As Steven Tyler when so eloquently put it, it’s the very same old story, usual tune and dance. That’s how it feels today for the Cowboys after getting entirely humiliated in their home opener by the Saints, who entered into the video game as 6.5-point underdogs.
The Saints scored a goal on each and every single drive through the very first 3 quarters, and Mike Zimmer’s defense – which looked downright dominant in Week 1 – didn’t require a punt till midway through the 4th quarter. All in all, the Cowboys followed up their blowout win on the roadway with a blowout loss in your home to the tune of 44-19.
After the video game, the remarks from coaches and gamers all fell along the very same line: this was a humbling experience, this will inspire us, we’ll improve from this. If it sounded practiced, that’s since it was. The Cowboys have actually formed a routine out of these video games under Mike McCarthy: they get burnt out by a group they must’ve beat, talk all week about how it’ll encourage them to play even harder next time, and after that head out and score a big win the next week.
To be reasonable, the Cowboys do tend to react well following a loss. Because 2021, the Cowboys have actually lost successive video games simply two times. In 2021, they followed up a loss to the Chiefs in Arrowhead with an overtime loss to, coincidentally, Derek Carr and the Raiders in a video game that saw lots of charges both methods. In 2015, they went 0-2 on their December journey to Buffalo and Miami before duping 2 more wins to complete out the season and win the NFC East.
When the Cowboys do win after a loss, they tend to win huge too. In such video games, they’ve outscored their challenger 423-193. Possibly that bodes well for the Cowboys’ match this upcoming week versus the Ravens, who are a spectacular 0-2 on the year up until now.
That does not make it any simpler to stand this loss, however, nor the method which it took place. It had actually been gone over all week that the Saints tried to revamp their offense this offseason by plucking Klint Kubiak off the 49ers training tree, a tree which has numerous branches in charge of offenses throughout the league nowadays. The majority of those branches have actually taken pleasure in fantastic success versus the Cowboys defense.
This year felt various. Zimmer had a history of succeeding versus the Shanahan design offense. His system had actually looked invincible a week prior versus a Browns group that uses the exact same plan. And Zimmer recognized with Kubiak, who invested 4 seasons on Zimmer’s personnel in Minnesota. On top of all that, the Cowboys had actually lastly purchased some beef in the trenches, including veterans Jordan Phillips and Linval Joseph in addition to Mazi Smith expanding once again.
That didn’t make a lick of distinction. The Saints ran roughshod over the Dallas defense,