It’s not that I’m not fired up about DA BOYS! I live in Dallas and Dallas is a proud FOOTBALL TOWN!!! The Cowboys are golden gods that deserve our praise and worship (even if those bum Rangers have won a playoff game more recently than they have. When they gonna git some pitchin’! YEEHAW!)
I really don’t know a way to cover the Cowboys and not want to kill myself. Yes, I cheer and swear at the TV when they are on, but should I write something like this? Last year I tried the idiot homer angle and people thought I was being serious and/or retarded – and with good reason. I embarrassed myself worse than an anonymous SMU commenter making a grammatically incorrect death threat. If you really want to talk Cowboys, listen to the 19 hours of special coverage every day on The Ticket or check the DMN chats.
Instead, I’ll just write up 3-4 things that stood out to me about the game as I texted with Alex P. Keaton:
This team doesn’t give a shit about taking the next step.
No matter what hype you here, until they are able to play a big game with 100% focus (say 5 or less penalties and no more than one horrible turnover), there is no reason to believe they will do anything more than last season. On paper, no one should touch them in the NFC. Last night could have been a runaway win if not for the two Romo gaffes right as they were poised to take the game by the nuts. Add in the lazy facemask penalties and holding calls, and you have a team that basically spotted the Eagles 14 points and killed 14 more of their own. That’s fine early in the season, but if the team is rewarded for this behavior each week, there is little hope it will change.
Be glad it was not hot last night
Yesterday was an amazing day to walk around Dallas. Temperatures were in the high 70s, the sun was out and the world was full of smiles. It was also a nie break for a Dallas defense that had to spend most of the first half of the game on the field playing a safe zone that was being dissected by a team that can mostly only dink and dunk down the field. If they had played that in the heat, they would have been too dead to dig in and play up to expectations in the second half.
The Eagles didn’t win shit
ESPN and Screamin’ A saw the Eagles announcing their presence to the rest of the world. I saw a team handed gift after gift (14 free points from Romo, holds wiping out big plays, a stupid WR not being forced to pay for being an idiot) and was still not able to cash it in. McNabb still skips balls in key situations (two third down plays) and could not take a sack when he needed to. His history says he won’t run like that all year and the most teams will not decide not to blitz and attack most of the game. The Eagles are good, but this was a wild ass division game, not the epic 1 vs. 2 battle people wanted to make it. By that logic, the Chargers and Broncos are the class of the AFC because they played a crazy close game this week too.
The offensive line is pretty damn good.
No elaboration needed.
The Cowboy’s defense is better
Roy Williams injury will change things. The team does not have to protect him to shield his ego and can have a young player get burned as they attack more without worrying that his ego is being destroyed. Protecting Roy has seemed to be a bigger concern than attacking the past season and a half and now there is no reason to go balls out with Ware and Ellis. Jay Ratliff had a strong game (because I actually noticed him each quarter) and I don’t have the sick feeling I had after the Cowboys beat the Giants earlyl ast season and got torched. Maybe, I’m naïve and this means Philly eliminates the Cowboys in the second round but I doubt. It will probably be a team that’s much more lame, like the first place Cardinals.
NFL Refs are struggling
Missed facemasks. Blown pass interference calls. Missed holdings – on plays and kickoff returns. It was just an awful night on both sides of the ball for both teams. It’s one thing to lose trust in Ed Hoculi and his magic guns – it’s another thing to doubt every official you’ve seen. I’ve watched four NFL games this season and have seen 8 teams dicked over by at least one awful call.
So, that’s all I have this week. I guess I could banter with the Packers disciples for a few days, but I’d much rather work on LolEagles or LolFrogs or whatever else we decide to do next. God bless the internet…
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