Our 0-5 team on top of the NFC East

KMY_Amber

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This team gave up 34 points to a team that was averaging 9.....what a joke.

Technically the defense only gave up 27 (Dak threw a pick-6), so they're improving. :confused: No, really, they are, by the points allowed. But they've played some stinker teams. And 2 of the next 4 are against the Eagles and Washington, thus the schedule is still fairly mediocre. Let's see if this defense continues to improve over the next month. I'm giving Nolan some leash since they had no preseason or many practices before the season started.
 

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It is pointless to play this what if game in the NFL. It is a league set up to where most games come down to the last 5 minutes. So naturally, one play here and there can swing the game. But since you want to play this pointless merry go round:

1. What if that ticky tack PI that Ramsey is not called? We have a great chance to win.
2. What if the Dallas defense actually makes a stop against Seattle when they had plenty of chances on that final drive? We win.
3. What if the defense stops Cleveland on that final drive, especially having OBJ for a 12 yard loss?

We could easily be 5-0. 4-1. 3-2. 2-3. 0-5. The margins of winning in this league is very small for most the games.
 

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The division being bad shouldn't come as a shock since every team has new coaches. Giants and Commanders are rebuilding. Cowboys have a new coach but them and the Eagles have no excuse to be this bad.
Good teams don’t change coaches too often
You are a wise man
 

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I really dont think of the NFC East as having a Top, it's more like it has three Bottoms.
 

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It still boggles the mind that, going into yesterday, the Cowboys had only taken 7 offensive snaps with a lead all season.

Yesterday, they didn't add many to that.

As is custom, the Cowboys came out gangbusters for the other team again. Bam, down 17-3 before the nachos got cold. Bad defense, an ugly turnover, another red zone failure. Only to be topped later with 12 men on the field and a flat-footed failure to stop a fake field goal that only got wiped because former Cowboy Cameron Erving could get his fat butt set. The middle of the defense remains a sieve against the run, and any QB can light up this secondary.

The Giants looked like a reasonable football team yesterday. They are not. They are staring at 0-16 in a battle with their home field bunkmates for Trevor Lawrence in six months.

A bit of help is on the way with guys soon to come off IR, but the Cowboys are adding them back on in droves. McCoy, Jarwin, Collins, Tyron, Hill, and now Dak. Not to mention the offseason losses of Frederick, Jones, Witten, Heath, Cobb, Quinn, etc. This is a very different group these days.

Andy Dalton will play well, but the end result won't change with the litany of catastrophe across this roster. They'll need to reshuffle the offensive line to suit Dalton because he's more of a pocket passer and not a runner anymore like he used to be. Kick Martin out to right tackle so hopefully Dalton can step up in the pocket and not worry about the edges quite as much.

Dak's injury is serving as a reprieve for McCarthy, Nolan, and Fassel, which it should not. Those guys are not preparing this team to play on Sundays anywhere near the level that Garrett did. Say what you want about Garrett's in-game issues, but at least the team played hard every Sunday and seemed ready for the opening kickoff.

These clowns are not doing their coaching jobs. This week will be a prime example of what good coaching is or is not. Weeks like this are made for coaches. Dalton won't be watching from side at practice this week, and he's got plenty of moxie to move the ball. We'll see if the Cowboys look ready next game.

Dak is going to be fine in a few months, and will likely be franchised again, this time for $38 milllion. He's in good shape earning $70 million in two seasons on top of what he made before. Those ripping Jerry for "not paying him" are laughable financial D- students.

Strangely enough, the Cowboys are still the favorite to win the dumpster division. In fact, you could argue that they STILL have the best quarterback in the lowly East. Apocalyptic times in this once great division.

The Cowboys should be 0-5. If Julio catches the ball or the Falcons don't go brain dead on an onsides kick. If Erving can stay still on a fake FG. If not for a very questionable pick call on the Giants.

But they're not 0-5. They're in first place at 2-3. LOL

2020 continues to show no mercy.

I thought a lot about this yesterday, and i could not think of 5 teams worse than the Cowboys. We beat one yesterday, but we are only marginally better.
 

Joe Realist

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The Eagles tend to get better the last quarter of the season. I expect them to win the East, with 8 or 9 wins.
 

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The record does not matter at this point, only the ranking and the Cowboys are first in the East with a 1-0 division record.

Do they look as good as GB, CHI, SEA or LAR have looked? No but have those 4 teams started with brand new coaching staffs and lost their C, both T's, 2 best CBs and 2 best LB's? Not an excuse, a fact. Now they have to go with the #2 QB and lost their only halfassed performing DT.

Like the Cowboys QB's, the team is in that 2nd tier and they don't look likely to get beyond that but see sentence 1, they are leading the East and right now, that is all that is important, winning the East. If that's all they do, successful season if they don't advance in the playoffs.

We also get to see this new coaching staff really circle those wagons now. The guy that's been bailing them out is out and the last time we lost a QB in season, the coaching proved to be not even serviceable.

And coming up is the historically kryptonite to any Cowboys D, the elusive and mobile QB. And another tier 2 team. It's not about the season, it's about this game.
 

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Exactly. As bad as this football team has played to date, we are three plays from 5-0.

1) Gallup OPI @ LAR
2) Seahawks 4th and 3 @ Seattle
3) Aldon Smith over commit on OBJ end around vs. CLE
 

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shoulda,woulda,coulda.
i will never apoligize for winning.
:starspin:WIN THE EAST:starspin:
srew'm all.
:starspin:WIN THE WHOLE DAMN THING:starspin:
 
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