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Very impressive win, and they did it against a pretty good team in Buffalo. I was hoping all week we'd just find a way to win the game and get by another week, but wow was this a nice surprise.
1) Offensively this was one of the best performances we have seen in years. Even without Austin and Felix Jones, the Bills D was no match for our offense. Tony Romo played by far his best game of the year, and probably his best game since late in the 2009 season. He's now gone two straight games without an int, and we havent allowed a sack in those two games either. Perhaps some of Romo's lackluster play the first half of the season was the injury. Lets hope that it was, because if he is going to throw the ball as well as he did yesterday (and alot of the Seattle game) we are definitely a different team.
2) We had 3 drives of 10+ plays, two of them ended in TD's and the 3rd ended in a FG but was one of my favorite drives of the year. All 11 plays were run plays in that 4th qtr drive, and they did it mostly from the 22 formation against a Bills team clearly expecting running plays. That drive took almost 8 minutes off the clock. Very reminiscent of 4th qtr drives from 1991-1995 when we'd have a lead late and just dominate the LOS.
3) Demarco Murray was definitely the steal of the draft. The warroom went bonkers about this pick when it happened too, and now we all see why. Murray has almost 700 yds rushing now and in the last two games has 42 carries for 274 yds, and has added 10 receptions for another 83 yds. We got incredibly lucky in 1990 to get Emmitt Smith. He was expected to go much earlier than where we ended up getting him, and we werent even targeting a RB with that 1st rd pick that year. Its clear Murray should have gone much earlier than where we got him this year.
4) The OL continues to get better. Yeah, Kosier isnt the long term answer at RG and its likely they'll be looking to upgrade the C spot from Costa, but as a unit they are perfoming at a solid level. We are definitely set for years to come at both tackle spots. Holland has really played pretty well though. Tyron Smith is probably going to make the probowl as a 20yr old rookie. Amazing. By the way, Smith doesnt even turn 21 for another month. This is definitely a better OL than what we trotted out last year.
5) As Simms and Nance alluded to during the game, the Cowboy scouting department deserves some kudos for what they did. Holland, Laurent Robinson and Fiametta were all really nice additions to the team. Murray deserves all the props he is getting, but the run games massive improvement also coincided with getting Holland and Fiametta both out there healthy.
6) Dez Bryant is getting better, and thats probably bad news for CB's on other teams. He ran some really sharp routes each of the last two games. Seems to be getting more and more comfortable with the system and Romo looks like he is developing more and more chemistry with him. Once Austin gets healthy and returns, not many teams can put good enough DB's out there to cover all our WR's, plus Witten, plus our backs out of the backfield.
7) We ultimately gave up only 7 points and got 4 turnovers, but the defense's play is still a concern. The Bills definitely left alot of big plays out there by missing some deep throws, and for the 3rd straight week the run defense was really bad. The pass rush isnt getting there either.
8) Very quietly, T New is having a really good year. Looks like he is close to 100% and is making alot of plays on the ball. He was outstanding yesterday and should have gotten credit for two more passes defensed rather than two awful PI calls, in addition to the two picks. Cant wait till Jenkins is back out there healthy.
9) Officials= awful. Not much more needs to be said, it was extremely one sided again.
10) Holy crap is Dan Bailey good. Forget about the fact that he's made all but one FG this yr (I believe he's now 23/24) but his FG's are almost right down the freaking middle EVERY kick. His accuracy so far is uncanny. And for all this talk abotu how he cant kickoff, his kickoffs are better than the kickoff specialist we just put on IR. He had 6 touchbacks yesterday. This is another thing we got incredibly lucky with. They were doing everything they could to avoid giving the job to him in preseason. Luckily Dave Rayner crapped his pants those two FG attempts he had vs Miami in that last preseason game, otherwise Bailey might be kicking for someone else right now.
11) How the heck did we get smoked so bad vs Philly? Losing at home to Arizona with the backup QB? How does a team like Seattle turn around and beat Baltimore? Yesterday for us is about as good as it gets, with all 3 other NFC East teams losing.
These next 3 games are huge, and I am particularly curious to see how they respond vs Washington Sunday after such a dominant win this week. Washington is awful, lose this game an then the nice blowout vs Buffalo means almost zilch. They should beat these next 3 teams and get to 8-4, and the Giants have to play Philly, New Orleans and Green Bay during that span. Its quite possible we could have sole possession of 1st place in our division before we kickoff that game on SNF vs the NYG.
1) Offensively this was one of the best performances we have seen in years. Even without Austin and Felix Jones, the Bills D was no match for our offense. Tony Romo played by far his best game of the year, and probably his best game since late in the 2009 season. He's now gone two straight games without an int, and we havent allowed a sack in those two games either. Perhaps some of Romo's lackluster play the first half of the season was the injury. Lets hope that it was, because if he is going to throw the ball as well as he did yesterday (and alot of the Seattle game) we are definitely a different team.
2) We had 3 drives of 10+ plays, two of them ended in TD's and the 3rd ended in a FG but was one of my favorite drives of the year. All 11 plays were run plays in that 4th qtr drive, and they did it mostly from the 22 formation against a Bills team clearly expecting running plays. That drive took almost 8 minutes off the clock. Very reminiscent of 4th qtr drives from 1991-1995 when we'd have a lead late and just dominate the LOS.
3) Demarco Murray was definitely the steal of the draft. The warroom went bonkers about this pick when it happened too, and now we all see why. Murray has almost 700 yds rushing now and in the last two games has 42 carries for 274 yds, and has added 10 receptions for another 83 yds. We got incredibly lucky in 1990 to get Emmitt Smith. He was expected to go much earlier than where we ended up getting him, and we werent even targeting a RB with that 1st rd pick that year. Its clear Murray should have gone much earlier than where we got him this year.
4) The OL continues to get better. Yeah, Kosier isnt the long term answer at RG and its likely they'll be looking to upgrade the C spot from Costa, but as a unit they are perfoming at a solid level. We are definitely set for years to come at both tackle spots. Holland has really played pretty well though. Tyron Smith is probably going to make the probowl as a 20yr old rookie. Amazing. By the way, Smith doesnt even turn 21 for another month. This is definitely a better OL than what we trotted out last year.
5) As Simms and Nance alluded to during the game, the Cowboy scouting department deserves some kudos for what they did. Holland, Laurent Robinson and Fiametta were all really nice additions to the team. Murray deserves all the props he is getting, but the run games massive improvement also coincided with getting Holland and Fiametta both out there healthy.
6) Dez Bryant is getting better, and thats probably bad news for CB's on other teams. He ran some really sharp routes each of the last two games. Seems to be getting more and more comfortable with the system and Romo looks like he is developing more and more chemistry with him. Once Austin gets healthy and returns, not many teams can put good enough DB's out there to cover all our WR's, plus Witten, plus our backs out of the backfield.
7) We ultimately gave up only 7 points and got 4 turnovers, but the defense's play is still a concern. The Bills definitely left alot of big plays out there by missing some deep throws, and for the 3rd straight week the run defense was really bad. The pass rush isnt getting there either.
8) Very quietly, T New is having a really good year. Looks like he is close to 100% and is making alot of plays on the ball. He was outstanding yesterday and should have gotten credit for two more passes defensed rather than two awful PI calls, in addition to the two picks. Cant wait till Jenkins is back out there healthy.
9) Officials= awful. Not much more needs to be said, it was extremely one sided again.
10) Holy crap is Dan Bailey good. Forget about the fact that he's made all but one FG this yr (I believe he's now 23/24) but his FG's are almost right down the freaking middle EVERY kick. His accuracy so far is uncanny. And for all this talk abotu how he cant kickoff, his kickoffs are better than the kickoff specialist we just put on IR. He had 6 touchbacks yesterday. This is another thing we got incredibly lucky with. They were doing everything they could to avoid giving the job to him in preseason. Luckily Dave Rayner crapped his pants those two FG attempts he had vs Miami in that last preseason game, otherwise Bailey might be kicking for someone else right now.
11) How the heck did we get smoked so bad vs Philly? Losing at home to Arizona with the backup QB? How does a team like Seattle turn around and beat Baltimore? Yesterday for us is about as good as it gets, with all 3 other NFC East teams losing.
These next 3 games are huge, and I am particularly curious to see how they respond vs Washington Sunday after such a dominant win this week. Washington is awful, lose this game an then the nice blowout vs Buffalo means almost zilch. They should beat these next 3 teams and get to 8-4, and the Giants have to play Philly, New Orleans and Green Bay during that span. Its quite possible we could have sole possession of 1st place in our division before we kickoff that game on SNF vs the NYG.
