Friday, May 25th, 2012
The 2009 Dallas Cowboys finished off their regular season with a record of 11-5 and finishing 1st in the NFC East. The team qualified in the NFL playoffs and hosted a Wild card game.
The Cowboys earned a 34-14 victory over the Philadelphia Eagles in the NFC Wild card round playoffs. A week later the team was forced to play at Minnesota in the NFC Divisional playoff game and was humiliated in a 34-3 loss.
Dallas overcame their historic late season blunders by winning 5 of their last 7 regular season games and their last three in a row.
The Dallas Cowboys offense was in high gear in 2009 as the team finished #2 in the league in total offense averaging 399.4 yards per game. Their passing attack finished 6th at 267.9 yards per game.
Dallas was near the top of the league in total offense based on a balanced attack.
The defense really picked it up in 2009 as the club finished #2 in scoring defense allowing only 16.6 points per game. They shut out two opponents last season and allowed 7 or less points to an opponent in 5 games last season.
In 2010 Dallas will return 20 of 22 starters as they enter training camp.
The Odds:
Bodog odds makers have set the Dallas Cowboys regular season win total at 10 wins with over the -125 favorite and the under bringing back -105.
Bodog sportsbook has posted the Dallas Cowboys as 12-1 to win the 2011 Super Bowl, 6-1 to win the NFC Championship and the +130 favorite to win the NFC East.
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2010 Dallas Cowboys Regular Season Schedule:
The Cowboys play in the NFC East so that will bring a road and home game against the New York Giants, Washington Redskins and Philadelphia Eagles.
The NFC East must play the NFC North and AFC South. With that the Cowboys will host the Chicago Bears and Detroit Lions from the NFC South and will travel to Minnesota and Green Bay.
Their AFC scheduled includes home games against the Tennessee Titans and Jacksonville Jaguars will difficult road games at Indianapolis and Houston.
As the first place finisher in 2009 in the NFC East the Cowboys are scheduled to play the other 2 first place teams from the NFC. The Cowboys will host New Orleans and travel to Arizona.
The Cowboys have a brutal schedule in 2010. The teams final 6 games of the season is treacherous.
The six game stretch includes a home game against the Saints, on the road against Indy, home to Philadelphia and Washington and then the team concludes the regular season at Arizona and Philadelphia.
Offense:
In 2009 Tony Romo matured into the position of starting quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys. With confidence in his defense the 8 year veteran displayed signs of his maturity by taking better care of the football and just as important his decision making on the field. He got one monkey off his back last season and that was winning a playoff game but a Super Bowl victory in Dallas is all that is acceptable for the engineer of America‘s Team.
Romo completed 63.1% of his passes for 4483 yards 26 touchdowns and 9 interceptions. Ironically Romo had his best season under center the year after Terrell Owens left the team in free agency.
With the Roy Williams experiment failing it was Miles Austin with a pro bowl year in 2009. Austin caught 81 passes last season for 1320 yards and an impressive 16.3 yards per catch average and 11 touchdowns. Dez Bryant was drafted in the first round to give Romo even more weapons to go to. Tight end Jason Witten is still Tony Romo’s go to guy in third down situations to move the chains. The Dallas tight end had 94 catches with 2 touchdowns and an impressive 11.0 yards per reception for his position.
On the ground many in Dallas want to see more touches for running back Felix Jones. The three year player led the running game with 5.9 yards per carry. Marion Barber was hampered with injury as possibly the hits are beginning to take their toll on this 6 year veteran. He rushed 214 times for 932 yards and a 4.4 yards per carry average a year ago. Tashard Choice returns as the third option at running back for the Cowboys and he produced a 5.5 yards per carry average a year ago on 64 carries and three touchdowns.
On the offensive line the Cowboys released long time left tackle Flozell Adams during the off season. The team is hoping that four year veteran Doug Free can erase all those concerns come training camp and preseason. The Cowboys offensive line was torched the Vikings pass rush in the NFC Championship game.
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Defense:
The Cowboys defense produced another good performance with 42 sacks last season following their #1 performance in that category two seasons ago.
The front three of Marcus Spears, Jay Ratliff and Igor Olshansky performed very well last season as the club finished #4 in the league against the run.
DeMarcus Ware was an inspiration for the team playing through ailments during the year and ended up with 11 sacks. Anthony Spencer, Bradie James and Keith Brooking make up the rest of the corps.
The Cowboys could do better in their secondary position as the team finished 20th in the league against the pass allowing 225.4 yards per game. Terence Newman and Mike Jenkins man the corners with Mike Hamlin and Gerald Sensabaugh at starting safeties. Safety Ken Hamlin was let go to free agency. The Cowboys coaching staff were thoroughly disappointed in the lack of pass coverage in the playoff loss to the Vikings.
And now to my Selection:
Two NFC East division teams will start new quarterbacks in 2010 as Donovan McNabb will engineer the Redskins and Kevin Kolb the Eagles. The word is still out of the New York Giants defense returning back to form. They get Washington early in week 1 so that will play to the Cowboys advantage as McNabb makes his first regular season start with a new team right out of the shoot against a hated rival.
I expect the Cowboys to get off to a good start and look to pile up wins in the regular season to inch closer to a Super Bowl by earning a bye in the first round or possible attaining home field advantage throughout the playoffs. The team is very familiar with each other playing to their advantage early on.
Yes the schedule is brutal but so was the Pittsburgh Steelers schedule in 2008. And you know what happened that season. The tough schedule toughened up the Steelers for their run to the Super Bowl.
Dallas behind solid play on both sides of the ball get to 11 wins this season.
Selection: Play Over 10 wins in 2010 Regular Season.
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