I felt the same way watching them flounder on offense. I think that this game on thursday will show what areas they need to work on; and then they get a 10 day period to refocus on it. I have hope as well that they gained a little of their confidence back on their last drive.

but I hear what you are saying and agree. The Cowboys should have toasted the Redskins yesterday and didn’t. Hopefully you are right and the time off will give them the ability to make the adjustments for the Dec. run.

World champs of 08 lose to KC
World champs of 07 go on ugly 4 game losing streak and look horrible squeaking out a win against ATL.
Media darlings and winners of nothing Eagles lose to OAK a few weeks ago

Poo poo happens to good teams sometimes. We have a good team. The O is in a slump and should pull out of it (despite RW) Cant watch this team expecting to look like New Orleans. We’re not there but its no guarentee NO or MIN wins the SB either

you were chuckling when you wrote this not because of the disclaimer but because you relish declaring war on majority opinions and then fighting it out in the trenches, post by post, reply by reply. Always outnumbered, never outgunned.

At the very least you always get a good debate going, although this time there’s not much to disagree with.

when you have a knot in your lower back and can’t plant and throw like you normally do. Of course you ignore this for obvious reasons.

BTW, a win is a win. They don’t give you style points for looking pretty. Steelers won many games last season that were very ugly but in the end they held up the Lombardi Trophy.

While I’ve repeatedly stated that I’m happy with da “W,” that doesn’t mean that I wasn’t frustrated with yesterday’s offensive (pun intended) performance.

One more thing, our Boyz need to stop turning the ball over in the red zone — and be more opportunistic.

In my opinion, they established some rhythm on that early run-heavy drive. If MBIII doesn’t fumble inside their 20 and if Folk doesn’t miss that FG a little bit later… who knows how the game could’ve turned out. It just might have jump-started the “O” and turned into a 20-6 type of game with Dallas on top.

But all those “ifs” mean jack squat, because we saw what really happened… and we’re very, very happy to ESCAPE with the win.

I’ll take that as a consolation any day of the week.

nice post.

I was also frustrated with the offense’s performance yesterday but I was also happy for the win, cause I believe that at the end of the season it won’t matter HOW they won it, only that they won.

I am concerned about the offense, everyone should be, but I also am keeping faith that they will turn it around soon. At least they better before DEC rolls around.

but doesn’t mean that you can’t still win and have alot of concern.

I felt better walking out of that stadium knowing that Dallas is 7-3 more than I would have felt if they were 6-4.

and winning when you play poorly is hard to do in the NFL…we got lucky to win with a bad offensive production though a good portion of that luck is attributable to the Defense. Now we need to be 8-3 after Thursday, get rested and prepared for a December push. We’ll need 3 out of the final 5 to be 11-5. That will be hard to do given our schedule. Maybe 2 out of 5 to get to 10-6 will do it but that lacks momentum for a playoff push. We’re still not sure about this team after a 4 game winning streak followed by two bad performances, though only one was a loss. The first game in December will tell us a lot.

The Lions won, KC beat the Steelers. There is no consistency (save 2 teams, who may very well get theirs soon) in the league. Everyone else resembles someone bouncing on a trampoline, up..down..up..down. If you’re down and still manage to eek out a win, well, then a win is a win. These are the type of games that turn seasons..to win when you’re not at your best.

So, in keeping with my so-called role on BTB, I’ll take a contrarian perspective, partly for the sake of argument and largely for the sake of truth.

Your “so-called” role is dead on, no need for the figurative air quotes my friend. And you have the reasons backwards. Partly for the sake of the truth, and largely for the sake of argument would be more accurate. ;)

No denying the offense needs a Viagra, they looked impotent until the end of the game.

You did fail to take into account Romo’s back injury, which definitely affected his throwing motion. I give him high marks for gutting it out and pulling a win out in the final minutes. Isn’t this what quality QB’s do?

Also, I have to say as much as I despise WASH, they have a very disciplined defense when they play Dallas.

A win is a win. An ugly win counts as much as blowouts in the record. So while you bemoan the aesthetics, all that matters in the end is coming out with a W. I’ll take it.

The defense is looking stout, and they managed to hold, on the final Foreskins drive to get into FG range. That has been a big criticism all season, 58 minutes of solid D, only to finally break in the end of close games. Well not Sunday. They shut the door, slammed it shut, IMO.

Room for concern on the offensive side, but defense looks good, real good.

Good post, I always enjoy reading what you have to say, whether I agree or not.

A win is a win is a win. Every team has games like this during the season at some point. Not every single game is a pretty peaches and cream blowout. The most important thing is getting wins now while we can, because like you said…until they show they can win in December we can’t trust that they will.

Who says Drew Brees won’t misfire, nobody thought Brady would in the Super Bowl against the Giants. Since when is Vincent Jackson the second coming of Jerry Rice. And since when is Andy Reid not considered a joke when he passes like 65-70% of the time?

I don’t care how they get a win, as long as they get it.

in the sense that it helps their record but the offense needs to get on track. I gave this team a pass for Green Bay but they seemed to have learned nothing.

I don’t know how much of the blame goes to JG but he does not seem to have a great feel for managing the game and allowing the hot hand to ride a streak. Romo was hurt but has been inaccurate for two weeks now so that only comes into play so much.

To me, the biggest problem is that Austin is getting double teamed and Soy is too much of a loser to step up and take his role as #1. Look at Wes Welker in New England, when Moss gets doubled and tripled, he makes the other team pay.

On the bright side, this D is rounding into shape and getting a bit nasty so I have hope for December and beyond. I hope you are right about the 10 day break giving this team a shot in the arm.

The scary part was that it was a home game.

This I’m not so sure about lol… Reid is a great Monday-Saturday coach but not a great game manager, and made some dumb mistakes against us just like Zorn did. I get your point, I just don’t think this is a great example!

and btw, a win is a win, no matter who the team.

e.g. The 10-0 Colts won their last 4 games by a combined total of 10 points, needing a last-second missed FG by Kris Brown (deja vu lol) to avoid overtime with an inferior division rival Houston team, and an arguably poor coaching decision by arguably the best game manager coach in the game in Bill B to pull out a 1-point last-second win over NE. But they’re 10-0 and no one is saying they don’t deserve to be, or that any of those wins don’t count just as much as the rest.

Meanwhile with the Cowboys and Redskins, if you throw out the last game of 2008 when we had clinched the #1 seed and were resting our starters, over the last 4 games the combined total point difference between these two teams is 8 points, 2 per game, with no game decided by more than 5. These teams know each other so well and the Skins hate us so much, that you can throw out records and rankings and other expectations, and expect a close, hard-fought ugly game nearly every time. And they were the #1 rated pass defense and the #5 rated overall defense going into this game.

A win is a win, especially against the Redskins at home, and I’m just not going to read too much into this game in terms of what it might mean for the next game and the rest of the season…

The skins came in with a zombie of a HC (he not longer calls the plays) injuries all over the offensive side of the ball and their season is pretty much over at 3-6 (as one skins fans said this season isn’t dead it’s a prison sentence). The skins came to give it their all against a team they feel that they have the edge over in the rivalry. Dallas is the one with something to prove at this point in the season. I think dallas let the fumble in the 1st quarter get to them, it robbed them of their momentum they were building and they did not find it again until they were down to what they knew was their last chance. The game had very similar overtones as the GB game; except due to the success the running game had on keeping drives alive longer than a 3-and out it gave the defense a better chance to keep Was out of the endzone.

I think this is a offense like the gints, they need to be leading to play the type of offense they want, a ball control offense that makes a few big plays for scores. Dallas wants to have 7-9 play drives that score TD and one or two big plays to build a lead. The running game is used to lean on the clock during these drives.

I came away from the came thinking we aren’t a very good offensive football team. I couldn’t figure out what the problem is. I lowered my expectations for now.

There are certain things I think need to happen for us to win. I just don’t see Dallas making the moves.

-More Tashard
-Bench Roy, start Hurd
-More Tree
-explain to Romo the power of the dump off

As long we trot Roy on the field as starter, we are fighting with arm tied behind our back. Roy made it 10 vs 12 last week. Both starting WR’s in the NFL need to be highly effective, Roy is not..

Period. That’s just a fact. Check the standings…much like golf, there’s no place for style points.

At least you acknowledge the outstanding play of the D. I’ll delve more late, but suffice it to say that this unit is playing better Defense over the past 8 weeks than any other unit in the league. If you take out ST & Offensive points given up (aka Pick-6), they would lead the league in scoring D, even with the 1st two warm-up games.

So the Offense was off? There’s a logical expanation.
1. Tony Romo was hurt. Badly. So was Witten
2. Washington has a top-5 Defense that’s got an outstanding secondary (best against the pass in the NFL).
3. Turnovers

I could list a lot more “probable” reasons (Free’s first game, Roy Williams acting like Roy Willy, Penalties, etc.), but it’s really not required.

When Romo was kneed in the back, our passing game got “bruised”. However, it would have been a very comfortable win if MBIII, Romo, and Folk hadn’t turned the ball over.

To nitpick such an important win (Division, tough circumstance, the freakin’ Deadskins) is very schadenfreudish.

I was at the game and I left with two feelings;

1) A feeling like it was more an escape than a victory.
2) A knowledge that there are real problems with this offense.

When I walked out of that billion dollar stadium I said, “Well I guess a win is a win.” Not enthusiastically but more of a concern.

I do know this, I think that perhaps if the writer of this article didn’t come off as someone who is sticking out his finger saying “I told you so”, perhaps it would have a bigger impact. I have rarely seen debates or conversations just “You are wrong and I am right.” articles.

Or perhaps I’m just not being “objective” enough.

http://www.silverandblackpride.com/2009/11/25/1174515/gobble-gobble-getting-to-know-the

I know the team won’t be the same for the rest of the season. I would also disagree that it’s safe to overlook the defense giving up so many third and longs. I think you’re hiding your head in the sand if you think that will be as inconsequential against New Orleans as it was against Washington. If you want to argue that the D just did what it needed to do to win, I think it’s fair to make the same argument about the offense. In fact, I think both sides of the ball have work to do if they want to win down the stretch.