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I'd like to remind you, dear reader, of two of Romo's most impressive qualities. First, his ability to avoid the rush; in recent years, as the Cowboys offensive line play has deteriorated steadily, he has continued to make plays, avoiding oncoming behemoths with startling agility and a weird prescience. Second, he has demonstrated tremendous grit and toughness; while it's popular to say that he's soft, anybody who witnessed his performance early in the 2011 season, playing with a broken rib, knows better.
Knowing this, the Cowboys had opted in recent years to a very specific backup signal caller: a veteran who has started (and won) but isn't gung ho about competing for a starting position. Such a guy, the thinking goes, can come into a game and run the offense after taking limited practice snaps. While this is a sound idea, there is a flaw: aged quarterbacks lose their fastballs and, to make it worse, there's no telling when it will happen.
Brad Johnson had to sub in for Romo for three key midseason games. It was immediately apparent that he no longer had any bullets in his gun; he couldn't make any of the "NFL throws": posts, deep outs to the far sideline, etc. With him in the lineup, the offense, so electric the previous year, stalled, and the team fell into a hole from which they could not extricate themselves.
How many of you had a childhood influenced by Highlights The Magazine like I did? Highlights was the first piece of mail that arrived to the house in my name besides birthday cards, and man did that mean something. The articles were top notch, the games were entertaining, and the humor was high brow. At least it was for a six year old.
One of my favorite sections of Highlights was Check... Double Check. They'd post two drawings side by side, both full of similar actions and poses, with very slight differences between the two. Your job was to discern the differences between the two scenes and the reward was self-esteem and a sense of accomplishment.
It's a sad commentary when our imagined lives get ahead of reality. But I think that is why social justice will not get the same media ratings as sex and the George Zimmerman trial will be less discussed than the Jodi Arias trial.
If you lived through the salacious sex in the Jodi Arias trial, even that became numbing. But everyone can relate to sex. Stories about fatal attraction are the stuff of novels and movies and on some visceral level we understand them.
The much more important, and larger social issue of race that will be part of the George Zimmerman trial, is less compelling. It is relevant to us all, but not on a personal level. Many people have experienced prejudice based on religion, sexuality and even appearance, but those traits are not as obvious, and black and white, as race. Are numbers part of the story? The 2011 US Census Bureau statistics state that only 13.1 % of the population is black and 16.7 % Hispanic. The potential jury so far is approximately 20% black and 1% Hispanic, not a jury of George Zimmerman's peers.
The NFL Draft is over, and now we have a few more months before our Dallas Cowboys all come together and unite for yet another training camp. This downtime can be a buzzkill and draining, but there is some news out there for us to cover and some of the players have been speaking to the media.
Joseph Randle had a productive career at Oklahoma State and entered the draft as one of the featured running backs available, but for some reason he fell to the fifth round. The Cowboys were looking for another runner to pair with DeMarco Murray and they were very happy to pick one up that late in the draft who has similar qualities.
The combination of Murray and Randle is enticing and exciting because they are very similar. Even though DeMarco clearly has better speed, both running backs do look alike on tape.
Daniel W. Drezner: Blogging political science has gotten complicated, man Foreign Policy (blog) Although I appreciate the e?ort to “just add blogging” to the discipline of political science, I worry that in making blogging safe, Sides gives away too much of what makes it interesting, in?uential, and fun. Speci?cally, I have two major objections ...