I thought Favre and Minny's offense

[2much2soon]

looked tentative, maybe a little scared, on their first few possessions. Like they did believe all the hype about Dallas' defense at first?

At the same time, Dallas' offense moved the ball fairly easily but stalled with no points.

Then Favre hit Rice for the TD.

Talk about football being a game of inches and momentum. If Sensabaugh had looked back it was a cake Int for him; he was in just as good a position as Rice to make the catch. As it was, it was a miraculous pass and catch.

Minny gained all the confidence they needed from that, offensively.

Couple that with Adams going out and the rest of the line stinking it up, it was pretty much game over.

 

[newlander]

No argument whatsoever. But our team needs to grow some stones and not be such frontrunners. It hurts to say, I love everything about the Dallas Cowboys and have for 33 years, but this group is mentally weak when the chips are down. They folded again today when faced with the adversity of Flo going down.. It sucks and some will be pissed to hear it but it's the God's honest truth. We need more leaders on both sides of the ball that HATE to lose: younger versions of Brooking if you will.......

 

[TheDude]

Sidney Rice is an elite receiver. He is 6'4, great hands, tons of speed and great technique. He sold that pass by not moving his hands up too early let Sensabaugh turn around.

It was a great pass but if you watch Moss and other greats, they dont sell that the pass is coming too early so that the DB can turn and cover it.

P Manning had an outtake where he preached that to Garcon and Collie.


We don't have one of those WR. Austin is really good and RW is lazy

 

[TheDude]

The better example of inches is the Rice TD over Jenkins.
Jenkins played it perfect and just misstimed the swat. Sometimes those happen.

 

[dbair1967]

looked tentative, maybe a little scared, on their first few possessions. Like they did believe all the hype about Dallas' defense at first?

At the same time, Dallas' offense moved the ball fairly easily but stalled with no points.

Then Favre hit Rice for the TD.

Talk about football being a game of inches and momentum. If Sensabaugh had looked back it was a cake Int for him; he was in just as good a position as Rice to make the catch. As it was, it was a miraculous pass and catch.

Minny gained all the confidence they needed from that, offensively.

Couple that with Adams going out and the rest of the line stinking it up, it was pretty much game over.

Yeah that was huge, IMO it was a far bigger play than the missed FG.

Sensabaugh was in perfect position to make a play, and didnt even try. In fact after Rice caught the ball it STILL looked like Sensabaugh didnt know where the ball was.

I really think upgrading both safety spots is a priority for the offseason. They gotta get some guys who can make plays on the ball. Niether of our safeties do now and niether appears to have any clue how to do it. It isnt bad luck when you've basically went two+ full seasons and your safeties have combine for basically 2 picks in all those games, and have very few passes defensed.

The Adams injury was the kill shot.