a sack or two. Wham, down goes McNabb. Wade, I don’t know if Butler is a one trick pony, but put that horse in there when you need his trick. (actually he didn’t replace Spencer as it turned out)

I love me some Scandrick, don’t get me wrong, but Jenkins might be the best corner we have right now. Either way, our top 3 corners are all playing lights out, and Alan Ball’s doing pretty good too. Secondary looks great. Drives me nuts to hear media types saying our secondary is “suspect”. Please.

But Rat certainly deserves a game ball. The guy might actually be the best defensive player on the field for us, which says a TON, considering Ware’s still a monster.

C’mon Mr Cowherd, you can come clean. You blog here under Sharksbreath, don’t you????

then check your pulse, chum.

About as bad as their highly drafted WR’s?

but this year’s team definitely has a different sense about it.

On defense, Wade brought in more of his guys—Brooking, Olshansky, and Campo/DeCamillis’ Sensabaugh. And the younger guys that have been drafted since he’s been here are looking good. On offense, Garrett finally has the chemistry set he’s always wanted, and we’ve only seen a few of his experiments so far this season.

What I like best is the team is showing continuous improvement. I’m sure there will be a rough patch or two during the rest of the season, but this team has already proven to itself that it can handle the rough patches. There’s nothing more you can ask from a team at this point in the season.

they were all over Dallas last year and we know what happened. I think none of them want to talk them up too much this year. Which I completely get.

Romo was playing great, but it all went bye bye. Damn.

There is contact like that between every receiver and DB on every pass in the NFL.

did the same thing a few plays later and no call. Not sure why their fans were complaining about calls. They were equal opportunity bad.

the other team. Like “most helpful opposing player” and “most helpful opposing coach”. I would nominate McNabb and Reid as excellent candidates…

He seemed much more at home making intermediate catches in traffic using his big body to snag some balls and shield defenders. That pass behind him on the sidelines put a big smile on my face…

If he can put up those kind of numbers he and Miles as the deep threat could be a real tough tandem. Add our other intermediate and screen threats and our passing game looks mean. Roy looked to be the missing piece at WR to get tough grabs on big downs when Witten is blocking and maybe he is making that step now..

I bet Ashley takes some flak for that write-up. I agreed with everything she said…except for that last sentence. If the Cowboys do damage in the playoffs it has nothing to do with Philadelphia. We knew all those things about this team long before the Philly debacle last year. We almost certainly would have still made the moves we made to rid ourselves of bad attitudes, and I’ll bet Wade was just waiting for Brooking to become available.

We’re just excercising demons around here. It’s hard to temper the excitement, because it has been a really long time since the team exhibited this level of cohesiveness. Think about seasons past. At this point we were complaining about Henry playing off the line and still getting burned. We were scratching our heads about how we would ever overcome Roy the Safety’s shortcomings, etc, etc.

It seems we’re in for the long haul this year. But it’s back to work for the team today. Green Bay is a really tough place to win a game. The team has to saddle up and get back on the horse. I see them being ready come Sunday, but Green Bay is still stinging from that embarassment in Tampa. They won’t be an easy target.

if we’d managed to lose that game in the end, we’d be harping on the penalties. they were back this game. winning allows us fans to gloss over that, but I doubt the team is. We really cleaned them up in the Seattle game, but there they were back again. fortunately philly had their share as well and it didn’t cost us in the end, but we do really need to get that cleaned up on a consistent basis before heading into our tough December stretch.

when was the last time we could confidently say that all three phases are all contributing equally to our wins, and point to so many different role players who make significant contributions? not to speak too soon, but that is what championship teams are made of…

No Aaron Kampan..

Stone cold likes playing Green Bay..

plus they played hard to the end. That was a difference maker. And that’s how the units build trust and start to play for each other.

Choice would have been my umm…. choice as well. The only thing I could think of durng the game was that the Eagles kept so many in the box and blitzed so often that they decided they were going to pass more often anyhow and wanted MBIII in there for his blitz pick up. Choice blocks well, Barber blocks great.

I feel like it’s been a really long time since I’ve seen really punish a tackler. I miss the days when he used to put his head down and blast a, "would be" tackler for a couple extra yards.

Might be wrong though. He definitely isn’t as phsyically punishing as we all know he can be, so he probably has a while to go before being 100%. Same with Felix, he looked a step slow, especially returning kicks.

I’d be hiding behind Wade, though.

The heat was right in Romo’s face, he hung in a threw a perfect strike and Crayton never missed a beat catching it and running.