Post Bye Week

[Terd Ferguson]

I'm just hoping the beginning of this season has been every bad thing that can go wrong, all at once. We've been injured all over the place, starting rookies, waiver wire pickups, etc. We have had a season's worth of stupid plays that have directly cost us 2 games (and 2 very gutsy games won).

The slate is clean. We are 2-2. We have all of our division games left except the one that we played (and won) vs Washington. We are in control of our destiny at this point.

We should come out of the bye week fairly healthy.
Jenkins should be better. Newman made it through his first couple of weeks clean. Scandrick should be back. Sensabaugh will be fine.
LBs are good and could be bolstered by Carter after week 6 (in practice) and week 8 (when he can be activated).
OL is starting to gel, as evidenced by that performance vs Suh and the motor city linemen.
Austin and Dez should be 100% and we've found our 3rd WR in Robinson.
We have a legit kicker (time to cut bait on Buehler, even Bailey's kickoffs are fine).

I think we're going to surprise New England (whether we win or just give them a good scare) and from there this team will start to blossom. I really think that is how their collective psyche will be with Ryan and Garrett pushing the buttons.

The caveat to that is, Romo must play more consistently. I can deal with a slight reduction in the number of "oh wow" plays if it means reducing the "holy crap...why did you do that" plays as well. This team has what it takes to HELP him. He doesn't have to carry them. He needs to know that. Garrett needs to call the game that way. If Garrett called games for Tony the same way he did with Kitna (conservatively) we would be very scary.

[matt51180]

"Garrett needs to call the game that way. If Garrett called games for Tony the same way he did with Kitna (conservatively) we would be very scary. "

I just don't undertand how HE doesn't get that if we all notice that.

[Sideshow Bob]

Yeah, I think the best thing in our favor is what Gary said about all but one NFC East games still left (and we won the one we've already played). Bye week comes at the best time possible. Only players who might not be back from injury after the bye are Dockery and maybe Scandrick. We'll be almost fully healthy - even Romo should be near 100% again by then. Sucks that we're at NE first game out of the gate after the bye, but I think we've shown that we can beat just about anyone, so long as we don't keep beating ourselves.

[Terd Ferguson]

Scandrick is already ok....said he would practice this week and play vs NE.

I think getting NE right out of the gate is perfect. Nothing will erase the Jets game or the Lions game, but if the team can focus their anger and go into NE and win that game, it will go a LONG way to helping this team's psyche and confidence. NE's defense isn't as good as it used to be, so if we're healthy on defense and we can get after Brady and win that game, it would be HUGE for our season.

[Sideshow Bob]

Didn't realize about Scandrick - that's good news.

And it would definitely be a big plus for us to come out of the bye and beat the Pats, if we can pull it off. Like I said, the only team who has clearly shown they can beat the Cowboys so far is the Cowboys.