On Paper: Detroit Lions At Dallas Cowboys

Should be a good game. I really don’t think you will get to Romo with just a 4 man rush though. He is awfully good at escaping pressure and making plays. Your best chance is to blitz him as often as possible.

Means the Lions should walk away with this.

Specifically the offensive lines on both sides. He who hath the clean QB, wineth the game. Stafford needs at least enough time to hit Best on a swing or a TE in the flat. Stretching the field a bit would be nice as it’ll force them to move LB’s back into space. Young or one of the TE’s would be huge if they can get those 10-12 yard chunks. That would take a measure of pressure off our O-line. It forces them to go 5 DB’s, drop the SS or bring up the FS clearing up Nate and Calvin. Just need enough time.

in preseason.

To know the throwing lanes, base coverages and overall nuances of the 3-4.

I expect the Lions start in a running formation, then switch to hurry up, standing up the TEs(in a 4 wide) and spreading out the defense, forcing the LBers into pass coverage…. Push, Push, PUsh…. high tempo start. Get a lead and force Dallas to throw.

Lions 38
Dallas 27

I think a lot will depend on Matt Stafford. If he starts quickly and stays error free, I am pretty confident we will get the win.

I am a little worried that he might be a little over excited for this game.

is just too much for the Lions one dimensional offense. Dallas leads the NFL in sacks with 13 in 3 games. Thirteen. You will see Ware line up in the middle, both sides of the ball, and away from the LOS. Anthony Spencer is returning to form and Sean Lee is playing lights out at LB. You will also see a bunch of overload blitzes, and players coming from every direction.

Apparently we dont have a strong defensive unit at all capable of doing anything to dallas…rob ryans defense beats all! Im sure your defense is great but dont discount our’s as well i promise that will be a huge mistake.I would say the same about your offense 1 dimensional your run game is ranked almost exactly the same as ours.

But I would definitely give our Run D at least a +1 advantage. Even with Durant out. We faced AP (the best RB in the league) and the best RB in the league after contact in Blount. The Chiefs have about the best run blocking lines IMO and huge chunks of yards have come from end-arounds via McCluster and Harvin…so maybe Cowboys will do that as well, but it’s misleading to think that their normal run game will be anything less than efficient (think 2 YPC)…

I think your numbers on our pass defense is especially revealing. I think we’ll be a slightly better than average pass defense. We haven’t been tested all that much like we will starting this week and as we move to the later part of the schedule. We’re going to need our Dline to dominate more than ever for us not to allow 300+ yards through the air IMO!

the cowgirls run defense will stuff the lions run offense = not a big deal, will have no effect on the game.

the lions run defense will stuff the cowgirls run offense = tough break for dallas’s offense output.

The lions passing attack will kill dallas weak secondary
The lions front 4 will put romo on a stretcher by halftime, and cause at least 3 take aways.
Dallas DL will cause like 3 sacks = no turnovers, and no points, maybe a few punts

The lions DL will score points with the take aways,

Lions WR’s will grossly out perform the cowgirls WR’s ( most of which don’t even know where to stand on offense, lol)
Cowgirls center will cost them with his incompetence

Lions 38-3.

How bout them lions…………

But I originally had this as the 1st loss of the year. I am no Dallas fan, but I agree that this will be one of the 6 losses Detroit will receive this year, though a close one.

Detroit 21, Dallas 24

Tied until the last few minutes with a Dallas FG to win it.

the cowboys have a chance …seems they can’t put it in when in the red zone …I’m sure the cowboy cheer leaders can put it in so ….I say …depends on how much romo wants his camera angle of him to be on the 20 ..and suh taking him down ..
.lions 31—cowboys 23

We go ballistic on both sides of ball Lions 28 -Cowboys 13

Obviously there will be many factors that go beyond what we’ve seen in stats. Obviously things like injuries will be a factor (more so for Dallas imo). Other things like units learning to gel or having the coaches boot up their ass (I’m looking at your Gos!) can also come into play. Keep in mind that where Sim was speaking in fact with statistical evaluations, I am not! I’m going by my homer gut here. Here’s what I’m thinking:
+going to outperform (imo, in regards to Sim breakdown):
=Lions pass O (the Dallas pass D will not be able to cover well even if CJ never catches a ball. They haven’t faced a variety of threat like this so far this season. I believe they will have good success against our TE for the most part tho)
=Lions D line (they already have a lot expected of them but I believe they’ll outperform even this. The match up of this struggling OL will have Romo on the move and the ground all day long.)
=Cowboys Run O (Det was looking exposed against Charles prior to injury. I’m expecting to see a lot more of this at least in the 1st half until they’re too far behind to rely on the run.)

-going to underperform:
=Cowboys pass O (the loss of targets via injury combined with a pass rush they haven’t faced this year combined with an injured QB combined with a Det DB unit still gelling will spell a nightmare the Dallas pass game. They thought they were having problems moving the ball last week? They’ll be looking back for the good ol days…)

It may not sound like it, but I do have a lot of respect for the Cowboys. I am sounding so down on them primarily due to the strength of the Lions and their weaknesses for this week. I just don’t believe they’re going to have much luck moving the ball against us on a regular basis. They had to reserve too many guys in protection I believe the Det secondary will have little troubles in coverage.

Lions 34 Cowboys 13

These projected scores in the 30s are a tad high.

That ’Skins game was downright wretched and the Cowboys still won. I doubt they come out that flat come Sunday.

I think both teams are very evenly matched. In saying that, I have confidence in us to win, although this game worries me a lot. I’m thinking a score of around 23-17 to the Lions.

I think both teams are very evenly matched. In saying that, I have confidence in us to win, although this game worries me a lot. I’m thinking a score of around 23-17 to the Lions.

This will allow Linehan to come out gun blazing and we won’t see the slow start we have seen the first three weeks.

I can see them slinging everywhere to start to set up the run.

LOL. He sounds like a scared little boy. But he does admit that his favorite players of all time are Aikman, Irvin, and Emmitt. So I guess he is a lot smarter than I thought he was. He even helped Jerry out by purchasing a suite for the game. To bad we have to hurt him.

is comparing your team to the 91 Cowboys. Wow. I guess we should be scared then. I guess that means that you might be winning 3 Super Bowls in the next few years. Let me be the first to congratulate you.

Enough fun for me. Been a great week pushing your buttons. Good Luck today and on the remaining games on your schedule. I really do love all you guys and hope you stay classy tomorrow morning. Cowboys 20, Lions 17.

DEZ is starting. Now you can see what we are all excited about. Game over. Duchess of Detroit.

Actually they are talking about you guys right now.

are against the Browns and Redskins. OOOOO scary.

Does your mommy know that you are playing on the computer?

I was all excited about having 200 comments…then I read them. Embarrassing.