Ya'll crack me up about the Weeden/Romo debate. If we're better than them, we're going to win no matter who plays QB.
Don't care about excuses for them, we have our own excuses, but we haven't used them a single game. Let them use excuses if they want. Excuses are for losers, all I care about is the win and taking firm control of the NFC. At the end of the year they add them up into 1's and 0's and nobody cares how you got them.
Witten is going to destroy our LB, at depth, not specifically our LB's, but depthwise, no matter who their QB is. The question is whether they can methodically move the ball on us for long drives, drive after drive, all game long. I don't think either QB is patient enough to do that for 60 minutes, not with our mix of weirdness.
They run the ball extremely well, and have probably the best offensive line in football. That's a concern, more than the QB, in my opinion. But they haven't played a defense like ours. Washington did blitz alot, but they brought mostly outside pressure (except for the one Romo got destroyed on).
We bring inside pressure, just about all the time. That's one thing I would say is misleading about our sack #'s: I don't think our blitz is even designed to get sacks necessarily, fellas. I think it's designed to get pressure up the middle of the line, sack or not. How often have we complained that they're all clogged up in there and not breaking free? It's by design. We rarely allow a QB to step up into the pocket. We rarely even allow a QB to step into throws when we blitz. With our corners and secondary, if you can't step into a throw or step up in the pocket, there's never enough velocity to go deep successfully, not consistently. Watch the film and that's what we're doing. All the time. Doesn't matter if it's Romo or Weeden, that's what we're going to do. The play design to Maclin last game was pretty brilliant but even then it was about as well defended as I could expect with man on man coverage deep without our #1 or #2 corner covering.
I should add, our inside pressure is what helps the run game defense. It usually stuffs the middle, forcing things outside. Don't care what McCoy said after the game. He had 80 yards. It's not like he gouged us and found some weakness. He's just trying to reassure people he doesn't suck.
We're better coached. Don't just mean BA. We're better coached down the line. That wins games. It may win more games than players. BA is certainly making that statement.
