waving monkey
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Rank this win among Jason Garrett’s victories:
Certainly from 2014, I would have to say this is the most meaningful win. Maybe the win at Seattle as the most impressive, but everyone knows the baggage this team carries with it in December, on the road, in the division. This is not where Jason Garrett’s Cowboys have done their finest work. To go into Philly and really handle this game pretty well, it’s a testament to what this team is capable of. Even they needed to see they were capable of this to fully feel like they were on the same tier as the Eagles. (The loss to Philadelphia on) Thanksgiving really rocked their confidence and maybe the last 12-18 months of hearing about Chip Kelly and the Eagles had the Cowboys feeling inferior. But the Cowboys ended it tonight. They absolutely feel they are on par or perhaps better than the Eagles and the class of the NFC East.
On the defense forcing Eagles QB Mark Sanchez to throw downfield:
Sanchez can be a fine quarterback if the down and distance is in his favor. The second you stop their run to put them in third-and-long, Sanchez can’t bail out into rollouts and bubble screens, the kind of things that are high-percentage throws. If you can force him to throw downfield, he is absolutely the type of guy who’s going to give you a chance to pick him off. The Cowboys put him in some high leverage situations and in part the play that ended the third quarter — a third-and-long — he had to fit the ball into Zach Ertz and J.J. Wilcox made the play (an interception). That probably turned the game as much as anything.
link/http://cowboysblog.***BANNED-URL***...e-performance-boost-cowboys-past-eagles.html/
Certainly from 2014, I would have to say this is the most meaningful win. Maybe the win at Seattle as the most impressive, but everyone knows the baggage this team carries with it in December, on the road, in the division. This is not where Jason Garrett’s Cowboys have done their finest work. To go into Philly and really handle this game pretty well, it’s a testament to what this team is capable of. Even they needed to see they were capable of this to fully feel like they were on the same tier as the Eagles. (The loss to Philadelphia on) Thanksgiving really rocked their confidence and maybe the last 12-18 months of hearing about Chip Kelly and the Eagles had the Cowboys feeling inferior. But the Cowboys ended it tonight. They absolutely feel they are on par or perhaps better than the Eagles and the class of the NFC East.
On the defense forcing Eagles QB Mark Sanchez to throw downfield:
Sanchez can be a fine quarterback if the down and distance is in his favor. The second you stop their run to put them in third-and-long, Sanchez can’t bail out into rollouts and bubble screens, the kind of things that are high-percentage throws. If you can force him to throw downfield, he is absolutely the type of guy who’s going to give you a chance to pick him off. The Cowboys put him in some high leverage situations and in part the play that ended the third quarter — a third-and-long — he had to fit the ball into Zach Ertz and J.J. Wilcox made the play (an interception). That probably turned the game as much as anything.
link/http://cowboysblog.***BANNED-URL***...e-performance-boost-cowboys-past-eagles.html/
