Dallas Cowboys Best Team in the NFL?

115 yards and two TD's is hardly neutered. Philly loaded the box and sold out for the run. Which was why you saw all of the 1 on 1 coverage for Dez, Witten, and Williams. As we saw, thats a bad idea. Meanwhile Dallas sat in a base d and philly still only ran for 75 yards. If anything was neutered it was mccoy.

Anyone who has been paying attention to the 'Boys this season knows the Eagles stifled their running game on Sunday.

Yeah, I stand by what I said on page 7. Nicky Franchise is nowhere close to being one of the better QBs in the NFL, let alone the NFC East.

Star wrote:

Foles has been ruled out for the Redskins game.

Maybe he'll play against the Giants in the last game of the season.

Need the Colts to beat Dallas next week. But the Colts just clinched their division and are unlikely to earn a bye, so they don't have much motivation.

Watch out for the Eagles if they squeak into the playoffs and Nick Foles is starting with a healthy line in front of him.

Also, Foles WILL NOT be ready by the Giants game. In Chip's press conference today he said that Nick's Collarbone isn't healed yet and that any contact would re-break it at this point. They aren't going to throw him back in the fray when you risk surgery if he re-breaks it.

Which basically means this season is a wrap. Even IF the Eagles can limp into the playoffs (Trent Cole may be done for the season, too), the Sanchize is your QB. And he isn't going to get us anywhere. They won't start Foles regardless of how badly Sanchez plays in these last two games. You can't risk re-injury, Foles played badly this season, and you DON'T want a rusty QB starting in the playoffs.

Try to keep up wrote:

Anyone who has been paying attention to the 'Boys this season knows the Eagles stifled their running game on Sunday.

If you want to consider that stifled that's fine but because the eagles were loaded up for the run the Cowboys were able to pass for first downs and touchdowns with relative ease. Those stifled runs also helped run the clock down to where that potent eagle offense had less opportunities to score. There was a game plan, the eagles plan was to stifle the run, the Cowboys game plan was to win the game....I guess they both met their goal.

I think you guys need to hope for a 5 seed and a first round bye game against Atlanta, New Orleans, or Carolina.

I think this year is interesting. It it entirely possible that a 5 seed could play the TERRIBLE NFC south champ in the first round and an Arizona team with no quarterback in the second round. Not that it matters anyways though, pretty slim chance anyone other than maybe Dallas(only due to their style of play and having beaten seattle in seattle once) going into Seattle or GB in the ncf title game and winning.

Trust me. People were discussing that Superbowl route before this last game. But no one is even remotely worried about that right now. The sky is falling and it's up the the Colts to hold it up.

As for Dallas vs Seattle, The Seahawks have a much better defense in every way with Bobby Wagner back and healthy. He got injured during the cowboys game and certainly wasn't himself when he returned in the second half.

Without Wagner, the Seahawks were giving up 20.4 PPG. Hell, they gave up 24 TO THE RAIDERS.

Since he has come back they have given up an average of 6.75 PPG with a high of 14 against the Eagles.

dial it up wrote:

I think you guys need to hope for a 5 seed and a first round bye game ...

Bye game? That's an oxymoron.

Star wrote:

, Foles is much better than Sanchez.

And he is better than Romo.

Are you kidding me? Romo has been fabulous this year. Top 4 quarterback in the league. Take out Game #1 and he's probably #2 behind Rodgers.

Not to jinx the dude, but he hasn't been making the stupid mistake this year. I think the difference is he realizes he does not have to win the game himself. He'll even take a sack from time to time. In the past he would try and be like Johnny Football and make some heroic play and as we saw this weekend in the NFL that often results in a pick. When you know you have a running game, it changes the mindset.

As for Philly stopping Murray his YPQ wans't very good but the Cowboys never backed away from the run and Philly never changed up and stopped trying to stop the run. So that left Dez and Witten open to throttle the defense. I'll trade leaving Dez 1 on 1 with Murray getting 80 yards rushing.

Here's the best playoff odds site I've found:

65% of the time the Cowboys lose at least 1 of their 2 remaining games.

52% of the time Philly loses 1 of their last 2 games.

Overall playoff odds 79.8% for Dallas, 40.5% for Philly. Other site have slightly different numbers but I like the site above as it shows what happens if the Cowboys go 1-1 for example.

Try to keep up wrote:

dial it up wrote:

I think you guys need to hope for a 5 seed and a first round bye game ...

Bye game? That's an oxymoron.

What more would you expect from 'dial it up'? The guy is a first rate moron.

Whoa there, cowboy. Romo is indeed having a fine season, but he's not top 4. Remember, winning is the only stat that counts. Let's see where get stands at season's end.

wejo wrote:

Are you kidding me? Romo has been fabulous this year. Top 4 quarterback in the league. Take out Game #1 and he's probably #2 behind Rodgers.

No. Just no.

wejo wrote:Not to jinx the dude, but he hasn't been making the stupid mistake this year. I think the difference is he realizes he does not have to win the game himself. He'll even take a sack from time to time. In the past he would try and be like Johnny Football and make some heroic play and as we saw this weekend in the NFL that often results in a pick. When you know you have a running game, it changes the mindset.

It isn't that Romo is playing better. It's that the Cowgirls have Romo-proofed the team. They have a solid offensive line. But when the Eagles DID get to him, you saw the same old Romo (fumbles, bad throws). But a decent O-line protects the cowboys from that for the most part.

And having the line play well and Murray play REALLY well simply means that they don't let Romo throw it as much. He is attempting the least number of throws per game this year since 2006.

Try to keep up wrote:

dial it up wrote:

I think you guys need to hope for a 5 seed and a first round bye game ...

Bye game? That's an oxymoron.

Your name is ironic.

Eagles fan,

The stats back up wejo. Stereotypes and hyperbole back up your opinion.

Not to mention I'm surprised you would say that after he embarrassed the Eagles defense. Looked like back yard pitch and catch all night. There was a point where he looked directly at Bryant and gave a thumbs up and then threw a 30 yard over the shoulder touchdown. If the Eagles didnt resort to 8 holding or pass interference penalties his 265 yards, 3 TD's, and 129 rating would have been even higher.

#2 in completion percentage

#3 in yards/attempt

#2 in rating

For reference the "great Eagles offense" has 23 passing touchdowns on 534 attempts between foles and Sanchez. Romo has 28 touchdowns on 381 attempts.

Like it or not, THIS season his is top 4 easily

My premise was that this year Foles was playing with 3 of his 5 starting offensive lineman out. Those 3 are back in the lineup now, though the right guard is now a backup.

If he had the line that Sanchez now has, Foles might play like last year or even better when he had the best QB rating in the league.

So that would be better than Romo.

That's just speculation on my part, but Foles has good vision and a good arm.

When your starting center, left guard and right tackle are out, it's tough to get settled to make plays.

If the Eagles make it as a wild card, it looks like they would be a number 6 seed and play at Dallas in the first round.

There's a scenario where Dallas could get a buy if Seattle wins their division and finishes with a different record than Green Bay. (Dallas has the tie breaker over Seattle but is third if it's a three-way tie among Dallas, Seattle and Green Bay)

If Dallas gets a wild card they could play in Philly in the first round if Arizona is the other wild card team. (Detroit would have to lose both games for either Philly or Dallas to get a wildcard)

Now if the Cowboys and Seahawks win out and the Packers lose one game, then the Cowboys would be the number one seed in the NFC.

So their seed could be 1,2,3,5 or 6. (can't be 4)

The stats back me up, too. We'll get back to that later. And stereotypes and hyperbole? Dude, I swear you don't ever try and combat people's points. You just shrug them off and go all Chris Christie.

Trust me, we've been talking about this all week on sports radio. The defense couldn't pick anything up this game. It was by far our worst game of the season. I don't consider the Green Bay game a bad one because we weren't in it from the beginning.

I'm sure the first game didn't show you how our defense could play. Fact is they just made a lot of horrible mistakes and flat out sucked.

Here are some stats: He is attempting eleven less passes per game than he did in 2012, his last really healthy season. They have been running a lot more with great play from Murray and the offensive line. That does wonders to, again, Romo-proof the team. What stereotypes do you speak of?

More stats:

7th in passing touchdowns

15th in passing yards

17th in completions

22nd in passing attempts

19th in passing yards/game

They are making sure he doesn't throw as much, despite Murray's fumbling problems, to make sure he doesn't hurt the team.

Eagles Fan Here wrote:

Dial it up wrote:

Eagles fan,

The stats back up wejo. Stereotypes and hyperbole back up your opinion.

The stats back me up, too. We'll get back to that later. And stereotypes and hyperbole? Dude, I swear you don't ever try and combat people's points. You just shrug them off and go all Chris Christie.

'Dial it up' IS Chris Christie.

All of your statistics are pure volume stats, they don't speak to the effectiveness of a quarterback. More than anything they speak to the fact that teams don't have balance or are playing from behind. For example you chose passing yards. Jay Cutler ranks highly in yards due the fact that he is always behind, has thrown it over 500 times, and he also leads the league in interceptions. All of your stats are "fakable." QB rating is not. It is Rodgers and Romo at 111 and 110 and then a drop off down to 106 for manning and 103 for ben.

I don't care if you have the greatest running game in history, if you don't have a very good qb then 1) You won't have that running game because teams will sell out to stop it, and as we saw teams cannot do that as that is what philly tried. 2) The qb won't have great numbers if he isn't good despite all the rushing yards in the world.

Another stat I didn't give you which speaks to pure effectiveness- on the road this season Romo has 18 TD's and 1 INT.

I'm not saying he is the 2nd greatest all time, I'm saying you're blind if you don't think he is in the conversation for 2nd this season.

Cowboys Fan Here wrote:

Eagles Fan Here wrote:

The stats back me up, too. We'll get back to that later. And stereotypes and hyperbole? Dude, I swear you don't ever try and combat people's points. You just shrug them off and go all Chris Christie.

'Dial it up' IS Chris Christie.

Sorry, I forgot how much that fatass likes to run.