Same ole deja vu, all over again

[CouchCoach]

How interesting that we once again find ourselves in a survival game with the very same team that started our fall last season. One needing to win their division and the other trying to get a WC or neither makes it with the same 4-5 records. If this ain't one of dem "must wins", I don't know what is. But it is a must win for one team for more reasons than just this season.

The Falcons are wounded, desperate and remember what soothed their aches and pains last year. A full on throttling of the Cowboys. A beatdown in every aspect of the game and the tipping point of the QB's spiral down the well. The Cowboys weren't just beaten physically; they were beaten emotionally and mentally as the Falcons celebrated on the sideline, laughing at them. Their victory was complete and they remember. They remember the fans cheering that day and desperately need that this Sunday.

Most of the players are the same except the Cowboys added an athletic LB and true #1WR and ATL added the most dangerous #3WR in the game in Ridley. Up until now, we've all felt the secondary was much improved from last season, this Sunday we find out if that is true.

This is a must win for both teams to even stay in the conversation but the Falcons coming off that debacle in CLE and giving up the longest run in Browns history with names like Brown and Kelly in that history was as embarrassing as the defeat they handed the Cowboys last season. No team wants to see records set against them.

This game has a lot of buzz going for it for this season but it is more than that, much more than that to the Cowboys that participated in that spectacle last season. This isn't Rocky coming back to meet Apollo in a controversial decision; this is Rocky's rematch with Clubber after a total annihilation and the fight that almost took his heart.

This isn't just a must win game to stay in the conversation; this is a must win for the Cowboys to balance the scales. They're coming off a win, after a poor loss, and have to break the alternate win cycle to compete but more than that, they have to erase that memory. They were owned that day and are returning to the scene of the crime.

We found out more about Rocky in the last part of III than we did in all of I or II. We knew he had heart but when it really was all on the line, his future in the balance and his heart feeling fear, that's when he stood the tallest. He wasn't just fighting Clubber, he was fighting that demon within him. Clubber owned him.

I don't know how this season is going to fill out, if they can win enough to take the East, but I do know this is the most important game of the year for this team, those that were there took on their own demon that day. What are they made of? What kind of heart do they have? There is only one way to erase the memory of that total owning last season. Is this the team to do that?

 

[ESisback]

CC, You need to hook up with Corso, and write a screenplay! That said, if they pull this off, will the pundits then say “So what, the Falcons suck this year”?

 

[CouchCoach]

CC, You need to hook up with Corso, and write a screenplay! That said, if they pull this off, will the pundits then say “So what, the Falcons suck this year”?

Don't think so, the Falcons gave them their worst beating in the Prescott era and while most have been complimentary of the D's improvement, they have also been aware of what who we've been playing. This is the elite WR corps in the league with a Tier 1 QB that can put up ridiculous numbers when they get on a roll.

I don't care when the pundits say, ES, the reason most are not on the wagon is that the team has yet to prove they can do anything consistently but have alternate wins. They win in ATL, some of that subsides, they beat WAS, they get taken seriously as a contender for the East.

 

[RodeoJake]

How interesting that we once again find ourselves in a survival game with the very same team that started our fall last season. One needing to win their division and the other trying to get a WC or neither makes it with the same 4-5 records. If this ain't one of dem "must wins", I don't know what is. But it is a must win for one team for more reasons than just this season.

The Falcons are wounded, desperate and remember what soothed their aches and pains last year. A full on throttling of the Cowboys. A beatdown in every aspect of the game and the tipping point of the QB's spiral down the well. The Cowboys weren't just beaten physically; they were beaten emotionally and mentally as the Falcons celebrated on the sideline, laughing at them. Their victory was complete and they remember. They remember the fans cheering that day and desperately need that this Sunday.

Most of the players are the same except the Cowboys added an athletic LB and true #1WR and ATL added the most dangerous #3WR in the game in Ridley. Up until now, we've all felt the secondary was much improved from last season, this Sunday we find out if that is true.

This is a must win for both teams to even stay in the conversation but the Falcons coming off that debacle in CLE and giving up the longest run in Browns history with names like Brown and Kelly in that history was as embarrassing as the defeat they handed the Cowboys last season. No team wants to see records set against them.

This game has a lot of buzz going for it for this season but it is more than that, much more than that to the Cowboys that participated in that spectacle last season. This isn't Rocky coming back to meet Apollo in a controversial decision; this is Rocky's rematch with Clubber after a total annihilation and the fight that almost took his heart.

This isn't just a must win game to stay in the conversation; this is a must win for the Cowboys to balance the scales. They're coming off a win, after a poor loss, and have to break the alternate win cycle to compete but more than that, they have to erase that memory. They were owned that day and are returning to the scene of the crime.

We found out more about Rocky in the last part of III than we did in all of I or II. We knew he had heart but when it really was all on the line, his future in the balance and his heart feeling fear, that's when he stood the tallest. He wasn't just fighting Clubber, he was fighting that demon within him. Clubber owned him.

I don't know how this season is going to fill out, if they can win enough to take the East, but I do know this is the most important game of the year for this team, those that were there took on their own demon that day. What are they made of? What kind of heart do they have? There is only one way to erase the memory of that total owning last season. Is this the team to do that?

Paraphrasing Yogi are we, hoss?

 

[CouchCoach]

Paraphrasing Yogi are we, hoss?

Bear or Berra?

 

[cern]

How interesting that we once again find ourselves in a survival game with the very same team that started our fall last season. One needing to win their division and the other trying to get a WC or neither makes it with the same 4-5 records. If this ain't one of dem "must wins", I don't know what is. But it is a must win for one team for more reasons than just this season.

The Falcons are wounded, desperate and remember what soothed their aches and pains last year. A full on throttling of the Cowboys. A beatdown in every aspect of the game and the tipping point of the QB's spiral down the well. The Cowboys weren't just beaten physically; they were beaten emotionally and mentally as the Falcons celebrated on the sideline, laughing at them. Their victory was complete and they remember. They remember the fans cheering that day and desperately need that this Sunday.

Most of the players are the same except the Cowboys added an athletic LB and true #1WR and ATL added the most dangerous #3WR in the game in Ridley. Up until now, we've all felt the secondary was much improved from last season, this Sunday we find out if that is true.

This is a must win for both teams to even stay in the conversation but the Falcons coming off that debacle in CLE and giving up the longest run in Browns history with names like Brown and Kelly in that history was as embarrassing as the defeat they handed the Cowboys last season. No team wants to see records set against them.

This game has a lot of buzz going for it for this season but it is more than that, much more than that to the Cowboys that participated in that spectacle last season. This isn't Rocky coming back to meet Apollo in a controversial decision; this is Rocky's rematch with Clubber after a total annihilation and the fight that almost took his heart.

This isn't just a must win game to stay in the conversation; this is a must win for the Cowboys to balance the scales. They're coming off a win, after a poor loss, and have to break the alternate win cycle to compete but more than that, they have to erase that memory. They were owned that day and are returning to the scene of the crime.

We found out more about Rocky in the last part of III than we did in all of I or II. We knew he had heart but when it really was all on the line, his future in the balance and his heart feeling fear, that's when he stood the tallest. He wasn't just fighting Clubber, he was fighting that demon within him. Clubber owned him.

I don't know how this season is going to fill out, if they can win enough to take the East, but I do know this is the most important game of the year for this team, those that were there took on their own demon that day. What are they made of? What kind of heart do they have? There is only one way to erase the memory of that total owning last season. Is this the team to do that?

Desperation vs revenge.

 

[cern]

Paraphrasing Yogi are we, hoss?

When you come to the fork in the road, take it.

 

[CouchCoach]

Desperation vs revenge.

Has that elimination game feel to it and I like that so early in the season.

The other thing a win in ATL would do, if the D really stands tall, is give them more confidence going up against the likes of NO and Indy is getting little respect but Luck is working back into form with 3 TDs per game in his last 3.

 

[Pantone282C]

90% mental, the other half is mental.

Whoopsie, I meant 90% physical...

 

[cern]

Has that elimination game feel to it and I like that so early in the season.

The other thing a win in ATL would do, if the D really stands tall, is give them more confidence going up against the likes of NO and Indy is getting little respect but Luck is working back into form with 3 TDs per game in his last 3.

if memories of that shellacking don't inspire the troops to beat the falcons, nothing will. I would make it mandatory that the entire team sit down and be made to watch it. i'm hoping for a good old fashioned country whuppin'. first drive to the last drive. no mercy.

 

[Blackthorn]

if memories of that shellacking don't inspire the troops to beat the falcons, nothing will. I would make it mandatory that the entire team sit down and be made to watch it. i'm hoping for a good old fashioned country whuppin'. first drive to the last drive. no mercy.

You are D*mn correct with your assessment. It was embarrassing to watch that crap. I bet Dak has had nightmares since then. I know I have.

 

[Pantone282C]

if memories of that shellacking don't inspire the troops to beat the falcons, nothing will. I would make it mandatory that the entire team sit down and be made to watch it. i'm hoping for a good old fashioned country whuppin'. first drive to the last drive. no mercy.

Lot's of disrespect to the Cowboys - laughing on the sidelines and stomping on the Star. I take it that some things never change.

 

[INCowboysFan]

How interesting that we once again find ourselves in a survival game with the very same team that started our fall last season. One needing to win their division and the other trying to get a WC or neither makes it with the same 4-5 records. If this ain't one of dem "must wins", I don't know what is. But it is a must win for one team for more reasons than just this season.

The Falcons are wounded, desperate and remember what soothed their aches and pains last year. A full on throttling of the Cowboys. A beatdown in every aspect of the game and the tipping point of the QB's spiral down the well. The Cowboys weren't just beaten physically; they were beaten emotionally and mentally as the Falcons celebrated on the sideline, laughing at them. Their victory was complete and they remember. They remember the fans cheering that day and desperately need that this Sunday.

Most of the players are the same except the Cowboys added an athletic LB and true #1WR and ATL added the most dangerous #3WR in the game in Ridley. Up until now, we've all felt the secondary was much improved from last season, this Sunday we find out if that is true.

This is a must win for both teams to even stay in the conversation but the Falcons coming off that debacle in CLE and giving up the longest run in Browns history with names like Brown and Kelly in that history was as embarrassing as the defeat they handed the Cowboys last season. No team wants to see records set against them.

This game has a lot of buzz going for it for this season but it is more than that, much more than that to the Cowboys that participated in that spectacle last season. This isn't Rocky coming back to meet Apollo in a controversial decision; this is Rocky's rematch with Clubber after a total annihilation and the fight that almost took his heart.

This isn't just a must win game to stay in the conversation; this is a must win for the Cowboys to balance the scales. They're coming off a win, after a poor loss, and have to break the alternate win cycle to compete but more than that, they have to erase that memory. They were owned that day and are returning to the scene of the crime.

We found out more about Rocky in the last part of III than we did in all of I or II. We knew he had heart but when it really was all on the line, his future in the balance and his heart feeling fear, that's when he stood the tallest. He wasn't just fighting Clubber, he was fighting that demon within him. Clubber owned him.

I don't know how this season is going to fill out, if they can win enough to take the East, but I do know this is the most important game of the year for this team, those that were there took on their own demon that day. What are they made of? What kind of heart do they have? There is only one way to erase the memory of that total owning last season. Is this the team to do that?

Rocky had lost the eye of the tiger. He had a country club training camp prior to the beating Clubber gave him. I don't think he was scared. He was over confident and didn't train properly. Drove Mickey nuts and that stress may be what killed him right before Rocky hit the ring. Combine a dying manager and camp cupcake and you get a savage beating. Who is our Apollo Creed that will come in and help us recapture the eye of the tiger???

 

[cern]

You are D*mn correct with your assessment. It was embarrassing to watch that crap. I bet Dak has had nightmares since then. I know I have.

I cried for dak. and I f-bombed chaz and the coaching staff for days.

 

[ESisback]

Don't think so, the Falcons gave them their worst beating in the Prescott era and while most have been complimentary of the D's improvement, they have also been aware of what who we've been playing. This is the elite WR corps in the league with a Tier 1 QB that can put up ridiculous numbers when they get on a roll.

I don't care when the pundits say, ES, the reason most are not on the wagon is that the team has yet to prove they can do anything consistently but have alternate wins. They win in ATL, some of that subsides, they beat WAS, they get taken seriously as a contender for the East.

Agreed, and I don’t REALLY care what the pundits say, because most of us already know, they’re just “speculating for dollars”. It just gets a tad annoying at times, knowing how many morons swallow their shtick and act accordingly.

Also, most of them ARE legit until we beat them. Then they SUCK, and the win is no big deal.

 

[CouchCoach]

if memories of that shellacking don't inspire the troops to beat the falcons, nothing will. I would make it mandatory that the entire team sit down and be made to watch it. i'm hoping for a good old fashioned country whuppin'. first drive to the last drive. no mercy.

Ya know, cern, I am one of those revenge type game guys. If they can't get up for this one, I really don't care what they do the rest of the season.

I looked at this game and where it was on the schedule and noted it. Any team that spanks you and takes your lunch money like that and sends the QB and your season reeling, that's a circle that date game for me.

If I am Garrett and Linehan, the real culprits in that mess, I want Dak delivering the pregame locker room speech to the team and looking every one of those OL right in the eyes and demanding their commitment. Sometimes, leaders don't just say "let's take the hill" and start up it. This is one time, if I were Dak, I would be saying "they took our manhood last year and we're here to take it back, this isn't just a football game". Any player screws up, forget that nice guy crap and go Marino on them.

They win this game, this will help make my season regardless of what they do the rest of the games. There are just some games than are more important than others and my low point all last season was right after that game. I like to pride myself on staying in that "it's just a game" mode but watching them laughing and acting like schoolboys on the sideline made this game a hell of a lot more than a game to me.

 

[CouchCoach]

Agreed, and I don’t REALLY care what the pundits say, because most of us already know, they’re just “speculating for dollars”. It just gets a tad annoying at times, knowing how many morons swallow their shtick and act accordingly.

It's our team and what we think is all that really matters.

 

[mahoneybill]

Don't think so, the Falcons gave them their worst beating in the Prescott era and while most have been complimentary of the D's improvement, they have also been aware of what who we've been playing. This is the elite WR corps in the league with a Tier 1 QB that can put up ridiculous numbers when they get on a roll.

I don't care when the pundits say, ES, the reason most are not on the wagon is that the team has yet to prove they can do anything consistently but have alternate wins. They win in ATL, some of that subsides, they beat WAS, they get taken seriously as a contender for the East.

well stated in all regards. 100% agreement with you

 

[CouchCoach]

Rocky had lost the eye of the tiger. He had a country club training camp prior to the beating Clubber gave him. I don't think he was scared. He was over confident and didn't train properly. Drove Mickey nuts and that stress may be what killed him right before Rocky hit the ring. Combine a dying manager and camp cupcake and you get a savage beating. Who is our Apollo Creed that will come in and help us recapture the eye of the tiger???

He was scared while training for the rematch and Adrian had to get in his face and make him grow a pair.

IN, the memorable line from III that Apollo had applies to this game for both teams....."there is no tomorrow!! THERE IS NO TOMORROW!!!!!!!"

 

[erod]

If Dallas doesn't play really well this week offensively, all those Chaz Green excuses are out the door.