Dallas Cowboys pull off a miracle, beat Detroit Lions 28-27

There will be two teams with 11-1 records.

New England is looking old, again.

Grizz, do me a favor. When you watch the defensive snaps, and they'll be painful, count the number of times Roy Williams was in place to make a stop. Let's never mind the pass interference penalty he should have been flagged for.

Roy does not need to be a Cowboy next year.

I was trying to keep myself from thinking the cowboys would score but its hard to do that with this team.

Let's play what if...If witten scores instead of fumbles and detroit has 5 minutes but knows they need to score (goes for it on 4th down, etc.), you still think dallas wins?  I have my doubts.

12-1!

I think Romo just redefined clutch. Seriously.

Kudos for Witten and Barber for their huge games. Owens was completely smothered the entire day.

As for the defense? After all the trash talk, Kitna was not only upright the whole day, but he wasn't even pressured that much. I'll give Detroit credit, their o-line stepped up today, but the game flat-out should not have played out like that. But...we won the game, so I can't be too miffed about it.

Here's hoping there's a lot of humble pie eating today, then we go back to being dominant when we face Philly back at home.

December swoon? What swoon?

12-1!

I will never complain about the refs again. Not this season, anyway. We got some breaks.

Dallas lost some games they def. should have won that year. Wierd games. For some reason the name "Cleveland Gary" still haunts me.

They still won the SB in dominating fashion that year. Troy was talking about it yesterday that despite how dominant that team was supposed to have been, and they were, they still lost 3 games, and not always to great teams.

This year the Cowboys are getting into those games but they are winning them! We all know the Buffalo game and todays games are abberations. The don't deserve to, but they are still winning them.

It's just a great time to be a Cowboy fan.

A great job smothering Owens which is the reason he wasn't getting any balls, but as we know and it's been re-enforced once again...You take away Owens and committ 2-3 guys on him, then Witten's gonna kill you.  Huge game for "J-Dub".  Marion Barber was crazy today and THANK YOU Kyle Kosier for getting that fumble back!  Romo=Clutch!

U better walk the walk. As happy as I am w/that win, although I'm drained like Grizz mentioned, the defense today totally came out and layed an egg against a team that is totally inferior. If they wanna talk trash all week long about what they are gonna do they better back it up. I'll give them credit for making a couple of plays at the end of the game but the fact of the matter is that it should never have been that close. Hopefully they will learn their lesson from this and let their play on the field do the talking.

I told my bro we had to go for it, a field goal there were still down by two scores, we either were gonna win it there or lose were my thoughts. A great call.

I think he does a great job with the commentary. I don't get why so many football fans hammer him.

as they missed that field goal I felt it was a sign we were gonna win, I mean how often do the teams we play ever miss a field goal, it just seems teams never miss against us. Grizz I feel exactly the same I got a flippin head ache now. At least its not in vain.

I had to listen to this game on the radio until the very end of that game winning drive.  one of the more nerve racking experiences i've had, I probably lost a few years off my life but I'll take the win

I was surprised that the "D" forgot to show up, but I also felt that this game was a trap that we would have to fight hand-to-hand to win. A long layoff after the "Big" game against a poor team had all of the earmarks of a trap much like the Eagles and the Ravens were for the Pats. Nonetheless, Romo to Whitten saved the day! I know that Whitten felt terrible after the fumble, but there was no question in my mind about who Tony would go to with the game on the line.

Hey, all. Been watching Cowboys games since 1974, and I just found this site a few weeks ago. Thought it seemed like a much friendlier place to discuss things than some other boards I've seen.

I've read some of the comments in this thread, and I agree with a lot of it, especially the ones about how the D was manhandled a lot of the day. But there are a lot of positives here, too:

1)I think we had like three penalties all day? And I don't remember a false start by the O-Line

2)The D finally got pressure and made a stop when it came down to "stop them, or lose"

3)I know it's corny, but they say the great teams find ways to win games like this. And they pulled it out.

I feel like the team overall has been getting better and better each week this year. Yes, today was a step back for the defense, but I think it will also serve as a bit of a wakeup call. This type of thing can build character. And confidence. Don't forget the Dave Campo years when we'd lose 4-6 games a year by three or less... it isn't like that anymore.

I'm sure TO wanted the ball more but obviously this team came in with a defensive mindset like "We're not going to allow Owens to rape us, the way he's destroyed other teams this year. Whatever we have to do to keep him from catching 6-170 or whatever, we'll do." Of course, that means Witten runs wild, and the backs out of the backfield run wild. It's all good, and TO seems to get pissed mainly when he doesn't get the ball, and they lose. If they win, he seems to take it pretty well.

The trash talking... that was stupid, and I was disappointed in Terrance especially (and he is my favorite Cowboy) but hopefully all have learned from this experience.

Overall I'm proud of them, maybe more proud than I have been at any time this season, as weird as that sounds.

I hope to have many good times chatting with you all in the future.

PS- What is the deal with Terry Glenn? Is he due back soon?

as deke alluded to in the middle of the week, we basically created a lot of bulletin board fodder for the other team (i think he said that) and the lions came out with guns a blazing.  What we saw was a team that played a lot better than their record or past performances have suggested.  

Really, I think these mini-tests are a good thing.  As long as this team doesn't lose confidence (or get injured), it's good that they keep getting battle tested like this.  Cowboys need to know what it feels like to be down early, to get their butts kicked for the better part of a game and not give up.  In terms of what it means that a 6-7 team put up such a fight?  still say the cowboys beat a very good team sunday.  and it's good to get holes exposed in early december, not early january.