CFZ Tampa Bay, SF, and Philly

[Joe Realist]

Just a few short weeks ago we were all saying "The NFC's wide open this year." While I agree, the Cowboys are most certainly going to have to exorcise a few demons in the post season.

Tampa Bay -- Certainly not a team many fear these days, especially if you happen to check out the score against SF, but they've presented matchup problems for our offense the past few seasons, and of course Tom has never lost to the Cowboys in his 21+ year career. That's one monkey they need to get off their back. Dallas will either reverse history here or it'll be the same 'ol.

San Francisco -- We all know what they did to us last year in the playoffs. Very tough, physical up front, both with their OL and defensive front 7. You can downplay Mr. Irrelevant all you want at QB, but we saw how Dallas made a pedestrian QB look today. Granted, one would hope our defense would play more inspired in a playoff game, but what I worry about is a sputtering Dallas offense leaving the defense on the field for quite some time, along with turnovers leaving SF with a short field. Like last year's game, you worry about a slow, painful death against a team like San Fran. Another demon to exorcise.

Philadelphia -- I can definitely see Dallas beating Philly here in a few weeks in Big D. But, that may not be enough to win the division. Having Dallas play Philly for a third time would ultimately be a good thing though, because it probably means they would have had to get past Tampa Bay and/or San Francisco first.

Dallas can beat all 3 of these teams, no doubt. But they can lose to all 3 as well, as they have the last time they played each of them . The question in the NFC playoffs however is can Dallas go 3-0, assuming they're the WC, and can they do so against these 3 teams? At this point I'm in a I'll believe it when I see it mindset, and that has nothing to do with the way they squeaked by Houston today, nor how I think they beat Philly in a couple of weeks.

It'll be a tall order folks. The "wide open" path through the NFC playoffs appears a little more narrow these days if your a Cowboys fan, no?

Cowboys are gonna be one and done again. Cannot trust Dak to throw the ball too much. The defense is overrated. They will be outcoached again.

 

[JBond]

Just a few short weeks ago we were all saying "The NFC's wide open this year." While I agree, the Cowboys are most certainly going to have to exorcise a few demons in the post season.



Tampa Bay -- Certainly not a team many fear these days, especially if you happen to check out the score against SF, but they've presented matchup problems for our offense the past few seasons, and of course Tom has never lost to the Cowboys in his 21+ year career. That's one monkey they need to get off their back. Dallas will either reverse history here or it'll be the same 'ol.



San Francisco -- We all know what they did to us last year in the playoffs. Very tough, physical up front, both with their OL and defensive front 7. You can downplay Mr. Irrelevant all you want at QB, but we saw how Dallas made a pedestrian QB look today. Granted, one would hope our defense would play more inspired in a playoff game, but what I worry about is a sputtering Dallas offense leaving the defense on the field for quite some time, along with turnovers leaving SF with a short field. Like last year's game, you worry about a slow, painful death against a team like San Fran. Another demon to exorcise.



Philadelphia -- I can definitely see Dallas beating Philly here in a few weeks in Big D. But, that may not be enough to win the division. Having Dallas play Philly for a third time would ultimately be a good thing though, because it probably means they would have had to get past Tampa Bay and/or San Francisco first.



Dallas can beat all 3 of these teams, no doubt. But they can lose to all 3 as well, as they have the last time they played each of them . The question in the NFC playoffs however is can Dallas go 3-0, assuming they're the WC, and can they do so against these 3 teams? At this point I'm in a I'll believe it when I see it mindset, and that has nothing to do with the way they squeaked by Houston today, nor how I think they beat Philly in a couple of weeks.



It'll be a tall order folks. The "wide open" path through the NFC playoffs appears a little more narrow these days if your a Cowboys fan, no?

I said it in a different thread. Bring on the best. Hard road. Trial by fire.

 

[john van brocklin]

Just a few short weeks ago we were all saying "The NFC's wide open this year." While I agree, the Cowboys are most certainly going to have to exorcise a few demons in the post season.

Tampa Bay -- Certainly not a team many fear these days, especially if you happen to check out the score against SF, but they've presented matchup problems for our offense the past few seasons, and of course Tom has never lost to the Cowboys in his 21+ year career. That's one monkey they need to get off their back. Dallas will either reverse history here or it'll be the same 'ol.

San Francisco -- We all know what they did to us last year in the playoffs. Very tough, physical up front, both with their OL and defensive front 7. You can downplay Mr. Irrelevant all you want at QB, but we saw how Dallas made a pedestrian QB look today. Granted, one would hope our defense would play more inspired in a playoff game, but what I worry about is a sputtering Dallas offense leaving the defense on the field for quite some time, along with turnovers leaving SF with a short field. Like last year's game, you worry about a slow, painful death against a team like San Fran. Another demon to exorcise.

Philadelphia -- I can definitely see Dallas beating Philly here in a few weeks in Big D. But, that may not be enough to win the division. Having Dallas play Philly for a third time would ultimately be a good thing though, because it probably means they would have had to get past Tampa Bay and/or San Francisco first.

Dallas can beat all 3 of these teams, no doubt. But they can lose to all 3 as well, as they have the last time they played each of them . The question in the NFC playoffs however is can Dallas go 3-0, assuming they're the WC, and can they do so against these 3 teams? At this point I'm in a I'll believe it when I see it mindset, and that has nothing to do with the way they squeaked by Houston today, nor how I think they beat Philly in a couple of weeks.

It'll be a tall order folks. The "wide open" path through the NFC playoffs appears a little more narrow these days if your a Cowboys fan, no?

I don't think it's wide open

It's the egirls to lose.

They have home field through out most likely

And have looked dominant

 

[stinkface]

San Fran and Eagles are the biggest dogs by far. If Detroit gets in they are a wild card. They really have a potent offense and their defense is playing a bit better. Brady suddenly looks very old. He missed some very easy throws yesterday.

 

[noshame]

IDK As long as we can run the ball the entire game we have a chance. Because we have a QB who's afraid to throw the ball, even when he's under absolutely ZERO pressure. He has lost all faith in his arm and I don't blame him because at least 70% of his throws are off target.
So the short answer? Worry about the Jags, we may lose to them. In fact we may lose all four of our final games.
Sucks, but possible.

 

[Dakota]

We will beat the Bucs, but lose to the 49ers or eagles. 49ers D will force us into multiple mistakes on offense. The eagles will beat us on both sides of the ball. The concerning thing about the eagles is they started well, not world beaters but well, went through their mid season slump but managed to lose only 1 winnable game and now seem to be putting it into high gear. Sorry to say, Dak has peaked. He is not going to get better game by game, season by season. Hurts has not peaked. He seems to get better every game. The eagles as a whole are getting better. Their biggest and possibly only weakness was run defense and they seem to have fixed it. Hope we have a productive offseason so we don't see a repeat of this next year. We get the opportunity to go to the dance, but always seem to fall flat on our face getting out of the limousine

 

[Mobinvans]

Playoffs are a whole other ball game

One Dallas had been consistently bad at

 

[phildadon86]

This team struggled significantly against the mighty 1-10 Texans and were inquiring about the matchups against the Bucs, 49ers, and Eagles?




This team is going to get blown out in the first round. Even if we do somehow make it past the Bucs, we’ll implode against the 49ers or Eagles. Just take a look at their games today vs ours. Just straight detestable. This team is done.

Great. So dont watch anymore. Whats the point? Go watch the Cardinals. Or are they not doing well either? Who you gonna cheer for? I mean other than your Eagles.

 

[Doomsday]

Maybe Brady can muster up some more magic, but Brady week 1 isn't the same player as he is now.

I noticed last season he got worse as the season progressed, it is pretty clear that age is finally catching up to him. He is 45, there is no way his body is going to recover as fast as it used to and it seems obvious that as the season progresses and he takes more hits, his performance has suffered.

 

[ChronicCowboy]

First round is gonna be a toss up but I expect Tampa to beat us. If we somehow make it to round 2, I can’t see us winning in Minnesota, SF or Philly in January.

 

[dogberry]

With the current standings our likely route to the Super Bowl is Tampa, Philadelphia, then San Francisco?

 

[DBOY3141]

It’s not just one game though. I obviously only picked the most recent ones. Let’s go through last weeks games.

49ers essentially won like 33-17 in a blowout without their QB (even though neither QB is anything to write home about)

Eagles blew out the respectable titans so bad that their confidence is now messed up (that is until we play them) (35-10)

We struggled with the colts until they imploded in the 4th Q and essentially gave up and let us run up the score.

Before that, we struggled against the Giants, who the eagles blew out today. Lions blew them out pretty good too.


I can keep going but the base of the argument is that this team has extremely cold starts that won’t fly in the playoffs. Not to mention the inconsistency of this team and how well they handle success. There is no way this team can win 4 in a row on the playoffs and not get big headed and screw everything up like they usually do. This team is gonna need an overhaul in the off-season.

Every year we say overhaul. Nothing ever works. The priority of this franchise is "business"...not winning. That's not changing and neither is a return of a NGCG in Dallas. It is what it is.

 

[sarge1116]

Eagles beat the lowly Colts 17-16 and got beat by the Skins. The 9er’s have more losses than we do, and Tampa is terrible.

Why do we keep looking at games from several weeks ago and not most recent games. The only thing I agree with here are the bucs look bad. Otherwise. The other 2 are peaking.

 

[blueblood70]

Eagles beat the lowly Colts 17-16 and got beat by the Skins. The 9er’s have more losses than we do, and Tampa is terrible.

eagles ALSO struggled for 35mins against the Texans and the Jags game was dogfight to the end even with 4 fumbles by Trevor. those seem to be overlooked by our fans while our close wins are broken down by the snap LOL

 

[Ren]

with the exception of winning the east the dream scenario would be someone catching TB and have another WC team pull an upset at SF that would give us the Vikings in the divisional round

 

[Mr Cowboy]

It's very much possible that Carolina will leap ahead of Tampa.

 

[blueblood70]

there seems to be a lot of Nostradamus' in here..they already predicting exactly whats going to happen,. you mean the same fans who predicted 7-10 at best for us in preseason predicts same ones after dak went down precited 4-13 i mean those who knew what was going to happen and all the players who would suck.
what happened there?

right a bunch of KnowItAll blowhards in the zone of late. as if any team allegedly peaking NOW somehow 4 weeks from now will be playing exactly the same??

 

[BourbonBalz]

Why do we keep looking at games from several weeks ago and not most recent games. The only thing I agree with here are the bucs look bad. Otherwise. The other 2 are peaking.

Do those games not count? Some of the posters on here still want to bring up our game with Green Bay. Sounds like a double standard, doesn’t it.

 

[BourbonBalz]

Same Bucs that tore us apart 19-3 and the same Bucs that contain the same Brady that hasn’t lost to us in all his 21+ years of playing. So yeah. They are pretty mighty against us.

You are seriously disturbed. None of that means anything when it comes to a potential playoff matchup with them. They’re a bad team in a bad division.