The Cowboys will regroup, get healthy and refocused for the playoffs, they are too talented of a team not to.

This game meant absolutely nothing to us and everything to the skins. The result was neither surprising or disconcerning to me.

Playoffs are a whole different season and I have all the confidence in the world they will come out and play well and win the SB.

I share your faith.

Yes, they are excuses, but we can make them for this game.

Playoffs:

1. Two weeks to rest

2. Home field advantage

3. T.O., Gurode, Newman, Ratliff hopefully all back in, along with Glenn

4. Intensity of the playoffs to sharpen the focus for the team to play up to their potential, which we all know is awesome

How many teams got to say they clinched homefield before the last week of the playoffs. Heck not even the cowboys of the 90s if my memory serves me correct.

Reasons to be happy:

1. TO and Glenn on the same field

      a)think randy moss and wes welker are scary wait for this.

2. They will be at home and everything to play for.

3. Its go big or go home and you saw romo on the sidelines upset. Hes too much of a competor to not fix this.

Another thing to consider...

There was suckiness all over the field today, true, but...

Two touchdowns were dropped by Miles Austin, who is our what, 5th Receiver?

Two TD catches, including one on the last play for Romo, would have changed the complexion of the game and our perception of it now (even if we still lost).

Thinking how that might provide some solace.

Madden 08 said the Boys would only score 6 points...  again...  and Was would score 24....  they scored 27

get injured on the play where he got flipped? I think that was his last play

Keith Davis also got injured, hope its not serious.

Reeves, Williams, and J. Jones suck

That's the only thing about this game that worries me.

And, hopefully Keith Davis is OK.

can not run block but they are pretty good at pass blocking.

I can't comprehend that

the team was uninspired to play because the game didn't mean anything to us, in 2 weeks it will.

Last week they looked good until T.O. gets hurt which makes sense since our offense is centered around him and Romo.

We'll regroup and refocus with a healthy team.

Have played well down the stretch.  The Colts last year were the worst, but even then they won their last game.  Here's a list of the winning streaks Super Bowl winners carried into the playoffs.

2006  1
2005  5
2004  2
2003 12
2002  1
2001  6
2000  7
1999  0 (Rams won seven straight games by 10+ points prior to that)
1998  1
1997  1
1996  5
1995  2
1994  0 (49ers won five straight prior to that)
1993  5
1992  2
1991  0 (Redskins won three straight prior to that)
1990  2
1989  5
1988  0 (49ers won four straight prior to that)
1987  1

So, the last 20 Super Bowl winners either won one or more games going into the playoffs; or else they had a good winning streak that ended with a loss on the last game of the regular season.  Many of those teams had nothing to play for on the final week.

Of the four teams that lost their last game of the regular season, the margins of loss were seven, seven, two, and 22 points.  The 22 point loss was by the 1988 49ers.

We can try to talk ourselves out of this reality all we want, but it's sitting there, right under our noses.  Obviously we have a good team, but it's not been playing good for a month, unlike the last two decades of Super Bowl champions.

it wasn't fun to watch,but you could tell they wern't into it...i still have faith, at home well rested and motivated....it will be fun...

but I take it back. The Cowboys embarassed themselves tonight and lost something - maybe "mojo" - by crumpling to the redskins. They played heartless, souless football. If this is allowed to carry over, they'll be escorted once again from the first round without a victory. Bad job Wade in motivating the troops.

Jacques Reeves is awful
Roy Williams is embarassing
The running game had what (please, lord, tell me this is all it is) seems to be a one-game minefield.
Brad Johnson seemed better than Tony Romo. I never imagined that I would make such a statement. Obviously he had more reason to play, but it was still disheartening.
If the Redskins keep playing like this, we will meet in two weeks. There's no doubt in my mind that the guys who beat us today could run over Seattle.
D-Ware is not entirely human. 84 tackles, 14 sacks, 4 forced fumbles. Those are D-Player of the Year numbers.
Terrence Newman is really, really, really good. We don't notice it until he's not there.
Jason Garrett has lost the aggressiveness that made him so great early in the season. I have to believe it might be Wade's influence.
If we don't draft a cornerback or safety in the first round, Jeff Ireland needs to be fired.

in the playoffs so we can use Landry's cheap shot on Glenn as extra motivation.

but i'm also biased...

but i was on dallascowboys.com and it was funny to see romo highlights...

The Cowboys pinpointed their problem during today's game. They really didn't give a hoot what happened as long as they didn't suffer any more injuries.

Of course, the Redskins played with the passion expected of a team fighting for a playoff berth. The result: The Redskins kicked the Cowboys' butt up and down the field.

"The word for us was uninspired," Wade Phillips said. "It shows you when one team is fired up and the other one isn't. Basically, I didn't get our team ready to play."

Added Tony Romo: "You saw what happens out there when one team plays with that much emotion and the other one really doesn’t. Obviously, we didn't match their intensity level, and that's the story."

The motivation mismatch was most evident in the Cowboys' running game. Dallas gained a franchise-record-low 1 yard on 16 carries. That's 0.06 yards per carry.

"We didn't play with intensity, and they did," Pro Bowl RG Leonard "Bigg" Davis said. "And it showed."

when you don't give a rats ass about winning the game, you don't play well. I think we'll want to win in 2 weeks.

First off, congrats to the Redskins for playing an outstanding game – for showing up big-time in a game that they absolutely had to have.   And boo on Dallas for mailing this one in.  That was a really difficult game to watch.  Intellectually, you know it doesn’t matter and you keep reminding yourself that the only important stat at the end of the game is who got injured.  But emotionally, it’s so difficult to turn it off – to not care, even when it is very apparent that the team does not care.

Since Grizz invited a little bit of venting, I’ll take him up on it.  The one thing that really irritated me was that the announcers (especially our Troy) kept making the point that the Redskins were a dominant team and the Cowboys were playing terrible – without providing the context as to why.  It would have been nice to hear just once that the Cowboys have been an outstanding team all season long, have locked up home field advantage a week ago, are the best team in the NFC, are resting many, many key players and that mentally they are just mailing this one in.  Sheesh, the uninformed football fan would have walked away from that game thinking the Redskins were the better football team.  

It often seems to me that when Troy is announcing Dallas games he goes out of his way to point out negatives for Dallas and the positives for the opponent.  Almost as if he is trying to establish his credibility as an unbiased color guy.  That bothers me. While the announcers were slobbering over the Redskins and pointing out that Dallas was a terrible football team, the one thought that kept coming back to me was......please let Washington come to Dallas in the playoffs.  Let’s see both teams strap it on when all the players are healthy, on the active roster and playing a game that matters to both teams.  If the Redskins dominate Dallas under those circumstances, the announcers can justifiably trash Dallas and anoint Washington.

There, now I feel better.