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NFL NUGGETS : Eagles tease Cowboys with postseason opportunity
http://nwanews.com/nwat/Sports/36050/
I have never been a Cowboys fan, and I never will, but even I had to feel a little bit sorry for Dallas fans watching the second half of Sunday’s Washington-Philadelphia game. Before the game, every diehard Dallas supporter knew the scenario. If the Eagles were to upset Washington, then the Cowboys could capture the NFC’s final playoff spot Sunday night game against the Rams. If the Commanders won, they were in and the Cowboys were out.
Early on, you could feel the Dallas faithful’s hopes rise as Philly QB Mike McMahon, backup to the injured Donovan McNabb, hooked up with rookie WR Reggie Brown for two TDs and a 17-7 lead late in the second quarter.
Could it be that the battered and beleaguered Eagles could muster enough to upset a Commanders squad fighting for a playoff spot? Well... no.
McMahon suddenly remembered that he wasn’t McNabb and Brown wasn’t T. O. McMahon turned the ball over twice in the fourth quarter, prompting coaches to replace him with Koy Detmer.
Regardless, it was a Sean Taylor return of a Detmer fumble late in the game that sealed Washington’s 31-20 win and the Commanders’ first postseason berth since 1999.
The Eagles’ collapse rendered Dallas’ game with St. Louis moot, and the Cowboys played like it, falling 20-10.
Detroit, which hung with Pittsburgh for a while Sunday, teased Kansas City with postseason aspirations in a similar-type situation.
For Dallas and Kansas City fans, that’s a rough way to end a season — with playoff-caliber squads staying home. Kansas City’s Dick Vermeil retired on Sunday, but I hope Bill Parcells doesn’t follow suit. Great coaches who are also great characters are becoming more and more scarce, and I’d like to see the Tuna give it at least one more season.
Fire the refs Some NFL head coaches have gotten the ax already, and more will likely fall before the week’s out. But one guy who will be keeping his job is NFL head of officiating Mike Pereira, whose team put up the worst performance of the season. There have been a ton of stank-tacular calls this year. Some refs, like NFLRA president Ed Hochuli, are solid every year. And some, like Mike Carey, just stink.
Pereira’s just lucky that the NFL doesn’t hold it’s front office to the standard applied to head coaches, or he’d be selling insurance by now.
http://nwanews.com/nwat/Sports/36050/
I have never been a Cowboys fan, and I never will, but even I had to feel a little bit sorry for Dallas fans watching the second half of Sunday’s Washington-Philadelphia game. Before the game, every diehard Dallas supporter knew the scenario. If the Eagles were to upset Washington, then the Cowboys could capture the NFC’s final playoff spot Sunday night game against the Rams. If the Commanders won, they were in and the Cowboys were out.
Early on, you could feel the Dallas faithful’s hopes rise as Philly QB Mike McMahon, backup to the injured Donovan McNabb, hooked up with rookie WR Reggie Brown for two TDs and a 17-7 lead late in the second quarter.
Could it be that the battered and beleaguered Eagles could muster enough to upset a Commanders squad fighting for a playoff spot? Well... no.
McMahon suddenly remembered that he wasn’t McNabb and Brown wasn’t T. O. McMahon turned the ball over twice in the fourth quarter, prompting coaches to replace him with Koy Detmer.
Regardless, it was a Sean Taylor return of a Detmer fumble late in the game that sealed Washington’s 31-20 win and the Commanders’ first postseason berth since 1999.
The Eagles’ collapse rendered Dallas’ game with St. Louis moot, and the Cowboys played like it, falling 20-10.
Detroit, which hung with Pittsburgh for a while Sunday, teased Kansas City with postseason aspirations in a similar-type situation.
For Dallas and Kansas City fans, that’s a rough way to end a season — with playoff-caliber squads staying home. Kansas City’s Dick Vermeil retired on Sunday, but I hope Bill Parcells doesn’t follow suit. Great coaches who are also great characters are becoming more and more scarce, and I’d like to see the Tuna give it at least one more season.
Fire the refs Some NFL head coaches have gotten the ax already, and more will likely fall before the week’s out. But one guy who will be keeping his job is NFL head of officiating Mike Pereira, whose team put up the worst performance of the season. There have been a ton of stank-tacular calls this year. Some refs, like NFLRA president Ed Hochuli, are solid every year. And some, like Mike Carey, just stink.
Pereira’s just lucky that the NFL doesn’t hold it’s front office to the standard applied to head coaches, or he’d be selling insurance by now.
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