Washington’s wide receivers got themselves into whatever the Eagles had been smoking the first half of the season; I counted nine dropped passes by D.C. before this one was over, which is good because I was running out of fingers (#ThatsWhatJPPSaid). If the Cowboys beat the Buccaneers and Tom Brady and the Patriots knock off the Giants, Dallas is only two wins behind with seven to play when Romo comes back. This is the one game the Cowboys must win. “Teams have various challenges along the way and that could happen to anybody that’s ahead of you right now, NY or a few of those, and they could start playing at a level that gives us a shot”. The Cowboys benched Weeden after a 30-6 loss to the New England Patriots, which had the Cowboys on a three-game losing streak.
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But when overtime rolled around, Sam Bradford of the Eagles hit Jordan Matthews for a 41-yard touchdown, sealing Dallas’ fate in the game and perhaps for the season.
The Cowboys owner dismissed the idea of sitting the veteran quarterback for the remainder of the season. They are 6-15 without Romo since he became the starter in 2006. Cassel’s last victory came in the 2014 season opener for the Minnesota Vikings.
In the beginning, he was learning teammates’ names, cramming in the playbook and figuring out the terminology. “I feel like that in turn, the results on the field, you start to perform better. So every week I’m here, every week I’m on the field, I feel like I’ve grown and gotten better”. He has completed 55 of 90 passes for 623 yards with four touchdowns and four interceptions in three games this season. Sunday, it was the pick six to linebacker Jordan Hicks that did the trick. The Cowboys have now lost six in a row, the longest losing streak in the National Football League (yes, the Jaguars, Titans, and Lions have all won more recently), and the stat-crunchers over at FiveThirtyEight.com are giving them less chance of making the playoffs than Carly Fiorina. It’s not out of the question for them to climb back into the NFC East race, with games against the Saints, Giants and Cowboys at home coming up followed by a trip to Chicago.
The Cowboys waived backup quarterback Kellen Moore from the active roster this week. Dallas visits Miami next week, when Romo can come back. His blitz in the second week of the season broke Romo’s collarbone and sent the quarterback and the Dallas playoff hopes to the sideline.
“He’s not Jesus. We can’t sit and wait on him”. Coughlin’s team has quit on him after tough losses the past couple of years, so the fact that they’ve bounced back with wins after the demoralizing defeats to Philly and New Orleans the past month should definitely be taken as a positive. “So not going to make any long-term declarations about that, but he’s certainly been an asset to our team since he’s been here”.
500 mark midway through the season, its unlikely that any of the teams will be able to create significant separation between each other from now until the end of the year.
“I don’t think about that at all, to be honest with you”, Cassel said.
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Alas, we come to bury the Cowboys, and not to praise them… because their really isn’t anything to praise here.
