2013 NFL Season

[Lone Sailor]

Lol? That is a pretty goofy post.

You've missed some good football.

He hasn't watched a single game, so clearly he would know if good football was being played or not.

[Trip McNeely]

This seems like the worst football season in a decade. Only one possibly worse that comes to mind is 2003 (the year of the raiders/bucs Super Bowl)
But what do i know, i havent watched a single game this year. Might give it a shot tonight.

I hear you. A lot of good teams have gone bust, and shitty teams have found ways to pull wins out of their asses. Then you have the Cowboys who have maintained a mediocre season winning barely if they do, and losing horribly when they lose. It's definitely been a weird season that's for sure.

[momo]

Just very disinterested in the sport right now. I think the cowboys have a lot to do with it but also I've cut a lot of tv out of my life.

Almost made it to half time.

[dsrtuckteezy]

Just very disinterested in the sport right now. I think the cowboys have a lot to do with it but also I've cut a lot of tv out of my life.

Almost made it to half time.

well, good thing you put in your 2 cents! i was lost with out it..

[Lone Sailor]

Jerry Jones: No staff changes
Tim MacMahon
ESPNDallas.com | November 12, 2013

IRVING, Texas -- Jerry Jones sees no reason to shake up the Dallas Cowboys' coaching staff during the bye week, although he does have some direct advice for his coaches.

Jones, the Cowboys' owner/general manager, was adamant on his radio show Tuesday morning that defensive coordinator Monte Kiffin wouldn't be a midseason departure and coach Jason Garrett would not seize play-calling duties from offensive coordinator Bill Callahan.

Both possibilities had been subjects of media speculation in the wake of the Cowboys' 49-17 loss Sunday night to the New Orleans Saints.

"Say it any way you want to, I'm not even going to address -- really, I'm not -- the coaching staff as to whether they're safe or they're not," Jones said on KRLD-FM. "We're 5-5. We're tied for the lead in our division. We've got players coming back. We've got one of the best quarterbacks in the National Football League. We're off of a rough loss.

"That doesn't call for major changes out here at all."

Jones firmly answered "no" when asked about the potential for change in the offensive play-calling duties. Garrett gave up those duties this offseason at the urging of Jones.

Garrett said later Tuesday that he "absolutely" has the power to take over play-calling duties again but does not plan to use it.

"We don't want to overanalyze and overreact to certain situations," Garrett said. "We've done some good stuff on offense and we like the structure we have in place. We have to, as a coaching staff, do a better job. That's everybody. Everybody has a piece of that. We have to do a better job to help our offense do better.

"We're not going to go down that other road."

With Callahan calling plays, the Cowboys rank fourth in the league in scoring at 27.4 points per game. However, they have sputtered offensively since a 51-48 loss to the Denver Broncos in Week 5 and were held to 193 total yards in Sunday's loss to the Saints.

Jones is not satisfied specifically with the way receiver Dez Bryant is being utilized. Bryant has 52 catches for 749 yards and eight touchdowns this season but was targeted only twice against the Saints, who double-teamed him on a consistent basis.

"We need to get him the ball more," Jones said. "I think that's the kind of thing that's a reasonable thing that you can adjust over a two-week period that we're going into with our bye week. How do we work to get him the ball more?"

The Dallas defense, which switched to a 4-3 scheme after the offseason firing of Rob Ryan and hiring of Kiffin, ranks last in the league with an average of 439.8 yards allowed. Dallas has broken the franchise record for yards allowed in two of the past three games, giving up 623 yards in a loss to the Detroit Lions and 625 to the Saints.

Garrett expressed the "utmost confidence" in Kiffin and repeatedly pointed out that the Cowboys are tied for second in the NFL with 22 turnovers forced.

"I don't think drastic scheme changes are needed," Garrett said. "I think you go back and say, 'What have we done well? What haven't we done well?' You build on the stuff you've done well and you maybe minimize some of the stuff that you haven't been as good at."

Jones is optimistic that the defense will drastically improve after the team's bye, when defensive tackle Jason Hatcher, cornerback Morris Claiborne and safety J.J. Wilcox are expected to return from injuries. Starting linebackers Sean Lee and Justin Durant suffered hamstring strains against the Saints that are expected to sideline them for three or four weeks, Jones confirmed.

Kiffin is considered one of the architects of the Tampa 2 scheme, but Jones said the Cowboys need to play more man coverage to succeed with their personnel, considering the injury attrition to the defensive line.

Cowboys Can't Beat Good Foes
The Cowboys are 21-21 since 2011, Jason Garrett's 1st full season as head coach. But the majority of those victories were against below-.500 teams. A breakdown of Dallas' record by opponents' end-of-season winning percentage since 2011*:

OPP. WIN PCT.W-LNFL RANK
*In case of 2013, current season winning percentage used

-- ESPN Stats & Information
Below .50016-25th
.500 or Above5-1927th
"You need to probably man up more in the secondary than we've been doing, rather than relying on zone," Jones said. "Because if we can't get pressure and we're relying on the traditional zone as you might mentally picture it, then that's a recipe for what happened to us the other night."

The Cowboys enter their bye week at .500 after consecutive 8-8 seasons. Dallas, which is trying to end a three-year playoff drought, is tied with the Philadelphia Eagles atop the NFC East standings.

"Certainly, 5-5 is not acceptable," Jones said. "We can say that we were close on all but one of those games. We were competitive and very easily could have won any of those four [other] games that we lost. I would have to say it would be a stretch to say that we should have won or we should have been in there close in New Orleans. You can get pretty critical of everything if you use New Orleans as a basis to criticize on, but in general, yes, I'll take our chances with Kansas City the way we played them up there the second game of the year. We had a chance to win that ballgame and played well enough to win. Denver, we had a chance to win.

"So you look back on those and I don't think you look at what happened to us in New Orleans the other night and become panicky."

[Trip McNeely]

Jerry Jones: No staff changes
Tim MacMahon
ESPNDallas.com | November 12, 2013

IRVING, Texas -- Jerry Jones sees no reason to shake up the Dallas Cowboys' coaching staff during the bye week, although he does have some direct advice for his coaches.

Jones, the Cowboys' owner/general manager, was adamant on his radio show Tuesday morning that defensive coordinator Monte Kiffin wouldn't be a midseason departure and coach Jason Garrett would not seize play-calling duties from offensive coordinator Bill Callahan.

Both possibilities had been subjects of media speculation in the wake of the Cowboys' 49-17 loss Sunday night to the New Orleans Saints.

"Say it any way you want to, I'm not even going to address -- really, I'm not -- the coaching staff as to whether they're safe or they're not," Jones said on KRLD-FM. "We're 5-5. We're tied for the lead in our division. We've got players coming back. We've got one of the best quarterbacks in the National Football League. We're off of a rough loss.

"That doesn't call for major changes out here at all."

Jones firmly answered "no" when asked about the potential for change in the offensive play-calling duties. Garrett gave up those duties this offseason at the urging of Jones.

Garrett said later Tuesday that he "absolutely" has the power to take over play-calling duties again but does not plan to use it.

"We don't want to overanalyze and overreact to certain situations," Garrett said. "We've done some good stuff on offense and we like the structure we have in place. We have to, as a coaching staff, do a better job. That's everybody. Everybody has a piece of that. We have to do a better job to help our offense do better.

"We're not going to go down that other road."

With Callahan calling plays, the Cowboys rank fourth in the league in scoring at 27.4 points per game. However, they have sputtered offensively since a 51-48 loss to the Denver Broncos in Week 5 and were held to 193 total yards in Sunday's loss to the Saints.

Jones is not satisfied specifically with the way receiver Dez Bryant is being utilized. Bryant has 52 catches for 749 yards and eight touchdowns this season but was targeted only twice against the Saints, who double-teamed him on a consistent basis.

"We need to get him the ball more," Jones said. "I think that's the kind of thing that's a reasonable thing that you can adjust over a two-week period that we're going into with our bye week. How do we work to get him the ball more?"

The Dallas defense, which switched to a 4-3 scheme after the offseason firing of Rob Ryan and hiring of Kiffin, ranks last in the league with an average of 439.8 yards allowed. Dallas has broken the franchise record for yards allowed in two of the past three games, giving up 623 yards in a loss to the Detroit Lions and 625 to the Saints.

Garrett expressed the "utmost confidence" in Kiffin and repeatedly pointed out that the Cowboys are tied for second in the NFL with 22 turnovers forced.

"I don't think drastic scheme changes are needed," Garrett said. "I think you go back and say, 'What have we done well? What haven't we done well?' You build on the stuff you've done well and you maybe minimize some of the stuff that you haven't been as good at."

Jones is optimistic that the defense will drastically improve after the team's bye, when defensive tackle Jason Hatcher, cornerback Morris Claiborne and safety J.J. Wilcox are expected to return from injuries. Starting linebackers Sean Lee and Justin Durant suffered hamstring strains against the Saints that are expected to sideline them for three or four weeks, Jones confirmed.

Kiffin is considered one of the architects of the Tampa 2 scheme, but Jones said the Cowboys need to play more man coverage to succeed with their personnel, considering the injury attrition to the defensive line.

Cowboys Can't Beat Good Foes
The Cowboys are 21-21 since 2011, Jason Garrett's 1st full season as head coach. But the majority of those victories were against below-.500 teams. A breakdown of Dallas' record by opponents' end-of-season winning percentage since 2011*:

OPP. WIN PCT.W-LNFL RANK
*In case of 2013, current season winning percentage used

-- ESPN Stats & Information
Below .50016-25th
.500 or Above5-1927th
"You need to probably man up more in the secondary than we've been doing, rather than relying on zone," Jones said. "Because if we can't get pressure and we're relying on the traditional zone as you might mentally picture it, then that's a recipe for what happened to us the other night."

The Cowboys enter their bye week at .500 after consecutive 8-8 seasons. Dallas, which is trying to end a three-year playoff drought, is tied with the Philadelphia Eagles atop the NFC East standings.

"Certainly, 5-5 is not acceptable," Jones said. "We can say that we were close on all but one of those games. We were competitive and very easily could have won any of those four [other] games that we lost. I would have to say it would be a stretch to say that we should have won or we should have been in there close in New Orleans. You can get pretty critical of everything if you use New Orleans as a basis to criticize on, but in general, yes, I'll take our chances with Kansas City the way we played them up there the second game of the year. We had a chance to win that ballgame and played well enough to win. Denver, we had a chance to win.

"So you look back on those and I don't think you look at what happened to us in New Orleans the other night and become panicky."

"We're 5-5. Nothing to see here. Everything is good."

[dsrtuckteezy]

carolina with a 6 game win streak...what's that about??

[Trip McNeely]

That no call was bullshit. Carolina should not have won that game.

[dsrtuckteezy]

bill is such a titty baby lol

[mstng86]

Should have been another play at the goal line. Weak ass bullshit.

[Nash B.]

Carlos is going to pull out his hair over this loss!

[Lone Sailor]

That no call was bullshit. Carolina should not have won that game.

Yeah, Carolina totally should not have won, especially since it wasn't like New England had 59 minuets and 57 seconds before that play in order to score more points and/or play better defensively.

[idrivea4banger]

Fuck you Carolina!!!!!!!!!!!

[dsrtuckteezy]

Should have been another play at the goal line.

no doubt. if a ref throws a flag, a call needs to be made.

i hate when they throw a flag, and call no penalty. well, why did they throw the fucking flag then?

[mstng86]

Lmao at Steve smiths post game interview.