My husband created this blog for me a few months ago and it's taken me awhile to get to it, but with football season starting I am feeling motivated. Around the Young household, we love sports.....football, basketball, tennis, baseball and even a little golf. Shelby & I even watched some women's soccer this summer. But we love football THE most and are so excited for the new season. Now I'll be up front that I am a die hard OU Sooner, but will try to be as objective as possible. :) Believe me, I will offer up criticism for OU when deserved and I'm not too sure how I feel about this preseason #1.....it's all so silly because BCS rankings mean squat until October. I wish they just wouldn't even do it, but oh well. Anyways, tonight was the Dallas Cowboys' first preseason game, so let's get started!!!
Well, the 1st string offense lacked a little punch as usual in preseason. But only seeing one series out of them, we'll have to wait & see if they get some better chemistry going. I've been unimpressed w/Romo the past few seasons, he just lacks leadership and fire to lead the team. His "aw shucks" attitude just doesn't do it for me. You don't see that in a Tom Brady or a Peyton Manning. In fact Drew & I coined the phrase "Romolio" 2 seasons ago.....it is when your quarterback's play is so poor it just makes you sick. Whenever we think Romo is playing poorly, we say "Oh man, I've got Romolio". But I digress.....I'm interested to see what Rob Ryan does with the defense. Defense has been too passive & disjointed the past couple of seasons. If he's as passionate and crazy as his brother Rex (NY Jets head coach), hopefully we'll see big changes. I'm also curious to see Jason Garrett as head coach in a full season. He's definitely got the offensive mind and I could totally see him as offensive coordinator, but head coach? I'm still not sure about that. The best part of the night for me though was the comments about Tebow by the game announcers. All you Florida/Tebow fans out there would probably scream & yell about it because you think he is just so great. But it seems to me that the NFL announcers & media don't totally buy in to Tebow's talent as the college media did. One announcer tonight said about Tebow, "He has the highest inaccuracy I've ever seen in a player at this level." That just made us laugh.....and on an errant throw, the announcer said "Was that ball tipped or was it just a Tebow pass?", after watching replay "No, it wasn't tipped; just an errant throw by Tebow." Hate to burst your bubble out there in the swamp, but Tebow isn't going to be a great NFL player; at least not at quarterback. I honestly think he'd have a better chance playing WR like Wes Welker. He is fast and could run slants across the middle just like Welker. I wouldn't be surprised to see him end up at QB #3 behind Kyle Orton & Brady Quinn.
Now I am interested to see what happens in Philly....being in Dallas, we of course consider them a rival, but I do like Andy Reid (he's a good guy & coach) and last year I did root for Michael Vick to do well. I know, I know, all the animal rights activists want his head on a platter and there's all sorts of people that think he didn't deserve a 2nd chance. Well why not?? He served his time, he has been mentored by Tony Dungy (a very stand up guy) and publicly speaks out against dog fighting. So you know what, give the guy a chance. But Philly has snatched up some good additions and I'm curious to see how Vince Young will do up there. I think Andy Reid is a player's coach and he's pretty consistent, producing competitive teams. I think Young came into the NFL overly confident because he came off the BCS Championship win entering into the draft. Well the NFL ain't college ball baby, and you'd better be ready to play HARD and get HIT. Hopefully he has been humbled by his experience & will come in to Philly ready to work hard, learn behind Vick and listen to Reid. Time will tell, but he is a talented player and I'm interested to see what may happen there.
Lastly, we'll see if Drew can be accurate with his predictions yet again this year after preseason....last year he predicted Dallas would lose 9 games (well they actually lost 10, but after 7 or 8, who's counting) and Green Bay would win the Super Bowl. He was spot on, so we'll see if he can do it again this year. I can certainly say I won't make any bets with him. :)
