Dallas Cowboys – 31, Tampa Bay Buccaneers – 15

No late season swoon for
Tony Romo (249 yards, 4 TDs), who’s been playing lights out the last couple of weeks. If the Cowboys don’t end up making the playoffs, it won’t be because of any failings of Romo this season. The Buccaneers continue to look terrible, as the game wasn’t nearly as close as the score seems to indicate. This could have easily been a bigger blow out, but the Cowboys took their foot off the throttle in the second half.
Josh Freeman (185 total yards, 1 TD) looked terrible for most of the game, but did manage to salvage a TD late in the game.
Romo did a good job of spreading the love, as
Miles Austin (5-53, 1 TD),
Dez Bryant (4-40, 1 TD), and
Laurent Robinson (3-29, 1 TD) all had touchdowns and fairly decent yardage games. With all three receivers healthy, fantasy owners can expect good but not great production.
Jason Witten (4-77) led the way in yardage, which was good to see after a couple of down games.
This was a big mess of a game for the Bucs receivers, as
Mike Williams (0-0) got shutout,
Kellen Winslow (4-37) didn’t have a great game, and
Dezmon Briscoe’s (3-36, 1 TD) day was saved the lone late score. Hopefully you weren’t relying on any of these guys to carry you to your league’s championship game.
Felix Jones (22 car., 108 yards; 3 rec., 23 yards) continues his revival for the second week in a row, showing that maybe it wasn’t so much Demarco Murray, but the Cowboys blocking that was really the cause of the run game’s improvement mid-season.
Sammy Morris (12 car., 53 yards) even had quite a bit of success, which also is indicative of the line’s play.
This was a bad bad game for the Buccaneers all around, and none was worse than
Legarrette Blount (9 car., 21 yards). This effort is bound to submarine several fantasy team’s that had hopes of moving on in the fantasy playoffs.
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