There is a saying that goes, “Sometimes you eat the bear and sometimes the bear eats you!” Now when the bear eats you, that’s not a good day. You are lucky to get out alive and will probably be worst for the year. When you look back you will be glad that you got out alive. The Cowboys were one of the healthiest teams in the league going into the game at Green Bay, remember it can be a healthy team that moves on in the race, and a battered one when they left.
Losing Colombo, Jenkins, and Hamlin in the game, as well as Ball for a while, put a real crimp in the Cowboys ability to play different coverage’s and tests their depth. Basically, the Cowboys were outplayed! Period! They did not play well enough to win on offense, defense, or the kicking game.
Key plays? With the score 0-0 in the first quarter, Folk missed a normally made 38-yd field goal. In the second quarter, Roy William scatches a pass and runs 42-yds, he then fumbles. At the start of the second half, Roy Williams gets hit in the head with a catchable ball that hurts the outcome. The defense only gave up 283 yards, but on this day that wasn’t good enough.
Charles Woodson had an incredible day for Green Bay and shows a lot of people what a top notch corner looks like in this league. Surprised? Not in the least. Going into this game people focused on Green Bay losing to Tampa Bay and overlooked the fact that the Packers was statistically one of the higher ranked teams in the NFL on both sides of the ball. Nothing that took place in the game surprised me. Green Bay won this game. If you make excuses or point a great deal of blame on the Cowboys you are then taking away from the fact that on this day “The Bear ate you !”
What’s next? The Redskins come to town. They’re terrible. Oh wait. They just beat Denver who was the poster team for genius turnarounds. When you look at Washington you will see that they’re defense is excellent in most any area. The kicking game is good and has created some big plays with fakes for touchdowns and the offense has struggled.
But when you look at the offense you see respectable numbers for QB Jason Campbell a good game last week from Ladell Betts, and if Portis is healthy he’s still a really good player. The Cowboys biggest opponent will be their health and how they respond to a disappointment. Every team goes through them at some point and usually a few times, but the good teams recover and move on. The NFL East is still in control of the Cowboys, but lose this game and all bets are off! There’s more Bear on the horizon!
