Sorry but Hurts doesn't qualify as a running back no matter what the softheads say. So they have 4 more rushing TDs than do the Cowboys.. Your language confused me because you said "these teams ...." when what you really meant this one team. Which is fine.. The Eagles clearly have a good team. But they've gotten some breaks along the way to build up their gaudy record. But as often happens.. a team gets a few breaks early and starts to believe in itself and suddenly their greatness is a self fulfilling prophecy. We've seen it many times. And games won on breaks or because the opponent did something stupid counts just as much as a beatdown win. But the Eagles still have their warts.. and the Cowboys, if they play their game, are built to exploit said warts.
I don't think AJ Brown can open up 2 yards of separation consistently against Diggs and I don't think Smith is good enough to really abuse Kelvin Joseph.. who after a bit of a shaky start really stepped up in the second half against Houston. He has all the physical tools he just needs a software upgrade. He's got one more week to get it. Smith's chief weapon is speed.. and he will not have the advantage against KJ in that department.
The Cowboys have the d-line and LB talent to combat the read option attack.. What they have to show is that they have the eye discipline to do it. If I'm Dan Quinn I instruct the DEs to clobber Hurts every time he comes their way.. whether he keeps it, hands it off or pitches it. Money says they stop calling those plays by early second quarter.
The eagles having the better balance also have an element of surprise when they do run the ball also.
They also have a better element of surprise when they pass the ball also.
They play a lot of dink and dunk w their tes like the cowboys and control the clock
But when they go up top on us man to man I'ma take brown and smith over Diggs and Joseph or CeeDee and Gallop going up top on their dbs
Our guys are better at receptions than crossing that goal line
I'm not sure a trio or quadruplet at RB with Pollard, Davis, Prescott, and Zeke isn't better than the Thunder and Lightning but I see Glimpses
That 4th down we ran last Sunday looked like some Demarco Murray bunk in the playoffs or Zeke last year in SF
This fo may run Zeke the whole game like they did last year trying to prove a point js
When your Tyler Higbee'ish 4 TD a year te is leading the team in targets and not in scoring that means there's some problems w your offensive strategy js
Its not gonna produce the same results as Gronks or Jerry Rices playoff success
It takes 42 catches on 57 targets for our best te ever to Score 1 TD
Why is he getting 10 targets a game???
