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Dallas Cowboys VS San Diego Chargers

 

The Dallas Cowboys are 8-4, and as coach Wade Phillips reminded the media, that makes them winners. Unfortunately, their foe San Diego Chargers, are 9 – 3, riding a hot streak, and, well, they, too, are winners. The two teams, though they seldom meet—this is only their ninth meeting have plenty of history.

 

Norv Turner, the Chargers’ coach, is a former offensive coordinator for the Cowboys. Wade Phillips is the former defensive coordinator for the Chargers. Both men were strongly considered for the coaching position in Dallas after Bill Parcells left. Most thought Turner would be Jerry Jones’s choice. He wasn’t. Phillips was. Jones figured he had the offense covered with Jason Garrett (who was a hot commodity at the time, you may recall). What he needed, in his mind, was someone to whip the defense into shape. Wade has done that.

 

Phillips has also posted a nice winning percentage with the Cowboys especially if you do not count December or the playoffs. Dallas’s December woes are well chronicled and much debated. Meanwhile, Turner’s Chargers are 15 – 0 in December. Turner’s team made the conference championship in 2007, losing to the New England Patriots. They made the Divisional round last year and lost. While the Chargers try to figure out how to take that next step and make the Super Bowl, The Cowboys are just trying to solve December and finally post a playoff win for the first time in thirteen years. The Chargers want to win this game; the Cowboys have to win it.

 

Phillip Rivers and company are as dangerous an offense as any this side of New Orleans. They create matchup problems all over the field, especially with Tight End Antonio Gates. The Dallas defense is playing well, though, currently ranked fifth in points allowed and 14th in yards allowed per game. The Cowboys’ high-octane offense, however, has not played as well in recent weeks. They run well one week, pass well the next, but haven’t put the two together in awhile.

 

Sunday’s game will come down to quarterback play, defense, and coaching. One might give an ever-so-slight edge to Phillip Rivers over Tony Romo, but it is razor-thin. Romo has played well this year, while Rivers is playing out of his mind. Defensively, you have to like Dallas. Phillips knows how to prepare a defense and call a game on that side of the ball. And he knows the San Diego Chargers. 

 

The Chargers will come to play. Of that, there is little doubt. If the Cowboys do, as well, this could be the NFL game of the week. The series edge is decidedly in the Cowboys favor. They hold a 6 – 2 series edge over the Chargers. But this is not your daddy’s Chargers or your momma’s Cowboys. If you want learn more information about NFL game, and NFL jersey, please visit our website www.jerseysnflonline.com.

 

Reference:http://bleacherreport.com/articles/307372-cowboys-chargers-collision-at-the-crossroadsda

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