Pro Picks: Cowboys to test Chicago defense
By Dave Goldberg, AP Football Writer
Friday, September 21, 2007 12:44 PM PDT
The Dallas offense can score, the reason the Cowboys are 2-0 with a defense that’s allowed 27.5 points per game.
Chicago’s offense can’t score. But the Bears still have that great defense and Devin Hester to put up points.
So Sunday night’s game in Chicago figures to be one of those irresistible force/immovable object games. And given the starts of the two teams and the weakness of the NFC, it could be a preview of something to come in January.
The Bears are favored by three points, which is for home-field advantage. That might be too much.
It’s early, but Tony Romo is starting to look like the quarterback he followed growing up in Wisconsin. That’s earning him praise from this year’s coach that he would never earn (publicly at least) from last year’s Dallas coach, Bill Parcells, whose standard reaction to good play by youngsters was: “Don’t put him in Canton yet.”
Wade Phillips isn’t so reserved.
“He made some scrambles that you don’t see many people make, Brett Favre-ish,” Phillips said of Romo after last week’s 37-20 win in Miami.
Romo’s agility could cause problems for the Bears. The Dallas defense probably won’t totally shut down Chicago. But think of Romo’s mistake-prone counterpart, Rex Grossman.
The QBs are the difference.
COWBOYS, 23-22
Friday, September 21, 2007 12:44 PM PDT
The Dallas offense can score, the reason the Cowboys are 2-0 with a defense that’s allowed 27.5 points per game.
Chicago’s offense can’t score. But the Bears still have that great defense and Devin Hester to put up points.
So Sunday night’s game in Chicago figures to be one of those irresistible force/immovable object games. And given the starts of the two teams and the weakness of the NFC, it could be a preview of something to come in January.
The Bears are favored by three points, which is for home-field advantage. That might be too much.
It’s early, but Tony Romo is starting to look like the quarterback he followed growing up in Wisconsin. That’s earning him praise from this year’s coach that he would never earn (publicly at least) from last year’s Dallas coach, Bill Parcells, whose standard reaction to good play by youngsters was: “Don’t put him in Canton yet.”
Wade Phillips isn’t so reserved.
“He made some scrambles that you don’t see many people make, Brett Favre-ish,” Phillips said of Romo after last week’s 37-20 win in Miami.
Romo’s agility could cause problems for the Bears. The Dallas defense probably won’t totally shut down Chicago. But think of Romo’s mistake-prone counterpart, Rex Grossman.
The QBs are the difference.
COWBOYS, 23-22
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