Cardiac Cowboys

[sirandrew]

My current stream of conciousness about the now 5-0 Cowboys....

Wow.  I guess my sacrifices to the football gods worked.  We played the worst possible game that we could play and we still beat the Bills by one.  I guess Wade Phillips was owed one for the Music City Miracle. 

Damn it Romo, why did you keep missing Jones and Barber wide open for the screen ALL DAMNED NIGHT.  Every time he threw it to them they ran for 8+ yards.  They managed to get into his head and he got Witten fixation.  Quit trying to force the damned game Romo, just do what you do. 

Are you telling me we missed a 2 point conversion with 20 secs to go...then recovered an onside kick, and managed, without timeouts, to get within field goal range and then hit a 50+ field goal TWICE to win by one?  No, I don't believe you.  I saw it and I don't believe it.  I was dreaming.  You're never going to convince me, 20 years from now that this happened.  I'm going to insist to my grave that the Cowboys won this 34-7. 

Talking heads keep comparing Romo to Favre.  Never was that more apt than this game.  Just like Favre, Romo's capable of awesome improvisational plays, and also capable of getting too flustered and forcing balls into a 5 INT game.  Fortunately the Bills were so bad that we managed to beat them anyway. 

I hope we got our crappy game out of the way. 

I have a man crush on Nick Folk.

Stat of the game: 3...that's the number of points the Bills offense scored on the Cowboys.  Pretty nuts in a 25-24 matchup.

WTF!  First Urban Meyer pulls the call a time out right before the kick trick in Auburn-Florida, and now Dick Juron does it to the Cowboys tonight.  That crap needs to be outlawed..now.  I shouldn't have been forced to endure that twice in a row.  Even more insane, in both instances the tactic didn't work and the kickers came through. 

Did I mention that I have a man crush on Nick Folk?

Now we get to lose to the Patriots.  We've got a long way to go before we can take them.  Good thing the season's not over and we get some injuries back after the bye.

How bout them Cowboys!   I guess that deserves to be said, even after a really badly played game. 

Comments

[hotokegi.livejournal.com]

Agreed on the Nick Folk man-crush.

And yes, that stupid ass rule needs to be changed yesterday. I'm just glad coaches are pounding it in every week that it's complete B.S.

In other news, good kickers really need to be paid a fuckload more than they are. What other position besides QB seems to win as many games in the last seconds?

--Jed

[mariussilverwlf.livejournal.com]

It should be noted that before Urban Meyer did that in the Auburn - Florida game, it was done it two consecutive weeks in the NFL the weeks prior, with both games involving the Denver Broncos. One week against Denver, which led to them losing by missing the second kick, and the next week Denver pulled it against their opponent, who made both kicks.

Two weeks in a row Denver lost on that gimmick trick.

And yes, it should be against the rules. Timeouts had to be called on the field until just a few years ago. Why the change? Was it broken? I don't think so.

I'm not a Cowboys fan -- if I *HAD* to pick a team it would be the Titans -- but they've been impressive, even in crap games like this, to remain undefeated.

The Cowboys
The Colts
The Patriots

The only undefeated teams at this point. That's not bad company.

[sirandrew.livejournal.com]

The NFL and NCAA both seriously need to come down on that rule. It's ticky tack and it's against the spirit of the game. That said though, even if they don't it will eventually police itself out. Imagine what will happen the first time a coach pulls that trick on a last second game winner and the nullified kick sails wide right, then the kicker gets the do-over and he kicks it true. That'll be the last time the time out trick is pulled.