Cowboys Season And NFL Playoff Predictions

I’ll say the boys get 11 wins and finish in top of the east :)

All of these have us not winning the super bowl :(

You haven’t been sipping the kool-aid, you’ve been gulping it.

I’m going to say rabble had the right idea — until the next infusion on talent on the defense, this is a 9-7 team. With a little more luck than last season, I’m hoping the Cowboys can push that record up to 10-6.

given our schedule, I’ve got us at 9-7ish, with; 7 W’s including: washingtonx2, 49ers, seattle, buffalo, miami, arizona; 5 Toss up games including: detroit, st louis, NYGx2. 4 L’s include Phillyx2, new england, NYJ.

That’s pretty good to me, esp with a young offensive line, and young skill position players the team should get better, not worse.

If Spencer or Ratliff becomes a legit probowl type player this year, I’d upgrade it by a couple of wins.

could be 12-4
losses to the pats, eagles, giants, jets the fifth coming maybe against tampa or detroit with dallas playing really bad for that being possible to happen or a really close game

I can’t take a SB loss to the Pats. I’d almost rather not even go that far.
On a serious note, as some have pointed out, I’m leaning towards the “We’re not quite there yet” camp. The revamped OL will be in school for at least a quarter of the season, possibly more. And I think the D will steadily improve but fall short due to a few missing pieces on the line. I would be happy with a competitive, improving team from week to week but I just can’t picture it culminating into a far run into the playoffs.

so ill go 10-6, all Dallas needs is a couple good bounces and some good luck with health. basically the exact oposite of last year. the offense by itself is still very very good. to me (and seems like most people) it depends on how fast the defensr can get RRs scheme down cold.

We will either be a middling 8-8 team or a juggernaut. What I’m looking for is the mindset of our team…are they mentally tough?…will they be a consistently prepared team?…do we have a good Offensive Line?

I already know our O Line will be better this year than it was last year…I think we will have minimal stupid penalties…I don’t think we will have many jailbreaks from our line…and I think we will run the ball much better. If we have a good line…we will be prolific on Offense.

Two days away from our first game, I feel surprisingly confident. Honestly, when camp started I was very skeptical that we would be greatly improved from the 6-10 record. I saw several things that raised my confidence…Team Focus…Togetherness…and Studiousness. When we faced the Vikings in our dress rehearsal game and our 3rd string Center came in with 3 hours notice and played a solid game…I knew the players have been preparing better than they ever have before. I’m not even nervous about Parnell because of this very reason.

I could be wrong

it’s that you might not need a top notch defense to survive early on. The Packers won a game where their defense looked competitive for approximately 10 plays. The Saints were in the game until, literally, after the last second with a group completely disinterested in wrapping up.

Big offenses are going to rule the first month of the season, at the very least.

i thought that offenses usually needed more time to gell than defenses?

quick and dirty from 2010 ..

 36.6
 41.4
 43.4
 41.3
 45.6
 43.0
 52.6
 41.7
 45.9
 51.9
 45.6
 45.4
 42.2
 40.9
 48.7
 47.0
 37.8

Than the Jets, I mean.
They can rationalize losing the Jets game with all the different factors. But SF has a tough D, and the Cowboys will be tired. An 0-2 start would be tough on the team’s mentality.

That’s my first “must win” of the year, using the term loosely. No ‘easy’ games after that until Seattle and Buffalo.
And Detroit may make us really really miss Gurode.

I’d say 9-7, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they did less than that. Whereas I would be surprised if they won 11 or more!

My original prediction.

Drinking the kool-aid, some of you guys are drying it out and snorting it. I love my Boy’s, but I refuse to loose my grip on reality.

last night he tells me my boy Robert Golden got owned last night, then I looked into it and he didnt even cover Blackmon, #5 was

stop hatin on Golden son, I could see if Golden got embarrassed but he wasnt even covering Blackmon, #5 was!

 the country will be watching anything else. Cowboys 35, Jets 24. Romo will be fantastic.

Offense lights it up and the defense is average and almost every single game is down to a TD or less, but this year luck is on our side and we actually win most all games that close. (The first 7 games or so last year were lost by a TD or less.. most of the time a FG).

Towards the end, Bruce Carter comes off PUP, Brooking goes down which forces Carter to come in on more plays and the tandem of Bruce Lee begins and dominates. Felix has huge games and just when it looks like Felix is about to wear down, Murray comes in and keeps the momentum going. Come playoffs, the Boys have almost mastered Rob Ryan’s defensive scheme and turn from average to good and the offense keeps up its extremely high level of play. I see the Cowboys as the probable winner of the Super Bowl. This Koolade is amazing.

I’m not without doubts though… if Newman can’t stay healthy and Scandrick can’t seem to keep a hold of starting duties then we will struggle. The OL could prove to be a mistake and fall apart, causing giant struggles. I don’t believe this will happen, but this is football and anything can happen. I just feel like last year was a huge fluke and I think most people are discounting the fact that we really were in almost every single game last year. Change up the mentality, get the OL younger, smarter and faster, which improves the run and passing game and finally get some movement from our defense due to a new coach and scheme and bam, brand new ass kicking team.

We’re about the 8th or 9th best team in the NFC.

That won’t happen this year.

Seriously, there are some positions of strength in the team, but c’mon… we’re just not balanced across the 53 players. Not even across the top 22 players. Thinking about it – we’re starting 3 first timers in our o-line. Two of them afterthoughts during the draft (Costa and Nagy). If someone told me during the off-season that Costa would be our starting center for the season I’d be running for the hills.

Plus T.new (aka “Fragile”) is again groining it. Count on him being out every other week or stinking it up on the field.

We’re likely an average team battling it out with the other average teams for a hopeful 9-7 season but 7-9 well within reach.

Looking at the schedule it actually appears like there are a lot of very winnable games if things come together well and all goes right.

I think they’ll live and die by the defense. I’m not that worried about the O-line. The lineup of Free, Nagy, Costa, Kosier, and Smith looked very good in the preseason, and we have some depth on the interior line with Arkin and Dockery. As long as the tackles don’t spend too much time on the shelf I think they’ll be fine and the offense will put up points like we all know they’re capable of. So it will come down to the defense.

Ryan is going to have to find a way to bring pressure while at the same not leaving the god awful secondary susceptible to big plays. He likes to blitz a lot so it’s going to be interesting to see how he does that while not leaving the middle of the field wide open and getting our DBs burned deep. I think they’ll end up eventually making their living off of a lot of 3 man rush and zone coverage with the occasional exotic blitz package thrown in here and there, because Rob is going to find out quickly (if he hasn’t already) that bringing the kitchen sink with this secondary is going to make a fool out of him.

Also, they will need to cut down on the penalties and turnovers as well as create more turnovers on defense (I think Garrett and Ryan will make this happen). I dunno, should be interesting. If all that happens and the injuries don’t pile up I don’t think 10 or more wins and the playoffs are out of the question. My gut has me leaning more toward 8-8 or 9-7 at the moment though.

I guess you have 3 new playoff teams from the afc? Is Dave doing is yearly post where he talks about that and trys to pick worst to first and the new contenders.

…but just not this year. The defense has too many holes and the O-line has next to NO experience. This just does not equal double digits in the win column IMHO.

I do think we’ll see steady improvement as the year progresses however. By year 3 as the head coach Garrett will have Super Bowl contender on his hands.

Cracked. Flawed.

<strongThey will split against the Eagles, Giants, and sweep the Redskins. they will lose to NY Jets, NE, and TB and win the rest. If they beat either the Jets, NE, or TB, they will be 12-4.

Recently, this has a snot been a good matchup for the Cowboys. I am encouraged, however, by Cleveland’s defensive success against them last year. RR devised a scheme that was tremendously affective. The Patriots are also not the same team they have been, and for that matter, neither are the Cowboys.

Speaking of match ups: the Lions and Cardinals have not been good match ups in the past. I dont know how quickly I’ll assume victories over those teams. On the other hand, I would expect some upsets. In the last several years, Dallas has had impressive “upset” victories, (e.g. New Orleans, Indy x2). Wins against the Jets and/or Patriots and/or Bucs would not surprise me.

from what i remember reading all year long we upgraded the OL across the board, added another RB or 2 then signed a new FS to upgrade the back end.
 resigned Spears & adde Coleman to the DL so i just dont understand why Dallas fans have no expectations in a year with a easier schedule.
 adding Garrett, RR were suspose to be worth a 4 games alone

0 – 2 against NYJ and NE
3 – 1 against 49ers, SEA, BUF, and MIA
4 – 2 against the NFC East
2 – 2 against Det, STL, ARZ, and TB

I think it will take 10 – 6 to make the playoffs so I hope I’m wrong by at least one loss.

i watched sc vs georgia today and gilmore needs to tighten up. east car wr gave him fits last week and he got burned this week too. he did return a fumble 54 yds to set up td.

it doesn’t jade analysis to hope that the question marks get answered in the affirmative. If you want the Cowboys to do well, what’s the point of thinking negatively about your teams prospects before any real games have been played?

If they surpass your expectations do you relinquish the title of realist?