That 53-yarder to Hurd was no easy feat and a lot of NFL starting receivers might have dropped that ball from Romo. But Hurd sucked it in with flypaper hands and if I have a gripe about him - it's that he didn't close in on the right sideline enough during the YAC to ensure a clock stoppage when he was finally tackled. Thus Dallas was forced to burn a timeout they coulda used instead of having Tony spike the ball on 'second down and goal' to tie the game. (Poor clock management in the two-minute drill of the first half PO'd me as well.)
Champ Bailey just made a great play on the 4TH down ball to Hurd. Sometimes, hard as it is, you just have to doff your cap to the other teams' defenders. For me, this was one of those times.
But I gotta say I agree w/ those suggesting it'd be better for the Cowboys to take the dampers off of Romo, let him get back to 'flying by the seat of his pants', and prepare to take the good with the bad. Tony's best performances are of a spontaneous nature. Take that away and we get what we've been seeing so far. He'll never be Aikman. That's just not his game. He can be crazy mad good when he's rolling out of a rush and creating. Yeah, it's friggin' scary - but that's when he's truly shined. I'll take my chances and die cryin' with THAT over the assured slow death of watching him subjugated to a 'game manager'.
I honestly don't give **** what Keyshawn thinks about Hurd - though I bear him no grudge as he played some great games for us as an FOB. Hurd is a dedicated football player and we could use a few more like him.