DC.COM: D-eja Vu: Six Points Usually A Winning Defensive Formula

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Rob Phillips
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IRVING, Texas - There are no silver linings the day after an NFL game. Just a win and a loss column.

"We're 0-1," Cowboys head coach Wade Phillips affirmed Monday at Valley Ranch, hours after an Alex Barron holding penalty negated a would-be tying touchdown on the final play of a 13-7 defeat in Washington.

There are 15 games left, however, and last Sunday's opener reinforced two 2009 trends about a Cowboys team that returns mostly intact: the offense again left points on the board, and the defense continued its late-season dominance from a year ago.

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"And then we've got to hold together as a team. It's not the end of the world. It seemed like it at the time ? but it's not. We can bounce back from this and we've got to."

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