The Dallas Cowboys enhanced to 6-2 on the season after controling the Chicago Bears 49-29 on Sunday.
Dak Prescott finished 77.8% of his passes for 250 backyards and 2 goals and included one hurrying rating. Third-year running back Tony Pollard began in location of an hurt Ezekiel Elliott, popping off for 131 hurrying backyards and 3 goals. Three of Dallas’ 6 success haveactually been by double digits.
The Cowboys are permitting simply 16.6 points per videogame, their least consideringthat 2003 through 8 videogames. They presently sit 2nd in the NFC East behind the unbeaten Philadelphia Eagles (7-0).
That stated, how huge of a danger are the Cowboys to win the NFC and make it to the playoffs?
A quite frightening one, if you ask Skip Bayless.
On Monday, the “Undisputed” host described why he thinks the Cowboys will make a run in the postseason.
“I’m gonna provide my group a 9, on a scale of one to 10, as how I see this group’s possibility to getting to its veryfirst NFC Championship Game in 27 years,” Bayless stated. “I love the makings of what we can be in an NFC that feels like it … is asking to be won by someone. Everybody that I feared (before the season) is a noone right now.”
Cowboys head to bye week at 6-2 with Week 8 win vs. Bears
Skip Bayless describes why Dallas is a huge risk to reach the Super Bowl.
Dallas endedup with 442 backyards of overall offense to the Bears’ 371 lawns — inspiteof having the ball for approximately 12 less minutes than Chicago — going 9-for-11 on 3rd downs and 4-for-4 in the red zone.
Shannon Sharpe was high on the Cowboys after their explosive efficiency, however he wasn’t as persuaded that they’re Super Bowl bound, offering Dallas a 7 out of 10 possibility to reach the playoffs.
“The Cowboys were astonishing theotherday,” Sharpe stated. “The Cowboys have to feel truly excellent about where they are offensively. The just thing, onceagain — run defense. … That’s the thing that’s worrying. [The Cowboys are] playing actually, actually well, however for some factor, you can’t stop the run. … I believe [the Cowboys] are the third-best group in the NFC right now (behind the Eagles and the San Francisco 49ers).”
Indeed, stopping the run was not a toppriority Sunday. Dallas offered up 240 lawns on the ground to the Bears, and on the season, the Cowboys are offering up 135.1 hurrying lawns per videogame, the ninth-most in the NFL.
Dallas is off in Week 9 priorto heading to Lambeau Field to take on Green Bay in Week 10 (4: 25 p.m. ET, FOX).
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