A Dish Best Served Cold
If any Eagles fans needed any more motivation for this week's game, all they had to do was check out Wade Phillip's press conference this week. Anyone who is curious can find the offending bit at the 11:25 mark. Wade laughed dismissively at the prospect of facing the Eagles. Ouch. That's not out of context, check it for yourselves at http://www.dallascowboys.com/multimedia_ce...4112435161DBBE6.
Never give a division team bulletin board material. All that said, a legit target for McNabb, and one more piece on D, and this team is back in the thick of it. Now, on to the game.
This game featured the most staggeringly brilliant football play I've seen in years, and some on field decisions that would make voting Hillary look reasonable in comparison.
To wit...AJ Feeley, our backup QB, managed to draw a penalty flag without even being in the field of play. Not since Columbus ended up in the New World while trying to find China has someone been so ludicrously off course. He somehow drifted to the sideline during a play, and accidentally tripped a referee who was running down the sideline. Ugh.
Q...Quentin Mikell, who I like as a player f'd up. He intercepted a pass in the end zone, and took off. Surrounded by teammates who were screaming for him to just get down, he took off, fumbling the ball, and giving Dallas a first down in the red zone.
Roy Williams, the reason for the Horsecollar Rule in the NFL still doesn't get it. A horse collar is a lazy, and very dangerous way to bring someone down. While running behind them, instead of tackling them, one grips the back of the shoulder pads while dropping down, dragging the victim down and backwards. Due to the fact that a player is strapped into his pads, the victim goes down at a rude, awkward angle, frequently resulting in injury. The NFL has made this a personal foul, punishable by 15 yards, and, in most cases, a fine. Roy Williams had one tonight on McNabb. One would think he'd learn after being fined already this year, but c'est la vie.
There were a few highlights, but the best had to be Westbrook's final play of the game. With about two minutes left, and with Dallas out of time outs, Westbrook broke free for a 24 yard gain. Most normal players would see the end zone, and break the plane for the score. Not Westbrook. In a display of football IQ that one just does not ever witness, he stopped at the 1 yard line, and dropped. If he had scored, Dallas would have gotten the ball back, and who knows what might have transpired.
Instead, McNabb took a couple knees, winding the clock down to nothing, and the Eagles beat the Cowboys in their house. Dallas had not scored less than 24 points all season, and today they were put on lockdown.
Damn, this has been a good day.
Never give a division team bulletin board material. All that said, a legit target for McNabb, and one more piece on D, and this team is back in the thick of it. Now, on to the game.
This game featured the most staggeringly brilliant football play I've seen in years, and some on field decisions that would make voting Hillary look reasonable in comparison.
To wit...AJ Feeley, our backup QB, managed to draw a penalty flag without even being in the field of play. Not since Columbus ended up in the New World while trying to find China has someone been so ludicrously off course. He somehow drifted to the sideline during a play, and accidentally tripped a referee who was running down the sideline. Ugh.
Q...Quentin Mikell, who I like as a player f'd up. He intercepted a pass in the end zone, and took off. Surrounded by teammates who were screaming for him to just get down, he took off, fumbling the ball, and giving Dallas a first down in the red zone.
Roy Williams, the reason for the Horsecollar Rule in the NFL still doesn't get it. A horse collar is a lazy, and very dangerous way to bring someone down. While running behind them, instead of tackling them, one grips the back of the shoulder pads while dropping down, dragging the victim down and backwards. Due to the fact that a player is strapped into his pads, the victim goes down at a rude, awkward angle, frequently resulting in injury. The NFL has made this a personal foul, punishable by 15 yards, and, in most cases, a fine. Roy Williams had one tonight on McNabb. One would think he'd learn after being fined already this year, but c'est la vie.
There were a few highlights, but the best had to be Westbrook's final play of the game. With about two minutes left, and with Dallas out of time outs, Westbrook broke free for a 24 yard gain. Most normal players would see the end zone, and break the plane for the score. Not Westbrook. In a display of football IQ that one just does not ever witness, he stopped at the 1 yard line, and dropped. If he had scored, Dallas would have gotten the ball back, and who knows what might have transpired.
Instead, McNabb took a couple knees, winding the clock down to nothing, and the Eagles beat the Cowboys in their house. Dallas had not scored less than 24 points all season, and today they were put on lockdown.
Damn, this has been a good day.
posted by PKav at 9:32 PM
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