Dallas Cowboys: Too confident is good for Cowboys

The Dallas Cowboys are on a three-game winning streak and face the high scoring New Orleans Saints tonight. But having swag is the key to victory.

Since the season began, the Dallas Cowboys have experienced a roller coaster of emotions. They started the season with mediocre wide receiver play, pathetic play calling, losses to average teams, inconsistency, and inept coaching (as always).

During that disastrous run, the Cowboys won and lost every other game to go 3-5. The Cowboys lost winnable games to the overrated Carolina Panthers, the Seattle Seahawks, the evil Washington Redskins, and the Houston Texans.

But the embarrassing loss to the Tennessee Titans on a Monday night was the knockout punch for this team. In reality, it was more of a Cowboys wake up call.

Dallas reportedly thought about firing offensive coordinator Scott Linehan during their bye week. The Dallas front office decided to fire offensive line coach Paul Alexander and traded a 2019 first round pick to the Oakland Raiders for wide receiver Amari Cooper.

That’s exactly what this team needed.

Instead of Dallas walking into tonight’s prime-time game against the New Orleans Saints like a scared weasel, this team is full of confidence and it is well deserved and needed.

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What’s wrong with talking a little trash and not backing down from a supposedly superior team? Especially when a reporter asks you a direct question about said opponent.

I loved Demarcus Lawrence’s response to a reporter. Before D-Law spoke his mind, the All-Pro defensive end praised the Saints for being hands down the NFL’s best team and explained how Dallas can get an unexpected win.

"“They’re going to have to match our intensity,” Lawrence said of the Saints. “[Expletive], for 60 minutes straight, if you hit a [expletive] in the mouth and then they ain’t doing what they’re regularly doing, putting up 50 points, they start to get a little distressed.“Now, you got them where you want them at, and then you [expletive] choke their ass out.”"

As I read Lawrence’s statement, I literally laugh out loud because this team needs a leader to step up and say something of substance with attitude. Furthermore, this newfound Dallas team has found its swag and it is well deserving.

After starting the season 3-5, dealing with a with a pedestrian offense, below average wideouts, and on the brink of missing the playoffs, the entire team needs to stick its chest out because it was left for dead.

Now it has awoken and is full of vigor and strength.

Only a few short weeks ago Dallas was the underdog in road games against those buzzards known as the Philadelphia Eagles, and the up and down Atlanta Falcons.

Trust me, nobody saw Dallas winning those games in convincing and satisfying fashion. I said, NOBODY!

And beating the Deadskins on Thanksgiving Day was the exclamation point to a three-game winning streak. Even the haters had to give Dallas credit for stepping up and proving the naysayers wrong.

Another reason Dallas needs to be confident is that the team went back to its foundation, it’s strength, it’s running game. Ezekiel Elliott is carrying the ball at least 20 times a game and Zeke is less than 45 yards away from leading the league in rushing.

When you add the explosiveness of Cooper, this Dallas offense is starting to resemble the high octane one of 2016. Opposing teams can no longer stack the box and force Dak Prescott to beat them with average receivers.

If opposing defenses stack the box now, Cooper will burn the opposing secondary with long touchdown receptions. If they don’t Zeke runs wild to the tune of 150 yards and a few touchdowns.

The Dallas’ defense is playing lights out, with ole D-Law leading the way with 8.5 sacks to boot.

Also, the Cowboys defense is top-10 in points allowed and yardage. Although Dallas’ defense struggles with getting off the field on third downs, well…

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D-Law said, “if you hit the [explextive] in the mouth…then they aren’t scoring 50 points because you got them where you want them…then you choke their butts out!”

And that’s all the confidence the Dallas Cowboys need!

Published on 11/29/2018 at 13:00 PM
Last updated at 11/29/2018 at 07:43 AM

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