How bout them skins?

[DavidM]

Cowboys have one of the top passing offenses and with the exception of Austin, who really just picked up lots of short gainers, our secondary shut them down, both Hall and Landry looked like totally reborn players who wanted to be out there. Our D-line also put pressure on Romo all night, there were several holding penalties, and I even saw Haynesworth hustle on one play.

As much as it hurts me to say it, I agree with Cris Collinsworth on this. The Cowboys were mostly to blame for the lack of the passing game. They had two O-line starters out so all the passes called were quick hits for relatively short yardage. I think the Skins did a good job of defending the deep ball when they were called, but it wasn't very often.

To an extent yes, but IMO it also shows that they respect our secondary. If we had been playing Indy with a beat up line they would have just kept 7 in to block and still tried to go downfield with it, I don't think Dallas thought their receivers could beat our secondary straight up and thats why they went with those little WR screens. Speaking of...I want to buy whoever taught Deangelo Hall how to tackle a beer...thats the best I've seen him play ever. Any one of those little dump offs could have been big plays if out D wasn't swarming the the ball and tackling well.