Throwdowns > Closed

Schad - Notorious Deadbeat said 10/03, 10:04 PM
Injuries are a weak excuse. Every team has had injuries. Most of those teams having injuries have had major ones. I don't care about what players have done in the past when it comes to injuries, or how many former pro-bowlers were involved. I'm also not going to waste anyone's time with a list of pro-bowlers on other teams that have been out.

Also, every player plays with injuries throughout the season. Do you think there is a single player outside of kickers and punters that aren't playing with injuries of one form or another, every week?

Romo.

He has cost his team 2 games this year. That's out of 4 played. He threw a couple of 2nd half touchdowns to players in blue and white yesterday. Unfortunately, they were playing for the other team. He threw a nice pass to a Jets defender a few weeks ago.

It isn't "Cowboy hate", it's realism. Next 5 against:

@New England
St. Louis
@ Philly
Seattle
Buffalo

They could very easily be staring down at 4-5 after 9 games. After that, they have 2 games against the Giants, one more against the Eagles, @ Washington against whom they barely eeked out a win at Dallas against.

You can't guarantee a playoff visit.

Schad - Notorious Deadbeat said 10/04, 10:33 AM
So, Romo isn't why they lost when he threw those 2 "Pick-6's" against the Lions, but was the reason why they were in a position to win until those INT's he threw were run back? So, all credit and no blame?

As far as "predicting" injuries, you don't know. You'd be as successful as Nostradamus in predicting them, and Nostradamus has been dead for almost 450 years. You can't predict a random occurrence.

As far as the "much better personnel" that Dallas has to a random game from last year by the Browns, these same players gave up over 300 yards to Sanchez.

For the rest of your predictions, to say they are going to go somewhere between 6-2 and 8-0 with all these "injuries" seems a bit far fetched. Who are they going to beat? You seem to dismiss the Eagles because of their record, yet suddenly a 2-2 team is going to reel off a fantastic record for the next half season. You dismiss Buffalo because of a team they lost to, but the Cowboys lost to an Alex Smith led 49ers team and one of the worst offenses in the NFL.

Coaching is also a huge problem. What kind of OC decides to throw the ball all over the place with a huge lead? That won't change.

Schad - Notorious Deadbeat said 10/04, 05:23 PM
No, it isn't "reasonable" to assume that the rate of injuries will change. It is a random event. You have nothing to base this on. Some years, teams have a lot of injuries, some seasons they don't. There isn't a rhyme or reason to a random event.

You kept saying they are going to go somewhere between 6-2 to 8-0, yet you now say that you aren't predicting games. Which is it? Oh, you predicted that they would beat New England, in New England, where Brady hasn't lost a home game in years. Based on what?

You keep looking through your crystal ball and saying that their health is going to improve. I'm still waiting on how you know this based on the randomness of injuries.

Injuries have nothing to do with the interceptions Romo has been throwing.

Injuries have nothing to do with bad routes being run.

Injuries have nothing to do with the poor playcalling and coaching by the coaches of Dallas.

Their defense struggled with Sanchez. The same Sanchez that threw for slightly over 100 yards last week. The same Sanchez that is 28th in QB rating now. He was 27th last year. He's a bad QB and Dallas struggled with him. What are they going to do with a good QB?