DMN Blog: Cowboys hot, but Vikings can hose them down

[WoodysGirl]

10:32 AM Thu, Jan 14, 2010 | Permalink | Yahoo! Buzz
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The Cowboys have spoken all week about the momentum they carry into Sunday's game at Minnesota.

But they also understand a hot team can go cold quick. No one said it better than linebacker Bobby Carpenter.

"When you put together a nice stretch of games like we have, you're going to have a lot of confidence,'' Carpenter said. "But two or three plays in a game can change that right away.

"If Adrian Peterson goes 80 yards on the first play, I don't know how hot you are at that point. They got out the fire hose.''

That would be the same fire hose Ray Rice used with his 83-yard touchdown run on the first play of Baltimore's win over New England in the wild card round.

Hot teams live in the moment. But everyone knows that a moment is fleeting.

"In the end,'' defensive end Igor Olshansky said, "the best team playing at that moment is going to win.''



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[Doomsday101]

10:32 AM Thu, Jan 14, 2010 | Permalink | Yahoo! Buzz
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The Cowboys have spoken all week about the momentum they carry into Sunday's game at Minnesota.

But they also understand a hot team can go cold quick. No one said it better than linebacker Bobby Carpenter.

"When you put together a nice stretch of games like we have, you're going to have a lot of confidence,'' Carpenter said. "But two or three plays in a game can change that right away.

"If Adrian Peterson goes 80 yards on the first play, I don't know how hot you are at that point. They got out the fire hose.''

That would be the same fire hose Ray Rice used with his 83-yard touchdown run on the first play of Baltimore's win over New England in the wild card round.

Hot teams live in the moment. But everyone knows that a moment is fleeting.

"In the end,'' defensive end Igor Olshansky said, "the best team playing at that moment is going to win.''



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I guess why I feel confident about this game is Dallas has not been playing great on just one side of the ball they really have been playing top quality football in all phases of the game. Could the defense come out not as hot as they have been? Yes but even before the hot streak the defense was not giving up a lot of points. I would be shocked if the Cowboys came out and played poorly in this game.

 

[aikemirv]

He is probably right about the 2-3 plays thing but that should not be the case. That has been the problem of past Cowboy teams that 2-3 plays would change the attitude of the team.

Maclin scores a TD and then Romo throws the pick(overturned but nonetheless). Now, those 2 plays should not change the way Dallas was dominating up until that point and they should not have changed the outcome, but it very well could have.

 

[Huntstyle]

New England wasn't exactly hot, so I don't think that Ray Rice example is a very good one.

 

[Chocolate Lab]

They're right... That team is rested and will come out with a ton of emotion. Peterson always runs harder than anyone -- this game he'll be a true madman at first with that loud crowd pumping him up. I know it's a cliche, but we really have to withstand that first wave of emotion they'll have. We didn't have to worry about it at New Orleans, because we scored on them first. But that might not happen this game.

 

[Doomsday101]

New England wasn't exactly hot, so I don't think that Ray Rice example is a very good one.

True NE was having issues with their defense pretty much all season long.

 

[Gadfly22]

I think the way Jimmy put it says it best (to paraphrase): in big games, your top players have to make big plays.

Momentum game-to-game means nothing if you lose momentum in the game you're playing. The top players -- Romo, RW, Felix, Witten, Austin on offense, and Ware, Rat, Spencer, Jenkins and Newman on defense -- have to come up with big plays.