erod
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What a weird, out-of-body, seance-like experience it is to watch a Cowboys game these days.
It smelled bad, down 17-10, 3rd down with Tony Romo about to get skulled again for a big loss and a punt. Ousting Vick hadn't helped. We felt the most humiliating loss of the season building to a crescendo. A rookie behind the most gawd-awful offensive line in football.....
But then a twist, a dodge, a cutback, and a throw, all in one of Romo's greatest plays ever, and the game turned. Less than three minutes and 21 points later, the game was suddenly well in hand.
Huh? What just happened?
It's been a season like I can't remember, winning games that we should have lost and losing games we should have won, capped by a LONG week for Jerry Jones, in which Jimmy Johnson punked him with his Ochocinco version of "child, please."
Ratings for Cowboys games are way down, and apathy and disconnection between this team and its fan base is as high as its been since 1960. It's so bad, Mike Holmgren, who has a job, is lobbying for a job that currently Jerry doesn't want vacated. Yeah, have fun with all that, Jason Garrett.
Such a cloud of yuck hanging over this franchise.
But lo and behold, a couple of wins against the lowly Browns and Commanders, paired with a loss to Green Bay by the Giants, and Dallas finds itself curiously tied for first place with an edge in divisional record.
What's more, the Giants are playing like gum on a shoe, and they follow the Packers with difficult games against New Orleans, Atlanta, and Baltimore. They're two Dez fingerprints from an ugly three-game losing streak after getting throttled by the Bengals.
If ever it was proven that you can't play good football consistently without an offensive line, it was yesterday. The Cowboy line was abused, but the Eagles line was abused-ier. Had it not been for six offsides penalties - SIX OFFSIDES PENALTIES - Dallas would have cruised to an easier win because Philadelphia is transfixed on killing its own quarterbacks. Designed run plays for Vick, who's been hit more than any QB in the league already?
The Eagles QB ate dinner out of a straw, and ours didn't. There's the difference in the game. Good luck with all that, Foles, as you begin your NFL career behind King Dunlap and the Fighting Mannequins.
Key to the season from here on out: get Phil Costa back asap. Doesn't that just paint this abstract season perfectly? I think that was football, but I'm not really sure.
It smelled bad, down 17-10, 3rd down with Tony Romo about to get skulled again for a big loss and a punt. Ousting Vick hadn't helped. We felt the most humiliating loss of the season building to a crescendo. A rookie behind the most gawd-awful offensive line in football.....
But then a twist, a dodge, a cutback, and a throw, all in one of Romo's greatest plays ever, and the game turned. Less than three minutes and 21 points later, the game was suddenly well in hand.
Huh? What just happened?
It's been a season like I can't remember, winning games that we should have lost and losing games we should have won, capped by a LONG week for Jerry Jones, in which Jimmy Johnson punked him with his Ochocinco version of "child, please."
Ratings for Cowboys games are way down, and apathy and disconnection between this team and its fan base is as high as its been since 1960. It's so bad, Mike Holmgren, who has a job, is lobbying for a job that currently Jerry doesn't want vacated. Yeah, have fun with all that, Jason Garrett.
Such a cloud of yuck hanging over this franchise.
But lo and behold, a couple of wins against the lowly Browns and Commanders, paired with a loss to Green Bay by the Giants, and Dallas finds itself curiously tied for first place with an edge in divisional record.
What's more, the Giants are playing like gum on a shoe, and they follow the Packers with difficult games against New Orleans, Atlanta, and Baltimore. They're two Dez fingerprints from an ugly three-game losing streak after getting throttled by the Bengals.
If ever it was proven that you can't play good football consistently without an offensive line, it was yesterday. The Cowboy line was abused, but the Eagles line was abused-ier. Had it not been for six offsides penalties - SIX OFFSIDES PENALTIES - Dallas would have cruised to an easier win because Philadelphia is transfixed on killing its own quarterbacks. Designed run plays for Vick, who's been hit more than any QB in the league already?
The Eagles QB ate dinner out of a straw, and ours didn't. There's the difference in the game. Good luck with all that, Foles, as you begin your NFL career behind King Dunlap and the Fighting Mannequins.
Key to the season from here on out: get Phil Costa back asap. Doesn't that just paint this abstract season perfectly? I think that was football, but I'm not really sure.
