The Dallas Cowboys are coming off a very good Week 2 victory over the Los Angeles Chargers and after dropping a tough one in their season opener to the defending world champion, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, two Thursdays ago.
While that’s ancient history, at this point, it does speak towards something. The Dallas Cowboys, in just two weeks, have experienced game-stressors that it typically takes until Week 8 to experience, in most cases.
They were in a shootout, that came down to the final moments of the game and who could make the play last. They were then in a similar type of game with the Chargers, though not as explosive.
Where it was who could score last against the G.O.A.T, Tom Brady, it was who could make a big stop against the Chargers. Both of those are key scenarios that you hope your team can experience and come out on the other side successful at… prior to it being a win or go home situation.
Dallas Cowboys: Eagles’ Sirianni’s ‘Beat Dallas’ Shirt Should Do The Trick
The season hasn’t gotten to that point yet, but the Cowboys made have their first fulcrum moment approaching. With a chance to show the first real control in the division on Monday night, for them or any other member of it, this is a huge early game when you consider all things.
Not only does it begin the division dictation, but it helps the Cowboys get a read on where they truly are. With the Eagles beating Atlanta and dropping a game to San Francisco, it tells you that they aren’t terrible but that they also aren’t that good… yet.
Who knows if they’ll ever get there but either way, it should help the Cowboys get a clearer picture of where they are as a unit. They’ll have help too.
Well, they may have just gotten help, that is. In the form of Bulletin Board Material, Eagles headman, Nick Sirianni, just gave the Cowboys all of the motivation they should need to come out and demolish their inter-divisional rivals on Monday night.
Dallas Cowboys: Did Nick Sirianni Write A Check That His Team Can’t Cash?
Here is that material. It comes from ESPN’s Tim McManus.
"Sirianni said of all the NFL rivalries, this one reminds him the most of a classic college football rivalry. He’s comfortable embracing it, even if wearing the T-shirt gives Dallas a little bulletin board material. “Yeah, I’m sure they’re going to have the picture of this shirt on there. And that’s fine,” he said. “With the rivalry and it being a division game, I don’t know if anyone needs — our side, their side, needs any more bulletin board material or if it’s even going to help because we know how big the rivalry is and how much it means to both sides.”"
To be quite frank, the Cowboys probably didn’t even need more motivation, as he’s right, this is a real rivalry and the Boys know that too. However, to say that this won’t motivate them to punish the Eagles to the greatest extent that they can… if they can, would be entirely false.
Humans thrive off of being underrated. That goes double for pro athletes. You can triple that for the barbarians that are all of our favorite football players. It’s literally a game about physically dominating your opponent and hopefully, making them submit to your will… either via pure brute force or some combination of that and poetry on grass.
With this, Sirianni may have just took it to the bank. Well, his mouth might be writing a check… that his you know what and team… can’t cash. We will certainly see and the anticipation is uncontainable.
The Cowboys though should be ready to give an Old School-House Beatdown in this “rivalry” that reminds him of the ones in college. Either way and there is one thing for certain. When it comes to the guys over in that Dallas Cowboys locker room, this should certainly do the trick.