I know the Redskins were defending against the run pretty well, but that’s no reason not to try. I just don’t get that.

With that said, we got beat.

I guess they forgot the first 3 games…

Stuff the run early and he will abandon it.

there was nothing imaginative about our calls today. How about running 4 wide out there and then running Barber? How about a screen to Felix to slow down the rush? Greg Blache creamed Jason today.

Beating a fired up Eagles team and the second-best team in the conference, on the road, we just didn’t have anything left for this game. And the Redskins always get up for us, whether they have talent or not.

After three tough games, we now have three easy ones, before we play Tampa Bay and the Giants.

A disappointing loss, but it’s not the end of the world.

This will be a good wakeup call.

So pissed at Jason Garrett.

Can we please run the ball?

It’s not about just Romo anymore. We saw today what happens to his one mistake per game b.s.

Defense can’t hold a team that starts their drives between the 40s the majority of the game.

Running game…please…run the fu%@#ng ball!

1. Jason Garrett abandons the run ENTIRELY too soon. I mean it’s Stupid silly….we go into the shotgun….Down by only three…..and pretty much never ran the ball again….(not sure on this) But we just turn Romo into gunslinger mode when we get behind……Stupid…

2. we never adjusted defensively.Washington just chipped away….dink and dunked us all day….then started taking shots downfeild. Great gameplan by washington….we never adjusted.

3. T-New…..Got burnt badly today….Man he was aweful….Reminded me of Jaque reeves instead of our #1 CB….Man he was playing 10-12 yards off the line of scrimmage.

4. Seemed like we tried way too hard to get TO involved….At the expense of not using Witten to his full potential…..

5. our D could not stop their offense….they drove down the field on us all day long…we never stopped them….except when we held them to FG’s

6. Romo continued to make Boneheaded plays…..Throwing an INT on First down????C’mon now….Throw it away…..If you’re going to take chances …take them DEEP!!! Plus he threw the INT with Two of the skins top DB’s …sitting on the bench!

I’m terribly embarrassed By this outing….The boyz didn’t show me anything today….with all our stars….We got manhandled and dominated……40 minutes time of possesion…..

I hope we can get up for the Bungles…..Maybe??

I still think he is a good coach though and will make a good head coach.

campbell was poised today and they seemed to run at will on us…hard to win like that….

romo was good but not good enough. everyone seemed a bit off. T.O. Romo. Witten seemed like he was the only one dialed in. Crayton played OK. But he had a drop or two.

The officiating didn’t help either. Not blaming it on them but they missed some pretty obvious penalties out there. And the 12 men on the field thing was ridiculous. After a timeout? Really?

It’s all good. We got Cincy next week and we should really give them the business. Adversity only makes you stronger gentlemen and I’m praying this is the case with us. But all bets are off if we struggle to the lowly Bengals.

they just showed TNew getting abused repeatedly

I’m probably overreacting here but here it goes:

Stewart sucks as a DC.

Newman is a over paid 30 yrd old CB. He cost us big time in this game.

Where was Felix?

One dimensional offense. Where the heck was the running game. They abandoned it way too early….

Big mistake not getting Barber and Felix involved

There was nothing open anywhere. That’s on Garrett. He usally adjusts well but tonight he was out-coached.

What surprises me is that you guys aren’t talking about the defense. If the offense was sluggish, the defense was horrendous. Some of you may have recognized it from the Giants playoff game. Of course they didn’t coach Newman to stick his head up his a**, but they looked like they decided to skip film study and just go ahead and strap it on. Let’s see – decent pass rush, but let’s play 15 yards off against a team that runs quick slants and hitches. And after a time out, let’s see if we can sneak an extra defender onto the field. They’ll NEVER expect that from a professional team.

I’m am now worried. I thought it was just me but for a defense, with as much talent as the Cowboys have, they should be forcing more turnovers and making more plays. With our personnel we should be a top 3 defense, but that is just not the case. Let’s get someone who can take advantage and get the most out of our players.

also needed some touches. If Barber isn’t effective on the ground why not bring in a different type of back to change some things up? I must say though, I’d rather have the Cowboys lose early in the season than in November/December

Maybe that had something to do with him having a subpar KO return game

if the Bears can beat the Iggles i’ll feel a little better

Half of the people on this thread were saying what a great set of DB’s we had now that Reeves and Nathan Jones were gone up until today.

But, in week one, Braylon Edwards was burning this secondary and just couldn’t catch the ball. In fact, when someone said we looked bad out there in the secondary, many on here asked how that could be if we allowed so few passing yards. In week 2, Philly’s passing attack looked like Air Coryell, but no one complained because we won. And last week, it’s not like the Jennings and Driver suddenly sucked, but GB was one dimensional because of Ryan Grant’s hammy.

The pass defense is what we thought they were!!! And if you want to flush them, then flush them!

Actually, what bothered me more was Washington’s ability to run the ball up the gut in crunch time…AND WE KNEW THAT WAS WHAT THEY WANTED TO DO!!!

The DB’s are talented, maybe a bit screwed up in alignment, but they are still talented.

No, the difference in this game was poor preparation versus great preparation. Wade has to own up to this defeat and adjust.

to let the skins win the last rivalry game at Texas stadium is an insult to the cowboys history. I put this loss 100% on Jason Garrett. Crappy play calling, never gave the offense a chance to get into rhythm, consequently never giving the defense a chance to rest. Stupid play calling, way too fancy and the offense wasn’t sharp.

Sucked all around but don’t go calling for anyone’s heads, its still early in the season.

one thought… although TNew in particular got abused, the D overall did a good job in the second half, holding them to 9 points, and keeping us in the game, giving the offense at least a chance to make a comeback try. I don’t know how to explain the offensive play calling, but at least the D did make adjustments and do a somewhat better job in the second half.

just heard. Second least ALL TIME. Amounted to 4 passes per 1 rush. Garrett just sucked this game. I don’t know what he was thinking.

Just checked back in here and everyone’s down; everyone’s pissed.

Me, too.

But as some of you wrote—this is how we performed at the end of the year last year. I don’t wanna overplay that adage, but “better now than later.”

Our coordinators can get their sh!# straight after learning from a loss.
Garrett—control the ball against a west coast team, or they’ll control it to keep your offense off the field.
Stewart—the west coast offense will chop you up with those frustrating little passes. Some bump and run dude? Some cover2? Some adjustments?

Jeez.

1.we were outcoached and outplayed
2.we made no halftime adjustments
3. the Redskins provided the rest of the league with a blueprint on how to beat us!
4. if J Garrett doesn’t learn to RUN THE BALL….we’re not going to have a chance to LOSE another playoff game.
5.We lost to an inferior team today…..not just lost but got dominated.

I know its only one game …but the 4th place team in the east will be staying home….we looked like a cellar dwellar today…..Wade and his AW SHUCKS attitude isn’t going to get it done!

What a waste of talent!

Everyone has to lighten up. The Redskins are a pretty good team, and whenever Dallas and Washington play, you can throw their records, respective talent levels, etc. out the window. When Dallas went 1-15 in Jimmy Johnson’s first year, the only win was against the Skins, who I think went to the Super Bowl that year. Dallas vs. Washington is always a wacky game. Sh&% happens when they play.

I agree that the Cowboys could have had a better game plan on offense, and the defensive secondary
 has not really come together yet.

I mentioned TO sulking on the sidelines after last game’s victory saying I thought it was strange he looked so upset despite his team blowing out the opponent. Just saw his post game comments and he threw the offense under the bus for not getting him the ball enough, wow, you guys still think I’m crazy?

nice, Bears with 7 point lead, pick and return it to the 10

I think it’s clear without Westbrook they struggle

Played their A game and we played our C game and lost by 2.

We are still a really good team, but we have a ways to go..

This should help with the focus here on out. We have to find a way to get Romo up and running earlier in the game. I say 4 wide with the two minute offense..

Is the best by far in the NFL we are going to beat up on each other..

The NFC East really is the best division in football.
3-1 is a good record considering the teams we’ve played.
As crappy as the game plans on both sides of the ball were, Dallas was extremely close to getting that onside kick and very well may have pulled out a last second win. They have the talent to beat any team.
Our next few games look winnable (I won’t say easy, just very winnable)
All we can hope, is that the coaching staff can dissect what went wrong and correct it. (Hint: Try to use the running game a lot more)

we didn’t show any characteristics of a team that can win in the playoffs. Didn’t run, didn’t stop the run, porous D.

Bears make goal line stand.

Now until we play and beat the Midgets in a few weeks the media will constantly hate on us.

At least we get that satisfaction. Now the Gnats are the ones with the target on their backs.

That does perk me up a bit.

We saw the affects of no Roy Williams today.. We MISSED Roy in the run game today..

He said he was not used enough in the game. Really now? 20 plays were to Owens and yet according to him he was used enough? He was really dissing Romo here, Garret was asked why didn’t they run the ball and he said because Romo changed the running plays to passing plays. Makes you wonder, why did Romo do this? Probably to feed a certain receiver’s ego, hmmmm?

All Romo did was slapped Crayton, Austin, Witten, Barber and Felix in the faces by forcing the passes to Owens. I am sorry but Owens is not our best offensive player, that belongs to Barber. Did you know that when Barber carries the ball at least 11 times, Dallas is 12-1?

There are not many of those in this league. He needs appreciate what he has and shut his trap.

The defense bears the lion’s share of the blame for the one. The offense was way off, but still scored 24 points. That should be enough. Newman was getting abused out there. We couldn’t stop the run at all. Since the offense couldn’t outscore them, that was all she wrote.

On the offensive side of the ball, Romo never looked sharp. He had a couple of nice escapes and excellent throws, but he looked like he was forcing it to TO and generally seemed a bit out of it. That INT on the play with both of the starting CBs out was horrible. Why aren’t they taking a shot down the field on that play?

And Jason Garrett’s game plan was ridiculous. 8 carries between Barber and Jones? I hear that Romo was changing the plays, but it’s Garrett’s job to talk to him if he thinks that’s a problem. Overall, not his best day.

This one was excruciating to watch – just close enough that they had a chance to win it, not good enough to really be entertaining. I can live with a Cowboy loss; all of the talk about going undefeated seemed to me to be ridiculous, and this will kill it. But I hated the way we lost this one. It was like leaving 5 bullets in the gun.

I’m not gonna say it was a good game, Lord it was awful. Washington played near perfect, and we were sleep walking through the game. The bright side is, there is nothing wrong that can’t be fixed.

“IF”
by Rudyard Kipling

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream — and not make dreams your master;
If you can think — and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on!”

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings — nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And - which is more — you’ll be a Man, my son!

Let us show some decorum people, one loss isn’t the end of the world.

You guys have said it, and again, Tom Jackson nailed it. T.O got the ball 20 times…20. Barber and Felix should be pissed. And ya’ll can say a loss is good, and I agree, but only when you learn from it. While the coaches learned from it, I’m not sure the players did. They expect to win just by showing up, but I don’t think anyone told them the game started at 4:15 and not with 5 left in the fourth…
I can beat a dead horse and blame it on the coaches, but I only have 2 gripes. The obvious, of course. The lack of running: You can’t reward Barber’s best day by giving him 8 carries the next week. It takes at least 15 to get him warmed up. The secondary: Not their play, but them giving 12 yard cushions to a West Coast dink and dunk offense (again I think somebody beat me to saying that). Crayton played well minus that catch out of bounds. Witten was Witten. We need to tackle most of all. We missed 4 or 5 sacks by my count…God I hope we learn from this…We play a possibly Carson-less Bengals next week

After seeing our team look dominant in September the last few years and then go on and lose in December and January, I’m hoping we reverse that trend by getting better as the season progresses and not peaking too early.

I think fans keep forgetting how young this team is, they’re not mature enough to play really well every single week, they’ll have their share of flat games, especially after two emotional games on prime time, they were due for a let down.

They have 3 weak opponents to get back on track and hopefully we’ll play better the next time we play a good team which will be TB in a month.

That our defense is killing me. I’ve kept my mouth shut about it thus far because we’ve pulled off wins, but now it’s time to vent.

1. No interceptions still? Really?
2. Some of the worst tackling I’ve ever seen and I’m not just talking about this game.
3. Last week the defense mostly kept the Packers out of the end zone.. Wow.. really.. who cares? Did anyone happen to see how many yards we gave up? How about a stop BEFORE they get within the 20 for a change..
4. I no longer call it a 3rd and 5 or a 3rd and 8 or a 3rd and 10. I now call it a 3rd and first. Seems to me it’s almost a guarantee the other team will get a first on 3rd downs.

This D is NOT a good D. It pains me to say it because I had high hopes for it coming into the year. At best it’s mediocre, and that’s not acceptable considering all the talent we supposedly have. Maybe it’s time we begin to say it’s not the defense its self, but the players. Are they as good as we’ve all thought? They sure don’t play like it. This isn’t an over reaction to this game either.. Coming into this game they were sub par too.

And just what the hell is up with 8 rushes from Barber? 8? seriously Jason? 8? And a first round pick with no touches at all? sigh…

This game hopefully came at a good time though.. I hope all the players and all the coaches take a step back and realize they aren’t as good as they think. Now maybe they can stop playing like they’re on top looking down and start playing like they’re down and start looking up. I actually had higher hopes for this team in 2006. I thought then we were overlooked a lot and because of it we had some of that underdog fight we witnessed from the Skins yesterday. I’m not feeling that now.

RAWR!

we’ve had it backwards the last few years, maybe we’re finally reversing that trend.

Just remember how bad the GMen looked from Sept through Nov. in 2007.

We were not going to go undefeated, and since the NFC East is the best division out there, it would stand that we would lose within the division.
And I don’t care what anyone says, I hate losing to the ’Skins far and beyond any other team (i.e. Eagles)…
Oh well, i feel sorry for Cincinnati, i smell a whooping coming on…

p.s. all this talk about our defense, … talk here, talk on ESPN, talk by Troy Aikman… why is our defense getting so much praise, when we are giving up WIDE open deep passes down field that end up in scores, missing sacks only to allow the QB to escape and pick up a first down, etc.. etc…. etc..
I don’t expect every play to be a stop for a loss, but man, our D gave up some big plays when we really needed them…

also, i have officially put Romo in the Favre category, i fully expect ONE pick each game now (hope it does not cost us too much) AND one houdini play where he escapes the impossible… and who knows those plays might be one in the same…

Errr…you might want to conquer your division first before claiming to be the best team in the NFL. Welcome to the 3-1 club!!

…you all saw Greg Ellis get hurt in the game yesterday.

Has anyone heard an update on his condition — or any other Cowboys’ injury reports for that matter?

Thanks.

… is a complete joke. For the life of me, I can’t understand why our corners give so much cushion back there. Also, Terrance Newman (arguably my favorite Cowboy) is playing like Jacques Reeves.