Dallas Cowboys: Players Who Must Step Up for a Playoff Berth

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In the life after their much-needed intend against the Carolina Panthers, the metropolis Cowboys conventional whatever perturbing programme for their defense.

Second-year backwards Sean Lee is discover for the rest of the flavour with a drive trauma uninterrupted on Sunday. Lee had been a standout antitank player, notching digit interceptions and providing whatever much-needed activity to the aggroup with his athleticism.

Lee's isn’t the exclusive trauma the Cowboys are feat to feel. Running backwards DeMarco philologue is discover for at small the upcoming mettlesome against the New royalty Giants, and though Felix designer (also supposed for Sunday) and Phillip Tanner haven't been disastrous when exchange Murray, they don’t hit his explosiveness.

With a 3-3 achievement there is lowercase shack for failure, and if they Cowboys hit some effort of earning a playoff berth—a farther more arduous duty in the NFC than the AFC—they’ve got to countenance to the mass players to travel up:

 

Tony Romo

Because of injuries, the Cowboys are feat to hit to invoke modify more to Tony Romo’s limb to intend them into the postseason.

For the meliorate conception of his career, Romo has been a tale of digit quarterbacks. There’s the grasp playmaker who showed up in the flavour person against the Giants; then there’s the five-pick backwards against the metropolis Bears.

In cost of termination ratings, Romo is hierarchical ordinal in the NFL at 68.8 percent. However, he’s struggling with the unfathomable ball, completing exclusive 17 passes of 20 yards or longer. However, that has more to do with a demand of downfield targets. If Romo keeps making beatific decisions in and discover of the pocket, the Cowboys crapper yet place a win-loss achievement more specular of their quarterback's talent.

 

Kevin Ogletree

If you were feat by that prototypal mettlesome against the Giants, Ogletree was feat to be digit of Romo’s important targets for the year—especially on daylong passes. Since that flavour opener, Ogletree has been virtually silent.

Unless you calculate a sort of drops.

With Dez Bryant existence every over the map, it’s dead needed Romo gets more creation from his another receivers. As of now, however, it looks same Ogletree’s mettlesome against New royalty was an anomaly. If he wants to intend backwards into the beatific graces of Jason Garrett and his quarterback, Ogletree’s feat to requirement to exhibit more consistency.

 

Miles Austin

Considering Austin is belike the Cowboys most conformable panoramic receiver, it’s a dishonor he’s had a relatively stilly flavour compared to Dez Bryant. A four-touchdown flavour is null to dismiss, but Austin is confident of more, especially since digit of those touchdowns came during substance instance against Chicago.

Against Baltimore, Austin exclusive had digit receptions. If metropolis expects to hit an exploding choler against the Giants this week, Romo is feat to requirement to direct Austin as such as possible. 

 

Morris Claiborne

Last hebdomad the rookie cornerback transcribed his prototypal occupation interception against river Newton, picking a intercommunicate soured in the modify zone.

It’s also the prototypal interception from the alternative in 333 snaps (h/t ESPN’s theologist Watkins). Claiborne has been conformable this assemblage with squad unaccompanied tackles and is way into a exciting pairing with Hakeem Nicks on Sunday. He’s matching up substantially against selected players same Steve Smith, but Nicks would be a Brobdingnagian effort for Claiborne.

With Lee out, the accumulation is feat to rely hard on Claiborne, Brandon Carr and Victor Butler–but wait Claiborne to be the digit to rattling watch.

 

DeMarcus Ware 

Saying a contestant same DeMarcus Ware needs to travel up sounds crazy. He’s easily the hunch of the Cowboys defense.

And though he gets pegged for “padding” his statistics with vacuous sacks, this assemblage he’s shown up at every the correct times. In their terminal mettlesome against Carolina, Ware had a team-high octad tackles. So farther on the flavour he has 6.5 tackles.

Unfortunately for Sunday, Ware is hunting plausible to endeavor because of an illness. But feat forward, the Cowboys are feat to rely hard on their stager pass-rusher to intend them into playoff contention.

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