Week 3 Preview - Dallas @ Houston

This game is a biggie. There's not too many times that you have must-win games in week 3, but after prematurely being crowned Super Bowl competitors and then coming out of the gate 0-2, this game will need to be won if Dallas wants any shot of playing past the regular season. Teams who start 0-3 have less than a 3% chance of even making the playoffs, so if they lose this game, the season is pretty much done.

Houston has been doing great things. In game one they defeated Indy without much resistance at all, making it only the second time they won against The Colts, ever. They did struggle a bit against Washington last week, needing a field goal in overtime to win it, but all-in-all, The Texans are definitely a playoff caliber team right now. This is not going to be an easy victory for Dallas.

For The Cowboys to win, they will need to play perfect, mistake-free football and they'll probably need a nice dose of good luck too. Unfortunately, I have seen no evidence that they will turn around their woes and start piling up wins, but stranger things have happened and I gotta try and stay optimistic.

It's really a toss-up and I have no way of predicting how this game will end. Houston is playing lights-out football and Dallas has been tripping over their own feet lately. The logical prediction will be The Texans winning, but deep in my heart I know that The Cowboys have the talent to pull off an upset... but do they have the discipline and desire? That will be the big question mark come Sunday afternoon.

*In Other Cowboys News*

Not a major shocker, but FB Deon Anderson has been cut from The Cowboys roster and replaced by TE Scott Chandler. Anderson was expected to miss at least 2-4 more weeks after he torn his meniscus (sp). He will be put on waivers to see if another team wants to pick him up.

Anderson was a good player, great at blocking, not so great with carries or receptions and he was in legal trouble earlier this year for some kind of weapons charge, so maybe that had something to do with his release as well. Farewell Deon, it has been fun.