Week One Predictions

Boys 21 Chargers 17

Jones will have some trouble running aganist a tough D, but I think we hog the ball, utilize our running backs and run out the clock. This will also keep our D off the field. The Chargers also don’t have gates which will a plus for Ware b/c he will rush to Drew Brees.

San Diego – 24
Dallas – 20

San Diego is 1 of 5 teams that Dallas plays with a winning record last season. I think its too early to expect anything other than a hard fought loss. There are a few match ups this year that will serve the Cowboys well as far as measuring where they are. This game at San Diego, Philly at home, at Philly on Monday Night Football, Denver on Thanksgiving, and at Carolina the second to last game of the season. If the Boys can win one of these games, it should mean a playoff birth. .. If Parcells can pull a rabbit out of the hat in San Diego, then a 4-0 start wouldn’t be out of the question heading into the Philly game.

If there is one game to circle on your calander, its the Philly at Dallas game. The Boys should be pumped up after last years humiliating loss to the Birds in Big D. This game will be the true measuring stick to how far the Cowboys have come this offseason. During the Boys run in the 90’s one game sticks out as the propelling of that dynasty, and that was when the young and hungry Dallas Cowboys beat the undefeated Washington Redskins in 1991. If not for those Cowboys, Washington probably finishes the year 19-0. The Cowboys knew they belonged after that win, and came out and beat the Skins in the season opener the following season, as a passing of the torch game, and of course go on to win 3 of the next 4 Super Bowls. A win against Philly here could mean just as much to this young team as the Redskin victory meant to that young team of the 90’s. Mark your calanders!!

Alright… I think our O is going to be hit and miss like it was in the preseason. We’ll either drive the ball well, or we won’t get a 1st down. That being said, I think we should be able to put up 3-4 good drives that result in points, something like 20-24 points on O.

I don’t think our D will score, and I would be really worried if we played SD in week 2, but they will be without their only recieving target this weekend. That will allow us to focus on the running game on D, something that we did very well in the preseason. I really don’t see SD being able to drive the field on us, but if they have a short field a few times, they may be dangerous. I think we’ll give up 10-17 points, depending on field position.

Final Score:
Dallas- 24
SD- 13

im going to the game and sure hope to see the cowboys take home the W. I think the chargers are a little overated due to their cinderella season last year. Ware will win the battle between the first round “tweeners” and the cowboys win 28-17

Final Score:
Dallas- 24
SD- 23

DONT BE OVER CONSERVATIVE ON THE PLAY CALLING IN THE FIRST QUARTER.IF WE ARE, WE WILL LOOSE..
I just hope Dallas opens up the offense and comes out throwing the ball to losen up the defense for JJ. Keep the penealties to a minimum and no turnover. I dont want to see the run,run,pass sequence all the time. Have some three wide reciever sets on first down and run to change things up abit.On the defense,limit LT, the outside linebackers cant over pursue their assignments on running plays giving LT a cutback lane.that was a big problem in preseason. If we can manage to win this game, I think we can see a 10-6 record for the year, if not,I think the record will be 9-7, maybe a wild card.
I’m just glad the season is finally here, COWBOYS, RACK’EM AND SMACK’EM, GO BOYS!!!!!!!!!!

the boys win 24-17
it’ll be close all game but as long as they dont turn it over and the rookies play well they win.

Dallas 24 – San Diego 3…..nuff said..our D will kick their a$$

Derrick,

With the kicking game a question mark i think Dallas HAS to be
more aggressive with their play calling.I for one don’t want a game
hinging on cortez’s foot.

Dallas 24 Chargers 10. Our D will be too much, Julius Jones will be the man, as our O does just enough. Chargers are over-rated, look at last years playoff wild card round loss for details – and this time they are without Gates.

Dallas 28 Bolts 24

Julius Jones will have 200 all purpose yards two rushing tds

Bledsoe throws for 250 with 2 tds……..Witten catches one…….Glenn the other.

Parcells is afraid to stick Cortez in for a FG so he goes for it on 4th and goal with Jason Ferguson as the FB………LOL………ok maybe not on that one……..but hey JJ scores on 4th and goal from 1.

Demarcus Ware records his first NFL sack in the first quarter! He has two sacks by the end of the game, and the rest of the league is trying to figure out a game plan around the new rookie of the year Linebacker! Canty adds a sack and Spears looks a little rusty………but plays well. Anthony Henry and TNEW look to earn they paychecks and Dat realizes he loves the 4 linebacker set and leads the team with Tackles.

Dallas will take it 26 to 14. I too think San Diego is overrated!

I think and hope that their are some similarities between this team and the 1975 team with the ‘dirty dozen’, 12 rookies. This one only has the ten, some of them not as prominent a draft picks, nevertheless, a veteran team from a year ago, looks leaner, meaner, hungrier and faster in the pre season. I think it will be close on Sunday, with home field being the difference in a 24-21 Charger win. But it will be a step forward for the boys, as we hang tough with a playoff club, openning day, on the road. Should we pull it out, watch out! NFC east as the Cowboys will get a huge confidence boost that should really expedite the growth process for the younger guys and quickly galvanize the entire unit….lets go! Kick this thing Off!!

I would like to throw out a few “ifs” and “buts”, but, in deference to Don Meredith, I won’t. The Dallas Cowboys can win this game, and I think they will. The final score will be Dallas 20 and San Diego 17.

When asked if he thought his team could repeat the performance of last year the SD head coach said"We have a great team and we definately can see light at the end of the tunnel"…….well unfortunately for SD,that light at the end of the tunnel is a silver and blue 18-wheeler with COWBOYS written on the side of it!!!!! GO COWBOYS!!!!!!!!

Yesterday, I said Cowboys – 28, San Dog – 21, and I’m sticking to that! I agree with a few of you guys that San Diego is overrated, coming off their 12-4 season, kind of like we were coming off our 10-6 season with the #1 D.

This young Cowboys team is going to turn some heads, and while the D might make a few mistakes, they will more than make up for it with hard hitting and making some huge plays! Ware is going to have a great game – 2 sacks!

How ’bout we open 4-wide, and “Shock” the ’Bolts? LOL

I don’t think Brees will be as good as he was last year, but we need to worry about LT. Oh, unMerriman will play…….. Waterboy!

Keeping my Dallas 17 – SD 21, I just believe that JuiceJ will have a though day, one with only 60 yards on 20 carries, and A-Train will be derailed at first contact as usual. Again, their passing D is undervaluated for the Offenses they played against, if you face the best teams at passing you’re destined to have some burned down corners. But Bledsoe is going to have a good day, that’s why I’m figuring the score will be close.

the game will start with a play action pass to gleen for a td.
boys win 24-10

stats and opinion

stats from espn

SD def. gave up 81 yds/gm rush & 253 yds/gm pass & 19 pts/gm 2004 #18 overall

Dallas def. gave up 110 yds/gm rush & 220 yds/gm pass & 25pts/gm 2004 #16 overall

opinion: I though Dallas gave up a lot of passing yds last yr but SD ouch!!!
     SD has outstanding run defense and bad pass defense
     I hope the Boys play action / throw often in the 1st qtr to open up running room

SD off. 137 rush yds/gm & 210 pass yds/gm & 28pts/gm 2004 #10 overall

Dallas off. 111 rush yds/gm & 214 pass yds/gm & 18 pts/gm #14 overall

opinion: SD runs well but if the Boys LB’s keep SD runner from getting outside I think the D line will do the job on the running.

Overall I think that the Boys have a better balanced offense for this game with Glenn back healthy (vs. last season + Campbell back blocking) and JJ running the ball. SD doesn’t have Gates catching for this game (he averaged almost 1 TD per game) so I think the boys will focus on stopping their run.

I think if the Boys pass 50% of offensive plays they score over 21 pts and win

Chandus

I agree that if your defense plays good passing offenses (SD last yr) that their numbers will be a little off. SD played Indy and KC twice, but also played Houston, Tenn., Atlanta, Oakland (pre Moss), Tampa, and Cleveland so the numbers should balance out over 16 games.

I think that if the Boys pass a little extra in the early part of the game things will turn out running for JJ by the end of the game.

I think that the cardinals preseason game where they just went down the field throwing (in the middle of the field) in the first qtr showed that a guy like Gates would have been very big playing against the Boys. I’m glad he is not playing.

chargers24
dallas20
itll be a close game but im with alot of people that we will start 4-4 then go 6-2 down the stretch. they could very easy win this game but till we see them play a reg game then i have to think this way.

17-10 Cowboys win.

Even though Dallas has a potentially great D there is to much youth and new vets to expect this group to hit their full potential until mid-season. This is also true for the O line. That said I believe they will get some quality wins the first half of the season but not against a solid veteren team game 1.

SD 28 Dal 13 (hope I’m wrong) Go Boys!

Dallas CAN win this game. I don’t think San Diego is unbeatable, but I do think we’d have to play a flawless game, and I don’t see that happening yet.

I also hope I’m wrong, but this was one of the 6 losses I expect for us this year. San Diego 17- Dallas 10. I will be only too glad to eat crow on this one if I’m wrong.

I think the boys can win, but probably won ‘t — too many rookies, and I don’t think the Defense has the underneath zone figured out. But, it will be very close. Gates had the most number of 3rd down conversions in the NFL last year (29 times!) — so Brees will miss him and his 114 catches (almost more than theeir WRs combined) bigtime. SD was better on 3rd down last year than any other down, which will likely reverse (just to equally effective). This will result in a lot less effective drives. All that said, the D needs to figure out how to gell, and the rookies will make their rookie mistakes, so the bolts will be decent on offense. The boys offense is hug ely improved from last year, but still appear to make too many negative plays on 1st and second, leading to too many 3rd and impossibles. And when they do get to 3rd and short, they were the third worst in the league at converting. Rivera, Allen and Adams need to be real pro-bowlers for us to win these game. It frequently takes OLs a few games to gell, so I think thee O will put up its normal 12-17 points, which sadly will not be enough.

There’s something else of importance in SD Offense, last year they didn’t had their Number 1 receiver for half the season (Reche Caldwell) and signed McCardell for the last 7 games, now they have a pretty good trio of receivers and they will be dangerous.

I may sound a little too Chargers supporter, but it’s just that I like the team, they’re my favourite in the AFC and I think that they’ll be there for the Conference Championship.

Dallas CAN win this game- I think everyone can say that with objectivity.

If Dallas loses, I think It’ll be because of rookie mistakes and because of our passing game. I fear we may be out-of-sinc and end up settling for damn field goals.

The running game is the KEY. I think it’ll be the key all year. I’d love to see us go back to that classic NFC east run-oriented, ball control offense. If we can do that, I think we’ll pull out a win.

Either way, we’ve got to be PATIENT with our young team. They won’t seem like the world-beaters that they’re gonna be until maybe mid-season anyway, IMO.

Win or lose, San Diego will only give us an glimps of where we are, and where we’re going.

I think the Cowboys will lose at least one winnable game this year, due to inexperience and/or not getting the benefit of calls veterans too often get. This is not that game. The Chargers will take a step back to the pack, starting with this game, as the league has them game planned after their surprise last season. Conditioning and elephant ball on the O line prevail, as the Dallas running backs lead the offense in pulling away during the 4th quarter of a ball control contest. 24-13.

Dallas wins with Gates on the sideline.

cowboy bert,

I think you’re right about us losing at least one winnable game due to inexperience. This might be the game. But I also think that youth and talent will win us one of the games we’re supposed to lose. I just think that by midseason, we will turn the corner and really shock somebody. I don’t know who the victim will be, but I believe some team out there is in for a shock. I still see us at 10-6 when all is said and done. If I don’t get my surprise win, we go to 9-7.