My son in law is a huge Dallas fan. He is having a big party Sunday to watch the game. I would love to ruin his party. Reading through comments on their blog Cowboy fans do not give the Giants much of a chance on Sunday. Acting like they are going to SB. I think they have a good team. The Seahawks are not the same team that won the SB last year. I think we can beat them if we win the battle in the trenches. Murray will get his yards. If we can get an early lead, control the ball, and get a couple of turnovers we can beat them. I want Tony Romo to try and beat us. Remember Romo only practices once a week. He had a couple of lucky throws last week. Seahawks do not have a great offense. They gave up on the run and Wilson cannot win games with his passing. We could be catching the Cowboys at the right time.
I expect us to win
The guy is a boat anchor
3-0 McClain
0-3 Beason
this is NOT a coincidence......Beason runs around out there like chicken with his head cut off
and winning would be enough to make anyone cocky. This is the best time to take them down. Forget about last week, go in there like this is the only football game you're gonna play in your life and create turnovers...
Between now and then, all it takes is for someone to bend Romo the wrong way tossing him to the ground, or a high ankle sprain for Murray, or Dez Bryant to hold up a 7-11 (put even odds on all of these) and that season can come crashing back to Earth in no time flat.
Also, it's not December yet.
Not surprised they are cocky. They beat a very good Seahawks team at home and playing the Giants who got smoked last week.
The 200 Real Dallas fans deserve to be a bit cocky.
The rest of the Fairweather Cowboys fans will be coming out of the woodwork.
It happens every year in the N(ot) F(or) L(ong). Maybe the Cowboys will keep rolling. Maybe, like those Giants, they will stumble, then right themselves. Maybe their season will collapse. In the meantime, their fans can gloat.
We would be the same way no?
We need to come out no huddle and keep their no name defense on the field and expose them. Last week Wilson had no time to throw and his receivers did not appear to fight for the ball ... They just stood there and let the defender come chop the ball out...
Don't let Romo escape , Seattle was trying to land the big hits on him all game instead of just wrapping him up and taking him down . He's very agile back there, just bring him down vs trying to take his head off
Dez Bryant is a playmaker and we might not even have DRC on the field.
Dallas looks good but they are not far superior to the Giants. It is a long season let s see where we are at end of year.
Unfortunately for them, we are smarter than that.
And I agree with the poster above. Fans that actually live in the Dallas area are a bit better. This post is referring to the ridiculous, unexplained amount of Cowboy fans around the rest of the country. Fuck them fake ass douche bags.
Now these folks don't actually know a damn thing about football but for 1 day a year, they can rub elbows with uncle Tony and uncle Fred and not seem like sissies by watching the game. It was easy for the kids to root for Dallas since they always played a team that they would easily beat each Thanksgiving. No kid like to root for a loser.
Now, years later when these non-football fans hear a few stories that link them back to childhood memories of a simpler time when the Cowboys usually won, they raise the banner of pretense and claim they are diehard Dallas fans.
These fans aren't lying. For one day a year, they were in fact real true Cowboys fans.
When a team has as strong an OL as Dallas has (although Free is out; Parnell sound like one of NYG's "developing OL", maybe that will be a positive for us), that's a lot of leverage against an inconsistent defense (our Giants). Carter is out, so this helps too.
Dallas seems to be a team on the rise, whereas the Giants have basically tread the waters of mediocrity for three seasons, trending downward. Some teams are able to move beyond crippling injuries and maintain high level of play. We've been ruing our injuries season after season. That doesn't cut it as a complete explanation. We have little to no quality depth and the overall talent level is NFL average, so our season records during this period have been NFL average + or -. Our drafting has been poor, the coaching spotty, our luck worse, and our FA signings on balance, very meh.
We had a number of games in the second half last season that were critical to maintaining some momentum and any semblance of being competitive into December, and the outcomes were along the lines of Sunday night. Any semblance of that tomorrow, and I'm afraid the dye will be cast. I'm hopeful TC will get this group to rise up and deliver a blow in Jerrah's backyard, hopeful, not confident.
Jon mentioned in yesterday's thread re. Dallas game as season maker/breaker that once we heal, the needle is looking up for 2015. In absolute terms, maybe yes, but relative to the NFC East and playoff teams as a whole, I'm not sure that will get us very far. We're sounding a lot like Dem Bums (Brooklyn terminology, late '40s and early 50's). There needs to be change.
I don't believe that at all. Most fans were pissed at how the Giants failed to back their arrogant mouths.
When a team has as strong an OL as Dallas has (although Free is out; Parnell sound like one of NYG's "developing OL", maybe that will be a positive for us), that's a lot of leverage against an inconsistent defense (our Giants). Carter is out, so this helps too.
Dallas seems to be a team on the rise, whereas the Giants have basically tread the waters of mediocrity for three seasons, trending downward. Some teams are able to move beyond crippling injuries and maintain high level of play. We've been ruing our injuries season after season. That doesn't cut it as a complete explanation. We have little to no quality depth and the overall talent level is NFL average, so our season records during this period have been NFL average + or -. Our drafting has been poor, the coaching spotty, our luck worse, and our FA signings on balance, very meh.
We had a number of games in the second half last season that were critical to maintaining some momentum and any semblance of being competitive into December, and the outcomes were along the lines of Sunday night. Any semblance of that tomorrow, and I'm afraid the dye will be cast. I'm hopeful TC will get this group to rise up and deliver a blow in Jerrah's backyard, hopeful, not confident.
Jon mentioned in yesterday's thread re. Dallas game as season maker/breaker that once we heal, the needle is looking up for 2015. In absolute terms, maybe yes, but relative to the NFC East and playoff teams as a whole, I'm not sure that will get us very far. We're sounding a lot like Dem Bums (Brooklyn terminology, late '40s and early 50's). There needs to be change.
Were you around for 2008? If you were, you'd know better than this. The NFL can change in a moment's notice, and the Cowboys, despite a very good record and coming off a huge win, are no cinch to do anything this year. For all you know, the wheels will be falling off in a couple of weeks after Romo twists his back.
I remember the Giants were 11-1(!) in the 2008 season. And then what happened.. they limped into the postseason and got upset by the Eagles. Thanks Plaxico.
Our secondary concerns me the most - pass rush is critical.
"If you were, you'd know better than this. The NFL can change in a moment's notice, and the Cowboys, despite a very good record and coming off a huge win, are no cinch to do anything this year. For all you know, the wheels will be falling off in a couple of weeks after Romo twists his back."
I mostly agree with this--NFL CAN change quickly, and all the rest, but imo it's still wishful thinking for the Giants to turn this around (whether against Dallas today and/or for the rest of 2014) and is quite unlikely to happen. Our OL is, at best, a work in progress with real question marks (unlike '07), our LBs remain among the League's worst units, the DL is ok but without the DE/DT balance, strength, and leadership of '07, etc.
What could happen? JPP takes a giant step forward to becoming a team leader (instead of the bullspit stuff mocking the Eagles, sheesh) and galvanizes the front, DMoore gets strong and smart, Kennard steps in and gives the LBs some tenacity and short route coverage ability (err, well, maybe not), and we have no more injuries in the secondary. RR, Parker, and Washington make up for the loss of Cruz and OBJ becomes what we hoped when he was drafted. And Donnell somehow finds his way again...And the OL???
Not impossible, but just about everything has to go right.
Above all, I just don't see the team chemistry emerging. I believe the team is stuck in a rut of mediocrity, meaning NFL average, + or -, with this FO/coaching staff, The Eagles game outcome Sunday night would not have occurred with a team about to bust out, in my opinion. It was too reminiscent of 2013.