Sunday morning I open up the Austin paper, and the front article on
the sports page is the following:
[SIZE=+2]Cowlishaw: All the pieces are in place for Cowboys to make Super Bowl
[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]10:26 PM CDT on Wednesday, September 8, 2010
[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1] [/SIZE] Only the Pittsburgh Steelers have produced more Super Bowl champions than Dallas, and the Cowboys top the list in Super Bowl appearances. No team owns more postseason victories or has made more playoff trips in the modern era than the Cowboys.
Column by TIM COWLISHAW / The Dallas Morning News | wtcowlishaw@dallasnews.com
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But 2010 is all about adding a new distinction to the list in what amounts to the Cowboys' first season of eligibility.Other teams – some of them really good – have tried and failed to reach the Super Bowl when played on their home turf.
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Then, I turn on the game in the 3rd quarter, and Dallas hadn't even scored yet.
BWHAHAHAAHAHAAHAHAAHHAHHAHAAHAH
the sports page is the following:
[SIZE=+2]Cowlishaw: All the pieces are in place for Cowboys to make Super Bowl
[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]10:26 PM CDT on Wednesday, September 8, 2010
[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1] [/SIZE] Only the Pittsburgh Steelers have produced more Super Bowl champions than Dallas, and the Cowboys top the list in Super Bowl appearances. No team owns more postseason victories or has made more playoff trips in the modern era than the Cowboys.
Column by TIM COWLISHAW / The Dallas Morning News | wtcowlishaw@dallasnews.com
Tim Cowlishaw Archive | Blog | Bio | E-mail
But 2010 is all about adding a new distinction to the list in what amounts to the Cowboys' first season of eligibility.Other teams – some of them really good – have tried and failed to reach the Super Bowl when played on their home turf.
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Then, I turn on the game in the 3rd quarter, and Dallas hadn't even scored yet.
BWHAHAHAAHAHAAHAHAAHHAHHAHAAHAH
wanna bet?
Until the team - as in many recent seasons - is dragged from the field following their final December game and non-playoff finish, you'll be hearing it from pretty much all points north for a range of at least 500 miles.
Or so it was during the 37 years I lived in DFW.....
My girlfriend is a Cowboys fan, (at least she watches football) I signed her up for one of those contest where you pick just winners, $25 dollars for the whole season, the weekly prize is 5 grand for 1st and 3 grand for 2nd with 10 grand going to the most wins on the season with a 25 grand bonus if you hit over 200 wins. Now I get to watch all the games, with no nagging.
[ Michael Wilbon sums it up well ... ]
The Dallas Cowboys could be the single most overrated team in football ... maybe the single most overrated team in all of professional sports in America. The franchise has won one playoff game since 1996. Every acquisition they make, every game they win is overstated. Their players are overly praised. They haven't mattered in a decade nearly as much as the New England Patriots or Pittsburgh Steelers or Indianapolis Colts or even the New York Giants or Philadelphia Eagles in their own division. Every single thing about the Cowboys, in recent years anyway, has been overdone. They come into every season being picked to win something between a division and the Super Bowl but limp out to great disappointment annually.
This season the hype has been attached, most specifically, to the Cowboys' offense, to the supposed damage Romo and Miles Austin, Dez Bryant and Felix Jones are going to do, blah, blah, blah. Yet, the Cowboys looked like a bunch of stumblebums in the preseason, and pretty much the same through three quarters of the regular season opener Sunday night.
And no part of the evening was more humiliating for Dallas than the final play of the second quarter, the one that gift-wrapped a 10-0 lead for the Redskins, a play that should never, ever happen beyond high school.
With four seconds left before halftime, and what should have been a rather insignificant 3-0 deficit, the Cowboys for some dumb reason had Romo drop back and attempt a pass from his own 28. That, in and of itself, is unwise because Romo wasn't far enough up the field to heave the ball into the end zone. The professional thing to do would have been to have Romo take a knee and end the half ... or perhaps hand the ball off to run out the clock ... or perhaps run a legitimate downfield play for the rookie Bryant, just to get him the feel for being in a big-time ballgame.
But no. Romo pitches the ball out, which is dangerous enough. And Tashard Choice, instead of simply going down once he saw no daylight, allowed the ball to be ripped from his arms, which started the play on which DeAngelo Hall ran the silly fumble into the other end zone for a 10-0 Washington lead.
(The Redskins didn't distinguish themselves, exactly, taking a field goal off the board in such a low-scoring affair, a move that would have been examined to death had that Romo touchdown pass stood in the end.)
As is, this serves as a reminder why these Cowboys cannot be trusted, no matter how good they look on paper. It's why the Redskins have every reason to think they can win the NFC East. These Cowboys aren't talented enough or resourceful enough to be a lock to win anything. The Redskins have a more accomplished quarterback, and no matter how likeable Romo is, the point isn't debatable. Jones, among the runners on both teams, is the most explosive, but neither team has a dominant back.
http://cowboysblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2010/09/michael-wilbon-cowboys-might-b.html
The Dallas Cowboys could be the single most overrated team in football ... maybe the single most overrated team in all of professional sports in America. The franchise has won one playoff game since 1996. Every acquisition they make, every game they win is overstated. Their players are overly praised. They haven't mattered in a decade nearly as much as the New England Patriots or Pittsburgh Steelers or Indianapolis Colts or even the New York Giants or Philadelphia Eagles in their own division. Every single thing about the Cowboys, in recent years anyway, has been overdone. They come into every season being picked to win something between a division and the Super Bowl but limp out to great disappointment annually.
This season the hype has been attached, most specifically, to the Cowboys' offense, to the supposed damage Romo and Miles Austin, Dez Bryant and Felix Jones are going to do, blah, blah, blah. Yet, the Cowboys looked like a bunch of stumblebums in the preseason, and pretty much the same through three quarters of the regular season opener Sunday night.
And no part of the evening was more humiliating for Dallas than the final play of the second quarter, the one that gift-wrapped a 10-0 lead for the Redskins, a play that should never, ever happen beyond high school.
With four seconds left before halftime, and what should have been a rather insignificant 3-0 deficit, the Cowboys for some dumb reason had Romo drop back and attempt a pass from his own 28. That, in and of itself, is unwise because Romo wasn't far enough up the field to heave the ball into the end zone. The professional thing to do would have been to have Romo take a knee and end the half ... or perhaps hand the ball off to run out the clock ... or perhaps run a legitimate downfield play for the rookie Bryant, just to get him the feel for being in a big-time ballgame.
But no. Romo pitches the ball out, which is dangerous enough. And Tashard Choice, instead of simply going down once he saw no daylight, allowed the ball to be ripped from his arms, which started the play on which DeAngelo Hall ran the silly fumble into the other end zone for a 10-0 Washington lead.
(The Redskins didn't distinguish themselves, exactly, taking a field goal off the board in such a low-scoring affair, a move that would have been examined to death had that Romo touchdown pass stood in the end.)
As is, this serves as a reminder why these Cowboys cannot be trusted, no matter how good they look on paper. It's why the Redskins have every reason to think they can win the NFC East. These Cowboys aren't talented enough or resourceful enough to be a lock to win anything. The Redskins have a more accomplished quarterback, and no matter how likeable Romo is, the point isn't debatable. Jones, among the runners on both teams, is the most explosive, but neither team has a dominant back.
http://cowboysblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2010/09/michael-wilbon-cowboys-might-b.html
Seriously? Any team would have accepted that penalty. Just lost a bunch of respect for Wilbon. Why the heck would you not accept 1st and 10 at the opponent's 12 yard line up 10-0 already? Wasn't even like the guy had kicked a 58 yarder and they were still far away. You can't assume a turnover. From there (1st and 10 at the 12) they should be able to score TD at least 50%. Turnover/missed FG should be a 10% deal and then 40% still FG. That's 4.2 points equity as opposed to 3. Plus burning more clock with a lead and a chance to go up 3 scores instead of 2. No coach would ever decline that 1st down (unless the FG was late and gave the lead, or something along those lines).
