Its good to see the Dallas fans are still as dumb as ever. Those who hadn't walked away dejected after the Skins were driving down the field late in the fourth even turned around to taunt Skins fans after their illegitimate touchdown. Others still had to have explained to them on Thursday why a game can end on an offensive penalty and not a defensive penalty. What makes Dallas fans so infuriating is that they love to taunt real football fans when the Cowboys win a 7-6 squeaker over a Zorn-coached team, but just don't care when they lose a game in which they get dominated. When the Eagles and Giants fans lose, they are dejected and honestly hurt by their teams defeat and that fills me with glee. Dallas fans just don't have anything invested in their team; they just like the big star and shiny colors with the overrated QB and cheesy owner. LeBron is the quintessential front-running Dallas fan. You already see a lot less Dallas gear around town this week. If they drop to 0-2 against the Bears, those Romo jerseys will be packed away for a while.
It wasn't pretty, but it didn't have to be. The Skins dominated both sides of the line and the best team won in typical NFC East fashion. We don't even have to go into Orakpo's dominance over the Dallas line. Trent Williams pounded DeMarcus Ware so hard he was afraid to go out in the fourth quarter, when Dallas needed their best player most to try to send the game into overtime. Dallas fans who think the game was just an MMA-style hold away from a win for them are mistaken; Carlos Rodgers dropped the game-sealing interception on a typical Romo throw when the game is on the line.
The Redkskin who had the worst game was Casey Rabach. The Cowboys blitzed McNabb constantly down the middle and it seemed like Rabach could not stop any of it. The Skins MVP was Portis, who stuffed the Cowboys blitz down the middle keeping McNabb's new gold pants clean. The Cowboys MVP was their kicker. Yes he missed a kick that would have given them a chance to get another to go to overtime, but he was the leading special teams tackler for the Cowboys too. Make no mistake about it; the Skins dominated that game in several facets. The Cowboys racked up the yards just like they did last year, but could not score enough points. They are well on their way to repeating last year's performance of being 2cnd in the NFL in yards, and 14th in points. A great fantasy team for their fantasy fans.
This week the Skins go into a better barometer game playing the best team in Texas. The Texans defense isn't as stout, but their offense can't be expected to bumble like the Cowboys. I'm interested to see how the Mario vs. Trent matchup will go, just to ensure that we made the right pick, and to approximate how many games McNabb should be playing this year. A win and this town will start its typical over-reaction. A loss is not the end of the world; I would have taken 1-1 to start the year. Our offense obviously needs to keep up with Houston's, we can't expect to only hold them to just a touchdown off of a 34 yard drive. With all the talk about locker room access this week, it seems the people with the access neglected to ask the most important question; how much of the offense does McNabb know and run? Was it 50% against Dallas, and that is why we ran mostly follow routes and McNabb looked uncomfortable on some of his throws?
Why wasn't Fred Davis used at all, and either he, Cooley, or both split out to maximize a weak receiving corps? Will Devin Thomas be used at all on offense? I trust the Shanahans, but if Thomas was in instead of Armstrong on those end zone fades it would have been a 20-7 game. Will Trent win the Williams battle and put himself in the conversation as one of the best OTs in the game in his first year? Is Landry that good when Cerrato does not have him playing a position he was not drafted for? Is Orakpo on a level with Mario Williams? Can this team do what it needs to win what could be a down game coming off a beat-down of a division rival? (Houston is in the same boat, Indy is their version of the Cowboys, except Manning deserves the hype.) I don't think Arian Foster is Riggo just yet, just watch him struggle to approach 100 yards this week. What Skins fans want is to get to the bye at 4-4 or 5-3 with a healthy team. At that point they will know the offense and know the personnel that they have to best execute it, and then try to make a run. In the end, hard-nosed NFC East football will always beat hype, and then you never know what can happen.
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