Sucks that after every loss Cowboys fans expect some huge personnel or coaching change to right this ship. It’s a season of adversity.

Last year, the Lions started 6-2 and finished 8-8. Some teams WILL fall this 2nd half of the season. Good teams won’t stand down. The Colts, Cowboys, Chargers, and Packers may have had tough first halfs, but character will be key in this second half.

No perspective at all.

It amazes how fans see a few bad games and they think the season is over, totally ridiculous knee jerk reaction.

Every team in the league are going to have their peaks and valleys. We started off hot, got inot a lull, had some injuries making the lull worse, however, this is the same team that beat Philly and GB earlier who are among the best teams in the league.

The Cowboys can circle the wagons and get back on a roll again, you just have to believe. Just look at my signature, that says it all.

Glad I’m not alone.

All I keep thinking is that if you told me this time last year the Giants would be SB champs I would have told you that you were high.

that the season isn’t over, but it does mean that there is so little wiggle room. 5-2 is pretty much a must. You have to hope that Romo can still be as effective as he has always been. Also, the defense is pretty soft and have proven that over time. They have talent on defense, but they become relaxed way too often during games. If this was the NBA, NHL, or MLB you would have a better point, but this is the NFL. You only have 16 games and every game is huge. Go Cowboys!

…i agree with you.

And although I’m not one to throw in the towel on the season, I must confess that I’m very, very, very concerned that our inability to overcome self-inflicting mistakes (turnovers, penalties, poor tackling, etc) seems to be occurring in at least half of our games this season.

That’s a tell-tale sign of an undisciplined team.

Last season, it didn’t happen that much. This season, it’s happening more often than not.

So even though I hold out hope for us to turn it around, I’m still worried about this ball club under the direction of Wade Phillips.

that Romo can’t win games all by himself, although there were times…
Anyway, what I see coming is an unprecedented level of pressure on Tony to be the savior of the second season. Right or wrong, it’s gonna happen. And if for some reason he can’t, he will take the brunt of the criticism. Comes with the territory, yes I get that. If the defense doesn’t get it’s nuts back on the bolts and the O-line to play like they started out, we could be looking at a very ugly end to what started off as a promising season. Personally I think there is a curse with beating the Packers. Last year things went south after we beat them and the same thing this year.

is that last season the Chargers were 5-5 and had to win the last 6 games of their season to make the playoffs and not only did they do that, but made it to the AFC Championship game.

I know the Cowboys have as much or more talent than the Chargers and Norv Turner is just as soft and not a better coach than Wade.

Can be done.

but this team is full of professionals who have faced more adversity this season than in the last few combined. They are not done and an across the board effort by every single player on this team can right the ship.

People want to look at the Giants game and say this team sucks, I say any intelligent fan knows that the horrible quarterback play put the team in a hole from which they could not recover.

Its not going to be easy but it certainly can be done.

BTW, thanks for this post, the extreme amount of negativity and blind hate on this blog the last couple of days has made me sick.

The Cowboys have got the 2nd toughest reaming schedule in terms of opponent winning percentages. I’m also not sure why you would ad Baltimore in there as a give me win when that team is presently 5-3 and playing really good football.

The Boys also still have to play at Washington, Pittsburgh, and Philadelphia and at home against the Giants. The really only have two easy games left, San Francisco and Seattle.

Because they stink!

It’s the way we are playing across the board – O, D, ST. None of them are above average right now and too often, well below. True, injuries affected play, especially on O (I contend the injury to Felix, coming at the same time as Romo was equally problematic). Add to that a remarkable ability to incur penalties at the worst possible times, and you see a team who creates as many problems for itself as the opposition.

The disturbing part for me is we do not attempt – either through gameplanning or intensity to force our will on the opponent. To make them react to us. Conversely, I don’t see us making the adjustments we need to when an opponent exploits our weakness or takes the fight to us.

It’s almost to the point where the Hippocratic oath should be our mantra to each of the units, ‘First, do no harm.’ Stop making it worse, so we can try to make it better. Don’t give the opposing team the ball in our territory 3x a game. Stop playing 8 yds off the WR’s. And please take a kickoff past the 30 or a punt more than 5 yds downfied.

They still get San Fran, Seattle, and Baltimore at home, presumably all with Romo. That puts them at eight victories.

I’ll let you figure out why.

i am kind of happy that people are writing off the Cowboys because maybe now some of the media will start to dissipate and they will play with less pressure on them

I see a lot of people on here claiming that Dallas needs to finish 5-2 over these last 7 games. I maintain that they will need to go 6-1, at worst. The NFC south runner-up has a good chance of finishing 11-5 as do the Redskins and thus 10-6 record just won’t cut it. At the very least the Cowboys might find themselves in a multi-team tie breaker and they don’t have a very good conference record right now. As it is I just don’t have confidence that this coaching staff can pull off a 5-2 finish much less a 6-1 ending.

Is that they get three of their most difficult remaining games at home. So far, there’s been a huge disparity between the way the Bucs defense plays at home and on the road. They do visit Carolina and even though Delhomme played awful the first time around against the Bucs, I’d still expect the Panthers to at least split that season series. The Bucs have five highly competitive games remaining and I could easily see them losing three more games. They’re a solid team with some veterans that won’t shoot themselves in the foot too often but I just don’t consider them a real contender to ultimately do anything other than to creep into the playoffs.

As for the Falcons, Ryan certainly looks like the real deal. Although since he is a rookie, I’d agree it’s certainly logical to expect him to have a couple of stinkers down the stretch particularly against teams like Carolina and the Bucs. On the other hand, the Falcons have a solid one/two punch running the ball in Turner and Norwood and the same receivers who could never get in synch with Vick are finally catching the ball. I don’t know if the Falcons have any so-called offensive whiz kids on their staff but Redball would’ve been well served to have been taking notes this weekend on a short little pass the Falcons threw to Jerious Norwood that turned into 60-plus yard touchdown. I’ll be very disappointed if the Ivy League wunderkind doesn’t at least try to utilize Felix on a couple of similar pass plays whenever he returns.

The thing working against the Falcons is they don’t have any real cupcakes down the stretch except for St. Louis in their season finale. They play the second leg of their division schedule and they also play the Broncos and Chargers; who as underwhelming as they have been so far will still be no gimmes for a young Falcons team. Then, the Falcons still also have to play the Vikings who are capable of beating any of the other wannabes as long as AP goes off. Let’s also not forget that two of the Falcons wins came against the Lions and the Chefs and the fashion in which they beat the Bears was nothing short of miraculous. If the Falcons do manage to get in, they’ll have been battle-tested enough that they might actually win a few games.

At any rate, I’m certain the best either the Falcons or Bucs will do is 10-6.

Also, I’m just not sold on Fat Andy’s filthy flock. They’ve either outright blown games (squandering a double digit lead to the ‘Skins) or lost because of their inability to convert short yardage situations (this last game against the Giants and earlier against the Bears.) Plus, they always seem to turn it on approximately when they’re actually eliminated from playoff contention.

As I see it, if the Cowboys don’t make it, the scenario that will most likely knock them out is losing tiebreakers to the Falcons due to them having a better conference record and getting swept by the ‘Skins.

So far, at least.