4th and 1 and the Eagles

[TwoDeep3]

Someone in another thread suggested this game might define this season for us. Or at least asked that question.

I saw Emmitt on a talk show late during his playing career, and the host was ridiculing the Barry Switzer year's during his head coaching stint with the Cowboys.

The 4th and 1 came up and the host - whom I have now forgotten who it was - laid it on thick expecting Emmitt to join in tossing Barry under the bus.

Emmit told the guy to toss out the anchor on that. Then he told the story of the Eagles game.

After Barry went for it on 4th and 1 twice and failed both times, they lost the game. Everyone knows that story. But later in the locker room Barry called the team together and said a few things.

He said this would fall on him as it should and for them not to hang their heads. He said that they were winners. It was his supreme belief in them that caused him to call the same play twice.

And that they didn't fail him but he failed them.

They did not lose another game that year all the way to the Championship.

There are stories every year like this that come out later about teams that galvanized and became The Team.

So, 4th and 1 and Dallas shuts down Philly.

Are we seeing history - with an ironic twist of fate - repeat itself and this team will grow from this and reach a destiny that will make us all proud?

I thought about that last night and today the post by someone else reminded me.

Is this the rallying cry that takes us the rest of the way? Will we look back at this moment and say this is when the team realized they are mentally tough and physically talented enough to take it all the way?

Something to contemplate.

 

[casmith07]

The Chiefs game defined out season. Our ability to rally around a guy that had previously been invisible and win in overtime on the road in the cold against a team that obviously showed up more than we thought, and then to see all of the players dog-pile at the end, both offense and defense, was great.

 

[Boyzmamacita]

After Barry went for it on 4th and 1 twice and failed both times, they lost the game. Everyone knows that story. But later in the locker room Barry called the team together and said a few things.

He said this would fall on him as it should and for them not to hang their heads. He said that they were winners. It was his supreme belief in them that caused him to call the same play twice.

And that they didn't fail him but he failed them.

They did not lose another game that year all the way to the Championship.

Wow. Thanks for sharing this. I've never heard this story. Maybe Switzer did have something to do with the Cowboys winning Super Bowl XXX. He was not Jimmy Johnson, but he must've done something right. People say that team coached themselves. Damn. How good were they if that's the case?

And I hope last night's game was the springboard for this team as well. Although I agree that Kanas City is where it all began.

 

[ShiningStar]

Someone in another thread suggested this game might define this season for us. Or at least asked that question.

I saw Emmitt on a talk show late during his playing career, and the host was ridiculing the Barry Switzer year's during his head coaching stint with the Cowboys.

The 4th and 1 came up and the host - whom I have now forgotten who it was - laid it on thick expecting Emmitt to join in tossing Barry under the bus.

Emmit told the guy to toss out the anchor on that. Then he told the story of the Eagles game.

After Barry went for it on 4th and 1 twice and failed both times, they lost the game. Everyone knows that story. But later in the locker room Barry called the team together and said a few things.

He said this would fall on him as it should and for them not to hang their heads. He said that they were winners. It was his supreme belief in them that caused him to call the same play twice.

And that they didn't fail him but he failed them.

They did not lose another game that year all the way to the Championship.

There are stories every year like this that come out later about teams that galvanized and became The Team.

So, 4th and 1 and Dallas shuts down Philly.

Are we seeing history - with an ironic twist of fate - repeat itself and this team will grow from this and reach a destiny that will make us all proud?

I thought about that last night and today the post by someone else reminded me.

Is this the rallying cry that takes us the rest of the way? Will we look back at this moment and say this is when the team realized they are mentally tough and physically talented enough to take it all the way?

Something to contemplate.

No, i dont believe we'll have as easy a road, or that this team knows what its like to go 5-11. It takes players that knows what the bottom feels like to rise to such occasions, that and the schedule helps.

Yesterdays win was great, but the Saints still loom ahead and the team has to face that pressure again, so far it has collapsed when playing undefeated teams at the time.


Those iconic sayings and things that happen, never come out or only if good feelings are to be had, if the team failed would anyone care if he made that statement, do good feelings make a winner or just make losing hurt less?

You dont win based off who gives better speeches either. The schedule is everything as is who you face when you face them. At the end of the year, if you do hoist the lombardy, its not based on your wins or losses, its based on the fact that you played that day.

When the Giants won, if you go back, they didnt beat a good team til they hit the playoffs, things just fell into place. Is there an icon speech that lifted them thru it, hell no. They played who was in front of them and won when they hit the playoffs.

Sometimes you just win, and sometimes you lose, its all based on who scored more points and the rest just becomes yesterday that no one has control of anymore.