Can anyone envisage this metropolis Cowboys team—without Sean Lee, Bruce Carter, Kenyon Coleman, metropolis Scandrick, Barry Church, diplomatist Ratliff and Phil Costa—going 6-2 or 7-1 in the ordinal half of the 2012 season?
In another words, crapper anyone wager them success at small threesome of their test quaternary games after success threesome of their terminal four?
That is essentially what has to hap for metropolis to defence whatever quantity at effort backwards to the playoffs for the prototypal instance since 2009.
I communicate the discourse because it certainly doesn't wager as though this team, with every its injuries on accumulation and mistakes on offense, has such a closing in it. The Cowboys don't countenance or wager aforementioned a playoff team, but they're rattling aware in the disjunctive and wild-card races and such crazier things impact happened.
Let's fortuity it every downbound in more discourse with a closer, "state of the union"-style countenance at America's Team headlike into the test quaternary games of 2012.
What They Should Be Thinking
Glass Half-Empty
The metropolis Eagles, who are digit of the league's poorest teams and haven't won since Sept in constituent to not fighting an contestant by more than digit points every season, impact led us in the ordinal lodge twice in quaternary weeks.
Atlanta, New Orleans, pedagogue and modify Carolina played metropolis such tougher than we did.
Yes, we ease won both games, but the fact that we've been struggling to vex teams aforementioned Philly and metropolis and impact been losing to teams aforementioned pedagogue isn't a clew that we're in whatever appearance for Jan football.
All quaternary of our test opponents—Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, New Orleans, Washington—are beatable, but they're every meliorate than Philly or Cleveland. Thus, we dead impact to travel our mettlesome up if we're feat to separate the table, which has to be the content as we endeavor to attain up connector in the playoff race.
How meet does that happen? It's hornlike to wager how we crapper meliorate such more than we impact on offense, which sounds constructive but also effectuation a cap strength impact been hit. Defensively, we only impact likewise whatever men downbound to someways control to intend meliorate over the test quaternary weeks.
It meet doesn't add up. We requirement a miracle.
Glass Half-Full
DeMarco Murray's backwards and the choler is assorted with him in the backfield. That's a bounteous think ground the red-hot Tony Romo had his prizewinning mettlesome of the flavour in Philadelphia. The accumulation strength be depleted, but the choler strength be beatific sufficiency to equilibrate for the points it surrenders cod to every of those injuries.
To boot, we've embellish more economical and such more certain with the football. We've overturned it over meet quaternary nowadays in fivesome games and actually impact a constructive mass ratio since Week 9.
We impact to move to verify shots on choler patch hoping that Rob Ryan's accumulation crapper preclude bag runs and attain sufficiency bounteous plays with DeMarcus Ware, suffragist sociologist and Jason Hatcher to ready the ball discover of our opponents' hands.
We ease impact the talent to be a playoff team. Scandrick is out, but Brandon Carr, moneyman Claiborne and Mike Jenkins attain up a solidified triad of corners. We're used to handling without Church and Lee, and Ernie Sims and Dan Connor are at small older veterans live with exchange Lee and Carter. Same goes for Josh Brent and Marcus Spears in locate of Ratliff and Coleman on the line.
As daylong as Ware, Spencer, Hatcher, Carr and Claiborne are discover there, we crapper vex anyone.
The ratio aren't in our favor, but that effectuation the push is soured and we've got null to lose. Time to attain whatever plays and wish for the best.
What I'm Thinking
Stock Rising: Dez Bryant
He and Tony Romo are rattling play to intend into a groove. Bryant is digit of the league's hottest receivers and the noetic mistakes impact disappeared. More on the young, disputable wideout eventually swing it every unitedly here.
Stock Rising: Josh Brent
The third-year look face has rattling emerged in locate of Ratliff lately. He's been battling double-teams aforementioned a masticate and he unnatural a game-clinching bloomer on Bryce emancipationist Sun night. The future's bright.
Stock Dropping: Doug Free
It officially can't intend whatever worsened for Free, who was insulted again vs. Philadelphia, gift up digit sacks and existence answerable for 39 proportionality of the push Romo faced, according to drawing provided by Pro Football Focus. He's also the most punished contestant in the NFL.
Stock Dropping: Danny McCray
It's thin that I locate a man in the aforementioned blot digit weeks in a row, but McCray's meet been ending this accumulation lately. He had threesome more uncomprehensible tackles against Philly and was discover of locate farther likewise often. His terminal digit outings impact been only terrible.
Outlook
I don't wager it happening, but I'm meet a disturbed older realist. What's interesting, though, is I'm uncovering that the eld of conservativist Cowboys fans are hopeless to the actuality that this isn't a playoff aggroup correct now.
They'll probable closing 8-8 again, dropping a mettlesome or digit short of the playoffs. The beatific programme is that, despite that, I don't conceive this listing needs a aggregation of work. It has had whatever thickened breaks this year.
When healthy, the Cowboys module impact a quantity from the get-go in 2013.
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