September 08, 2004
Football Predictions
The guys over at Football Outsiders have posted their picks and it's not good for the Cowboys. Only two people pick them to even make the playoffs and one of those uses the "have drunken monkeys throw darts" method of choosing. Of course, the sloshed simians do choose the 'Boys to win it all. Unfortunately, I may have to disagree with my favorite of all animals. Dallas seems to have taken a slight step backwards on defense (due in part to the questions at right corner) while improving only marginally and temporarily on offense. The defense should be enough to keep them in the games, but won't be quite as dominating as they were last year. If they had last year's defense plus this year's offense, I'd say they have a good chance of making it several rounds into the playoffs, but the improvements in offense will likely be canceled out by the weaker defense. Ah well.. I hope I'm wrong. Maybe Pete Hunter will turn out to be another excellent cornerback (or at least good enough) and the other problems on defense will get fixed, but getting burned in preseason games doesn't bode well. Then again, they did go 3-1. I don't know. I don't do this for a living, you know, so get off my back.