NeonDeion21
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QB: I thought Tony Romo played a solid game considering the wind and the shaky offensive line. He struggled with his accuracy some in the first half, but put together two nice touchdown drives in the second half. One thing that I have noticed this year is that Tony isn’t relying on Jason Witten as much as he has in previous years. On third downs, he is actually looking to Cole Beasley on short yardage gains. That’s a positive for Cowboy fans. Romo has become deadly in the three wide receiver sets, so expect them to continue to play that formation a bunch on Sunday against the Lions.
RB: I thought Joseph Randle ran hard and was serviceable against the Eagles. Randle is reliable out of the backfield and is a decent receiver. But he isn’t special. He is average. And right now, the Cowboys are just looking for someone average and reliable until DeMarco Murray is healthy. But one of the reasons the Cowboys haven’t been able to sustain some drives on offense is because they can’t rely on their running game to convert on short yardage situations. Neither Joseph Randle nor Phillip Tanner are great short yardage backs and twice they were stopped in the backfield on third downs.
WR/TE: Dez Bryant was being mugged all game long. I cannot believe how physical the Eagles defensive backs were able to be with Bryant. They could grab him and hold him on his routes, when the ball was in the air, and while he was catching the ball. But this is something he will need to get use to. Teams are going to try to “out-physical” Dez and get him frustrated. Luckily for the Cowboys, it clicked for Dez in the second half and he helped take over the game. And for this week’s “Amazing Dez Bryant catch” comes a play where the ball was thrown low and behind him. The defender even gets his hand on top of the ball, and yet, Dez rips the ball away from the defender and makes the catch.
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