Inducement of Heart Disease: Philadelphia 38, Dallas 24
By Matt Cordon (kh). Filed in Dallas Cowboys News in Brief |
It will be hard to defend Drew Bledsoe after this game. It will be hard to defend coaching strategy after this game. It will be hard to consider Dallas as anything better than a 9-7 team after this game.
It must be the sign of a very good football team when its opponent knows what is going to happen yet cannot do anything to stop it. It must be the sign of a mediocre football team when it has so many chances to win a game, yet finds every way imaginable to lose it.
Dallas knew that the Eagles would blitz. There was no doubt about that. And yet the Eagles did it all day, and the Cowboys looked scared by it. By the end of the game, the Eagles were rushing three or four and still getting pressure on Bledsoe. At that point, Bledsoe looked like he was throwing shot puts.
Dallas even had a chance to tie the game with less than two minutes to go. But on two consecutive plays, Bledsoe lost a total of 18 yards in sacks, leading to a 3rd-and-28. After a 10-yard pass to Marion Barber left Dallas in a 4th-and-18, Bledsoe threw deep to Terry Glenn, who drew an interference penalty from Michael Lewis. Two plays later, though, Bledsoe found a wide-open Lito Sheppard, who returned the pass 102 yards in the other direction to give Philadelphia a 38-24 win.
Our favorite (at least one with which we can relate) comment:
“Time to drink myself into a COMA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
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Friday, October 20th 2006 at 8:56 pm
I blasted Vic Carrucci’s article you posted earlier, but it turns out he was exactly right and I was oh so wrong. He has earned some respect from me as an anylist.