Are the Seahawks a Trap Game..?
by gee-roj on Oct 28, 2009 2:42 PM CDT
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PrintWe are reaching that point in the week where last weekend’s game fades into the background as next weekend’s game takes center stage and as happy as am with the Falcons win, I’m beginning to worry that the Cowboys are heading into a classic, “trap” game.
They just beat a team that most considered to be in the top 3 to 5 in the NFC before last weekend, (how could they not feel good about that victory and want to pat themselves on the back) and waiting for them on Nov. 8 is a long awaited rematch with the Eagles, the team that so graciously ended the Cowboys’ season last year with perhaps the worst defeat I’ve seen (44-6) since the ’85 Bears beat them 44-0. The Cowboys have got to be chopping at the bit to get back on the field against those guys and exact some revenge (not to mention that the very real possibility exists that first place in the division could be on the line as both teams could realistically be 5-2 heading into that contest). In between these two big games lies a match with the Seahawks; a team the Cowboys should mop the floor with (much like they did last Thanksgiving) but a team that can be very dangerous if not taken seriously.
Coming off their bye the Seahawks have had two full weeks to prepare for this game which gives them plenty of time to put together a solid game plan for the Cowboys. Of note, teams coming off the bye are 8-4 so far this year and some of those wins have been rather decisive.
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Don't Think So
There is definitely something different about this team. Just like 2006 when Romo won his first game at Carolina, you can see and feel a change in attitude that looks past no one and are intent on winning. I’ll wager they are preparing for Seattle every bit as seriously as they did for Atlanta.
"You have to have a stronger belief in yourself than the disbelief of others."
Antonio Ramirez Romo
They all are, if they let them.
It’s all up to the team. Hopefully they didn’t get big headed after 2 straight wins and aren’t looking past the Seahawks.
by Baked Potato Soup on Oct 28, 2009 3:05 PM CDT reply actions
mental toughness is the key
if we make a bunch of penalties, treat the football with contempt and miss assignments, we will probably still win. But it will be a huge red flag to the hunger of this team.
Will 2 wins in a row cause them to lose focus? If so, we can count out a run for the playoffs. If we play hungry and take care of business, it shows they can be professionals an that they won’t let down their guard.
Ich bin ein Berliner--JFK
If this game was in Seattle...maybe
but I see the Cowboys playing well at home again.
In Romo we Trust
+1
That’s what I was thinking.
Plus the Seaguls are really banged up along their O-line, and they normally stink on the road even when healthy.
Are you ready for some football???
by APerfectStar on Oct 28, 2009 7:18 PM CDT up reply actions
If this team was on a big time roll I say yes
But the way things have broke down so far I do not see this game as a trap game..I do not think this team will take anyone lightly right now ( thanks to that KC game)
+1
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by Aaron Novinger on Oct 31, 2009 8:40 AM CDT up reply actions
What's the spread on the Eagles game?
Just curious and too lazy to get a paper these days….
Anomoly............Finally here.........
If it is a trap game and they don't play well
then the cowboys win last week was just a fluke and they really are the underacheiving bunch that we were ready to give up on.
To me, this game is almost more important than last week because consistency is the thing that has eluded this team for longer than I care to remember.
I don't think so
Any chance of us taking us lightly any time during Romo’s tenure ended in the 2006 playoff game. And then on top of that, Julius is their starting back.
But screw the “trap game” idea, with Hassleback, Seattle is a totally different and much more dangerous team. Our pass rush needs to get there (Jones is done for the year, this shouldn’t be that hard), and our secondary needs to play well.
I'm not worried
This is the first time all season (and since 2007, really) that I’ve had faith in this team.
2009 Dallas Cowboys: 10-6
2009 New York Jets: 11-5?
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With Winnie as coach
EVERY game is a potential trap game.
"Emotion is highly overrated in football. My wife Corky is emotional as hell but can't play football worth a damn."
- John McKay, the first coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
I disagree
The team has seemd pretty prepared to play each game this season, it’s their execution and mental lapses which have been the problem and thats on the players not the coaches.
In Romo we Trust
It's on both Terry...
It’s a total team effort from top to bottom. Their have been games were the Cowboys have not only been out executed but out coached as well. Play calling, studying game film and preparing a strategy plus adjusting in-game is every bit as important as the players execution of those strategies on the field.
Football is a chess match and sometimes the opponent has a better chess player on the other side line; plain and simple.
However, Wade and Jason both have been playing some of their best "chess" at times this season. My hope is that this trend will continue and we will end up seeing their best coaching efforts to date this December & beyond.
The 2009 Dallas Cowboys: Talk to me in December.
The NFC East has won 11 Super Bowls; oddly none of those have come courtesy of the Eagles.
I haven't seen a game where we were outcoached this season
In our two looses, we either didn’t execute (Denver) or made too many mistakes (4 turnovers v GMen).
In Romo we Trust
sigh...
I just cannot subscribe to this idea that coaching has no bearing on the game what’s so ever. This tells me that in your mind Eric Mangini is just as good as Tom Landry was. Hell why are their even coaches at all since their play calling makes 100% no difference on the field. Why don’t they just have fans text in what they want the next play call to be? Why not? It’s all up to the players to execute.
In fact maybe they should just call the same exact play on every single down for the rest of the season since it’s all up to the players to execute that play right?
I’m sorry but sometimes one sideline outsmarts another. Sometimes one coach realizes that the other one has a blitz dialed up and calls the perfect screen pass to foil it with.
Of course it’s still up to the players, and of course when some of them make mistakes that’s not on the coach. But sometimes coaches make mistakes too (after all they are human). Sometimes they’ll do something stupid like go for it on 4 and 1 inside their own 20, twice, running the exact same play, (i.e. Switzer in ‘95). Or call back to back fade routes from the one foot line after the offense had just driven down the field with an unstoppable running attack, on a very tired defense. Or keep the team’s best receiving option back to block on the final two plays of game, from the 3 yard line, when they’re trying to tie with a touchdown.
Obliviously it’s still up to the players to execute whatever the coach has called but it’s also the coaches job to dial up the best possible play for the given situation. Heck a player doesn’t even get a chance to execute a play if the coach doesn’t’ even put him in the game, i.e. Choice no carries last weekend.
BTW, I should ad that both Garrett and Phillips have had some outstanding calls this year as well, (more than they have had bad ones); I don’t mean to make it sound like I think they’re doing a poor job of coaching. I just don’t agree that coaching has no bearing on the game.
The 2009 Dallas Cowboys: Talk to me in December.
The NFC East has won 11 Super Bowls; oddly none of those have come courtesy of the Eagles.
LAck of execution generally means they are ill prepared
Lifetime Cowboys Fan from the Swamps of Jersey
that's not true at all
A team can be prepared really well and fail to execute, one has nothing to do with the other.
In Romo we Trust
Iv'e Got one name for anyone who thinks that they will take Seattle lightly
KEITH BROOKING …. the man will not accept anyone, on that team not being read to play.
Right on Terry...
I do not think that loosing to 2 very good teams was a matter of being OUTCOACHED, cause we have played Coughlins Gnats before and dominated(as in beating them on their turf soundly like Romo did in 2007)them by good consistent, error free football…The Broncos game, I believe the BOYZ just took to lightly, and a mediocre QB at best(see his stats with Chicago), just took advantage of the situation…Wade can scream, butt his head, and grab Romo all night long but if he goes out and does what he did against the GNATS again, we will probably be handed our ass again also…If Romo plays “Romo-like” football then we will win every game…As Romo goes so go the Cowboys…Wade does not have as much authority over the Offense as he does Defense, and if Garretts Offense continually hangs the Defense out to dry(with turnovers, and 3-and-out series) yeah it is going to seem like the Defense let us down, because of the HUGE time of POSSESSION differential…Our D stopped the Gnats all night, but when it became apparent that the Offense was determined to give the Game away(3INTs and a Fumble), that was in no way us being out-coached no-way no-how…While I am not going to take the Seaguls lightly, I really dont see what kind of game they are going to bring, that the BOYZ cant prepare themselves for…I will say this, and agree with me or not…WADE PHILLIPS IS NOBODYS PATTSY if given a team to work with…Atlanta, Buffalo(waves hand in dismissal)they were nothing when he got there, and they probably werent any worse off than when he finally left…JMO…FEAR THE STAR
by Hawgz, Bugz, and FilthyFowl Hater on Oct 30, 2009 7:04 PM CDT reply actions
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