dbair1967
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Sensational win by our guys tonight. I wanted them to win but like many, figured we'd get beaten and most likely beaten bad. I admit it, I totally thought this team was toast after the last two weeks, they manned up tonight and played a bigtime game. I'll take my crow served hot or cold.
1) Tony Romo is playing excellent football, and tonight was a great, great effort. Nobody can pin any December swoon on him this yr.
2) 36 runs, 37 passes...great balance...good enough run game to keep it going...great play-action game tonight, the Saints bit badly on virtually every oneof them. Held the ball almost 37 minutes. Garrett and the other coaches put together a great game plan and he called an excellent game. The first two drives of the game (and most of the third) and the opening second half drive, then the last drive to set up the FG were as good as we've played in quite some time.
3) Defensively what can anyone say except that was a "winning" effort. They got 4 (really 5) sacks on Brees, who'd only been sacked 15 times all yr. Other than 1 or 2 runs, the Saints did nothing on the gound. We only got hurt by one screen. No deep balls given up. Forced 3 turnovers, all at key moments. We blast the guy for everything, so you gotta hand it to Wade tonight. And they came up huge after that deflating FG miss.
4) A game where we get 3 turnovers, give up none, have no false start penalties on the road in one of the loudest, most hostile stadiums in football. A+ effort by the OL, who I believe had only one penalty and other than three or four plays they struggled with blitz protection, solid effort all the way around.
5) D Ware and Anthony Spencer tore the Saints tackles some new ones tonight.
6) Roy Williams, you just cant drop that pass in that situation. You just cant. Nick Folk, well. Unbelievable how far this guy has fallen but Parcells once said here that once a kicker loses it mentally, he's through. I cant believe he missed a 24yd FG lined up right in the middle. They gotta cut him or at the least shut him down the rest of the yr. Raise your hands if you thought OT was a definite after Folk blew that kick (yeah, mine's up)
7) Mike Jenkins is turning into a bigtime NFL player. Miles Austin is also a bigtime NFL player. People laughed at Jerruh for saying he thought Austin was a legit replacement for TO, and he was on the nose. He suggested in the spring Austin might be a legit #1 WR, when alot of people were hoping we'd get a 2nd rd pick for him as RFA compensation.
8) Nice games by John Phillips and Kevin Ogletree. Ogletree and Crayton came up with two big time catches tonight. On Phillips, he catches a career high 3 passes and how smart was it to turn that last one back inside a bit and keep that clock going. Alot of guys whould have been content to get that first down and run out of bounds.
Great win tonight, hoepfully it carries over to next week in Washington.
1) Tony Romo is playing excellent football, and tonight was a great, great effort. Nobody can pin any December swoon on him this yr.
2) 36 runs, 37 passes...great balance...good enough run game to keep it going...great play-action game tonight, the Saints bit badly on virtually every oneof them. Held the ball almost 37 minutes. Garrett and the other coaches put together a great game plan and he called an excellent game. The first two drives of the game (and most of the third) and the opening second half drive, then the last drive to set up the FG were as good as we've played in quite some time.
3) Defensively what can anyone say except that was a "winning" effort. They got 4 (really 5) sacks on Brees, who'd only been sacked 15 times all yr. Other than 1 or 2 runs, the Saints did nothing on the gound. We only got hurt by one screen. No deep balls given up. Forced 3 turnovers, all at key moments. We blast the guy for everything, so you gotta hand it to Wade tonight. And they came up huge after that deflating FG miss.
4) A game where we get 3 turnovers, give up none, have no false start penalties on the road in one of the loudest, most hostile stadiums in football. A+ effort by the OL, who I believe had only one penalty and other than three or four plays they struggled with blitz protection, solid effort all the way around.
5) D Ware and Anthony Spencer tore the Saints tackles some new ones tonight.
6) Roy Williams, you just cant drop that pass in that situation. You just cant. Nick Folk, well. Unbelievable how far this guy has fallen but Parcells once said here that once a kicker loses it mentally, he's through. I cant believe he missed a 24yd FG lined up right in the middle. They gotta cut him or at the least shut him down the rest of the yr. Raise your hands if you thought OT was a definite after Folk blew that kick (yeah, mine's up)
7) Mike Jenkins is turning into a bigtime NFL player. Miles Austin is also a bigtime NFL player. People laughed at Jerruh for saying he thought Austin was a legit replacement for TO, and he was on the nose. He suggested in the spring Austin might be a legit #1 WR, when alot of people were hoping we'd get a 2nd rd pick for him as RFA compensation.
8) Nice games by John Phillips and Kevin Ogletree. Ogletree and Crayton came up with two big time catches tonight. On Phillips, he catches a career high 3 passes and how smart was it to turn that last one back inside a bit and keep that clock going. Alot of guys whould have been content to get that first down and run out of bounds.
Great win tonight, hoepfully it carries over to next week in Washington.
