Dallas Cowboys vs Green Bay Packers Preview
The Dallas Cowboys face the Green Bay Packers this afternoon. I have a hard time measuring these Green Bay Packers. They have solid receivers and a solid quarterback, but for some reason they come up short in big games.
Dallas has had its way with the Packers the last four games, winning the last three match ups.
It was Miles Austin, too, who helped the Cowboys pull away in a prime-time game last season, when he caught a 52 yard touchdown pass.
Part of the problem for the Packers is Dom Capers’ change to a 3-4 defense, which has been inconsistent at times on the field.
The Cowboys beat the Packers in almost all statistical categories except for time of possession and third down conversations.
But even with the stuggles with the 3-4 scheme, the Packers do have the statistical edge against the Cowboys on defense, despite the menacing presence of DeMarcus Ware.
Well, throw the statistics out the door because this apparently is not the same Dallas Cowboys team, right?
So how big is this game? A win gives the Cowboys their third win over a quality opponent and would put them at 7-2, in the lead of the NFC East. It would also put a big hit in the Packers own playoff chances, as the records are starting to come together. Losing to a then-winless Tampa Bay team really hit the Packers.
For the Cowboys to win, they need Tony Romo and Miles Austin to keep connecting. Dallas has a difficult time winning in Green Bay, but then again, the Packers were not allowing league-leading sack numbers—37 in just 8 games. Watch out Aaron Rodgers!
Oh my god did anyone see Baby Carpenter on the 3rd and 12 screen play in the second qrtr. I dont know if he knows but the NFL is not two hand touch. Has anyone ever seen him make ONE tackle? I think he is the biggest flop in the last 30 years for the cowboys. That dude is always running after people I think he is afraid of contact.
November 15th, 2009 at 6:21 pmwow i guess Dallas does not like first place. This is one of those games where i start to wonder how good we really are. Roy Williams is a joke, Baby Carpenter is a joke. JG better pull his head out of his ass and stop running deep routes every play. Any time Dallas in doing well they will come out and blow one.
November 15th, 2009 at 6:40 pmWell we will see how much we miss Colombo now and it appears it is already showing…
November 15th, 2009 at 7:23 pmPlaying to the level of our competition again.
November 15th, 2009 at 7:37 pmI think Roy Williams should do a interview after the game and apologize to all the fans for his pathetic performance. Then he should give his game check to charity.
November 15th, 2009 at 7:40 pmBrad im with you. This is pathetic to say the least. This is the most painful game I have watched in a long time. Injuries penalties and 3rd down defense is killing us.
November 15th, 2009 at 7:42 pmjust no spark. How about that timeout call after the challenge?
November 15th, 2009 at 7:46 pmI dont normally complain about the officiating but this game has been ridiculous against Dallas..Starting with that phantom hands to the face cal when we sacked Rodgers and he fumbled on about their 12 or whatever it was..
November 15th, 2009 at 7:56 pmZero spark. They look about as into the game as the fat guy standing on the sidelines.
November 15th, 2009 at 8:01 pmDavid this seems to happen every game BIG BIG penaltys that kill us sometimes we can over come, sometimes we cant. I think that every game Dallas is penalized more than their opponent. I am tired of bad calls every week. Refs should lose their pay checks
November 15th, 2009 at 8:02 pmThis ref crew is a joke..
November 15th, 2009 at 8:08 pmRoy Williams is going to get on the plane fly home then get into his 500,000 dollar car and then drive back to his ten million dollar home. Maybe sit in his jacuzzi or watch his 160 inch theatre television. Maybe have sex with a hot woman. If I screwed up that bad at work today I would have been fired. Came home to my 1500 sq foot home and got yelled at by my wife. Wow the world isnt fair.
November 15th, 2009 at 8:13 pmThis is the worst game I have seen in Years. Atleast against Philly last year we put up 6 points. this was the biggest fuck up in a long time. As we have all been saying this team does not know how to win. I am sick .. after a big win last week. I think they thought they were hot shit. Back to the drawing board back to hating R Williams Back to trash talking baby carpenter back to people questioning Romo. Colombo broke his leg done for the year. The Cowboys are back to normal I was starting to feel good about this team I knew it wouldnt last
November 15th, 2009 at 8:20 pmWow guys…. yea this game sucks but lets not overreact here….
November 15th, 2009 at 8:26 pmat least the eagles lost…. Im still depressed though.
November 15th, 2009 at 9:54 pmSorry….. I try to be positive. My expectations which are usually rather low where very high for this game. I was saying 35 – 14 all week to all the Packer fans I work with and i believed it.
November 15th, 2009 at 10:44 pmWow the world is not coming to an end. The Packers played good defense the whole game and pressured Romo the whole game. The thing I am worried about is Jenkins because they started throwing right at Scandrick when he got injured. I am pissed that you can not challenge a possesion of a fumble as obvious as it was. They need to just let us challenge what we want because the refs blow calls all the time. Garrett needs to concentrate on slants and stop and go’s more that I will agree with. Romo did not even have a bad game for the kind of pressure he was getting of the left side what was the deal with that. Everytime I looked up the defense was coming of that left side like it was pee wee football players blocking them.
November 15th, 2009 at 11:20 pmDid anyone else notice this?? When you’re out of challenges and throw the red flag it’s a 15 yard penalty. The Packers challenged that Crayton 4th down catch without any challenges and we were awarded no yardage. Crock of shit.
November 16th, 2009 at 12:09 amYes I thought that was the case to..Its an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty if im not mistaken..But here is a pathetically telling stat that I blame JG on. 14 carries for 61 yards with a 4.4 yard average. We ran the ball 14 freaking times…..Thats just stupid putting Romo out to dry like that so many times with Colombo out and the boys still running at a 4.4 average…..The only plus side was our defense barring the injuries played very well again and should have only really gave up 10 points if that…Lets hope the injuries arent serious altho Colombo’s is..
November 16th, 2009 at 12:19 amDude we only passed the ball 13 times?? I believe? What do you want Garrett to do? Run the ball when we’re down 3 scores with 10 minutes to go? They DOUBLED our time of possession man..
I was coming on here to rag on the Cowboys some but this is a little overboard.
Refs blew some big calls for us, that hurts momentum which severely hurts our offense. I typically apologize and make excuses for Roy but man he was just pathetic. Anytime he showed a glimmer of what we hope he is he immediately did something to ruin it… Save the touchdown catch which was just too late.
I will say this though…
They kept putting up the shutout statistic (not since 2003 against the patriots) That happened when Keyshawn was out and Terry Glen was the #1 receiver for the first time in his career.
Funny how it almost happened again… Both times without a true number 1 receiver.
Props to Patrick Crayton though, he played identically to his competition.. If that’s Donald Driver. Yes. He looked like the future hall of fame, best slot receiver ever, from the other team.
Don’t count on ever seeing it again though.
Next week boys, pick it up and put em down next week.
November 16th, 2009 at 12:52 amUmm… lol by 13 passing tries I meant in a half… You’re right we totally abandoned the run. I’m retarded. But at the same time, we were behind, so it’s tough. But still… I see your point.
November 16th, 2009 at 2:52 amKD im glad you went back and checked the stats again..But we abandoned the run in the 2nd quarter…We were not out of the game until the end of the 3rd quarter when we got jobbed by that ridiculous call..That made it 17-0…But if that call dosent happen we are still only down 10-0 toward the end of the 3rd quater…if im not mistaken on the timeline there….10-0 is plenty of time to still use the run and score points and win the game…Especially when your defense is playing well…KD we threw the ball 39 freaking times…Now you would think boy genious JG would recognize that the Packers were just pinning thier ears back and coming after Romo because they did not have to worry about the run..With the injury to Colombo which I think might have a serious impact on the playoffs and us making it, the Packers just came after Romo..Dropped passes seriously hurt him as well…
November 16th, 2009 at 11:53 amI’m calling for the benching of Roy Williams….I dont care what anyone says….He needs to be bumbed to number 3. He is not #1 receiver material. That 42 yard catch-and-fumble might as well have been a punt.
Where was Witten? He’s our best receiver bar none. I’m sick of him blocking. He needs to do what he does best and that is burn LB’s and Safeties. Jason Garrett needs to create match ups so that our TE’s get more involved.
I really hope Colombo can comeback Though I don’t think he will. If not Doug Free better step up and show that he can anchor that side of the line.
November 16th, 2009 at 12:05 pmI like what Jimmy said and it seems to be right. “The thing about this Dallas team is they can’t ever get to comfortable. In the last month they haven’t lost a game. They are feeling all full of themselves. And whenever they get feeling pretty full of themselves the same old problems come up – three turnovers, five sacks, 10 penalties. That’s the problems they had early on in the season. Like I said, you can’t let ‘em get comfortable.”
November 16th, 2009 at 12:31 pmNumebr 9 I am not even going to comment on your benching of Williams because you seem to be so passionate about it..I think your wrong and thats ill im gonna say..But I will comment on your Witten thoughts…While I agree with you partially what im sure you did not realize was that the Packers used a cb on Witten for most of they game to take him away….We lost this game because of a perfect storm of events took place.
November 16th, 2009 at 1:17 pm1) We got out coached
2) We had way to many penalites, the most hurtfull one was the bs hands to the face call on Jenkins after Scandrick drilled Rodgers and we recovered right around their 20..Big game changer..
3) Turnovers……
4) bad break on a non reviewable call that clearly Jones recovered…
5) and could be the most underrated was we played a desperate team that was in a must win situation in our back to back road trip..Very difficult…..
Hey David lets not go into Roy Williams because then it will be a long night Haha but as for Witten, Garrett needs to be able to make adjustments to get Witten involved. He obviously didnt so like you said….Cowboys got out coached. Greats points by the way.
November 17th, 2009 at 12:07 amThanks 9 I appreciate it…Yes the Roy conversation would take a while..But I do firmly believe he will be a productive player for the Boys….Everybody is just hating on him because of the price tag it took to bring him here….And every little mistake or big mistake he makes is just magnified by 100 times…Its ironic but T.O. dropped way more passes than Roy will ever drop and if T.O. fumbled like Roy did on Sunday most of these people in here would be defending him saying he was just trying to make a play….
November 17th, 2009 at 11:58 amMaybe this win is a good thing and this time they will go on a bigger win streak. =)
November 17th, 2009 at 3:51 pmI mean lost
November 17th, 2009 at 3:52 pmI’m not going to smash on Roy because they guy has it hard enough already. I did start to see a lot of potential between him and Romo. He even went up for a ball in the endzone and made a nice catch. As for his fumble that just sucks he know better than that, but lets not act like this don’t happen to other big name receivers. You are right anything is better than T.O. dropping balls time and time again. This lost could be a good thing lets them know to stay focus more and finish the job.
November 17th, 2009 at 4:01 pmthe thing i’ve always noticed abouy owens and even roy is that they are big RAC guys. (run after the catch) thats where their athletism really takes over. roy was looking to make something big happen on the open field fumble, and he thought he would catch the dropped pass easily, and had an open field. got to concentrate on the ball first.
November 17th, 2009 at 4:11 pmDave,
Your right Roy is a good RAC wr…and on the fumble id have to watch it again because I only saw it once but it looked like he had just transitioned the ball from his right inside hand to his left outside hand which your tought to do and just had not got it secured very well yet when he got hit…If im not mistaken,,,Ill wait for other thoughts on that..
November 17th, 2009 at 5:02 pmYea and since he is good at RAC then maybe Garrett dumbass could let him catch some damn slants so he can turn them into big plays. I mean is there some type of logic that is to hard to understand.
November 17th, 2009 at 6:16 pmyeah, roy is pushing to make something big happen on every play. and it’s hurting his overall concentration on plays. something i heard bill walsh say when he first tried to teach his west coast offense, ” he said, this is a short passing style, running thru the air. don’t try to make a big play every time. let it come to you and take what the play brings.” thats where the RAC guys succeed. owens first flourished in that offense. and texas is right, if he gets a few slants he could break some big plays. austin is a big play wr too, but the offense can be created for roy to come up big also. we have witten and he can really clear the middle coverage out, and roy should own the middle of the field. even a dumbass D-half back like me can see that? why can’t garrett??????
November 18th, 2009 at 12:32 amyes david i do believe you are right, that is exactally what i thought i saw as well?
November 18th, 2009 at 12:38 amI’m glad the the Packers have a great defense when they play against the cowboys. I hope they win this season.
December 2nd, 2009 at 2:43 am