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CowboysDrew

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It's week one, and I have no real complaints.

This is unusual for me, and really for a lot of Cowboys fans. We're used to hard wins or harder losses on opening day.

Many younger fans haven't even seen Dallas win a championship. People of my age and era are lucky to remember at least the three rings our Boys won and I was at least alive and literally in the flesh present for another one.

But yes, we won today, easily.

Dak played better than he had any reason to do, far better than even the "dakzoids" expected.

They didn't need to lean on Zeke. They honestly hardly used him.

What we saw was a team, playing together, doing their best, executing and having actually good coaching and game plan from the staff.

Will this continue to week 2, or 3 or 4. Maybe, maybe not. But we can all agree, this is a hopeful day. Half of the NFL loses on week one, but it's better to win and win the Cowboys did.

So, victory week. Lets all celebrate together. And lets absolutely hope what we saw today is the portent of things to come. It's not always the case in week one, but maybe this time we've found the sauce we needed to make it work.
 

Maverick84

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Enjoy?

Absolutely not
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ShiningStar

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heck yea. dominant win and everyone did what they had to do. dont worry about the stats, the defense kept them out of the end zone and the offense feasted well. A good win
 

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I will respond to a positive post anytime. Thanks for posting it. Too bad it won't see Page 2 because there's nothing to gripe about!
 

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Honestly, the team hasn’t had this type of offensive mentality since Jimmy Johnson. Let me explain.

For the past 20 years, and certainly since the Parcells days, this team was built to control time of possession, run the ball, and keep games close. The thought was that when you play that way you’ll be in every game and have a chance to win it in the 4th quarter.

Of course, the problem with that philosophy is that your opponent will also have the ability to win it in the 4th quarter. That’s why, even when we’ve had some really good teams over the past two decades, we’ve been upset in the playoffs.

What you saw today is an entirely different philosophy. The idea now is to score a lot of points, period.

They’re throwing the ball on first down. They’re scheming players open and taking advantage of matchups. And most important, they’re scoring points in the red zone, this after being 29th in the league in red zone scoring in 2018 and 32nd in scoring touchdowns from 1st and goal.

A lot of people thought that Garrett would step on Moore and not let him call this kind of game. They were wrong - Garrett is a delegator and he let Moore do his thing.

Welcome to the 21st century, guys! Finally! With these weapons and this philosophy, the Cowboys are going deep into the playoffs.
 

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The coach in me says...we should have won by 5 TDs. Giants are a bad football team. I celebrated for 5 minutes. Now it's time to get back to work. We got a lot of things to clean up still. We gave up almost 500 yards to that team. That's inexcusable. 151 on the ground...that's gotta change. No sacks...

Yet people wanna celebrate...well go ahead I guess. I just know we got to get better. :rolleyes:
 

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The coach in me says...we should have won by 5 TDs. Giants are a bad football team. I celebrated for 5 minutes. Now it's time to get back to work. We got a lot of things to clean up still. We gave up almost 500 yards to that team. That's inexcusable. 151 on the ground...that's gotta change. No sacks...

Yet people wanna celebrate...well go ahead I guess. I just know we got to get better. :rolleyes:


No doubt they have things to work on, but man, as fans tonight we have to feel good.

As a coach you even have to admit Dallas has done better tonight than they did in a lot of previous openers. Even ones they won.
 

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No doubt they have things to work on, but man, as fans tonight we have to feel good.

As a coach you even have to admit Dallas has done better tonight than they did in a lot of previous openers. Even ones they won.

Hey...I admit...I'm spoiled. I'm used to seeing Boise State's offense rock people. I get it ...that people found a new drug tonight. For me....I still see the details that need to cleaned up. And trust me....there is a lot. People want to point out...Dak had a perfect rating...bla bla bla... Dak also missed wide open people streaking for scores early in the game. He just didn't see it. That's bothersome. Our defense...jesus...I'm beyond concerned. We got scheme problems...We got personel problems. We got guys playing in wrong positions...We got guys not ready to play...We got coaches playing favorites...even though it's clear...a few of these guys best place should be the bench. I'm not so sure it will work itself out....our D coordinators are pretty stubborn. Don't think it's a talent issue....we got enough bodies. Question is...are we gonna figure this out?
 

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Hey...I admit...I'm spoiled. I'm used to seeing Boise State's offense rock people. I get it ...that people found a new drug tonight. For me....I still see the details that need to cleaned up. And trust me....there is a lot. People want to point out...Dak had a perfect rating...bla bla bla... Dak also missed wide open people streaking for scores early in the game. He just didn't see it. That's bothersome. Our defense...jesus...I'm beyond concerned. We got scheme problems...We got personel problems. We got guys playing in wrong positions...We got guys not ready to play...We got coaches playing favorites...even though it's clear...a few of these guys best place should be the bench. I'm not so sure it will work itself out....our D coordinators are pretty stubborn. Don't think it's a talent issue....we got enough bodies. Question is...are we gonna figure this out?


Solid points.
 
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