That should be a Cowboy tradition.

But that was definitely our last cupcake. Pittsburgh, New York, Baltimore, and ending with Philadelphia. Another rough December.

While both of the injuries give me a sick feeling in my stomach, I don’t think they’re of equal concern. In my humble opinion, the season is over if we don’t have Ware. He is our only reliable pass rush threat on an every-down basis, and he is irreplaceable.

Barber is EXTREMELY tough to replace, but not impossible. The running is almost the easiest part to replace. If the o-line plays like it did today, then you can get by with an inferior back like Choice. It’s in pass blocking (where Choice looked okay but he’s still a rookie) and in the emotional boost that Barber brings that you really downgrade with him out of the line-up. And of course a free agent RB pickup would be necessary for the short term, since you CANNOT have just 1 true RB on your roster.

That said, good play by the o-line and a healthy passing game could mask Barber’s loss if it’s for more than a couple days. There is no equivalent band-aid to hide Ware’s disappearance. As Raf has said many times, Ware, Romo, Witten, TO, and Flozell are this team’s only truly irreplaceable guys (and maybe you add Gurode and Hamlin to that list as well at this point in the season).

LOL!!!

None of us can find it…

, Ware’s knee injury and Marion Barber’s foot injury. Ware said after the game while accepting the Gobbler award that his knee felt good but they didn’t want him to go back in. But as always, we’ll have to wait for the doctor’s report.

I agree Grizz, Romo said he was fine after the AZ game he we was out 4 weeks.. Come on Ware and Barber..

Ware because of a sprained left knee and Barber with a bruised right pinkie toe. Coach Wade Phillips said X-rays showed no break for Barber and that Ware seemed to be OK.

DeMarcus Ware says he’ll be ready for Steelers; Marion Barber stays mum

7:30 PM Thu, Nov 27, 2008 | Permalink
Tim MacMahon

DeMarcus Ware will have an MRI on his hyperextended left knee, but he said that’s a precautionary measure. The NFL’s sacks leader and proud Galloping Gobbler winner assured reporters that he’ll play against the Steelers in 10 days.

“I’ll be ready for this big game in Pittsburgh,” Ware said.

Barber, as usual, said nothing. Jerry Jones said his star running back suffered a dislocated pinkie toe on his right foot.

“I don’t want to speculate,” Jerry said when asked about Barber’s availability against the Steelers, “but there’s no way I’ll rule him out.”

But I remember just a few weeks back when we were losing, or barely beating, the bad competition.

does someone always hafta teabag my pitcher of kool-aid? i’m full of dressing and spirits. and the boys just played dominating football. and now i’m scared because of injuries to ware and MB3. geez. please, please, please let them be ok.

trying to find this blasted iggles-cards game. but seems like the cards ain’t really playing anyway. texas killin’ Texas A&M. are any of these games going to be close?

Dallas leads the league in sacks with 40. How many did they have last year?

That the penalties have been slowly going down I think we had 5 for 38 yards tonight, which isn’t great, but it’s a lot better than what we had been doing earlier in the year. If we keep penalties down and the D keeps playing well, There’s no question in my mind we can beat absolutely anybody

I wonder if they’ll now point out that we have won 4 of the last 5?

“…knees and toes, knees and toes…”

why do we keep guys like barber (who was already hobbled) and ware in the game once it’s pretty much out of reach? i’m not talking about laying down out there, but i think it’s good for some of the younger guys to get in and get some real game experience, while resting some of our key guys (also romo, witten, maybe newman). i know, i know — if they let up and the Seahawks storm back, it looks horrible. but do you feel better having to wait on the injury report?

Montrae Holland playing well would be huge. I didn’t really notice him during the game and that’s probably a good thing. Romo sure had a lot of time all day.

The good:

• From what I saw Holland is definitely an upgrade

• Choice looks very good and will fill in just fine if Barber misses a game (crosses fingers)

• Romo is back

• T.O. is definitely back (stop dropping ez balls though, k thanks!)

• Tellus is a goofy, TD scoring machine

• Welcome to the freaking Cowboys Tra Battle! Nice outing! (got any other players we can gank from you, SD?)

• Penalties were cut way down (still room to improve though)

The bad:

These 2 are major in my book..

• I’d like to see more consistent production out of the running game. That was an OK performance vs a team like Seachickens, but won’t cut it against a team like the Giants.

• Seattle’s passing game has been awful all year and we gave up way too many passing yards against them. If we give up that many yards vs a bad passing team like the Seachickens, we could be in trouble playing a big time passing team. Granted they are getting healthier, but still, very disturbing IMO.

Aikman was again saying during the game on how inneffective Pacman was at corner. How can he not know Pacman’s statistics? Raf is a big fan of numbers, and he would also say Pacman was the best corner on our team.
Scandrick had a good game. Is he our Vasher?
You’d think the game was being played in Philly with all the boos thrown at Julius.