How would you rank our chances of getting to the Super Bowl?

[Broges74]

Next season we may have a better shot overall depending on keeping Dez and having a top tier RB. I think we make a run but we have a hard road. Our team can beat GB at GB but beating Seattle at Seattle 2x in the same season is a tall order in the NFL.

 

[windjc]

Tough to say because this has been a very wacky year in general.

For instance, typically 4 teams with losing records from the previous season make the playoffs. This year it looks like we will have 2 at the most (Detroit and Atlanta). Meanwhile there is typically only 4 division winners that return to the postseason. This season there may be 7 (New England, Denver, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Green Bay, Seattle and Carolina).

We also have a division where the winner will not finish better than .500 (NFC South)

3 divisions in the AFC have 3 teams that are better than .500 right now.

Typically, I wouldn't be overly high on the Cowboys. They remind me of the 2005 Broncos where they ran the ball great, but had a suspect defense. Went 13-3 and had a great season from Jake Plummer, but then lost in the playoffs.

The potential is to be more like the 1997 Broncos which had a suspect defense...but scored a lot of points and ran for a ton of yards and went 12-4 and on to win the Super Bowl.

I tend to think this is a team that could go to the NFC Championship game. I'm most concerned with the Packers (3-4 scheme and Rodgers) or if we get the Seahawks at Seattle again.





YR

HOLD ON. Did you just compare a Denver team lead by Jake Plummer to a Cowboy's team led by Tony Romo??? Wha???

 

[Blackspider214]

I mean really if you look at the landscape, this team currently is built to go on the road to places like GB/Seattle and win a game. Those conditions will require a good running game to control the game. The way to beat Seattle is just run the ball straight ahead. They are too fast on the edges. I actually think GB in Lambeau would be a tougher game than in Seattle but that's just me. Aaron Rodgers is dangerous at home.

NFC South/Arizona is garbage. But they are pretty much guaranteed to play. So one of those bad teams will be in the divisional round. It will be 2010 Seattle. They will get trounced that round and whomever gets them will get a free pass to the NFC title game.

It really comes down to Seattle/Detroit/GB/Dallas. Out of those 4, who has the best shot. Right now, Dallas and Seattle are playing much better than the other 2. Detroit struggles against Chicago with a 2nd stringer and barely beats Minnesota. Neither are good teams. GB loses to Buffalo last week and looks very meh against a terrible Tampa team.

I like our chances to beat most likely Detroit here at home. Stafford usually wilts in big games and has been pretty mediocre this season.

I also like our chances against GB up there, although it will be very tough in those conditions.

A Dallas/Seattle rematch would be epic, though.

I like our chances vastly better than I did in 2009. You knew that team stood no chance to win anything.

This team is much, much different. They are dialed in at all 3 phases as well as the coaching.

 

[Blackspider214]

Wipe your mouth when you pass gas. Ok, we know you are a homer but please try to keep it real. At this time and the state of the defense I give us a 45% to 55% chance of getting to the Big Show. I am still a believer that the best defense wins SB.

State of the defense has been pretty impressive these last 3 weeks. Throw out the Eagles turkey day game because that was in no way a true showing of what we are. So many variables went into why we played the way we did.

They shut down Chicago. Yeah we got very lazy at the end but for 3 quarters, we held them to 7. Then pretty much shut down the Eagles besides a quarter and a half when they got into a little groove. But they put their foot down after that and forced 2 turnovers and a punt to seal the game. They pretty much pitched a shut out of Indy. One of the better offenses in this league and supposedly, a great QB (which is debatable).

I say the defense right now is peaking. And the offense is becoming a well oiled machine.

 

[Doomsay]

Higher, if we treat next week as a bye and go into the wild card round rested.

 

[ElGatoGrande]

This offense is certainly capable of putting up 24+ per game even against a good defense, but can this defense get off the field against Stafford, Rodgers, Beast-mode? I'd say no, they can't, so then the offense needs to dominate against three good/excellent defenses and put up points, 35+ maybe. That's a very tall order, but not out of the question!

 

[BigD5]

Wipe your mouth when you pass gas. Ok, we know you are a homer but please try to keep it real. At this time and the state of the defense I give us a 45% to 55% chance of getting to the Big Show. I am still a believer that the best defense wins SB.

Who is playing better football than the Dallas Cowboys right now?

 

[DoctorChicken]

I think the probable seeding won't lie. Seattle has the best odds, then Green Bay, then Dallas. Detroit is pretty formidable but I don't believe they can play clean enough to run off 3 wins against this level of competition.

I'm giving you your 10,000th like, ******.

 

[Bungarian]

37.625 percent

 

[Gemini Dolly]

Green Bay and Seattle are the teams that I fear the most.

Unfortunately, seems like thats the path we need to take in order to get to the Superbowl.

 

[SDCowboy]

Honestly, very low. That's why I'm really going to savor these next couple weeks.

 

[cowboys1981]

I like our chances vs anyone. Our running attack will continue to improve and adding Beasley into our attack will create more headaches for defenses. There isn't a team out there that can't be beat. The win in Seattle gives me confidence we can win anywhere.

 

[rd26]

Much MUCH better chance than I gave us in August.

 

[tyke1doe]

90% chance to get to the super bowl? Do you understand what that means? That's a beyond ludicrous figure for any team...let alone this team

I'm a words guy, not a math guy.

 

[Jarv]

40-1 are the odds I got in early December.

 

[LittleBoyBlue]

Better than some not as good as others? Dallas is extremely hot heading into post season and in my view that matters a lot and gives them a legit chance.

Yeah. We may be in the middle of our 7 game winning streak.

 

[FootballFan1]

Okay, I know I'm jumping the gun. But, hey, shoot me. We're in the playoffs so it's not like I'm totally getting ahead of myself.

But I did want to ask this question. From a percentage standpoint, how would you rank our chances of getting to the Super Bowl?

I'd put us at 90 percent.
In the previous season with this team, I wasn't too confident in our chances to get to the Super Bowl, even in 2007. I just didn't trust the coaching staff at that time.

But this year feels different. I don't know if I'm completely on the bandwagon for Garrett, but I do like the approach to the run. I have major confidence in the offensive line, and Romo and Witten seem to have that steely resolve that they're determine not to blow this chance. I think the Cowboys may be a bit more desperate than the Packers (who've been there) and the Seahawks (ditto). And they have a style of play that succeeds during the playoffs.

So I put our chances high.

What say ye?

Um, kind of delusional. 90%, I think not. Doesn't mean you will not make it, that is another story. You have some tough teams to get through. And let's watch home field advantage first. Take nothing for granted except the the next game. One game at a time. I like our chances too, but one game, just one and it is over. Just be grateful you are in the hunt, and enjoy it.

 

[Yakuza Rich]

HOLD ON. Did you just compare a Denver team lead by Jake Plummer to a Cowboy's team led by Tony Romo??? Wha???

Yes, an exceptional running team that got a great year from a QB and a suspect defense to go 13-3.

Crazy, I know.




YR

 

[dmq]

The best they've been in years.

 

[Idgit]

6-1.