Cowboys vs. Redskins: The Pros and Cons of Winning Ugly

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Vick finally gained some yards last night.

Dallas -14

how many weeks til Folk is replaced/benched … if at all?

Ball do?

Alot of attention was paid to Free but I haven’t heard anything on Alan Ball’s play. Campbell did make a couple big plays down the field but I don’t remember much production from the tight end position. (Assuming that was Ball’s assignment…)

on the “needs to play better” list, but if McBriar doesn’t start to do the “laces out” we’re gonna have a RAY FINKLE on our team!!! :)

Parcells yanked him back in 2004 for a reason. Maybe we should try Kitna or even Romo oh wait….: )

but with too many plays in the shotgun. Dom Capers even mentioned it was easier to defend the Cowboys this way but apparently Romo likes it so I guess its here to stay.

with my family and all, but more than anything I think the Dallas Offense could use the 10 day break afterwards

It’s as simple as this:

If we played the exact same game in the Super Bowl, everyone would be happy after the game. The defense holds the opponent to 6 points all game, Romo and the crew score 7 in the last frame, we go home SB champs.

Now, I know the Colts are not the Redskins, but I’m just saying….I’m of the mind that a win is a win, because really, thinking of it in terms of the Bowl, pretty don’t count.

I liked that effect when the ‘Skins got an offensive penalty. Hadn’t noticed that before.

Who are the players on offense that made plays when they needed to: Romo, Witten, Miles, the Oline, Barber. Notice someone who was missing from that, someone who was not even targeted on that drive? RW, he is not in this group yet, will he ever get there? I also think that romo’s injury kept him from running for a couple of 1st downs, he did in the final drive because it was now or never; but I think it made him hesitate on running because one good hit could have taken him out of the game or a TO. The team needs to look at that last drive and get the ball to those who want to make a difference in cruch time.

But he came right back into the game.

The team does not get too high or too low during a game so they do not give up games like they did last year. But that does not mean they are guranteed anything. Oak has dallas’ full attention this week, they do not want to lose this game. They want to have a good opening drive, get a lead and keep the raiders from believing they can hang with dallas. I think the prospect of going through another game like this on a short week is something they are going to be extra motivated to avoid. But the situation is similar a sub .500 team coming off a good victory over a better team gives them a confidence boost. Hopefully it takes the edge off their ability to put a good game together. The raiders are coming in on a short week from the west coast, that will give dallas a little edge too.

The thing that sucks is that even though the gints have to go across the country to play against the broncos, they will have just as long of a break as dallas does. It kinda negates the advantage dallas usually gets after thanksgiving, darn you nfl network.

And playing it to the music from the Bad News Bears. He is amazingly terrible.

THIS MADE MY DAY!

This game was great, as I was talking about Romo a few weeks ago with a Broncos/Eagles fan. He pointed out that with guys like Peyton, Brady, and Big Ben, you can almost always count on them to get the win for their teams and that Romo never gives off that vibe.

Well yesterday he did! Put that in your pipe and smoke it, Eric!

One last note: the win doesn’t completely forgive the inexcusably terrible offense of the last two weeks. The win is good, but the Cowboys need to fix it. “Look at ourselves in the mirror” time has come for this team.

Well, the offense anyway. Williams is going to need a biiiiiiiig mirror.

I was wondering what you thought about Miles. I know teams have been shading to him, but Romo has shown in the past he has no problem forcing into decent coverage, and Miles has shown he can catch tough balls in traffic. But yet again he makes plays late in desperation time. I wonder why the don’t try to force it to Austin earlier, especially with RW’s obvious issues? It seems to me that are (for the most part) accepting that Austin is being taken out of the game, and Romo is being overly concervative. I wouldn’t mind an occasional INT if he’s trying to make a deep play to Austin, but that’s just me. But then when they open it up, suddenly Austin looks like the WR we know he can be.

I don’t mean you have to force it into good coverage, but they haven’t really been taking any shots downfield, and he just doesn’t seem too involved with everything until the 4th quarter.

yeah the offense sucked yesterday but it made the key drive when it had to;
plus the D is becoming studly led by the big stud himself: Keith Brooking; (what a stuff he made on 3rd and 1!) KB’s’s the closest thing to Lee Roy Jordan we’ve had since Ken Norton Jr. Wish we had him the last ten years…

I thought he was going to have the type of impact that Brooking had this year… didn’t come close.

We just two of the league’s top defense. Green Bay’s defense is #1 in Football Outsiders’ DVOA rating (http://www.footballoutsiders.com/extra-points/2009/green-bay-defense-tears-knees-apart).

Washington is not ranked as highly in DVOA, mainly due to their weak schedule bringing down their “Strength of Opponent’s Offense” metric, but they are #4 in yardage defense, #6 in scoring, and #1 in pass defense.

I’m not saying this should make us feel great. In order be to a really good team, you have to be able to to score on good defenses too, not just lousy ones. But it’s at least a small consolation, and reason to think that it wasn’t just us beating ourselves. The guys on the other side of the line get paid to make plays too, after all.

They have a zombie coach who was stripped of his playcalling duties. At the time a 3-6 team that had no real shot at a WC spot. The deadskins had zero expectations to win the game, they were initially 13 point underdogs coming into the game. The press was telling them that dallas was going to bounce back offensively against the skins. The pressure was on dallas to blow out the skins. Rock and JC all played with nothing to lose other than their pride and they came up short.