:POST GAME THOUGHTS: 49ers vs Cowboys

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A win to kick off the season is always a good thing. The defense in general outplayed the offense. They gave up substantial yards with Murray, but that seemed to be the Cowboys plan even late into the game. Down a couple of superstars, then losing both corners, but they held together quite well. Justin Smith looked like he did a couple of years ago, which is essential for the time being. D Johnson looked pretty solid in his first outing. Romo made some of his traditional throws but it seemed that he lacked zip on the ball....I suspect he's still recovering from the back issue.

The bottom line is, Tony Romo and co. gave this game to us - fumble returned for a TD, an int setting SF up on the Dallas two yard line. Basically....the Niners offense totalled 14 points. When going up against a historically bad defense, which actually lost some of it's best players, that is a bit underwhelming. The first drive was pretty electric, but beside the other TD march....generally nothing. Yeah, a couple of drives were basically killed by penalties, (some legit and some bull) one ended on a missed FG, and SF took the foot off the pedal and went to the ground game to run out the clock.....I still wanted to see a bit more.

On to the home opener against a similar team to the Cowboys, in the Bears.

yeah, certainly happy with the win cause it is the bottom line. props to the back-up CB's who also did well.

agree, Romo really helped give this game away, two of those INT's were bad, and he lost accuracy after the 1st quarter. this is why IMO, the win wasn't as 'great' as it appears. the run D wasn't good at all, and the offense couldn't do more 2nd half. wasn't expecting a lot of offense 2nd half, but they should've made a few more 1st downs.

not AS worried about Chicago running on us, but we'll need pressure as usual.