NFL Highlights and More
By Matt Cordon (kh). Filed in Dallas Cowboys News in Brief, Video Clips |
Still get to enjoy this win for a little bit longer. The Cowboys are in the driver’s seat for the NFC East title, and we can start worrying about the first-round bye a little bit later this week. So, let’s have fun.
The NFL highlights:
————
From Jean-Jacques Taylor:
No longer is this season about burying a dreadful decade of football. Or ending a nine-year drought without a playoff win, which just happens to be the longest in franchise history. It’s not even about the Cowboys being in position to capture their first NFC East title since 1998.
This season is now about the Super Bowl.
Let that sink in. Seriously, roll the thought around in your mind for a moment.
Not even the most ardent fan or critic could’ve imagined that two months ago so don’t e-mail me that you’ve known the Cowboys were a Super Bowl team since training camp because I won’t believe you. And don’t bother reminding me that I said the Cowboys weren’t contenders because that team – the one with Drew Bledsoe at quarterback and a dreadful offensive line – wasn’t a contender.
These Cowboys have a new reality, one forged by the NFL’s newest star quarterback and a vagabond kicker after Tony Romo and Martin Gramatica led Dallas to a 23-20 victory over the Giants in a rugged game that paid homage to the glory days of NFC East football.
————
Tony Romo picked up where he left off. But this wasn’t really what Cowboys fans had in mind for the biggest game of the season.
Romo picked up where he left off against the New York Giants six weeks ago, the game in which he replaced Drew Bledsoe at halftime and threw three interceptions in two quarters.
One play into the second quarter Sunday night, the Giants had raised their interception total against Romo to five. There had to be some fears among fans that this was the day that Romo returned to earth.
Instead, by dusk, with players dancing and leaping around Martin Gramatica, whose 46-yard kick sealed a 23-20 Cowboys victory, the Romo legend had merely grown.
“I’ve said that if I can have one quarterback for one drive, it’s Tony Romo,” tight end Jason Witten said. “He doesn’t run great, he doesn’t have the strongest arm. But in the end, I believe he will make the plays to win.”
————
Couple of audio files:
Bill Parcells’ Press Conference:
The full postgame show:
Monday, December 4th 2006 at 2:49 am
Wow, what a game, huh? Talk about a heart-pounder. Once again Parcells looks like a genius, and once again Tony Romo comes up clutch. It’s been 8 long years, but I think it’s finally our time once again!
Monday, December 4th 2006 at 10:29 am
Good teams win games like this, whether they “deserve” to win or not. I think it was important for this team to win a game where Romo wasn’t playing out of his mind. There shouldn’t be a game left that we can’t win, no matter what the circumstances are.