Inducement of Heart Disease

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It will be hard to defend Drew Bledsoe after this game. It will be hard to defend coaching strategy after this game. It will be hard to consider Dallas as anything better than a 9-7 team after this game.
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It will be hard to defend Drew Bledsoe after this game. It will be hard to defend coaching strategy after this game. It will be hard to consider Dallas as anything better than a 9-7 team after this game.
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You are certainly welcome to you opinion, but I don't think this sinks us by any means. One pass difference and we tie the game at Philly's home... Philly was rated my many to take our division and all they did was barely win at home...

if we lose all our nfc opponents at home plus the jags that's 5 losses- still leaves a possible 11-5 we can even drop one more and be 10-6. I think it is possible that we steal on the the skins or giants at their home- I'm just not as pessimistic.

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Trust me, I hope that you are completely right and I am completely wrong. This was one of those games, though, where I think it may have been better to have been blown out than to have lost the way that Dallas did. It reminds me in many ways of the 2004 loss to Pittsburgh in 2004-- Dallas entered into the game at 3-1, lost a game it should won, and never really recovered after that, finishing the season 3-8 after that game. I'm not saying that this game was there for the taking, but when it mattered the most, the coaching staff was (I personally think) outcoached, and Bledsoe looked lost.

The schedule doesn't give me confidence. Houston and New York at home; Carolina, Washington, and Arizona on the road; Indianapolis and Tampa Bay at home; Giants on the road; New Orleans at home; Atlanta on the road; Philadelphia and Detroit at home. Winning all divisional home games and allowing for losses on divisional road games means that two of those games (Washington and New York) are losses. That means that Dallas would have to go at least 7-1 against the remaining teams to go 11-5 (or obviously 6-2 to go 10-6). This also assumes that Dallas beats the Giants and Eagles at home.

At any rate, for Dallas to finish with even a 10-6 record, something very big is going to need to change (and I'm not going to get into the Bledsoe-Romo debate). The line play has gone from night to day to night. The defense reverted to its form of playing tight but giving up big plays at the wrong time. I think Dallas will beat Houston, but some of these things had better improve by the time New York comes to town or we could have more problems.

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Well it is just simply a fact that if Dallas is going to be a 10-6 to 11-5 team they will have to take care of business at home. We simply have what we have, and our guys faced an excellent defensive line and scheme with the Eagles that their home- still we came within a bad/good throw away from tying the game- it is a lot better that getting completely managed or blown out. I was pretty encouraged that we could play as well as we did, and that our guys didn't give up. I was more dissappointed in the first game than this one. At least we have tools (players and coaching staff) to put it together IMO, it just remains to be seen if we can do it the rest of the season. We need to take care of Houston and the Giants- if we lose to either or both of them it will be a much better indicator of a poor team than losing to the Eagles at home IMO..