…the Cowboys are on a roll and have a lot more to prove…mostly to themselves….they are ready to avenge last year’s embarrassment.

Nick Folk wins it with 14 seconds left: 30-27

…and will be pleasantly surprised if it works out differently. Really more than anything, (baring key injuries) it’s the home field advantage that will come into play.

It’s the rematch in December that I’m expecting the Cowboys to win.

Thats usually the case when 2 evenly matched teams play.

Do you guys think the Eagles will put Dallas in their blue jerseys?

we should win the game. If our secondary starts playing keystone cops, Mcnabb will have a huge day.

I think some early and hard hits on McNabb and jackson help set the tone but our secondary is prone to some serious mental lapses.
After the way the season started, I’m just happy this game means something.

always bugs the hell out of me. I hate them, but I love the matchup every year (minus the game last year)

To the sincere desire I have for the Boys to go out there and just punch that team in the mouth, devestate them, and humiliate them in front of all those loathsome Eagles Fans at the Linc…after what they did to us last year, it would be quite fitting.

If Ware, Rat, Jenkins and company start to smell blood, watch out.

the msm will try and tout this game as a shoot out, but both of these defenses will keep the game close. The game will come down to who wins the turnover battle.

To the eagle fans out there, how do you feel about your special teams? Right now the NFL.com site shows that dallas and philly are close in ST, dallas is slightly ranked higher but looking at the stats it is pretty even. I like our guy Buehler keeping your return game within the 20 yard line.

otherwise I would be sweating DeSean on PR a lot more.

In general our offense is a lot more balanced and it seems as if teams game-plan to take away one aspect(pass or run), we exploit the other. Our defense is not as sack-happy as it was last year, but may be more fundamentally solid – especially PBU by the DB’s. They are simply around the ball more. PHL’s real advantage appears to be the turnover creation by their DB’s. I am surprised by the efficiency of both O-LInes- DAL is more consistent and I thought PHL"s was basically destroyed going into the season.

Interesting to note PHL scored 5 TD’s on drives of no more than 4 plays against NY. That may have been a factor of Westbrook missing the game as much as anything. The downside of a quick-strike O , as we well know, is the impatience it creates in sustaining drives. I like the fact that DAL strength-running the FB, runs somewhat counter to PHL’s – defensive backfield play.

I am very anxious about this, as we all know, DAL hasn’t played in PHL very well. Here’s hoping an x-factor(Keith Brooking?)can change that dynamic

As a major Philly hater (since fat old Butt Ryan coached there) I can’t believe I wrote that in the subject line; but as the post writer outlined, these are two evenly matched teams, at least statistically; and both have something to prove. I like to think/hope/pray Big D has more to prove and will use that as motivation to kick some bird tail.

The Cowboys have been able to run the ball at least decently against most teams. When opponents put 8 in the box they have been able to burn people on outside runs and passes. Philly is a quick though possibly slightly undersized defense so that match up is intriguing.

If Philly can’t run the ball I am predicting a win for the cowboys (barring lots of turnovers) If the D line and linebackers can do a good job of stopping the run Reid has shown himself pretty quick to pull the plug on the running game and give it to McNabb. The Giants are very vulnerable to the run (as the cowboys showed) and Philly exploited that. In my opinion the Dallas Run D is much better than the Giants and this will be the matchup of the game.

I think our secondary can hang with Philly’s receivers, our front 7 can get after McNabb and stop the run, and our offense can move the ball on anybody.

I don’t think this will be a blowout, but I have a feeling it’s not going to be as close as Iggles fans think.

Philadelphia: Everybody is telling them how great they are. The whole team is feeling like the kings of the world after the shellacking of the overhyped Giants and a win over the Redskins. They even believe it themselves. McNabb: “I think we’re just kind of touching the surface.” The Oakland game? Completely forgotten, never happened.

Dallas: 44-6. 44-6. 44-6 …

I like our chances if an annoyed and angry team Cowboys team shows up. This is going to be an exciting game.

above and in other post streams about this game, both teams right now are fairly unpredictable – Eagles lose to the Raiders but destroy the Giants, Cowboys barely escape the Chiefs but fairly handily beat Atlanta… etc…

We can all see the upside of our Cowboys – balanced offensive attack that can either run all over you OR hit the big pass play. And if Romo plays mistake free, we look pretty darn good.
Defense the same thing, a lot of ‘bend’ but little ‘break’.

The Eagles look a little more vulnerable, where their running game seems to be hit or miss, but McNabb has some weapons and they can win on a 70% to 30% pass to run play selection.

I absolutely feel that we can win this game, IF we play mistake free and IF we don’t give McNabb all day to pick us apart; we don’t have to kill him, but at least hurry him on most plays and that will be enough to win… and it seems in our history regardless of how good or bad we are we have trouble with Donavan, most of the time..

I think playing mistake free at the Link right now is a very tall order… but i think IF this team, from coaching staff on down, really wants to prove they can win a ‘big’ game, this is where they can do that… and i think they will… i think we will have success running the ball, and Romo will not be asked to do too much therefore playing mistake free, and our D will be able to harass McNabb enough to keep too many big plays from happening (one or two maybe, but not enough to beat us).

They die tonight..

May be Cowboys nation & Michael Irvin will be laughing his ass off while McNabb is laying motionless on the ground for 10 minutes.

NOT! Not that classless..