The Cowboys played horrible, sure, but you would have to credit the Redskins defense.
Coming into this season the Cowboys have had one of the most explosive offenses over the past few seasons.
They have "played bad" and still put up 21 points on teams with lesser defense.
There is a reason the Cowboys could not hit on big plays downfield, with the exception of their final drive and the big pass to Miles Austin.
I will give yall credit but we here in Texas have the inconvenience of seeing their games every week. We also had the opportunity to play them in preseason. That Cowboys offense showed it was going to suck in preseason. They only scored one offensive TD in the preseason and that was because the defense ran a INT back to the 8 yard line. The argument that it's only preseason is nullified when you see how it translated to their opening game. They couldn't even get a FG. Yall brought the heat and trust me that worries me for our game but very quietly Schaub has been showing to be a better QB at dealing with blitzes than Tony Romo
Andre Johnson is a better WR then anyone on the Cowboys roster could ever hope to be, I'll give you guys that, but I am sure much of the focus of our secondary will be covering him with help from a safety over the top, to take away big play potential. He will probably still have a decent game, as most elite WRs still beat double coverage at times.
If he has a decent game, you will know it! This will also mean that Schaub is chucking it around to everyone because once he's on target with AJ, (count'em) Kevin Walter, Jacoby Jones, Owen Daniels, David Anderson, Joel Dreesen all start to get touches because AJs decent game is better than alot people's decent game.
As far as Foster. To me the effectiveness of the running game is also going to come down to what the score is in the second half of the game. If the Texans are up, they will use Foster to try and wear down the Skins, set up for playaction. However if the game is tied or the Texans are behind, they will do what any other team would do and abandon the running game altogether.
No they will not. Kubiak, will remain dedicated to the run. The goal for this year is to become a more physical team and even though you can't see this in stats because our running game sucked...in many games where we were losing, Kubiak stayed with the run (causing many people to question the play calling) because it sets up Schaub's awesome ability to do play action pass. Remember Schaub did what he did last year without a running game. He also brought us back in games in which we were down 21-0 at halftime. You may want to ask for Foster to get his carries.]
To me, the biggest X factor in this game is the 'Skins offense. When you have a new coordinator and new QB, there are going to be struggles, but also there will be times where things seem to get on track ahead of time.
If the 'Skins can score 21-24 points on Sunday, I think they will win.
Again, don't misjudge our ability to score. 21 points is not going to put us away. Twice last year, we were down 21-0 and we came back to tie the game. I think that you misjudge our running game too because you feel the New England game was a fluke last year. Well take a look at the stats on our offense when we played @ Miami the week before. Miami's got a pretty good D - and yes Jason Taylor and all their big boys were playing because Miami still had a shot at the playoffs. Foster ran for over 100 and two TDs (You don't know because the media didn't care) on their 3-4 defense and Schaub threw for two more there also.
The Texans have a decent offense, but it is not a powerhouse. The 'Skins defense over the past few seasons has held better offenses to under 21 points, but the 'Skins offense was so horrible they could barely muster 17 points themselves.
As a 'Skins fan, I am not worried about our defense, I think we can handle or at least keep the damage to a minimum. It comes down to our offense and if we can put the ball in the endzone three times.
I agree to a point here but again I think you underestimate our offense, and really aren't giving our D any credit at all. You are still seeing the 400 yds of passing offense with 3 TDs that Manning put up and you are thinking Donovan can do the same. If this was Donovan 2nd year with you all, and maybe even December of this year I would understand. However it isn't and Donovan is nowhere near Peyton Manning. I know yall play Eli twice but trust me, he would be a cakewalk for us. Peyton Manning throwing for that many TDs and still losing is a good day at the office
This was my replies to this guy earlier in the week. He said they would win if they could put up 21 on us and I told him that even if they were up by that much it still wouldn't put us away. Schaub is just to calm for us to go down like that.
the last game Foster started in, plus one he didn't , he's had over 400 yards. If you add the Miami game that he didn't start, but still picked around a hundy---- he's at 5 hundy already!!
