Loss doesn't shake Cowboys' confidence
Loss doesn't shake Cowboys' confidence

By STEPHEN HAWKINS

Published: September 30, 2008

IRVING, Texas — Dallas eliminated a huge distraction with its first loss on Sunday.

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"I guess now we can be alleviated from going 16-0,” Bradie James said Monday, a day after the Cowboys lost 26-24 at home to NFC East rival Washington.

"It's always a big atom bomb drop anytime we lose because people think we are going to win every game every year by 40 points,” Marcus Spears said. "But that's not the case. … We've always been able to pull back together. Guys have no less hope of getting where we want to go now than before we played Washington.”

One loss doesn't eliminate Super Bowl expectations for the Cowboys (3-1), but it did drop them from the top of the NFC East, the league's toughest division, behind the Giants (3-0) and tied with the Redskins.

There may not be any confidence lost by Dallas, but there are questions after the Redskins held what had been the NFL's most explosive offense to season lows in points and yards (344).

"We didn't run the ball enough,” coach Wade Phillips said Monday. "In some games we audible out of running plays. In this game, we probably audibled out of too many.”

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