This is a different team

[TexasHillbilly]

Different team? I saw a team that gave up an 80+ yard drive in a minute and a half just before the half, after having taken the lead. I saw a team that scored 0 2nd half points. I saw a team turn the ball over at a critical juncture, while forcing zero turnovers. I saw players fail in the clutch. In other words, the same as it always was.

sounds like a football game to me. Not many teams capitalize on each and every opportunity. Especially in the first game of the season.

 

[MarionBarberThe4th]

Dak can’t just toss lollipops over the middle and get his guys killed , it’s a long season

 

[Blackspider214]

Different team? I saw a team that gave up an 80+ yard drive in a minute and a half just before the half, after having taken the lead. I saw a team that scored 0 2nd half points. I saw a team turn the ball over at a critical juncture, while forcing zero turnovers. I saw players fail in the clutch. In other words, the same as it always was.

Exactly. Offense on in the 1st half, defense wasn't. Flip flop for the 2nd half. Defense made no real game changing plays when needed. While the Eagles offense stalled in the 2nd half, their defense did get that key turnover. Margin of error is razor thin in the NFL. These things make or break these games, which end up making or breaking your season. Dallas still isn't great at situational football. Too often, they are in 2nd and 3rd and long. Philly was consistently ahead of the chains and manageable down/distances.

Ferg/CD dropping passes right in their hands. Or the OL allowing defense pressure with only 4/5 man rush. Whiffing on guys and allowing tackles for losses. These add up and they did for Dallas.

Last night doesn't change my pick of this being a mediocre 8 win team.

 

[Blackspider214]

sounds like a football game to me. Not many teams capitalize on each and every opportunity. Especially in the first game of the season.

Yes, it was a football game and it completely described the difference in the Eagles winning and Dallas losing. Philly came up bigger more times than Dallas. They got consistent pressure even without Carter, Dallas didn't. They didn't have key drops, Dallas did. They got a much needed turnover, Dallas didn't. It's been the overall theme for this franchise for a long time, just can't consistently make the few extra plays needed to win these games. Especially against quality opponents.

 

[JoeKing]

I tried telling folks who said this team sucks and is going 6-11. Team can’t run the ball, defense can’t stop the run and Dak sucks.

The loss sucks. They had em. Fortunately, this is the first game of the season and these bright spots have me feeling good going forward:

* Dak looks very mobile, strong and aware.
* The run game looked so much improved from recent years.
* The offensive line dominated IMHO. A few mental mistakes, but they didn’t get out physicaled.
* The defense actually made in game adjustments and clamped down on the run. Barkley only had 60 yards. Hurts was awesome on the ground though.
* The team overall looked prepared. First game of the season you know they’re going to be fired up and they were. But they played within themselves, not like that yahoo Carter, and kept the pressure on throughout the game.
* I saw toughness from the team. Dak making that TD saving tackle after the fumble is going to pay dividends within themselves locker room.
* Only 4 penalties.

Probably won’t shut up all the habitual critics but maybe some.

Rocky, it was a loss. It doesn't matter how well you play if the result is a loss. All the great effort that you are applauding gives no bonus points in a loss. You say this is a different team, but all that you are applauding matters in no way that makes a difference. Continuing to lose is not a different team. 16 more of those and we get the first pick in next year's draft. Yay!

 

[btcutter]

My biggest issue is there was nobody mirroring Hurts and that's one reason he ran on us so much..

You can't say that about 2nd half. D did it's job after adjustments. Offense didn't score in the 2nd half. This loss is on O.

But Eagles is a better team. They didn't even play with their best defensive player and still dominated in the 2nd half.

 

[btcutter]

The offensive line was dominant. Guyton, Smith, Beebe, Booker and Steele played great.

They played well but far from dominant especially in the 2nd half. Also remember that Eagles didn't play with their best D player. I am hopeful that this OL will continue to improve because without them this team will go nowhere.

 

[Rockport]

0 points in a second half that was filled with mistakes. Looked like typical Cowboys football to me. Just enough good to be happy with a loss.

No surprise. You’re an OG Hater so no one cares about your hate except other haters.

 

[blueblood70]

Omg man…..they played well but didn’t win the game. It was better than I hoped for and I am not a negative person about them but it was actually more of the same when you take step a back. Not from an x&o stand point but results stand point and organizational standpoint - always have one side of the ball vastly ahead of the other and never a full sound solid team on all sides of ball.

They looked like a decent team who at moment can play with the better teams in the league but have a series or a quarter or a player that holds them back. Always a mistake, a penalty, a defensive lapse from winning these type of games against quality opponents.

Always the bridesmaids never the bride.

Well that argument is a little moot given it's game one and both teams did the exact same thing they were dominant in the first half with their offenses neither one had a good defense in the first half both defenses were great in the 2nd half I mean just basically are bashing the Eagles as well that they happen to win a close game at home They're supposed to be miles ahead of us and that's not what we saw..


But again you just describe both teams if I didn't know you were a Cowboy fan criticizing your own team which I do know then I thought you'd be describing the Eagles being dominant on offense in the first half and no offense in the 2nd half..

It just looked like that it is what it is if if Sanders doesn't fumble the ball a big if and if CD Lamb doesn't drop at least one of those the big one on one of the late drives in the 4th this is a different narrative because then they would have created offense and they probably would have won the game but you're right it's disappointing in that fact but it's still better than the expectations that were had going into this game...

I always said this was a litmus test and we were going to lose I predicted 27-20 and I was pretty damn close

The Eagles are supposed to win at home When you're a really good team even if you have another good team coming in you usually win your home games especially on the road in whether you're inviting a team in that wasn't expecting humidity and lightning and weather delays..

It is pretty clear of what's happened between the Eagles and Cowboys the last 10 years they're five and five but most of the time it's split They've taken turns winning division lately but they usually win the games at home if both teams are healthy and complete the only times they become lopsided and the home team doesn't win is like last year when the Cowboys were playing with all backups it happens or we've caught them when they didn't play their starters But the Cowboys played this team toe to toe and were better than expected and that's all we're saying..

My narrative didn't change my guess was they were gonna be 9 to 11 wins this year and it's still that I'm not getting hyped up over a loss but I do see that we are a better team overall the roster and the coaching staff that was being blasted all offseason for not being improved and I see improvement I think this is a better team than last year healthy or not and we can only build off of this law So I think we're gonna be better over the long haul when we get the week 10 to 12 I think this team will have an identity I don't know what that is yet but I believe we're going to get better than this we're going to build off this and that is where some of the responses like this threat it may be a little over zealous but most of us didn't pick this team to be seven or under wins that was 60% of the people who are delusional that are sticking to that after what they saw last night i'm just keeping my prediction and I still think we're on track for that....

 

[blueblood70]

Rocky, it was a loss. It doesn't matter how well you play if the result is a loss. All the great effort that you are applauding gives no bonus points in a loss. You say this is a different team, but all that you are applauding matters in no way that makes a difference. Continuing to lose is not a different team. 16 more of those and we get the first pick in next year's draft. Yay!

It does matter in one way The expectations have been so bad in here talking about only getting 7 or less wins even when healthy they said this team didn't improve the roster was worse than last year and that is all blown up what we saw last night as a team that has some flaws that can be fixed and you can build off a loss..

Especially because there's some players like Blue who can be added to this offense for an impact play you have Overshown coming back along with our rookie Rebel and Butler and Winfrey and there's ways to tweak what was done last night and make it better you can change the snap counts for some players people are looking at this because we are tired since March of you telling us how this team lost too many good players and didn't improve anywhere on the team and that is why these reactions can be a little overzealous.

Are some of us in here that looked at this team has improved and picked nine to 11 wins it wasn't the consensus but we're trying to break the consensus because they're not coming off all we're only going to win 5 to seven games after looking at last night it should move the needle a little bit..

Get what you're saying I always have been there's no moral victories but there are things you can look at and change your perspective on the total team including the coach and staff everything was better than the responses all offseason we had to endure from our own fan base on how we're going to suck that didn't look like a bad team last night yes we lost but it didn't look like what was being described all week leading up to this game about being a blowout and we didn't deserve to be on the same field..

That narrative is straight up busted at least for one week that's all we're asking for one week of reprieve from the negativity and goo that runs off some of you guys..

 

[Rockport]

Omg man…..they played well but didn’t win the game. It was better than I hoped for and I am not a negative person about them but it was actually more of the same when you take step a back. Not from an x&o stand point but results stand point and organizational standpoint - always have one side of the ball vastly ahead of the other and never a full sound solid team on all sides of ball.

They looked like a decent team who at moment can play with the better teams in the league but have a series or a quarter or a player that holds them back. Always a mistake, a penalty, a defensive lapse from winning these type of games against quality opponents.

Always the bridesmaids never the bride.

It’s the first game with a new coaching staff and 30% new players none of who played in the preseason. Don’t you think for a second that it might take a handful of games for them to gel as a team? I do. It’s just common sense.

 

[Rockport]

I do agree some here. This didn't look like a typical Cowboys meltdown and we can build off this.

I want to caution everyone though that this is a bit of fools good tonight and to not let ourselves get overly excited. I believe this is more of a telling sign that the eagles will struggle this year because of their defense and will probably lose several games because of their D.

We have the most clutch kicker and special teams unit in the NFL. Without them, we scored 2 touchdowns with the eagles giving us a TON of penalty yards and good field positions.

Aaah, it wasn’t that the Cowboys looked better than expected but that the Eagles suck. Got it.

 

[Rockport]

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At least Cooper Rush wins when he puts up a stat line like Dak had last night.

This post shows that you’re not a fan of the Cowboys. You’re just a whale poop level Troll.

 

[DuncanIso]

No pass rush.

 

[Wangchung83]

Lamb is the biggest piece of crap. Irvin would have never dropped those throw. No heart. You young cowboys fats have no idea. God bless you. Geeze . I'm so thankful that I saw those super both wins.

As a new member calling out on of the top three WR and stating he's crap is exactly whats wrong with fans. Did he have a bad Gabe, yes, but he wasn't the only reason for the loss. We had a fumble at ten tard line, we hsd a pass that would've been called pi if it wasn't airmailed, we had another underthrown ball the hit back of LB that was beat and anything over the Ferguson head is a catch. The last throw was within reach but wasn't a perfect ball by any stretch, not for a guy that's have dropsies. Anyway calm down on the Lamb is crap, bc he's also the reason why we were within 4 pint to begin with as he had 105yrds receiving

 

[Wangchung83]

You say the Eagles had more clutch players than the Cowboys. I respectfully disagree. The only player that wasn’t clutch for the Cowboys was CD. You said it yourself. The game came down to CD choking. Dallas as a team didn’t choke. CD choked. Dak threw 2 very catchable balls that literally hit CD in the hands and both of those balls were dropped in a manner that could have been intercepted. The last 4th down play was a tough catch but a top 5 WR that is making top dollar needs to make that play. That what he’s paid for and he choked. This wasn’t a team loss this was a CD loss.

And you basically are only looking at the fourth quarter and last drive for the reason behind us losing. It took more than ceedee to lose the game.

 

[Rockport]

Rocky, it was a loss. It doesn't matter how well you play if the result is a loss. All the great effort that you are applauding gives no bonus points in a loss. You say this is a different team, but all that you are applauding matters in no way that makes a difference. Continuing to lose is not a different team. 16 more of those and we get the first pick in next year's draft. Yay!

Reread my post. I said the loss sucked because we had them. And if you don’t think this team is different, then you need to check yourself and start watching with some objectivity instead of “they suck so lets make fun of them” or whatever you do on a daily basis.

 

[Rockport]

And you basically are only looking at the fourth quarter and last drive for the reason behind us losing. It took more than ceedee to lose the game.

Our fans. Arguing against anything positive about the game. Anything. Sad how some humans behave.

 

[MountaineerCowboy]

This post shows that you’re not a fan of the Cowboys. You’re just a whale poop level Troll.

1-0 in moral victories.

 

[Rockport]

They played well but far from dominant especially in the 2nd half. Also remember that Eagles didn't play with their best D player. I am hopeful that this OL will continue to improve because without them this team will go nowhere.

I really don’t understand “fans”. The Cowboys went into Philly on OPENING NIGHT SB CELEBRATION and played the reigning SB Champions tough as nails losing 24-20. That’s the best team in football. They’re the Champs and the Cowboys almost beat them. There’s reasons to be happy instead of making excuses for the other team.