Overrated doesn’t even begin to describe the Cowboys anymore
The Dallas Cowboys continue to prove that talent only takes you so far.
Talented teams don’t win when they turn the ball over three times and don’t compile any takeaways themselves.
Talented teams don’t win when they commit six penalties and their opposition (who is playing on the road, mind you), only commits two.
Talented teams can’t win when they only rush for 36 yards and can’t make field goals.
The Cowboys might be talented, but talent doesn’t always translate into victories. Dallas haters will say that the Cowboys aren’t that talented, but they are. You’re fooling yourself if you don’t think they are. But something is obviously missing and it’s not just Wade Phillips’ inability to keep his team focused week in and week out.
The Bears played a damn near perfect game in their 27-20 win over the Cowboys on Sunday. Jay Cutler was outstanding in throwing for 277 yards on 21-of-29 passing and three touchdowns. The fact that he had such a tremendous day after he was nearly swallowed whole by Dallas’s pass rush in the early going made his performance even more impressive.
The Chicago defense also played extremely well, holding the Cowboys to only 36 yards rushing and forcing three turnovers. They also held Dallas to only six points (two field goals) in the second half and didn’t buckle with the game on the line late in the fourth quarter.
I give the Bears a lot of credit. I was one of many people who described their Week 1 win over the Lions as “lucky” and had the Cowboys took it to them today, I probably would have been one of the first people back in line to bash Chicago again.
But they were the ones that stuck it to a talented, yet incomplete team on the road. The Bears proved that they’re going to be a handful in their division, while the Cowboys proved that they’re not even close to being the best team in the NFC East.
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Dallas also has arguably the worst head coach in their division.
I’m just not buying that the Cowboys are that talented if they are that overrated. How talented can they be when their offensive line and backfield can only generate around 150 yards and 27 points in 2 games against very mediocre teams. They’re so bad, they have turned their stud TE into a glorified offensive tackle since they have to keep him in to help with pass protection most of the time. Felix Jones is Reggie Bush…not bad but if he doesn’t break a big one, he’s pretty average. Marion Barber is a Marshawn Lynch or Laurence Maroney clone, and you probably don’t regard those guys that highly. The defense is solid but they’ve got to do better than 2 sacks in what should have been 2 of the weaker games on their schedule. And Zero picks against Jay Cutler? The team bus driver can get a pick off that guy.
So is it just a coincidence that the entire team is playing flat or are they just not that talented? I say the former. Either way,I’m laughing at the Jerry Jones suck-ups in the media that want so bad for there to be a home team in the superbowl.T-
This is largely the same team that won a playoff game last year, so I would argue that they are talented. Granted, nothing that they’ve done to this point in the season backs up my claims, but nonetheless…good overall points, T-Bone.
That said, I still think a team can be talented but overrated. It’s all about perception and expectations. If the media didn’t drop to their knees when mentioning the Cowboys, then people may be more inclined to say that they’re a talented, but underachieving bunch. But since some people act like this team is the greatest thing since Sunday Ticket, you get the inflated expectations.
Either way, they’re 0-2 and a very bad 0-2 to boot.