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Roger Goodell is either a liar or a dunce. Those are the only conclusions to be drawn from the NFL commissioner s fumbling of an internal investigation that went awry from the snap. Goodell maintains he never saw the videotape of Ray Rice s knockout punch of a defenseless woman in a casino elevator until Monday. Really? The most powerful executive of the world s most formidable pro sports organization didn t have access to a tape eventually obtained by a celebrity-gossip website? Goodell s insistence is difficult to believe, but at least it helps explain his initial, astonishingly tone-deaf response to the events of Feb. 15, when Rice was seen dragging an unconscious Janay Palmer out of an elevator door.Goodell determined a two-game suspension of the Baltimore Ravens running back to be appropriate. Sitting out two games, Goodell explained, is consistent with the league s policy of punishing players with no previous history of domestic violence . We just can t make up the discipline, Goodell said on Aug. 1. It has to be consistent with other cases. What I want to see is success stories. I want to see people, when they make a mistake, I want to see them take responsibility and accountability for it and <a href=http://www.alportico.net/page.php?sale=Cheap-True-Religion-Shorts>Cheap True Religion Shorts</a> a make a difference going forward. I think that s what Ray Rice is going to do. After TMZ Sports made the tape of Rice s mistake available to the public, after the tape sickened anybody with a grasp of civility, the commissioner changed his tune. Instead of envisioning Ray Rice as a potential success story, Goodell finally saw a creep unfit to draw an NFL paycheck and suspended him indefinitely. Did Goodell tell the truth about rendering judgment on Rice before TMZ released the tape? Despite my doubts, I will take him at his word. Which brings us to an equally harsh assessment of Roger Goodell: an incompetent nitwit who makes Barney Fife s tenuous stewardship of the Mayberry Jail seem like <a href=http://www.radiorcs.com/page.php?sale=Kate-And-Spade>Kate And Spade</a> James Bond at his Cold-War coolest. Goodell is the front-office face of a league that regulates the length of its players socks, the color of their shoes, the demeanor of their touchdown celebrations. Behind the scenes, off the field, the the NFL employs a security force second to none. Gambling is an obvious concern, because even the most obscure name on a roster some special teams guy can affect a point spread. But there are other challenges confronting NFL security: Drug deals, death threats, players with childhood gang ties and, yes, players whose hard-wired appetite for physical confrontation sometimes leads to violence at home or in an elevator at a casino. The job of monitoring all of this belongs, essentially, to former cops with elite FBI and DEA credentials or, in the case of league security chief Jeffrey B. Miller, a r sum assembled as head of Pennsylvania State Police the ninth largest police organization in the U.S, with 400 enlisted and civilian employees operating from a $750 million budget. Put it this way: If you once were late with a third-grade homework assignment, it would take NFL security about 12 minutes to produce the evidence.And yet, Roger Goodell didn t know about the videotape TMZ made public Monday? He didn t wonder if the casino that had a camera showing Rice dragging a woman from an elevator car also might have camera in the elevator car itself?Goodell, <a href=http://www.radiorcs.com/page.php?sale=Discount-Kate-Spade-Purses>Kate Spade Coupon</a> as judge and jury, reached a verdict regarding Rice based on inclusive information: A two-game suspension for a first offender. Let s not overreact, the commissioner said. This is a potential success story about a flawed man willing to take responsibility for a mistake that left a woman his fiancee and future wife on the floor. It was an awkward attempt to turn a harrowing incident into something upbeat, and the saga now turns towards the corruption associated with a scandal.The information was there. A bully threw a punch so hard it knocked a woman senseless, and the commissioner all but waved it off: Hey, we all have bad days, let s focus on doing better going forward. Please. Ray Rice is out of a job good riddance but Roger Goodell needs to be out of his job, too. He s either a liar or a dunce, take your pick, and there s only one other option on the board: He s both.

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-The scenario: The Cowboys are down 7-0 after giving up a quick touchdown to the 49ers defense. Giving Cowboys fans hope is the fact that the offense has driven the ball right down the field against the 49ers vaunted defense. Dallas gets down to the San Fran two-yard line, it's 2nd and 1. You now have two chances (three if you choose to go on 4th down) to pick up one yard. One yard gets you four more downs to get one more yard. Then you've tied it 7-7 and it's game on. To make matters even more <a href=http://www.aec-ist.com/css/Gucci-Sale-Online-Travel-Bag-Gold-Watch-Bracelet.html>Gucci Gold Watch</a>  obvious, on the drive Dallas had gained 33 yards on 5 running plays (including a penalty play). That's over six yards a pop.
-Yes, you'd guess the Cowboys would run the ball. Two shots at a yard, give it to Murray and let's go. That's what the Cowboys were also thinking on the play. Look at the lineup they had out on the field initially on the play, before they called timeout with the play-clock running down.
-That, my friends, is the jumbo set. Extra left tackle? Check (red arrow: Jeremy Parnell). Two tight ends? Check (yellow arrow: Witten, Hanna). Fullback? Check (green arrow: ). The Cowboys are going to run the ball, (unless they were going to be tricky and pass out of that formation which is definitely possible!) It looks like they're going to pound it down the 49ers throats. But the play clock runs down and the Cowboys are forced to call a timeout.
+Roger Goodell is either a liar or a dunce. Those are the only conclusions to be drawn from the NFL commissioner s fumbling of an internal investigation that went awry from the snap. Goodell maintains he never saw the videotape of Ray Rice s knockout punch of a defenseless woman in a casino elevator until Monday. Really? The most powerful executive of the world s most formidable pro sports organization didn t have access to a tape eventually obtained by a celebrity-gossip website? Goodell s insistence is difficult to believe, but at least it helps explain his initial, astonishingly tone-deaf response to the events of Feb. 15, when Rice was seen dragging an unconscious Janay Palmer out of an elevator door.Goodell determined a two-game suspension of the Baltimore Ravens running back to be appropriate. Sitting out two games, Goodell explained, is consistent with the league s policy of punishing players with no previous history of domestic violence .  We just can t make up the discipline, Goodell said on Aug. 1. It has to be consistent with other cases.  What I want to see is success stories. I want to see people, when they make a mistake, I want to see them take responsibility and accountability for it and <a href=http://www.alportico.net/page.php?sale=Cheap-True-Religion-Shorts>Cheap True Religion Shorts</a>  a make a difference going forward. I think that s what Ray Rice is going to do. After TMZ Sports made the tape of Rice s mistake available to the public, after the tape sickened anybody with a grasp of civility, the commissioner changed his tune. Instead of envisioning Ray Rice as a potential success story, Goodell finally saw a creep unfit to draw an NFL paycheck and suspended him indefinitely. Did Goodell tell the truth about rendering judgment on Rice before TMZ released the tape? Despite my doubts, I will take him at his word. Which brings us to an equally harsh assessment of Roger Goodell: an incompetent nitwit who makes Barney Fife s tenuous stewardship of the Mayberry Jail seem like <a href=http://www.radiorcs.com/page.php?sale=Kate-And-Spade>Kate And Spade</a>  James Bond at his Cold-War coolest. Goodell is the front-office face of a league that regulates the length of its players socks, the color of their shoes, the demeanor of their touchdown celebrations. Behind the scenes, off the field, the the NFL employs a security force second to none. Gambling is an obvious concern, because even the most obscure name on a roster some special teams guy can affect a point spread. But there are other challenges confronting NFL security: Drug deals, death threats, players with childhood gang ties and, yes, players whose hard-wired appetite for physical confrontation sometimes leads to violence at home or in an elevator at a casino. The job of monitoring all of this belongs, essentially, to former cops with elite FBI and DEA credentials or, in the case of league security chief Jeffrey B. Miller, a r sum assembled as head of Pennsylvania State Police the ninth largest police organization in the U.S, with 400 enlisted and civilian employees operating from a $750 million budget. Put it this way: If you once were late with a third-grade homework assignment, it would take NFL security about 12 minutes to produce the evidence.And yet, Roger Goodell didn t know about the videotape TMZ made public Monday? He didn t wonder if the casino that had a camera showing Rice dragging a woman from an elevator car also might have camera in the elevator car itself?Goodell, <a href=http://www.radiorcs.com/page.php?sale=Discount-Kate-Spade-Purses>Kate Spade Coupon</a>  as judge and jury, reached a verdict regarding Rice based on inclusive information: A two-game suspension for a first offender. Let s not overreact, the commissioner said. This is a potential success story about a flawed man willing to take responsibility for a mistake that left a woman his fiancee and future wife on the floor. It was an awkward attempt to turn a harrowing incident into something upbeat, and the saga now turns towards the corruption associated with a scandal.The information was there. A bully threw a punch so hard it knocked a woman senseless, and the commissioner all but waved it off: Hey, we all have bad days, let s focus on doing better going forward. Please. Ray Rice is out of a job good riddance but Roger Goodell needs to be out of his job, too. He s either a liar or a dunce, take your pick, and there s only one other option on the board: He s both.
-As Romo, Scott Linehan and Jason Garrett confer on the sidelines, the personnel changes and we get this.
-Now we're in 11 personnel, three-wide. You can still run from this formation and initially Romo goes up under center, but he immediately changes the play, backing out to the shotgun (red arrow). Maybe it was a fake audible and they were planning to pass all along, but that seems doubtful as both  and  signal the same audible motion out to the wide guys (yellow arrows). You could still run the draw from this formation, but instead this play is clearly for  (even though he's double covered). Why Romo checks out of a 7-man box that is not tightly packed is beyond me (green box). The two linebackers in the middle are a couple of yards back in the endzone, and one of them is still milling around as <a href=http://www.aec-ist.com/css/Gucci-Discount-New-Drivers-Guccissima.html>New Gucci</a>  the play starts. Romo has already said he didn't like the look of the defense against the run on this play, but I'm sorry, I just don't see why he wouldn't run it. Even so, you tell me you don't have any confidence that Murray can win a battle for one yard? Come on, that's a high percentage play. So now you have gone from a jumbo set initially, down to a possible run set that eventually turns into a pass set. How did we get so far from the obvious, high percentage play?
-Now the play actually starts, and it's bad choices/execution all around.
-Romo is locked in on Dez from the start (red arrow). Why? He's is the only player double covered. The 49ers are playing the slant on the inside, and the fade/fade-stop on the outside. Across the field Terrance Williams has a one-on-one, but if you watch the play all the receivers are slow getting off the ball (look at all the action in the middle, then look at the three receivers?) and the Williams/Beasely combo barely run routes on the entire play. The Cowboys have bet the house on a double covered Dez. Romo doesn't throw the ball, which is smart, but  has inexplicably blown his block on Justin Smith (yellow circle). He pops forward at the snap, perhaps selling the play-action part of the play, but absolutely whiffs on Smith. Even if he thought he was run blocking he still missed the man totally.
-Romo gets sacked, and look at the Cowboys crazy blocking scheme on this play.
-Two Cowboys linemen are three yards downfield blocking (red circle), two of them are at the line of scrimmage (yellow circle), and poor  is running back in desperation to save Romo (green circle). I'm not sure everybody along the line was on the same page. Regardless, the play is a disaster, Romo gets sacked, the Cowboys kick a FG and <a href=http://www.aec-ist.com/css/Cheap-Gucci-Handbags-Authentic-Shoes-Messenger-Bag-Mens-Sneakers.html>Cheap Gucci Handbags</a>  the beatdown is on.
-Maybe it's reading too much into one play, a reasonable charge. But this sequence just seems to symbolize the Cowboys recent seasons. They take what should be a simple and easy decision, they have the right instinct initially, then decide what the hell...let's make this as hard as possible.

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