The first start-to-finish test without both star players is Sunday at home against Atlanta (2-0).
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The only surprise is the Eagles’ Chip Kelly – the league’s most unconventional coach – hasn’t gone for two points in either of his team’s first two games after he reportedly considered keeping Tim Tebow as a two-point specialist.
Without Bryant, the Cowboys offense remained effective Sunday albeit with less potential for explosive plays.
Losing Bryant for any amount of time is just a brutal blow, but things got even worse in Week 2.
Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo could make it back on the field before Dez Bryant. He went 7-7 when filling in for Romo on Monday.
While this is not good news for Romo, he still could be back to the field sooner than Bryant. Let’s break it down.
And the Cowboys won’t be getting any help from running back DeMarco Murray, either, because he’s no longer on the team. “So hopefully we can all rally and keep this going in the right direction”. Zach Martin had two penalties, twice as many as he had all of last season, and the rest of the online had at least one each. They were successful with their stunts and rushes.
Randle is a solid runner, but he’s not an every-down back, which needs to be understood by the Cowboys. “It’s probably just sharpening up a couple of the finer details”.
Romo and Witten are best friends, there’s no doubting the connection that these two have on the football field either.
And it could be a long, demoralizing stretch for the Cowboys until their starting quarterback returns. “Once we had (the Eagles running game) under control we felt good about our chances”. Witten has appeared in 192 consecutive games, including the playoffs.
Despite skepticism that moving the point-after to the 15-yard line from the 2 would bother kickers who had made that play virtually automatic in recent years, it’s already been “mission accomplished” for the league’s competition committee.
This past week, the quarterback fractured his left clavicle during a game against the Philadelphia Eagles. It didn’t matter, because this unit stepped up big.
Dallas went into Philadelphia this past weekend, and aside from a late garbage time touchdown, the Eagles offense did nearly nothing against the Cowboys. Philadelphia had 21 total yards in the first half and finished with 226. The worst case scenario is that Brandon Weeden (career record of 5-16 as a starter) is under center for the remainder of the season.
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Combine that with a much-improved defense, and it would be foolish to write off the Cowboys without Romo – especially in the woeful East.
