Cowboys Through 4 Games: What We’ve Learned
By John Helsley
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We’re already 1/3 of the way through the football season.
Doesn’t seem possible, probably because so much of the meat in the schedule remains ahead for the Cowboys, Saturday’s game against Kansas not included.
Still, fresh from an off week (and entering another?), four games provide a good checkpoint to consider the things we’ve learned so far in 2011.
A list of five:
1. Mental Toughness. This team has already endured a weather-delayed game played in the wee-morning hours – the bars beat the coaches at last call! – and a 20-3 deficit at one of the nation’s toughest venues to start 4-0. We saw the makings of a mentally tough team a year ago, when the Cowboys rolled unbeaten on the road. We’ve now seen more, which should suggest that this team can handle anything that stands in their way from this point on, including more rugged road tests.
2. Loaded Gun.
The Cowboys roll with the best in the weapons race, with an offense expanding well beyond Weeden2Blackmon. Sure, Brandon Weeden-to-Justin Blackmon remains a premium production, but these Pokes can pick teams apart in a variety of ways, whether charging with running backs Joseph Randle and Jeremy Smith, or spreading the wealth through the air with a deep wideout rotation that includes Josh Cooper, Tracy Moore, Hubert Anyiam, Michael Harrison and more.
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