.
Ogbonnaya was as average as possible in the preseason...he did nothing impressive, other than carry the ball many, many times. He had 14 more carries than anyone else in the preseason...yet he rushed for 3.6 ypc, which ranks him 100th in the NFL. Sorry, but the guy has no place on an NFL roster, let alone be ahead of Ward and Slaton on the depth chart.
this he literally had a lot of numbers because he got a ton of touches. I would be really worried about the team if he had any place on it. He was a complete nothing in the running game and maybe serviceable receiving out of the backfield.
I guess not a real surprise but from PFT: Kubiak confirms that Ben Tate is lead back for now wp.me/p14QSB-Eu4
Good news if true, since I have him in my fantasy roster, but PFT soured me a bit after their bogus report that Walters had a broken shoulder and would be out 10-12 weeks.
PFT posts articles that come from other media...when they reported that, they got the news from Houston media, not something they investigated and tried to distribute. They just report what they hear.
Semi-understandable, but if I just reported what I heard, I'd be wrong a lot of the time. Seems like a media outlet should do better than that.
No such thing as accountability within the media today. Nobody cares if you're wrong 99 times....if you break a story on the 100th time, you all of a sudden have credibility, and all of your past sins are absolved. Just ask Peter King.
Hey, Hillboy - as stated, they had success, they had talent - why are those 8 games so troubling while the previous 48 (or whatever) are irrelevant? I've asked this of you often; you've never addressed it satisfactorily, imo. And I don't buy, "the league caught up to him." Very plausible, generally speaking - but he's been doing this for 30 years: do you really think it took them that long? Look, I'm at a loss to explain it, too. But I fall back on history - Capers imploded as a head coach, won a Super Bowl as a DC; Gregg Williams - same thing. Freed of head coaching obligations, however crippling, I think allows them to hyper-focus on what they do best. And we’re absolutely seeing a positive impact here. You can discredit the opponents – but that defense last year didn’t force turnovers, rush the passer or make stops. It just didn’t. Couldn’t, really.
I think one big factor in Dallas' D demise was the effects of neglect towards the secondary. The aggressiveness of this scheme borrows on faith that the secondary can be on an island and hold its own. Dallas swung in a big way from an outstanding 2009 season (19 passing TDs allowed) to junk last season (33 - tying us for worst in the NFL). The dependance on sending 4-5 guys virtually every down puts you in danger of giving up a big play. Seems to me like that Newman/Sensabaugh/Jenkins weren't able to shoulder that much pressure and needed help.
