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lukin2006

Wow ... Nice victory ... And I'll give credit to Romo he played well down the stretch ... But I really thought Murray was the difference ... And is the difference on this team, he can do so much.

I thought the D was just so so at times...Cincy dropped some pass's and didn't finish drives very well.

Dallas was very fortunate to win and are still in the hunt and as a fan that's what you want ... The games to mean something down the stretch. 2 big home games coming up, so we'll see what happens.

lukin2006

dougfloyd wrote:

lukin2006 wrote:

Really don't understand why there in a hurry?

I agree, that was stupid to run another play before the 2 minute warning.

Huge run by Murray there.

The only thing I can figure is with Cincy out timeouts it didn't much matter.

dougfloyd

lukin2006 wrote:

Wow ... Nice victory ... And I'll give credit to Romo he played well down the stretch ... But I really thought Murray was the difference ... And is the difference on this team, he can do so much.

I thought the D was just so so at times...Cincy dropped some pass's and didn't finish drives very well.

Dallas was very fortunate to win and are still in the hunt and as a fan that's what you want ... The games to mean something down the stretch. 2 big home games coming up, so we'll see what happens.

Yep, agree with all those points, Murray makes them a much better team, O line can't pass block, Def did not look good, got lucky with Cin dropped passes. Somehow the freakin' Redskins came back and won in OT. Now rooting for the Saints to beat the Giants.

Not feeling very confident about these last 3 games but I guess if the Chargers can beat the Steelers then maybe we've got a better shot than I thought we would.

dougfloyd

Pick six thrown by Eli

lukin2006

dougfloyd wrote:

lukin2006 wrote:

Wow ... Nice victory ... And I'll give credit to Romo he played well down the stretch ... But I really thought Murray was the difference ... And is the difference on this team, he can do so much.

I thought the D was just so so at times...Cincy dropped some pass's and didn't finish drives very well.

Dallas was very fortunate to win and are still in the hunt and as a fan that's what you want ... The games to mean something down the stretch. 2 big home games coming up, so we'll see what happens.

Yep, agree with all those points, Murray makes them a much better team, O line can't pass block, Def did not look good, got lucky with Cin dropped passes. Somehow the freakin' Redskins came back and won in OT. Now rooting for the Saints to beat the Giants.

Not feeling very confident about these last 3 games but I guess if the Chargers can beat the Steelers then maybe we've got a better shot than I thought we would.

The Steeler haven't looked really great this year ... Or at least the games I've seen. NO I think is beatable and Washington that's a tough one, however, if we didn't turn the ball over on thanksgiving we win that game, so I think Washington is beatable...the question is can this Cowboy team run the table? Stay tuned...

lukin2006

dougfloyd wrote:

Pick six thrown by Eli

I believe if NY loses they drop to 3rd place in the division and Washington's in 1st...who would have thought that with 3 games left .

dougfloyd

lukin2006 wrote:

The Steeler haven't looked really great this year ... Or at least the games I've seen. NO I think is beatable and Washington that's a tough one, however, if we didn't turn the ball over on thanksgiving we win that game, so I think Washington is beatable...the question is can this Cowboy team run the table? Stay tuned...

I can't believe you of all people are allowing this team to suck you back in to believing in them I'll remain cautiously optimistic, but not getting my hopes up just yet. This season feels like it's going to end like the year where they had a chance to make the playoffs in week 17 and got blown out by the Eagles.

lukin2006

dougfloyd wrote:

lukin2006 wrote:

The Steeler haven't looked really great this year ... Or at least the games I've seen. NO I think is beatable and Washington that's a tough one, however, if we didn't turn the ball over on thanksgiving we win that game, so I think Washington is beatable...the question is can this Cowboy team run the table? Stay tuned...

I can't believe you of all people are allowing this team to suck you back in to believing in them I'll remain cautiously optimistic, but not getting my hopes up just yet. This season feels like it's going to end like the year where they had a chance to make the playoffs in week 17 and got blown out by the Eagles.

Good point ... This team tends to do that to me . Just glad that these games are at least meaningful.

I will say this team seems to have no quit in them ...

Wobbie

for once, they actually picked up a couple first downs to make it a makeable kick for bailey.....and garrett didn't freeze his own kicker

think I would've stopped the clock a bit earlier in case of a bad snap...

dougfloyd

imalive wrote:

for once, they actually picked up a couple first downs to make it a makeable kick for bailey.....and garrett didn't freeze his own kicker

think I would've stopped the clock a bit earlier in case of a bad snap...

There for a second I thought he was going to just have them kneel down and settle for a 50 yard FG, kind of like how he screwed up the clock mgmt at the end of the BAL game.

lukin2006

Unfortunately both Washington and NY won...

dougfloyd

Uh oh, Adam Schefter just tweeted this:

WR Dez Bryant could be out for the rest of the season. Pending the results of a hand specialist, but his finger injury could require surgery

tybird

dougfloyd wrote:

Uh oh, Adam Schefter just tweeted this:

WR Dez Bryant could be out for the rest of the season. Pending the results of a hand specialist, but his finger injury could require surgery

Good lord..... :fp:

Hartydog

A team for masochists only. This season is just a roller coaster. I want to go on record though that I think Romo has his best season ever next year. I think all he's been through is a powerful lesson.

lukin2006

On the positive side it'll give Harris and Beasley opportunity to show what they can do...plus with Murray back there is plenty of talented pass catchers on this team.

lukin2006

The strange part is with how bad the O line is its Romo I thought would be out for the season .

lukin2006

http://www.dallascowboys.com/news/artic ... cb60066319

Eatman: Courageous Win After Suffering Worst Loss Of All

CINCINNATI – We always hear about how football is just a game. Sunday it was a job.

This wasn’t a time for any fun or any games. The Cowboys simply had a job to do, trying their very best to move forward in the most heartbreaking of times.

How can you really win in a time when you’ve already suffered the most tragic of losses?

This football team obviously has its share of shortcomings. One thing it absolutely won’t do is quit. These players, these coaches and this entire organization stared the most tragic of situations squarely in the face, embraced it, fought through it, and came out of Sunday’s emotional game with the Bengals with the most points.

Cowboys 20, Bengals 19.

They won the game. They’ve lost a teammate. And they’ll probably be losing another one as well.

Say what you want about this team’s offensive line. It’s inside linebackers. The slow starts in the first half. You can go on and on about the problems of this football team. I’m sure some of you want to throw coaching in the mix, too.

But this coaching staff, led by Jason Garrett of course, should be applauded for how they handled the toughest of times here this weekend.

Where’s that in the coaching handbook? Garrett said he’s learned different things from many of the coaches he’s been around, such as Jimmy Johnson, Wade Phillips, Norv Turner and Nick Saban. I doubt any of them, or any other coach has been able to prepare him for leading a group of heartbroken men into a battle.

Over the last few weeks, this team has clearly struggled in the first half. Personally, I’ve given my share of criticism toward Garrett, because as the head coach and offensive coordinator of a team struggling to score early in the game, the blame must go on him for these slow starts. You had to wonder about his preparation.

Well, this team was prepared to fight on Sunday. No, it wasn’t always pretty. In fact, it wasn’t really pretty at all. I’m not exactly sure the Cowboys were the better team on this day. We’ve seen several times this year that you don’t always have to be to win. They were the better team in Baltimore and found a way to lose.

Cincinnati has to be kicking itself for letting this game slip away. The Bengals left the door open too many times and let the Cowboys hang around just long enough to win it.

Let’s be honest, though. Both teams are 7-6 this season for a reason. How many games have we seen this year where the Cowboys didn’t make enough plays? It appeared like the Bengals were a better football team, winners of four straight, playing at home, having a good, young quarterback-receiver combination in Andy Dalton and A.J. Green. They have a solid defense with a better-than-good front four.

Yet, the Bengals were the Bengals on this day. There’s a reason they always seem to struggle at some point in any given year. I’m not trying to knock them. I’m just trying to point out that, overall, Cincinnati might not be much better than the Cowboys, if at all.

This was probably a pretty evenly-matched game. And one team just wouldn’t stop fighting.

What was impressive to me was the players who were somewhat quiet in the early going of this game, rose to the forefront at the end.

Guys like Dez Bryant, DeMarcus Ware, DeMarco Murray and even Tony Romo weren’t having their best days, to say the least. It was difficult for the offense to move the ball and clearly Ware is not 100 percent. He was a non-factor for more than three quarters.

But with the game still in reach, the Cowboys only trailing by nine and still hanging around, the superstars led the way in this comeback.

Bryant continued his hot streak, catching his seventh touchdown in five games. Ware got a sack and forced a holding call on one series. Murray made some nice plays in the final drive of the game, including a key 6-yard run where he stiff-armed the ground to get the extra first-down yardage.

And Romo kept hanging in there, running for his life and engineering two scoring drives. Hey, let’s not forget about Doug Free either. Free was rotating with Jermey Parnell all day, series by series, but on the last two drives, Free was the only right tackle out there and he held his own just enough.

All in all, this team just came together to win.

It started when Garrett fought through the tears Saturday afternoon on the team charter to tell his players what occurred only a few hours earlier with the tragic passing of Jerry Brown, with Josh Brent driving the vehicle and arrested. It continued when Garrett opened up the floor during Saturday night’s team meeting and allowed players to speak their minds and express their emotions about the news.

It continued with emotional pregame speeches by the coaches and players. And it carried on throughout the day, especially with the game on the line.

This huge win came on the heels of a much, much bigger loss.

But give credit to this team for coming together. Something that occurred long before the fourth quarter comeback.

Hartydog

lukin2006 wrote:

The strange part is with how bad the O line is its Romo I thought would be out for the season .

Ditto. I thought Orton would have played a few games this season easily.

cowboypjfan

Wow. Sounds like Josh Brent is an asshole. Should be cut.

http://cowboysblog.dallasnews.com/2012/ ... rown.html/

lukin2006

Might be best to let the police sort this out ... Unfortunately this had a tragic ending ... I read the storey ... If the lady is telling the truth Brent might have been in shock ... I guess all will come out in court ... Brent is probably done playing football anywhere, he could get 4 years or at least that's what I heard.