2 Wins and we’re NFC East Champs!

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Jason Garrett owes a huge THANK YOU to Minnesota, so 2 more wins and we’re NFC East Champs.


What a wild NFL Sunday yesterday was, first the Minnesota Vikings put up 40 against the Eagles without their best and seemingly only offensive player in AP, then the Cowboys are walking all over the Packers in the first half. So its 5:00 CST and the Cowboys are thinking that the division can be clinched in Week 16 with a win at WSH and a PHI loss to the hungry Bears. Good times indeed.


And then -- all of the sudden -- all hell breaks loose. Packers come back on the Cowboys, the man from Princeton calls the most controversial and bizarre game plan, the Cowboys woes continue. Packers win! Now Philly can clinch the division in Week 16 with a Cowboy loss at WSH and a PHI win against the Bears. What a rollercoaster of a season this is, it’s almost unbelievable and unbearable.


Jason Garrett has a job thanks to Matt Cassel and the Vikings, he is however almost dead, ICU keeping him alive, and every play, every down will be crucial to his not only Cowboys career, but his NFL coaching career. As a Cowboys fan, I refuse to accept a loss, and I will never be happy with a loss and with elimination. True, we lose out, and Garrett is out for sure, but I believe even if Garrett makes the playoffs, his job is in jeopardy. It would take a win at WSH, a win at home vs PHI and a win at home vs SF in order for Garrett to be released from ICU, and after that, who wouldn’t be happy? I know I would.


Even with a depleted defense, and even with the worst loss I can remember, I still feel hope. Mainly because we play the Commanders next week, and everybody hates the Commanders. Count it as an official elimination game for Romo, this one counts, this one is in December and this one is in the road, it won’t be easy, but if we lose even hope, what else do we have? Romo needs help however, the defense better show up; otherwise Kirk Cousins will break some kind of record next week.


Because even if Tom Brady lost the game with a 4th quarter INT and nobody talks about it, nobody says anything, despite his defense ‘holding’ the Miami offense to 24, and him ‘only’ needing 27 points to win, despite Eli not being mentioned at all, despite him having a historical bad season (not only statistically but also leading his team to a dismal record), and Tony Romo putting up All-Pro numbers out there, critics, fans, and the media doesn’t care about anything except a Romo headline. He has more pressure than any other player in football, and it’s not even close. It takes a great team effort to erase the ghost, the legend.


Week 17 at home versus Phily for the division is what we want, what we should be rooting for, not personnel changes, not things we can’t control, let’s root and cheer for what we enjoy which is a division championship. I know I will.
 

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How many straight wins do we need to win the Super Bowl?
 

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Great post. The NFCE has only been swept 2 times. In spite of all we have been through. We have a chance to do this. We are not a great team..but neither are the Commanders and Eagles. Let's not let the outside noise distract us from our goal. We have too many injuries on defense to do anything in the Playoffs....but I would like to make the Playoffs.
 

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Yes, it going to be funny around here if the Cowboys make the playoffs. How will posters justify ranting about firing the Head Coach if he makes the playoffs with a defense full of misfits?
 

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I don't know how to feel about this. This sounds so simple for this team to accomplish. Win two winnable games and get the playoffs but as we all know NOTHING is easy for this team. Right now this possibility is the only thing that is making me somewhat try to get over what happened yesterday. If the Eagles had won yesterday man I don't know how I would feel. I guess a little worse than I do right now. Everytime this team has it handed to them and it's right in front of them they crap the bed. Can this team finally show me, us, the entire Cowboy fanbase something in these last two games.
 

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Yes, it going to be funny around here if the Cowboys make the playoffs. How will posters justify ranting about firing the Head Coach if he makes the playoffs with a defense full of misfits?


Lets not pretend that we're getting in with a 13-3 record or something like that. And the Cowboys will be underdogs at home. And part of that is due to the head coach.
 

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5 at the least, 6 at the most.

Yes, that's true. Cowboys can still lose a game if Philly loses next week. So there's that. Not that I want to be in the situation to watch that SNF game with that much at stake. But crazy as it is, we can still win the division with a loss at WSH.
 

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If we can make the playoffs with a no name defensive front, I would be impressed. Looking at this team and we're a couple of impact players on the Dline from being a double digit win team.
 

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I know it's wrong to say but for reasons of the Draft I'd rather Dallas not make the playoffs. No way they can win it all and if they do make the playoffs I'm afraid some players might be kept that shouldn't be.
 

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As opposed to what? Hoping your team is beaten? I want Garrett fired as much as anyone but not over winning the east and making the playoffs.


No. Not my point.
Jerry loves fans that, after one of the worst and most devastating losses in many many years, have their pom poms out the next day declaring that 2 more wins and we are NFC East Champs.
 

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We'll beat the skins to set up yet ANOTHER "Elimination Game" vs the Eagles. The D will stink, the running game will stink, Romo will stink.

Only Romo will get blamed though.
 

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The cowboy fanatical in me wants this team to take these next 2 games, logic is telling me that making the playoffs is not worth seeing Garrett on these sidelines for another year.

Logic tells me the Eagles are gonna beat us senseless.
 

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Yes, it going to be funny around here if the Cowboys make the playoffs. How will posters justify ranting about firing the Head Coach if he makes the playoffs with a defense full of misfits?

Possibly by the absolute beat down Dallas might receive once they get in? I am all for Dallas pulling off a Cinderella run for the ages, but the prospect of having the 49ers or Panthers come in and give the Cowboys a Bears/Saints style whoopin is somewhat concerning to me at this moment. Flynn just looked like Aaron Rogers against this defense.
 
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