I knew this was a toss up game largely dependent on breaks, mistakes, all the intangibles of the game. Going in, Dallas had the most overall talent, more on defense than the Texans. On the offensive side of the ball it is about even. The Cowboys played better today, the Texans made the mistakes. I am disappointed, but not devastated. The Cowboys have to continue to put their talent together and play with the urgency they played with today. The Texans have to work on their defense, Cushing's return will help. Next. Remember, NFL stands for "not for long." Good days, bad days, great days. The problem for the Texans is their defense and their schedule.
I think Troy Nolan should at least be seeing a little bit of playing time. The guy earned it in the preseason. I know he's young, and doesn't have much experience, but if the rest of the secondary is getting torched, we might as well throw him in too. Maybe he'll catch a sure-pick or two. Look, the Texans had many problems today. I think the thing that most disappoints me is that I thought this team was no longer Jeckyl-and-Hide team that shows up one week, and gets blown out the next. I guess I was wrong. Our pass rush wasn't great, which is something that is absolutely critical to our success. If we're going to win games, our pass rush has go to be great. By trotting out these corners, we're essentially saying that we're gonna frazzle your quarterback with our pass rush, and we know that, even though your quarterback might throw for well over 300 yards, our offense will put up more and win the game for us. I expect to lose games to decent to good quarterbacks that don't make mistakes, and Romo did just that today. Our run defense has to continue to be great, and I thought today, it kind of let us down a little bit. I think Glover Quinn has played pretty well. Kareem is not playing too great. He's either well behind his man on cross patterns (which they seem to be victimizing him on a TON), or he wraps his back arm around their waist, resulting in a lot of interference calls. I'm not impressed with his defense of the vertical game, either. Brice McCain, I don't even want to talk about. Dude got juked out of his socks, and never made a hit on Roy Williams on that touchdown catch. And he was playing bump and run. Getting Cushing back will help this defense a lot, I think. Intensity will pick up a bit more. We should get a little more help in run support (an area where I think Adibi has been solid), but I don't think we'll be getting burned by tight ends as much (Adibi hasn't done too well with this...nor has Pollard). Overall, I was very impressed by the running game. It was a major shame that we couldn't continue to pound the ball after we fell behind. Just when I thought Arian was a one hit wonder, he made me feel a little better. The one thing I hated to see was the fumble. A knock on Foster coming out of college was that he tended to put the ball on the ground at key times, and that's exactly what he did today. Too bad. Andre is a frickin beast. I'm debating on naming my first born son Andre Bernard. Kid would be an invincible bully, and would either have a very productive NFL career, or be the next big thing in the UFC. I thought Butler played pretty well. I was proud of him. Winston looked like Alex Barron out there. Back to the secondary...it seems to me that when we play a zone, we play it very soft, and are constantly getting beat underneath the safeties. I don't know if that's an attribute to the safeties not being decisive or the linebackers/corners playing too soft and peeling off early. I think it's a combo of both. When we play man, we're either getting beat off the ball (see: McCain, Brice), or we're stumbling over our own feet (see: Jackson, Kareem). We should be fine against the Raiders. The Giants, I think Eli will torch us. I think if we can stop the Chiefs running game, we'll be okay. The Colts, I think will have our number on Monday night. I see us getting absolutely lit up by Vick and the Eagles. The Ravens, Jets, and Chargers will be very tough games. I think we should win both against the Titans and Jags (If we stop their backs). We SHOULD. We should be able to handle the Broncos, also. That puts us at about...10 and 6 at best, I think. The last point I was to make is this: Last year, it seemed in the red zone, we settled for tons of field goals and/or got stuffed at the goal line. That is a difference in winning a losing games. Same thing happened today. We returned to the old, "we can't score anything but field goals" team. I know there are a ton of what-if's and should-have's, but had we been able to convert those field goals into touchdowns, it would have been a different game. Strap in your seatbelts boys and girls, this season is going to get even more wild, and I think we're going to be fighting hard to get into the playoffs the last few weeks.
Texans fans, your team lost. On to next week. Get over it. Their secondary is garbage. Most of yall got the big head way too early, so it's kind of funny reading the responses after the game. Same thing happens with the Rockets (this place is full of delirious Rockets fans). Chill out. The Texans have the toughest schedule in the league this season and play three of four games on the road in the middle of the season, beginning @ the Eagles in Week 13 followed by a home game against the Ravens. *In response to the Cowboy hate: if the Redskins and Eagles don't get it done after today, then it's a three way tie in the NFC East. Cowboys only have one loss in the division. Texans= 2-1. Cowboys= 1-2..one more loss than Houston. Big deal! (sarcasm)
I'm from an area that picks up Houston sports (like Rockets and Astros). When I first started really getting into NFL football (as in, becoming a diehard football fan), the Oilers had already left town and the Cowboys were the only Texas team left. That's how I became a Cowboys fan. I'm not a completely delusional Cowboys fan. I understand that they need to do some work (like firing Jason Garrett because he's a joke of an o-coordinator)... but it's not like the Cowboys haven't looked bad early on in the season and then completely turned it around. You know, like last season when they were 2-2 and just needed to squeak by the Chiefs in OT... then they went on to finish with a 13-3 record. Having similar qualities does not make them related. I understand that Texas isn't that good this year. I'm not going to sit here and tell you that game was a fluke. Texas got handled pretty easily. They deserved the loss because they really aren't a good football team and UCLA came ready to play and knew how to beat them. But please, continue to talk about UT because it's just making you look bad. And I'm all for that at this point.
Teams, not cities. I could care less about the cities. Been a Cowboys fan all my life. F**k the Texans/Oilers.
Wait? Rockets AND Spurs...I'm sorry how are you a fan of two teams in the SAME DIVISION?!? That's just silly man. So are you a Cowboy and Eagles fan too
LOL yeah that was just one continuous train wrreck.. hehehe Well.. not going to bother reading all of the unhappy comments from the disappointed fans.. just had to come in and drop $.02 .. I happen to be a fan of both teams, and honestly I expected this kind of score, but in the other direction. However, am I shocked that the Cowboys won this game, and pretty easily, seeing as how a meaningless garbage-time TD doesn't really subtract from what was essentially a 3-touchdown beating on the home turf..? Nope. And here's why: Having been a Cowboys fan for 40 years, I have seen countless times what inevitably happens when a team starts reading and believing its own hype and press clippings. The Texans fell into the same trap which has snared Dallas so many times. If you believe you are better, you believe you are as great as everyone is suddenly telling you that you are, if you start to believe that your natural superiority is such that all you need to do is show up and you will win simply as a matter of course.. Well, that's what happened to Dallas in the opener - they never played at any point in that game as though they believed they could lose. And it cost them. Second, he records and W/L performance of these two teams were not as far apart as people might want you to believe. If not for an Alex Barron holding penalty, Dallas would have WON that game, and would have been no worse that 1-1 coming into today's game. Same thing to the Texans - Kubiak iced Washington's kicker, but remember the first try he nailed it, and had he nailed the 2nd try, then the Texans are sitting there at 1-1 coming into today's game too. One play in the first two games, one play goes the Texan's way, one play goes against Dallas, and boom you have 2-0 vs 0-2 . Not only did this make the fans tragically overconfident, but it may very well have made the Texans themselves overconfident too. Lastly, just as in the Washington game with Dallas, Houston's O-Line was not at full strength today, and won't be for the next 3 weeks, and D-Ware went off for 3 sacks today. You cannot hand a desperate team a creaky offensive line and then ask us to keep the best pass-rusher in football off of the QB. That doesn't work, and it didn't work today. Anyway, I believe the Texans will make the playoffs this year, and not sure about the Cowboys yet. It would be so cool to have an All-Texas SB.. Suck it up Texans fans - as always, the reality is somewhere in the middle - the Cowboys are not as bad as had been portrayed, and the Texans are not going to be quite as great as we eager fans had wanted. But it will all be ok.
The headline on Yahoo was "Cowboys rout Texans." How does a score of 27-13 constitute a "rout?" 60-0, now that's a rout.
did you feel the same when all the headlines read "Texans rout Colts"? the cowboys kicked our ass. end of story.
Harsh realty, it was a rout...27-6 at one point. Frustrating that last week was so great to watch postgame shows and highlight shows, this week...no so much.
