Ten Things I Think I Think: Dallas Cowboys Edition

The Thanksgiving Day game against the New Orleans Saints may be one of the hottest Cowboys football tickets for sale in the history of the traditional Turkey Day Game.

It amazes me how anyone can have any doubt about the direction and potential of this team. Every superbowl winner has its share of issues, and no team is as COMPLETE as lead on by the media. This team is prime as was New Orleans or Indianapolis, we have key components and little in the air of deficiancies...ex: EXPERIENCE...which the lack thereof, is not enough to predict the inability of this team to make it to the superbowl.
We have had tough schedules before and managed to come out with a record enabling us to make it to the playoffs. The one thing this team has and is its MAJOR CREDIT, the consistency and knowledge of the scheme. The younger guys have the vets around that are willing to teach and prepare them for what is expected, IE, Brooking, Witten, Colombo, etc., so that abilty to get the young guys up to speed is what will keep this team at the top of the league and the potential to make it every year. This year being even more of a ego boost, having the SB at our HOUSE. If that isn't motivation, then I don't know what is! Add in the fact that the OWNER and Coaches have a lot of belief in the players on the roster...that leads to unimagined HOPE! Then think of the JONES', he knows how to motivate, and trust in him will be rewarded.

your not sure dez has better hands then Austin? are you kidding me? austin does not have great hands. ok he didnt have a ton of drops, but since he first came to the team that was one of his biggest problems. that was the biggest concern about him going into the year last year after it was announced T.O. was being released and that he was expected to step up.. both crayton and hurd have far better hands then austin. and now so does dez. that makes austin 4th best set of hands. remember the dropped pass against greenbay that would of been an early TD and given us momentem? did u just start watching the cowboys in week 14 of last year?

Scandrick and Dez Bryant suffer slight injuries:

As an FYI that is Cowboys related (we can't post new articles at this time), ESPN is reporting that Scandrick suffered a broken index finger and Bryant a hip pointer.

I have never seen a hip pointer mentioned anywhere else other than a video game. So here's a definition courtesy of Wikipedia:

A hip pointer is a contusion (bruise) on the pelvis caused by a direct blow to an iliac crest. Contact sports are a frequent cause of this type of injury.

A hip pointer bruise usually causes bleeding into the hip abductor muscles, which move legs sideways, away from the midline of the body. This bleeding into muscle tissue creates swelling and makes leg movement painful. This injury usually lasts from one to six weeks, depending on the damage. X-rays will help to determine the damage done to the iliac crest.

Good luck in the future Landryhat this site won't be the same.

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thanks for all your efforts dan, and good luck to your further endeviours

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I really wanted Earl Thomas in this draft to sure up that safety position. It wasn't in the cards and I am very happy with Dez. Now that the draft is gone and we know are options, I'm not as worried about the safety position as before. I think MBIII could be right about Jenkins moving into the second tier of good CB's behind the Revis and Asomugha group. If that is the case, we are sitting on 2 second tier corners, the top pass rusher, Spencer and a little Jay Rat to cover the pass. I think Sensabaugh and Hamlin/Ball will be serviceable in that scenario.

Kudos to you for being so damned realistic. I'm having a hard time containing my giddiness. I'm worried about our safeties and our offensive line (like everyone else) but every other spot on the field I feel we have ballers. Those are however, two big weak spots. I'm hoping that they don't even turn out to be weak spots. It would be great if Mike Hamlin or Alan Ball can play though I would give a lot to have a real enforcer in the defensive backfield, someone who makes receivers wonder where he's at and could shore up the run game with some big hits. At offensive line...the line is strange, we had one of the best running games in the league last year but it didn't feel like it. I don't think even other people were worried about how they're going to stop the Dallas running game. That could be just because Felix Jones wasn't starting. It's amazing how under appreciated the right running back behind a given line can be. This was my first time reading your blog. It's good. Are you in the Dallas area?

I have a buddy who swears that Anderson should be slinging hash at the Waffle House. I'll defer to him on Anderson. Arizona's coach said they are going to be more of a physical run oriented team. I think that is a good idea for them, because they lost key (though over rated and way overpaid) components to their defense. And I don't think Leinert will ever be as accurate as Kurt Warner. That's not a slight against Leinert; Warner was just incredible when he was on target.

I'm not a big Alex Smith fan, but I do think the Niner's play better defense and can run the ball better (barring major injury). Basically I'm siding with the team that knows what it is and how to get there rather than the team who knows it may be outmatched and is looking to kill clock to avoid exposing their QB and defense.

Arizona has plenty of offensive weapons (I'm betting that Derek Anderson will eventually land the starting job there and make their team better than Leinart can) and a better defense than most people give them credit for. I think that's a trap game for us too because we'll be looking toward Philly in the final game of the year. I can see the Cowboys slipping up for sure.

The only place I disagree is the difficulty of the schedule. On paper, before the season, it certainly looks difficult. But good teams get bad, and bad teams get good. It happens every year. I don't care if Kolb is the QB or Ryan Leaf makes a return to the NFL. Division games are more often than not difficult and physically exhaustive.

But the rest of the schedule. I see Arizona fighting to get six wins, Indy may have a hangover from losing the Super Bowl, I think Green Bay may be a playoff team, but this time around we will be prepared for them (as they changed their entire offensive scheme right before we played them last year), I think Minnesota's o-line is starting to erode and they will miss Chester Taylor more than they let on, and Houston is always mediocre (they are stuck in the middle and unless they hit on some big time draft picks or free agents, they will continue to waffle at 8-8).

All that said who the heck knows.