It has been three weeks and Dallas has a record of 2-1... not a bad start. It very easily could have been 3-0 but it is what it is and that's the game... moving on...
There are only 7 teams with that perfect 3-0 record and it's not surprising that the Giants, Indianapolis & Baltimore are in that category. It's a little bit surprising that New Orleans is too. It's even more surprising that Minnesota, the Jets and Denver are also undefeated.
On the other end of the spectrum are the teams that have fallen to 0-3, and there are 7 of those as well. Not surprising, Cleveland, Kansas City and St. Louis are without a win. A little surprising is Tampa Bay and Miami. It's even more surprising that Carolina and Tennessee are also winless.
These next two weeks, Dallas will be on the road to match up with a team from each of those lists. Next week they are heading to face the undefeated Denver Broncos. In two weeks they are heading to Kansas City, who will either be 1-3 or 0-4.
I'm just putting it out there, and I've been disappointed before but I'm going to say that Dallas has a good shot at being 4-1 heading into the bye week.
I should just stop my prognosticating at the bye week since it's never a good idea to look too far ahead in the NFL... but, I started it, so I might as well do a little more guessing...
OK, after the bye week are two games that Dallas has potential to win. Atlanta and Seattle. Atlanta sounds like the tougher of the two, they have been doing good things ever since Matt Ryan became the starter, but they are a young team and can be exploited.
Seattle has been an opponent a lot the past few years so that should help a little bit with game planning... In terms of motivationn, we can't forget about the playoff game loss, but we also shouldn't forget about the 34-9 Dallas victory last Thanksgiving. Winnable for sure.
The next stretch features Philly, Green Bay and Washington and is much more difficult to predict so I'm going to cut my guessing game short... we'll just have to see what plays out.
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