Week 9 Recap - @ NY Giants

It happened. As predicted by myself and practically everybody else who knows football, Dallas fell victim to the reigning Super Bowl Champs, The New York Giants. It was a pathetic 14-35 loss that puts The Cowboys in the NFC East's basement with a 5-4 record and a 1-2 record in the division.

The Giants played a good game and were definitely the better team on Sunday. The mistakes they had were minimal, they scored when they needed to, and they ran all over The Cowboys, gathering 200 yards rushing.

The Cowboys had just a baby's handful of good plays which included rookie corner back Mike Jenkin's first interception & touchdown, but in the end, it wasn't enough. They went through two quarterbacks and neither could do much with the offense. On the defensive side, they had just as many problems and gave up far too many plays.

Where should blame go this week? The coaches? The players? The injuries? Jessica Simpson?

They all get the blame, well maybe not Jessica Simpson, but they all made mistakes and didn't seem to have the heart they demonstrated last week. The plays weren't creative, they couldn't get the ball to the play-making receivers and they couldn't stop the run. Sloppy.

There's no way they can continue on this path and have any hope to make the playoffs. The Cowboys will probably need to go 5-2 the second half of the schedule and finish at 10-6, at least. Unless there are major losses from the rest of the NFC, especially the East, it'd be a miracle if Dallas makes the playoffs.

It's a gloomy day, but the bye week comes at a perfect time. Many of the injured starters are expected back for the Washington game and two weeks of preparation can't hurt. We can only hope that this loss will sink into the heads of these players and coaches and spark some kind of magic as they head into the final stretch.