Advantage Belongs To Dallas Cowboys Against Inferior Seahawks Team

by Ryan Bush

Lingering Memories?

      1-0  and headed for trouble.  That’s the warning call for Jerry Jones’ bunch of party crashers as they board their flight for a second consecutive road contest to begin the 2012 season.

No, the “trap” cries coming from the gallery have nothing to do with players possibly feeling good about themselves after an impressive victory to open the season.  But there’s an uncommon amount of support to the theory that the Cowboys are the inferior team of the two.  Seahawks lassoing Cowboys?  Who woulda thunk it?!

It’s only Week 2 and we’re already trying to convince ourselves that Pete Carroll has turned the dirty birds of Seattle into the NFL version of USC. Sorry, but last week’s loss to the desert birds of Arizona extinguished any, and all, hopes of Carroll fielding an NFL giant in 2012.  He is a likable guy, but is still starting a rookie quarterback, and couldn’t even get past the Cardinals, of all teams, with an extra timeout in the second half last week.

Depicting Sunday’s clash in the Great Northwest as a “trap” game for the visiting Dallas Cowboys might be considered a mere turning of a benevolent face toward a home team that is desperately seeking for something good to happen to them early in the season.  Trying to convince yourself that Carroll is fielding a better team than Jason Garrett’s bespeaks of some incurable form of mental illness.  And, anyway, how can anyone call any road game in the NFL a “trap” these days?  Whatever happened to parity and equality of conditions?

Speaking of conditions, it should be much, much cooler at kickoff time on Sunday than back in Big D’.  All you Texas tailgaters can thank the NFL scheduling committee for preventing you from having to flip burgers off the hood of your truck in sweltering 90-degree heat.  Heat-stroke, metallic burgers, and Jerry World.  The consequences of mixing the Seattle Seahawks into all that would likely result in a monotonous three-and-a-half hours. Ah, the weather.  Just one of the many indicators that the Cowboys and Seattle Seahawks are not on equal footing at this juncture.

Running backs.  Demarco Murray versus Marshawn Lynch.  Though only in his second NFL season, the edge is obviously in Murray’s corner.

Receivers?  The Cowboys not only outclass Seattle in this department, they out-universe them.

Offensive line.  Little evidence to support the theory that the Cowboys actually possess one.  Advantage Seattle.

Front-seven.  Edge belongs to Dallas, but only because they have a guy named Demarcus Ware.

Secondary?  Still too early to call on this one.  Let’s call it a draw.