Please please please jump off the bandwagon all you fake Cowboy's fans. All anyone wants to do is be reactionary and make snap judgments right after the fact and on a Monday. There was too much positive to be taken from that game. If anyone had any real expectations of going into NYC on the tenth anniversary of 9/11 and just roll a team that has been to the last two AFC Championship they are lying to themselves. The Cowboys dominated that game for three quarters until finally inexperience, rust and stupid mistakes cost them in the end. This isn't college football. The season is't over with a loss in week one.
What I keep hearing and seeing is that everyone is focused on just another collapse by "America's Team". And a substantial group is trending toward blaming Tony Romo for all of this and the loss, iincluding Tony himself. What people did not seem to notice was Romo carving up one of the best defense in the league for 342 yards and two touchdowns while being constantly handcuffed by an inexperienced offensive which killed several drives with bone headed penalties and blown assignments. Sure Romo was responsible for two costly turnovers that allowed the Jets back in, but Romo was the guy that had them in the position to win in the first place with a virtually non existent run game to support him.
Dez Bryant continues to look like a superstar in the making, as long as he can keep those wheels right. The first quarter he made the Jets secondary, including All-World Derelle Revis, look out classed and over matched. The second year receiver look like a man amongst boys, that is until he was debilitaed be cramps and largely ineffective for the remainder of the contest. Even on Romo's late costly interception, it looked like there was a miscommunication between the QB and his young star receiver, and possibly that Bryant was unable to make the cut he was suppose to make due to is cramping legs.
Rob Ryan's new take on the 3-4 defence in Big D also looks like something to be excited about. On the very first defensive play, last seasons sack leader Demarcus Ware, started the season off right where he left off last year with a sack on Mark Sanchez. The Jets over the past two seasons have had the league's best rushing attack, and the Cowboys held the Jets to 45 yards on the ground. Injuries were the big killer on this side of the ball. When the Jets were able to make their second half comeback through the air, it was largely against the Cowboys' fourth and fifth string cornerbacks.
Before everybody writes off the 'Boys for another season, let's remember that one of the top teams in the NFL needed all three fluke plays, a fumble on their own one yard line, a blocked punt for a touchdown and a 50+ yard field goal in the last minute by a kicker who was almost cut in the preseason for lack of consistency to win an emotional game at home.
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