Watching and reviewing the Cowboys' most recent game against Green Bay, it appears very much to me a game that could have gone either way, and was not indicative of the final score. However, over the course of the season there seems to be an overall approach to taking on the Cowboys offense that all teams seem to adopt, regardless of what scheme they run.

First, the game itself was decided on only a few factors, but not many. One was the injuries to the secondary, which is when Green Bay began to pull away in the 3rd-4th quarter while picking on Orlando Scandrick. Two, the reviews that Jeff Tripplette flubbed. The third were penalties the Cowboys committed that sunk big plays that could have turned the game.

Clearly in this game, Dallas failed to execute a gameplan that had flummoxed the Eagles. Roy Williams momentum-killing fumble was just the last in several weeks of wide receivers struggling to hold onto the ball. Garrett had bided his time to catch Green Bay blitzing heavily to burn them, but the gamble failed here even if his instincts were correct.

Roy again reared his ugly head in a negative way with GB 3-0 and Dallas in its second drive in the 2nd half. With Roy open down the sideline at the Green Bay 30, Romo threaded a pass into Roy's hands. It banged off his facemask.

Tashard Choice later went up the right seam and caught a splendid pass for a first down inside Green Bay's 30; it's a play that also worked well against the Eagles. The play was called back due to a pick from Jason Witten. The Cowboys were forced to punt.

This sort of snakebitten play was not solely left to the offense. Early in the 2nd quarter cornerback Orlando Scandrick blitzed untouched and got to Rodgers, forcing a fumble and the Cowboys recovered around the 15 yard line. This play was wiped out when Mike Jenkins was called for an illegal contact penalty. Had this play stood, and several other good plays that were wiped out by penalties, there's a good chance Dallas jumps to the lead, and we have a different game altogether.

Aside from this game, I can go back to the Carolina game and see that teams attack the Cowboys offense in a very certain way; they blitz heavily and use more secondary blitzes. Green Bay just employed the same strategy that the Eagles tried, and several before it, with the advantage of a 3-4 defense that seems to fair better in this role.

More to the point, Garrett's strategy to combat these heavy blitzes is to bring in more blockers and try to burn the defense with big plays. At times, like the Eagles game, this strategy has worked. There have been many times, going even back to the 2007 playoff games against the Giants, where the offense bogs down because the few wideouts running patterns can't get open.

More recently, Garrett's strategy will have to take on the aspect that more teams are trying to attack Dallas with Fire Zones and other blitzes that bring pressure while still keeping at least six men in coverage, allowing them to also try and take away Dallas' favorite running lanes, short-circuiting the runs before they get going.

Garrett has tried a variety of screens to take advantage of this approach, and he tried quite a few against Green Bay, but they didn't do much to stop Capers, or anyone this year, to try and bring more guys than Dallas can block, or to overload one side of the line to force Romo's hand before Receivers can get open.

It may come to a point sometime this season where Dallas will not only defeat a team using this approach, but bury them. Until that happens, teams may continue to use Fire Zones to take keep Dallas' offense off the field.