The questions are asked, the hope is there for us fans to see, you can't stop him, you can't stop that and my team is going to beat yours!

So senseless... So rose-colored vision... I believe that the game's going to be a though matchup that will be decided by many things that will take it either way, so I'll go through the most common scenarios from the Cowboys perspective and I'll try to be objective.

Battle of the trenches.

Everyone knows about the Eagles pass rush, or at least now we do... With the late Jim Johnson off the Eagles sideline, some expected that his D wouldn't be itself with a new DC in charge... Well, so far they're making Jim proud... They're stout, they continue to leave QBs with a grass adversion and they continue to be though to read.

The Cowboys pass rush used to be anemic in this season, they now have a series of games with 3+ sacks and they aren't using smoke and mirrors, they're mostly using the base packages for most of the damage. And furthermore, with all the 3 step drops that they've been seeing they're averaging a little above 10 QBs pressures per game, including 12 against Ryan and 16 hits.

The OLines and RBs will have to be on their toes, because these 2 teams don't like to keep maximum protection packages from hurting the passing options and explosiveness.

Coverage.

Sheldon Brown is playing at a shutdown corner type of level and Asante Samuel will make you pay if you go after him in a consistent basis, so, don't go after them in a consistent basis. With Romo coming from a game were he connected with 10 different targets we know that he can throw the ball to ALL of his options, I wouldn't be surprized to see the exact game plan that the team used against Seattle with Romo ending with a pretty good day and no receiver surpassing 80 yards. We've seen Witten, Austin, Bennett, Hurd, Choice and Jones going against LBs and Ss as their assignments in the past few games, I'll take that kind of matchup 10 times out of 10 against the Eagles.

I look at DeSean Jackson and I think of a healthy Santana Moss, Eagle fans would rip me for such a comparison but this early in DeSean's career it isn't far fetched... Jackson is on his way to a 1200+ yards season, Moss career best 1400 yards... They are also at their best when going deep... And that's a problem for Dallas, because they've been burned by them, but they have also found ways to control their damage and that's what they have to do. Damage prevention. I'm also more concerned about Celek than Maclin, but after seeing the Cowboys control and even dominate the likes of Gonzalez, Carlson, Scheffler and Boss, I'm not that intimidated... Look for the Cowboys to use Hamlin in deep support and Sensabaugh closer to the line to get the TE or a RB with some help from the LBs. Sensabaugh was close to flawless against Carlsoon and Gonzalez and that's no easy feat.

I believe that this will depend on the sharpness of the QBs because if they don't take advantage of their opportunities they may pay for it and they're both known for waking up with the inaccurate worm from time to time.

To run, or not to run.

That's the dilemma. Garrett, Reid, you both have a couple of great RB stables under your direction, running the ball has to be as close to a 50-50 proposition as possible, not doing isn't smart and you're both supposed to be pretty smart.

Run the ball!

And that's all that I can think of so far.