If you're looking for a reason why Marion Barber played only seven snaps in Sunday's loss at Denver, look at his left quadriceps. Wade Phillips said Barber's quad tightened up in the second half after carrying 10 times in the first two quarters, however, after the game Jerry Jones said he was not told of anything bothering Barber by the medical staff and in his post-game press conference Phillips said he was not sure why Barber didn't get more work in the second half. Phillips said Barber was going better today than he was a week ago after sitting out of the Carolina game. Source: Dallas Morning News
"after the game Jerry Jones said he was not told of anything bothering Barber by the medical staff and in his post-game press conference Phillips said he was not sure why Barber didn't get more work in the second half" they're so full of crap. it sounds like they realized after reviewing the game film that they were going to catch hell for not having barber in there so now all of the sudden we hear his quad started bothering him again. It never ceases to amaze me how unorganized and chaotic this team is at times. It's mind-boggling.
Going from having Barber in there pass blocking, too Tashard Choice or Felix Jones is a huge drop off.
pass blocking AND running. there were a couple of plays there in the 2nd half where I saw Choice get tackled and I was thinking to myself, "Barber would have barrelled over that guy for at least a few more yards."
I think it would not have tightened up if he would have stopped dancing and shaking his head trying to pump himself up after a 3 yard run. I thought it was the second coming of Bettis or something out there.
