Can This Turn Out Like the 2009 Season?

[Doomsday]

Originally Posted by Blackspider214

Not even close. We were horrible down the stretch. Only won one game after Thanksgiving. No momentum at all heading down the stretch. Found ways to lose every game unlike now, we are finding ways to win these games.

Isnt that the season we lost TO for a few games at the end of the year?

Never mind thinking of another season.

[Chocolate Lab]

Originally Posted by Apollo Creed

That team wasn't ravaged with injuries and didn't have nearly the drama of this year. Think about Dez and his mom, Jerry/Ratliff, the Brent manslaughter.

I've been the biggest Garrett critic out there but even you have to admit this team has done a great job of bouncing back when everyone counted them out. Part of me wants to put all the credit on Romo behind this line and the defense playing minus 7 starters - but at some point you got to give the head coach some credit.

Well first, I didn't mean it as a criticism of this team. We haven't played a top-top team like that one this last several weeks to even have a chance to beat them.

Second, that year did have offseason drama when the practice facility collapsed and people were injured and paralyzed. But no Brent-type incident, thank God. I don't count the Jerry/Ratliff story as anything -- that's just typical Cowboys non-drama that gets blown up by the bloggers and message boards.

Third, that team didn't have injuries, true. But I give Ryan more credit for the team overcoming them ones we have this year, because the injuries are all on the defensive side of the ball. When the O-line got shuffled earlier in the year, we were a complete mess.

Fourth, I do give Garrett credit for yesterday. That was a well-played game and the players looked prepared and ready. We didn't have a lot of mental busts and penalties. That's about the second one all year though, after the Giants one. And personally, I expect us to play like that a lot more often.

[dallasdave]

Originally Posted by Doomsday

Isnt that the season we lost TO for a few games at the end of the year?

Never mind thinking of another season.

That's hope this is the season to win it all, build game by game.

[Clove]

I think...........

This team has shown that they can play with any team, and I mean any team. Sometimes, and we still have these problems, penalties cause us to stop important drives.

If this team can keep focused for 60 minutes, this team wins out and goes to the play offs. If Romo can keep carrying the team and being smart with the football, and most importantly, NOT FREEZE UP, we can go toe-to-toe with any team.

If Garrett doesn't lose his mind and fall back into "breaking ground" mode, by trying to outsmart the world instead of just doing things that are proven to work, then we can make noise.

If we can find a way to generate pressure, MORE consistently, and get our secondary to playing like a strong unit, I wouldn't worry.

Romo, your name is up again. It's time buddy. Win out, you go places. Lose one, or both and choke again, then you are who you are. (a regular season hero)

[Eric_Boyer]

Originally Posted by DavidAK

We can make the playoffs and have redemption against the Giants some how, I can see that happening. Either way, I doubt the Redskins and Cowboys make it. It's either the Cowboys and Giants or Redskins and Giants.

for the Redskins and Cowboys to make it, we would have to win the division and the bears would have to lose one more. Considering their losing streak of late, that is not hard to imagine.