Cowboys Can’t Keep Up with San Diego in Pre-season Opener

After last night’s Dallas Cowboys preseason opener, two things became clear. Brandon Wheeden should serve quite nicely as Tony Romo’s back up. And the Cowboy defense will need to improve over the coming weeks.

Dallas lost the game 27-7 to San Diego. In the first half, Charger quarterbacks were a perfect 7-7 passing and the Cowboys gave up an average of 5.6 yards per carry.

On the optimistic side, Dallas was without five of their defensive starters including Mo Claiborne.

Brandon Wheeden did play, starting in place of Tony Romo, and completed 13 of 17 passes all in first half action.

The Cowboys next preseason game against Baltimore on the 16th.