Bye Bye Barber

Yours Truly is really fed up with the ineptness of Alex Barron, who was solely responsible for Dallas Cowboys' loss against the Washington Redskins on Sunday.

Not one, not two, but THREE holding penalties. One killed a good-looking drive late in the game. The third one cost them the game-winning TD on the very last play.

Okay, Barron is definitely not good enough to start, and everyone knew he could be a liability. But did the Cowboys have his back?

In an interview, Michael Strahan raised a very interesting point, basically saying that if you know that Barron is not good enough, then why don't you give him some help, like by sending a RB or TE to help him block?

The more Yours Truly watched the replay of that very last play, the angrier Yours Truly got.

Not with Barron, but with Marion Barber, their starting RB.

On the very last play from the Redskins' 13-yard line and down by six, everyone knew that the ball would be thrown into the endzone. So what the heck was Barber doing when he chose not to chip block Brian Orakpo, Barron's holding victim on the play, and then lazily wondered a couple of yards beyond the line of scrimmage?

Yours Truly means, if you don't want to help, at least get into a good position.

But there was Barber, in the middle of the field, with a defender zeroed on him, not helping anyone anyhow at all.

Everyone knew that Barron would be gone sooner or later. Hey, even the woeful St. Louis Rams gave up on him. But on that play, Yours Truly also found out that Barber's days as a Cowboy would really be numbered, now that the Cowboys will definitely listen to the trade proposals for him, which were rumoured to be aplenty even before that game.

Being a Cowboys fan, Yours Truly just wishes him good luck, and that the team would receive some good draft picks in return for him.