Next 3 weeks, where the reality check happens

[CowboyRoy]

Reality is going to set in over the next 3 weeks...it'll be sad for those who get all caught up in the W-L column and not the numbers behind the W-L ratio.

Washington - 29th allowing 30.7 PPG
Chicago - 24th allowing 27.7 PPG
49ers - 23rd allowing 27.7 PPG

Cincinnati - 12th allowing 20.5 PPG
Green Bay - 17th allowing 22.3 PPG
Philly - 1st allowing 9.0 PPG

To make it worse:

Philly - 2nd scoring 30.8 PPG
Green Bay - 2nd at home scoring 34.0 PPG at home

Cincinnati and Green Bay have VERY dangerous WR's, and Philly is just scoring as they please. Our defense is going to put the offense in a huge hole. Mistakes will come and the offense will get frustrated.

I am a HUGE tony fan, probably the biggest, but I dont like his first game back being against philly either. That is a NASTY team to try and knock rust off against.

I dont mind being the under dog. The new Dak and Zeke era is progressing nicely. I would love to see how they take on the new challenge. At some point, this defense is going to start rearing its ugly head. A team like Cincy should cause us major problems in the run game.

 

[haleyrules]

I believe we win 2 of the next 3. But even 1 of 3 isn't bad. Philly is a bit of a pretender to me.

Yes. Philadelphia can not be this good. I like the Cowboys against the Eagles.

 

[haleyrules]

I dont mind being the under dog. The new Dak and Zeke era is progressing nicely. I would love to see how they take on the new challenge. At some point, this defense is going to start rearing its ugly head. A team like Cincy should cause us major problems in the run game.

The Cowboys will be in tough against the Packers.

 

[DFWJC]

Cincy hasn't quite looked as good this year so far, and Green Bay has looked somewhat vulnerable as well.

Now Philly is playing really well--especially the defense.

I'd say if people want Dak to start the rest of the season, maybe they should hope they throw Romo in there vs Philly.
It could spare Dak and possibly make the rusty Romo look bad. Then Dak could return and go on the HOF.

 

[CowboyRoy]

The Cowboys will be in tough against the Packers.

They will be in tough against all those teams. But brittle, old, immobile Romo is a recipe for disaster against teams like Cincy and Philly.

 

[jrumann59]

Cincy, GB, and Philly have combined for 1 win against teams with winning records.

talking about cherry picking a useless stat. Well Dallas is 0-1 against teams with a winning record, and 2-0 against teams with loosing records and 1-0 against teams that are .500

 

[Sydla]

Yes. Philadelphia can not be this good. I like the Cowboys against the Eagles.

When your defense is as good as Philly's hard to call them a pretender.

Though, they've won 4 straight on the road in Dallas and that has to change at some point, right?

 

[ThrowuptheXDez88]

This reality check crap, ugh... We've been playing without our QB-LT-CB-WR-only true pass rusher-backup LB's-.. This team deserves credit for playing the way they have and coming up big in huge moments. I don't care who the opponent is, every team in the NFL can perform and have a great day at some point in the season.

 

[mrmojo]

Man Dak has put a lot of panties in a wad, its funny that all the Romo supporters are now becoming "Realists".

 

[Idgit]

Games against playoff caliber teams is where the rubber meets the road. Our defensive talent is not good enough to stop playoff-quality offenses, which means our playoff quality offense has to beat the pace against teams who also have playoff quality defenses. As we've seen from Tony for years now, that's really really though to do consistently.

My expectation is that, with Dak, we might be able to pull it off here and there, but he won't have any more long-term success doing it than Tony did. The solution is to address the talent deficiency on the defensive side of the ball, though what we'll do instead is complain about the offensive scheme and the play calling not being good enough for some reason.

 

[Irvin88_4life]

Nelson and Cobb will destroy us with Rodgers having all day to throw. Just is what it is.

Heard the Giants recievers would destroy us

 

[CanadianCowboysFan]

I don't understand some Cowboys fans. The overall theme of this board is pretty interesting right now.

Always the way, losses in September mean we suck, hell losses in preseason mean that too. Wins in September are meaningless because only December wins mean anything. Wins in December then mean nothing if it isn't January and the playoffs.

I admit, I am still very cautious re this team. When we were down 14-0 I figured it would be a typical Garrett team loss to an inferior team. Even when we didn't get the TD late, I figured we would give up a tieing one. Hell, I figured we would have to punt the ball away when we got it back.

That being said, I was very pleased with the win

 

[CanadianCowboysFan]

Games against playoff caliber teams is where the rubber meets the road. Our defensive talent is not good enough to stop playoff-quality offenses, which means our playoff quality offense has to beat the pace against teams who also have playoff quality defenses. As we've seen from Tony for years now, that's really really though to do consistently.

My expectation is that, with Dak, we might be able to pull it off here and there, but he won't have any more long-term success doing it than Tony did. The solution is to address the talent deficiency on the defensive side of the ball, though what we'll do instead is complain about the offensive scheme and the play calling not being good enough for some reason.

that is true, but in early October, we really do not know who the playoff calibre teams will be. Everyone is scared to death of the Bengals but they were punked by the Steelers who were punked by the Eagles.

The season is still too new to know who really is good and who isn't.