Hostile;1811051 said:
Is it a thing of the past? Was that a Parcells era occurence? Or do we still have a hurdle to clear?
As most of you undoubtedly know, the last 4 years the 5 games after Thanksgiving have been a disaster. Each year the Cowboys have finished 2-3, and each year they have given up more points than the year before.
We started well by beating the Packers. Unless we take care of business with the lowly Lions it won't mean much.
I was predicting 12-4 for this season. I will admit it, 12-4 right now would piss me off, because it would once again mean a December swoon. That's no way to go into the playoffs.
We gotta punch the Lions right in the mouth.
In my opinion, the weakness of the later Parcells teams was depth. We would try to put together a team that
could win it all, but when you don't have all the pieces and you're trying to build into a team that could win, you either have to wait and build in depth or skimp somewhere.
We would skimp somewhere.
in 2005 we lacked offensive line depth and when we lost Flo Adams the show was over and we went into a December swoon. In 2006 we lacked depth in the pass rushing department and when Greg Ellis was injured it made our rush one dimensional and that exposed other flaws.. and we swooned.
This is a deeper team than 2006 and 2005. It is a better team at the top and a better team throughout. We've also been luckier than 2005 and 2006 and I hope that luck holds.
If *this* team had the depth of, say, 2005, the Glenn injury (along with the CB injuries, the lingering Ellis situation, the Ferguson injury) would have sidelined us. But it didn't.
We have depth. Depth is good. It's also necessary.
No swoon.
:bounce:
David.
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