ESPN: What's your top upset pick for Week 2?

[Longboysfan]

Eli is on the home stretch of his career....this might be where the Giants seriously look for his replacement....that's how bad he looks with or without OBJ.

Look for the QB early this coming draft then.
And no O line help....

 

[cowboy_ron]

Look for the QB early this coning draft then.

Yea, I think they're going to have to.

 

[Kevinicus]

Eli is on the home stretch of his career....this might be where the Giants seriously look for his replacement....that's how bad he looks with or without OBJ.

Nah, that's how Eli has always looked with the exception of 1...maybe 2 seasons.

 

[cowboy_ron]

Nah, that's how Eli has always looked with the exception of 1...maybe 2 seasons.

I'm not sure he could bounce it off of his receivers hemets to luck into a super bowel win anymore.

 

[trickblue]

yeah well, Graziano pees sitting down

and his mom pees standing up...

 

[Idgit]

You tricked me into opening an ESPN link. Not really. I just didn't read the thread title carefully. Give me Browns over Baltimore, in Baltimore. How's that for an upset?

 

[DFWJC]

How's that an upset?

Isnt the spread really tight?

I like us, but Denver winning at home is not an "upset"

 

[Maxmadden]

Vegas knows they are 19-1 since 2000 at home in weeks 1&2. And yet they made the Cowboys the favorite and the line moved in the Cowboys favor. Unless this line craters towards Denver in the next two days, I think the line is a Cowboys line.

Because every streak is getting closer and closer to being broken. It's why streaks are meaningless in sports.

 

[RJ_MacReady]

Dallas is a bad matchup for Denver; we do not need to air the ball out against their D and they likely won't beat us with chunk plays in the pass game because Trevor Siemian ain't no Aaron Rodgers. They do have home field which is nice, but we are the better team and have the stylistic matchup advantage.

This right here. If Denver had the run-stopping ability of NYG, then this would be a real ugly game due to the fact that their DB's and one elite pass rusher could pin their ears back on every 2nd/3rd and long situation (like they do with most other teams). As it is, Dallas should be able to run the ball decently and mix-in Witten/Beasley to avoid being forced to get chunk pass plays.

Denver's offense is better balanced than NYG, but ultimately is just average. Some people were saying that the Charger's defense is better than Dallas, but they're clearly free-basing their morning breakfast. SD might have better pass-rushing DE's, but that's it. Dallas, as a whole, is the better defense and will more than likely be defending a lead most of the game. I think this game will look like our match-up with TB last year. The TB didn't have Von Miller, but they had a defense that was playing lights-out for 5-6 games prior to our meeting (especially in the LB/secondary), a good QB, good weapons but not a good O-line. Ultimately, our run game pounded out their defense's aggressiveness and the TB offense had to abandon the run game to catch up, opening up Franken-Irving's coming out party.

Denver is the prototypical defense built to dominate in this current passing league. Unfortunately for them and others like them, Dallas is one of the teams that decided to dig up the ole' smash-mouth dinosaur DNA and incorporate that as the backbone of our offensive philosophy. Since 2014, it's been giving the fancy pass-defending defenses fits.

Point blank: The current Denver roster hasn't played an O-line/RB this dominant. Throw in Dak and how stingy he is with the ball and I see no reason why the Denver pass defense will be a major factor in this game. I hope Martin and Collins punish the hell out of Von.

30-17 Dallas.