hutch1254
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Just rewatched the game. It was a plodding, defense of struggle that seemed to drag but in the end it was worth it.
Things I liked:
I have a surround system that I bought at the end of last season and let me tell you, I pick up a ton of sideline, background audio action during games. Well, in my left rear speaker for about 5 minutes straight all I can here is this thumping noise and I figure out it's Bailey practicing kicks into the net. At the same time there is Philly fan just ripping him. "Don't worry Bailey you'll be wide right when they need you....you'll be looking for a job on Monday when you miss..." and about every swear word in the book mixed in between. A few minutes later Bailey drills a 42 yarder down the middle. I didn't hear that Philly fan the rest of the game.
At the end of the game, same speaker, Barry Church gets his pick. Some brave Dallas fan starts chirping clearly "BYE BYE PHILLY BIRDS, GO HOME, GO HOME, GO HOME." I just started laughing. I hope he had some friends with him.
I'm pretty excited where we are and where we could be heading.
Things I liked:
- Shutting down Shady. Awesome job.
- Shutting down DJax. Took out these two guys and forced them to beat us with their lower end talent.
- I like how Romo isn't looking for Witten all the time lately. Really spreading it.
- Example of my above sentence...Beasley is the new Witten on 3rd down. Chain mover, really happy for this kid. Catches EVERYTHING.
- Man coverage on D. Thanks Monte.
- In the first half the catch Williams made going backwards to the sideline looking into the sun. Tough catch.
- 2nd Qtr, Sean Lee coming from about 12 yard across the field to take out McCoy for a 2 yard loss...hello second coming of Zach Freakin Thomas in his prime.
- The Percy Harvin type play we ran with Harris out of the backfield. I'd like to see more of this stuff. We don't use Harris on passes much and he doesn't have world class speed. However, he is slippery, lets get the ball in his hands and a little space.
- Randle did a nice job using is body to shield the defender on a tight sideline throw.
- The Wilcox pass defended in the endzone that was a sure TD.
- The drive Romo put together after throwing a pick. Went out, got after and punctuated it with a nice bullet score to Williams.
- The convoy Lee had after his pick. 3 out 4 of the DLine got out ahead of him...on the field awareness, Lee running like and RB. Good stuff.
- 2 divisional wins in a row.
- 3-0 in the division.
- 4-0 in the conference.
- Philadelphia.
- Free and Leary having a billion false starts.
- No flag on a late hit to Romo already on the ground early in the 1st half. Dude must lead the league for most non calls for hits on QBs.
- Coverage sacks were great. What drove me nuts...the fact that we were so close about a billion times to sacking Foles who has barely under 5 sec 40 speed.
- Wilcox had a sure tackle on a 3rd and 8...I thought he wrapped up, I think he thought he did too but Eagles got the 1st down. I slapped a couch pillow across the room on that play.
- End of 2nd qtr no replay by the refs on the one Dez catch near the sideline which looked good to me and then two plays later no flag for the obvious PI on Dez....and punt.
- Thought for sure Dez had that hail mary. Not sure what happened there, his hands were there.
- The refs not counting the interception by Wilcox. Philly receiver you can see the ball hit his hand first clearly before the ground even comes into play. I say this jokingly...NFL has it out for Wilcox. That's the second interception they've taken away from the kid via replay or flag. CAN MY MAN JUST GET HIS FIRST PICK GAME BALL ALREADY!!!!???
- People liked what Rob Ryan did with our D with all the injuries we had. I like what Rod Marinelli is doing with our DL better.
- DJax is a drama queen. Guy hurts his foot and takes off his helmet like he's done for the season...back in the game next series. Whatever, glad you did NOTHING all day.
- I heard wind on the refs mic a few times, it was blowing pretty good depending on where you were on the field.
- Sequence of the game. The Romo pick (which I now clearly see it was meant for Beasley, Tanner messed up and Romo couldn't pull that ball back at that point), to the Wilcox TD pass denial to the Romo drive for the TD to get it to 17. If Wilcox doesn't save that TD it's 10-7 instead of 10-3. Who knows if the play calling goes differently but Wilcox made the play of the day there.
I have a surround system that I bought at the end of last season and let me tell you, I pick up a ton of sideline, background audio action during games. Well, in my left rear speaker for about 5 minutes straight all I can here is this thumping noise and I figure out it's Bailey practicing kicks into the net. At the same time there is Philly fan just ripping him. "Don't worry Bailey you'll be wide right when they need you....you'll be looking for a job on Monday when you miss..." and about every swear word in the book mixed in between. A few minutes later Bailey drills a 42 yarder down the middle. I didn't hear that Philly fan the rest of the game.
At the end of the game, same speaker, Barry Church gets his pick. Some brave Dallas fan starts chirping clearly "BYE BYE PHILLY BIRDS, GO HOME, GO HOME, GO HOME." I just started laughing. I hope he had some friends with him.
I'm pretty excited where we are and where we could be heading.
