My thoughts on the game...

Rack

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1. Horrible officiating. And most of it -without a doubt- went against the cowboys, be it a bad call, or a bad non-call.


2. Our OL is really good at pass blocking. Not so good (not bad either though) at run blocking. It seems our OL run blocks by getting to their man and trying to hold him up. The eagles' OL were getting to their man and drive blocking them out of the way. I'd like to see our OL get more movement in the running game.


3. Felix Jones... wow. Still too soon to make any definitive conclusions about him, but so far... he's looking pretty freakin' good.


4. Marion "The Barbarian" Barber... nuff said.


5. Our defense needs to get a killer instinct. Some of those sacks McFlabb escaped would not have been escaped if our defenders had a "I WANT TO KILL YOU" mentality.


6. Going back to #1 a bit, we win this game by 3+ TDs if not for the 10-14 points GIVEN to the Eagles cuz of bad calls/non-calls and another 7 due to the Romo Fumble. If this game is called even (not implying it was called uneven on purpose) then it's not even a close game.


7. Anyone that still questions Roy's love for the game, just look on the sidelines after Ware's sack at the end of the game. People that don't love the game wouldn't be cheering like crazy like that while they're arm is in a cast. We're gonna miss him more than some of you haters think.


8. I want to see Felix on offense more. Maybe they don't feel comfortable with his knowledge of the offense right now, I don't know. I hope he gains the coaches trust cuz I want to see him get more touches on offense, and I mean meaningful touches.


9. The only reason our kickoff team gave up that one big return was cuz it was a sorry kick by Folk. I'm pleasantly surprised at our kickoff team so far. I still think our punt team needs a bit more work though.


10. I'm proud of myself, I didn't break anything this game (although I did try to break a mag-lite... those things are pretty dang durable).
 

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I thought they got away with a couple holds, but nothing major other than that Pass Interference of course. That was awful.

We got away with more facemasks than they called.
 

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Number 9 was suppose to be a huge problem for us after what we saw in the pre season. Glad it improved in a short amount of time. They were hitting out there too.

Felix has an amazing burst. I don't think he had an average return (meaning, getting the ball to the 20 outside a touchback) at all. I maybe wrong.
 

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Future;2261900 said:
I thought they got away with a couple holds, but nothing major other than that Pass Interference of course. That was awful.

We got away with more facemasks than they called.

We got away with one legitimate face mask, that would have lead to nothing more then a first down around mid-field for them.


And on that westbrook play where Watkins face masked him, Westbrook himself facemasked Watkins too, but they didn't call it (eventhough they're suppose to this year). That would have been offsetting penalties and the eagles would have had a 2nd and around 20 (due to the Westbrook "fumble" on first down).
 

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I thought they held quite a bit and I don't mind letting that go, but let it go on both sides.
 
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