Early take on how we match up next week vs. Dallas?

BoNcHiE said

The biggest thing you should take from the upcoming matchup with the Cowboys is that the NFL is hard to figure out and even harder to figure out in weeks 1-3. What you think is going to happen probably won't happen.

There are going to be a lot of teams that should win on Sunday that lose because week 2 is always wild like that (if you bet, you know about week 2). The Cowboys have as good a chance to be one of them as any other team.

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This is why I don’t play the stats-gazing/matchup game when sports betting.

The NFL just doesn’t work that way. How many times have we heard “team x’s OL is weak so team y will win” and then the opposite happens? Or that a game will be low scoring and then one team hangs 30+? Or that a secondary is elite and then they get toasted?

Everything is about scheme these days. It’s not “muh big man line up across from your big man, bigger man win.” Games aren’t won on paper.

We took Parsons out of the game with scheme, not overwhelming physical play. Something to think about the next time these discussions come up.

And for the same reason, you can’t just assume we’ll beat the Eagles at home.