Which game was the most important for our success?

[Cowboy Brian]

I don't want to see the realist answers like "The Playoff one"

I mean what lead up to that win, The Denver experience? The rise of Miles in KC? The rise of the defense after the NYG game? The Saints win? There are 16 choices.





For me, the KC game, we were in the crosshairs of a failure of a season, if Roy W. does not get injured against Denver, Austin never starts, Austin never shows what he can do and we are not in the playoff's, hell we may not have reached .500. (The Denver game is therefor the 2nd most important game, since if Roy didn't get injured, KC never would've happened.)

 

[sacowboysfan513]

For me, its definitely the Kansas City game.

Even though we were playing a bad team and we barely won, I dont know, I felt like the team grew that day. They matured. And it was also the rise of one Miles Austin.

 

[vta]

New Orleans. It solidified what this team is completely capable of if it stops making mistakes. Beat the snot out of the who at that point was the biggest kid on the block, and do it convincingly.

We haven't looked back since.

 

[wconn1979]

I don't want to see the realist answers like "The Playoff one"

I mean what lead up to that win, The Denver experience? The rise of Miles in KC? The rise of the defense after the NYG game? The Saints win? There are 16 choices.





For me, the KC game, we were in the crosshairs of a failure of a season, if Roy W. does not get injured against Denver, Austin never starts, Austin never shows what he can do and we are not in the playoff's, hell we may not have reached .500. (The Denver game is therefor the 2nd most important game, since if Roy didn't get injured, KC never would've happened.)

Heading into the superdome and stealing a win from the undefeated Saints, the self Crowned Super Bowl Champs. Who dat?? We DAT!!! The team realized that they could beat anyone after that, we just had to find our identity and we have it.

 

[Big Dakota]

New Orleans. It solidified what this team is completely capable of if it stops making mistakes. Beat the snot out of the who at that point was the biggest kid on the block, and do it convincingly.

We haven't looked back since.

 

[Cowboy Brian]

New Orleans. It solidified what this team is completely capable of if it stops making mistakes. Beat the snot out of the who at that point was the biggest kid on the block, and do it convincingly.

We haven't looked back since.

I would've picked New Orleans, but without KC that New Orleans win means nothing since Austin does not put the team on his back and win us multiple games, drawing double coverage and making every win possible.

 

[CanadianCowboysFan]

First Eagles win. Showed we could go on the road and win a big game.

 

[DanTanna]

New Orleans

 

[LeonDixson]

It's hard to say since we haven't won a big game all yet. I mean, we thought some of them were going to be big, but since we won them they really couldn't be. Even now some are saying it took 16 weeks to find out that Philty was a fraud. Evidenced, I suppose by the fact the lowly Cowboys beat them. [/sarcasm}

I'd have to say the Saints game. Hardly anyone outside the "Cowboys World" though we had a chance. And as said above, we haven't looked back since.

 

[skinsscalper]

New Orleans. It solidified what this team is completely capable of if it stops making mistakes. Beat the snot out of the who at that point was the biggest kid on the block, and do it convincingly.

We haven't looked back since.

^^^This X1000.

The KC game was important. the emergence of Austin was pivotal, but the Saints game illustrated to the players, themselves that if they trusted and played for the guy next to them that they could beat anyone. That juncture of the season was exponentially more important to the success of this team than any game in the 1st third of a season could ever be. The Saints game wasn't just a win. It was proof that Dallas could beat anyone. Not to the media. Not to the fans. To themselves. I honestly believe that the San Diego game in week 14 is the last game the Cowboys will lose for the rest of the year. The spring board to that ultimate goal will always be remembered as the Saints game (should the Cowboys indeed win the Super Bowl).

I want a re-match with San Diego so bad I can taste it.

 

[The Panch]

The season is too long and filled with too many ups and downs to pick one, but I think this team truely believed they could do anything when they went into New Olreans and put it to the Saints.

 

[Tractor1]

I don't want to see the realist answers like "The Playoff one"

I mean what lead up to that win, The Denver experience? The rise of Miles in KC? The rise of the defense after the NYG game? The Saints win? There are 16 choices.





For me, the KC game, we were in the crosshairs of a failure of a season, if Roy W. does not get injured against Denver, Austin never starts, Austin never shows what he can do and we are not in the playoff's, hell we may not have reached .500. (The Denver game is therefor the 2nd most important game, since if Roy didn't get injured, KC never would've happened.)

Every game! The season is sixteen games long, and within those games a team's identity and character are revealed. Without the hardships the outcome wouldn't be the same.

 

[hutch1254]

The KC game and then reinforced by the New Orleans game.

The KC game stirred emotions that I had not seen or felt in a long time about Dallas. Battling against a team a majority of people would say "you should beat easily" and struggling to OT. Guys on the sidelines talking to each other...trying to make one another accountable. Miles scoring and the mob in the endzone by the TEAM was something I hadn't seen in forever. It sure shook me up I know that and it felt awesome.

I feel the New Orleans game recharged that energy that had initiated from the KC game. We had lost two in a row, people were on the "oh no it's December" train but what was different was Romo. We lost two games but Romo played well. We did not execute good enough in those losses. The NO game gave us a little "backs to the wall" attitude and we ran with it. I said more than once to people I work with...if we beat New Orleans that'll be the medicine we need to believe. It was a huge game at the second largest turning point of the season. The fire grew. Sure enough, we're rolling.

 

[Section446]

I think that the New Orleans game gave the team the confidence to know that they can beat anyone.

 

[FanSince61]

New Orleans. We went down there and beat an undefeated team. I believe it gave the team the confidence it could beat anyone.

 

[Cowboy Brian]

Seems New Orleans and KC are the frontrunners so far

 

[Trace1015]

Def the Saints game because we were in the middle of a lull after two december losses now we gotta face the undefeated saints the big kid on the block and then we come out victorious with a guge new level of confidence thast has not only carried us through the regular season but into the playoffs who knows where we would be if we would have lost

 

[Eskimo]

I'm gonna cite the back-to-back games against the Packers and Skins when both teams nearly shut us out - just one late TD in each game.

I think both games demonstrated how susceptible we were to blitzes and forced Garrett to re-think lots of his offensive strategies and make adjustments. Those adjustments he made are what has allowed us to dominate Philly and put up better offensive performances in the second half of the season. While many teams peaked earlier, we are still putting in new wrinkles on our now potent screen game that defenses have to adjust to. This is in addition to the rest of the previous playbook which was already one of the top 10 in the league.

 

[Mansta54]

The butt kickin we took in Philly last year, it shaped this entire season and team.

 

[pancakeman]

I'd vote for Kansas City, too. You could just feel a tipping point in attitude at the end of it.