The Cowboys Real Problem

Yesterday’s loss comes down to one major issue that continues to be a problem for Dallas… Pass Defense.  I know the running game was a no show yesterday but at least Marion and Julius have proved this season the running game can work and work well.

The pass defense has yet to show me anything, last season and this season.  Unless it improves soon teams will continue to pick the Cowboys apart.

Tony and Jessica are Having a Baby

Well, not yet.  But if you believe the tabloids, Jessica is said to be “feverishly” trying to conceive.  The gossip sight The Bosh is even reporting that Jessica Simpson mistakenly read a pregnancy test, then told Tony Romo’s Family she was pregnant.  Supposedly the family was furious!

Cowboy fans wouldn’t be happy either.  With the season of dreams nearly upon us, at this point, the only “Baby”, Tony should be dealing with is Martellus Bennett.

Martellus Bennett, I Played Football with A Guy Like You

 

Every team in America has a Martellus Bennett.  When I played Pop Warner football we had one, when I played in High School football we had one and when I played in college we had one.  I am talking about the guy with tremendous ability who thinks he is too good to go full speed during practice, too good to pay full attention to the coaching staff and to good to be perceived as an “eager beaver.”

The latest episode of Hard Knocks once again paints the Cowboy’s rookie tight end Martellus Bennett as lazy and uninterested.  He better get interested fast or he may turn out to be the Cowboys next Bobby Carpenter.  I realize Bennett has tremendous talent, the coaches do too.  But just as Tank Johnson’s enthusiasm for the game is contagious so is Bennett’s apparent lack of interest.

Martellus, you have been given a gift and being paid handsomely to use that gift.  Don’t let the team that is paying you down, and don’t let the fans down.  There are a million young men who would love to have the opportunity to play in the NFL.

NOTE:  As a TV man I do realize the producers of Hard Knocks, in thier quest for compelling story lines, can make Martellus look worse than he really is.  Let’s hope that is what is happening.

Jessica and Tony Pics from Cowboys Camp

Well we knew it would happen, and yes I am late on reporting the news, but Jessica Simpson finally made her trip to visit Tony at Cowboys Camp in Oxnard.  She apparently had jaws dropping, just not my secret agents jaws dropping, Sam and CJ missed the whole thing.

You can see the Pics courtesy of the Gossip Girls, click it here.

I would have gotten to this earlier but I am involved in covering this Crypto outbreak in North Texas.  Though we all secretly realize more people care about Tony and Jessica then Cryptosporidium, I still have an image to uphold that I am a real news man.

Wade and His Gangsta Wardrobe

Ron Jenkins Star-Telegram

I had to laugh when I saw this picture of Cowboys Head Coach Wade Phillips in the Star-T this morning.  Is he trying to make some kind of bizarre effort to fit in with his players?  Those are about as big and baggy as shorts can get.  I thought they were reserved for the youngsters being targeted by Dallas’s failed “Pull Up Your Pants” campaign.

He could hide Pac Man Jones in those shorts.  Do they double as his wife’s living room curtains?  Wade, I love you man, but your pushing senior citizen status and those shorts are just plain silly, unless you wear them with suspenders and big red shoes.

How about a nice pair of khaki Nike golf shorts?  Even blue ones with a nice pleat in front would work.  For some reason you just don’t pull off the “Gang Banger” look very well.  While we are at it, get some ankle socks too, the Doctor J. look is out as well.

 

Free PR Advice for Tony Romo

 

If Tony has a publicist and you know who it is, please forward this post to them.  Tony needs to learn how to deal with the Jessica Simpson saga.  Instead of remaining quiet and aloof about the subject embrace it.  Providing the two are very close and still going strong, which it sounds like they are, Tony needs to find a message that will get everyone off his back.

The biggest fear Cowboys fans have is that Jessica Simpson is a “distraction.”  To counter those fears Tony needs to come clean and say this:

“I am deeply in love with Jessica and she is a positive force in my life.  Not only do I feel happy around her, but she is a calming supportive voice.  When I am around her I feel at ease.  I no longer have a desire to go out and party all night long, I would rather spend an evening at home with her.  She has an amazing way of keeping me focused.”

That takes all the ammunition away from critics.  Plus, when you are trying to hide something, people always perceive a problem.  Try it Tony, you may find all the people that interview you will then be totally disarmed and even happy for you.

Tony Romo Wants Carrie Underwood Back?

…. Maybe so, if you believe Jessica Simpson.  Reports are now surfacing that Jessica can get insanely jealous by Tony’s constant communication via, emails and text messages with his ex-girlfriend, Carrie Underwood.

MSNBC quotes a friend of Jessica’s who claims Jessica asked Tony to stop all communication with Carrie Underwood.  Truth is, I can’t blame her.  I wouldn’t be happy if my wife was emailing and texting one of her old boyfriends, especially if he was a millionaire entertainer!

Tony doesn’t need the money, but we are getting close to training camp where he doesn’t need all the distractions either.  Why can’t he just find a nice girl from Garland!

Terrell Owens Now on the “Watch List”

Terrell Owens has been quiet as a church mouse this summer.  No controversy, no outrageous claims, no trouble making, no nothing.  That is until he missed a very important phone call, from the NFL. 

How did he miss that call?

Maybe T.O. was at Yoga class with the phone turned off when the NFL called.  Maybe the ‘212′ number looked very similar to Bill Parcels new cell phone.  Maybe he thought the NFL was calling to see if he could volunteer for a United Way commercial.  It turns out the NFL was calling to schedule a random drug test. 

T.O. missed that test and is now on the NFL’s “reasonable cause” drug testing program.  The big question is: why did T.O. miss that test?  He says the NFL had agent Drerw Rosenhaus’s number and his agent never gave him the message.  But in a word with Texting, Instant Messaging, cell phones, I-Phones, Blackberries, the list goes on, how do you not get the message.  That leaves one last question: Did T.O. miss the test on purpose?

T.O. does have the body of a sculpted Greek statue, he runs faster then the road runner and he does have some emotional ups and downs.  (Remember, “That’s my quarterback man. sniffle sniffle.”)  But I have never seen him show any rage.  My gut tells me T.O. is NOT using any performance enhancing drugs, but he’s not using common sense either.  Next time the NFL calls, just answer the phone!

Cedric Benson, The Next Cowboy?

Seeing that Jerry Jones has become the newest “Father Flanagan” to NFL bad boys, why not sign RB Cedric Benson?  Apparently the now former Bears running back loves Texas.  On Saturday Austin Police arrested Jones for driving while intoxicated.  That arrest came 5 weeks after police arrested him for boating while intoxicated on Lake Travis.

Surely Jerry Jones can turn Benson’s woes around.  He can change the name from “Valley Ranch” to “Jerry’s Home for Troubled Young Adult Millionaires who Play Football.” 

Terrel Owens, Tank Johnson, Pac Man Jones, why not Cedric Benson.  Some fans might say the Cowboys  have all the running back talent they need.  But that’s not the point.  Jerry has a higher calling.  To help and save young men from the trouble they bring on themselves. 

Stars Need to Win, Or Else

I’m not a hockey fan, I really don’t even like the sport.  But when it’s all that left in the Big D what is a sports fan to do?  The  Rangers are already out of it, the Mavs are in my dog house, and NFL draft day is over.  That leaves me forced to watch a bunch of white guys with broken noses skate around a rink doing something most people have never done in their lives.

With that said, the Stars need to know, all of Dallas’s sports hopes and dreams rest on their shoulders.  Please, please, please, do not blow this 3-0 lead against San Jose.  We have had to endure the Mavs blow it all three times including their loss to Miami in the finials two years ago.  Don’t even start me on the Cowboys, the fumble, the Giants!

I never expected the Stars to go to the Stanley Cup much less win it.  But once they went up 3-0 in this seriers, why not the Stanley Cup?  I will say this now, if the Stars do blow this seriers, maybe Dallas sports teams really are jinxed.  I’m not saying that yet, but the possibility exists.