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Amidst Chip Kelly's amazing "Hurry-Up-and-Punt Offensive Spectacular", a slow reality crept into the Linc yesterday as Romo extended his record in Philly to 6-2.
The countless facial memes sat scrunched with their too-wide butts in their normal-sized seats (bleachers may be in order), begging Fox to aptly script these drunken images, as they spat obscenities toward anything with a pulse. Those were hard-earned, probably borrowed, dollars spent to watch that abortion of an Eagles performance.
Reality watched Chip's 21 whole yards of offense in the first half, highlighted by another horrific rushing performance by what, I'm told, is the greatest running back trio in NFL history. You could feel the painful burn setting in the stands, and it painted Jeff Lurie's face. The crowd came to see a blood-letting reaffirmation that everything they heard during the preseason was true, and it just never happened.
BREAKING: It has been determined that the preseason, just as people who actually understand football have previously claimed for years, does in fact mean absolutely nothing. Somebody please tell the media this for that last time. Good gosh almighty, stop anointing champions in August.
Oh, the knuckle-dragging Neanderthals in Philly had their one shining moment. They celebrated wildly as Romo lay prone, as if Michael Irvin had re-broken his neck again all over again at the old vet. They booed Romo roundly as he winced off the field to the X-Ray room. There's just a special place in hell......
But that glee was shortly lived for the sub-humans. They couldn't ignore that game. They saw their touted offensive line get smithereened, even without Hardy, Gregory, and McClain to deal with. They saw their quarterback's wide eyes. They saw the return of Sean Lee. They saw Carr, Patmon, and Claiborne blanket their receivers most of the day. They saw Barry Church, yet again, completely dominate at the Linc. Another tipped interception to Wilcox.
Yep, reality is indeed a female dog.
Soon, the copycat fights in the stands predictably ensued, and all that was left were the obligatory flip-off birds for Terrance Williams as he punctuated this most painful intervention against overpaid Byron Maxwell. Yes, Brandon Weeden played better than Sam Bradford. Reality is indeed....
Certainly, on the way home, depression set in. The Eagles are 0-2, Kiko Alonso won't be back, Romo and Dez will, Chip's moves are a disaster, soon he'll leave it all behind for a college job. The dismantling of the Eagles roster is complete. Only Chip's offense could ruin Demarco Murray, who just had his two worst rushing performances of his NFL career.
Bottom line, the Cowboys were missing five starters yesterday, including the guy that torched Philly a year ago, and they lost Tony Romo in the third quarter of a tight game. Should have been a Philly rout, but with all that at home, the Eagles couldn't close the deal. Heck, they couldn't get back to the line of freaking scrimmage.
Meanwhile, back in civilization, the Cowboys sit perched at 2-0 with a storm of uncertainty to circumnavigate. Last year's triplets are all missing, and Romo and Dez won't be back until around Turkey Day or so. Tough games lie ahead without them both.
It's a problem.
But unlike Philadelphia, the Cowboys have real answers en route. A suddenly smothering defense (which has allowed one TD in two games) has an impact player in Sean Lee back, a strong secondary, and a very good defensive line that will soon add major impact pass rushers and a starting middle linebacker.
If the Cowboys can tread water for 7-8 games, they could be rolling out the best roster in football in December and January with a fresh and healthy duo of Romo and Dez for the playoffs. Yep, if you want a silver lining, here comes eight weeks when Romo CAN'T hurt his back. This dysfunctional division causes little concern about falling out of the race until then.
Dallas has hope, while Philly faces calamity. Romo aside for now, all is right with the football world.
The countless facial memes sat scrunched with their too-wide butts in their normal-sized seats (bleachers may be in order), begging Fox to aptly script these drunken images, as they spat obscenities toward anything with a pulse. Those were hard-earned, probably borrowed, dollars spent to watch that abortion of an Eagles performance.
Reality watched Chip's 21 whole yards of offense in the first half, highlighted by another horrific rushing performance by what, I'm told, is the greatest running back trio in NFL history. You could feel the painful burn setting in the stands, and it painted Jeff Lurie's face. The crowd came to see a blood-letting reaffirmation that everything they heard during the preseason was true, and it just never happened.
BREAKING: It has been determined that the preseason, just as people who actually understand football have previously claimed for years, does in fact mean absolutely nothing. Somebody please tell the media this for that last time. Good gosh almighty, stop anointing champions in August.
Oh, the knuckle-dragging Neanderthals in Philly had their one shining moment. They celebrated wildly as Romo lay prone, as if Michael Irvin had re-broken his neck again all over again at the old vet. They booed Romo roundly as he winced off the field to the X-Ray room. There's just a special place in hell......
But that glee was shortly lived for the sub-humans. They couldn't ignore that game. They saw their touted offensive line get smithereened, even without Hardy, Gregory, and McClain to deal with. They saw their quarterback's wide eyes. They saw the return of Sean Lee. They saw Carr, Patmon, and Claiborne blanket their receivers most of the day. They saw Barry Church, yet again, completely dominate at the Linc. Another tipped interception to Wilcox.
Yep, reality is indeed a female dog.
Soon, the copycat fights in the stands predictably ensued, and all that was left were the obligatory flip-off birds for Terrance Williams as he punctuated this most painful intervention against overpaid Byron Maxwell. Yes, Brandon Weeden played better than Sam Bradford. Reality is indeed....
Certainly, on the way home, depression set in. The Eagles are 0-2, Kiko Alonso won't be back, Romo and Dez will, Chip's moves are a disaster, soon he'll leave it all behind for a college job. The dismantling of the Eagles roster is complete. Only Chip's offense could ruin Demarco Murray, who just had his two worst rushing performances of his NFL career.
Bottom line, the Cowboys were missing five starters yesterday, including the guy that torched Philly a year ago, and they lost Tony Romo in the third quarter of a tight game. Should have been a Philly rout, but with all that at home, the Eagles couldn't close the deal. Heck, they couldn't get back to the line of freaking scrimmage.
Meanwhile, back in civilization, the Cowboys sit perched at 2-0 with a storm of uncertainty to circumnavigate. Last year's triplets are all missing, and Romo and Dez won't be back until around Turkey Day or so. Tough games lie ahead without them both.
It's a problem.
But unlike Philadelphia, the Cowboys have real answers en route. A suddenly smothering defense (which has allowed one TD in two games) has an impact player in Sean Lee back, a strong secondary, and a very good defensive line that will soon add major impact pass rushers and a starting middle linebacker.
If the Cowboys can tread water for 7-8 games, they could be rolling out the best roster in football in December and January with a fresh and healthy duo of Romo and Dez for the playoffs. Yep, if you want a silver lining, here comes eight weeks when Romo CAN'T hurt his back. This dysfunctional division causes little concern about falling out of the race until then.
Dallas has hope, while Philly faces calamity. Romo aside for now, all is right with the football world.
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