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Cowboys will need more than one formula
September, 16, 2014
Sep 16
1:45
PM ET
By Todd Archer | ESPNDallas.com
http://espn.go.com/blog/dallas/cowboys/post/_/id/4733739/cowboys-will-need-more-than-one-formula
IRVING, Texas – Jason Garrett likes to say the history of the NFL gets written each week.
It’s a poke at the wild week-to-week proclamations made by media and fans after a win or a loss. After the season-opening loss to the San Francisco 49ers, the Cowboys’ season was over. Tony Romo’s best days were gone. The defense was not any better. Who will the Cowboys take with the first pick in the 2015 draft?
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AP Photo/Mark Zaleski
DeMarco Murray's big day against the Titans can't be the only blueprint for the Cowboys to win.
After their Week 2 win against the Tennessee Titans, the Cowboys are now the best ground-and-pound team in the NFL. DeMarco Murray will set league and franchise rushing records. The defense just might be better than anybody imagined. The Cowboys will be a hard out in the NFC East.
That’s the new history anyway. But in the NFL what is true today won’t necessarily be true tomorrow.
To expect the Cowboys to run the ball 43 times for 220 yards, like they did against the Titans is folly. To expect them to win many games with Romo throwing for 176 yards is not wise. To expect the defense to limit an offense to 68 yards in the first half is crazy, especially with the quarterbacks and offenses the Cowboys will see down the road, though not this week in the St. Louis Rams.
“If you decide that, ‘This is the way we want to play,’ it’s hard to guarantee you’re going to be able to do that week in and week out,” Garrett said. “So you try to be balanced enough on offense to be able to play the way you need to play to win the ballgame and certainly you want to have the success that we had on defense, a lot of different situations that allowed to get us off the field and do the things that we did throughout that game. It’s certainly a good formula, [but] hard to guarantee it every week.”...
September, 16, 2014
Sep 16
1:45
PM ET
By Todd Archer | ESPNDallas.com
http://espn.go.com/blog/dallas/cowboys/post/_/id/4733739/cowboys-will-need-more-than-one-formula
IRVING, Texas – Jason Garrett likes to say the history of the NFL gets written each week.
It’s a poke at the wild week-to-week proclamations made by media and fans after a win or a loss. After the season-opening loss to the San Francisco 49ers, the Cowboys’ season was over. Tony Romo’s best days were gone. The defense was not any better. Who will the Cowboys take with the first pick in the 2015 draft?
[+] Enlarge
AP Photo/Mark Zaleski
DeMarco Murray's big day against the Titans can't be the only blueprint for the Cowboys to win.
After their Week 2 win against the Tennessee Titans, the Cowboys are now the best ground-and-pound team in the NFL. DeMarco Murray will set league and franchise rushing records. The defense just might be better than anybody imagined. The Cowboys will be a hard out in the NFC East.
That’s the new history anyway. But in the NFL what is true today won’t necessarily be true tomorrow.
To expect the Cowboys to run the ball 43 times for 220 yards, like they did against the Titans is folly. To expect them to win many games with Romo throwing for 176 yards is not wise. To expect the defense to limit an offense to 68 yards in the first half is crazy, especially with the quarterbacks and offenses the Cowboys will see down the road, though not this week in the St. Louis Rams.
“If you decide that, ‘This is the way we want to play,’ it’s hard to guarantee you’re going to be able to do that week in and week out,” Garrett said. “So you try to be balanced enough on offense to be able to play the way you need to play to win the ballgame and certainly you want to have the success that we had on defense, a lot of different situations that allowed to get us off the field and do the things that we did throughout that game. It’s certainly a good formula, [but] hard to guarantee it every week.”...
