jterrell
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The fan base led by a media who makes its living stirring up that fan-base would have told you the last 2 games for Dallas were must win.
As in you MUST crush the Giants to knock them out of the playoffs.
You must beat San Diego, winners of 7 straight, at home.
Winning those games would have been big, but what is clear is that you have a chance now to win games still. This team isn't even in MUST win territory this week. They need 2 wins out of the final 3 games.
The media says a lot of really stupid things. It isn't because they are stupid but because their job is to say sensational things. The worst thing they can be is boring. So they resort to all sorts of sensationalism.
But the team can't worry about that. They have a very simple job. Win 2 games. Not a single one of those games will be easy. No team EVER wants to lose to Dallas. Philly and Wash are both teams who judge seasons as much by beating Dallas as they do by making the playoffs. All that said Dallas is 2-0 against those clubs albeit in close games. New Orleans is an odd study. They have been playing inconsistently but still well enough to win. They got up for New England and spanked them but have had a lot of close games against bad teams. Dallas is probably the last game they get up for before the playoffs. It's not a good sign. But if Dallas wants to see team weakness they want to see it on defense. Their own defense will hold good defenses to reasonable scores. So the Saints match up isn't as bad as it looks on paper. It's still bad just not terrible.
But that wounded dog theory does hold. Dallas certainly needs the next two games more than the teams they face. They need to get to Philly with that game holding some meaning but again if they take care of business that game won't be 'must' win either.
If you look back over the last few Super Bowls the participants were all super hot clubs that went 14-2 or better. Some teams like Pittsburgh and the Giants eked into the playoffs then took off for the Lombardi run.
This Cowboy team needs to take off. It is due some luck and it is has played well enough the last two weeks to have won but just didn't. It is the NFL and they better figure out a way to move past that toss up status because they need two more wins.
As in you MUST crush the Giants to knock them out of the playoffs.
You must beat San Diego, winners of 7 straight, at home.
Winning those games would have been big, but what is clear is that you have a chance now to win games still. This team isn't even in MUST win territory this week. They need 2 wins out of the final 3 games.
The media says a lot of really stupid things. It isn't because they are stupid but because their job is to say sensational things. The worst thing they can be is boring. So they resort to all sorts of sensationalism.
But the team can't worry about that. They have a very simple job. Win 2 games. Not a single one of those games will be easy. No team EVER wants to lose to Dallas. Philly and Wash are both teams who judge seasons as much by beating Dallas as they do by making the playoffs. All that said Dallas is 2-0 against those clubs albeit in close games. New Orleans is an odd study. They have been playing inconsistently but still well enough to win. They got up for New England and spanked them but have had a lot of close games against bad teams. Dallas is probably the last game they get up for before the playoffs. It's not a good sign. But if Dallas wants to see team weakness they want to see it on defense. Their own defense will hold good defenses to reasonable scores. So the Saints match up isn't as bad as it looks on paper. It's still bad just not terrible.
But that wounded dog theory does hold. Dallas certainly needs the next two games more than the teams they face. They need to get to Philly with that game holding some meaning but again if they take care of business that game won't be 'must' win either.
If you look back over the last few Super Bowls the participants were all super hot clubs that went 14-2 or better. Some teams like Pittsburgh and the Giants eked into the playoffs then took off for the Lombardi run.
This Cowboy team needs to take off. It is due some luck and it is has played well enough the last two weeks to have won but just didn't. It is the NFL and they better figure out a way to move past that toss up status because they need two more wins.
