Getting All of the Negatives Out on the Table
By Matt Cordon (kh). Filed in Dallas Cowboys News in Brief, Video Clips |
My positive outlook has been squashed, so I am going to flip to the dark side and be sarcastic and negative. The good news this week is that I have not been banned for a day from the Dallas Cowboys Fan Zone due to using a not-abbreviated-enough version of the f-word. Apparently, you need to do more than use an asterisk to replace the “u” in order to avoid the profanity ban. That does not, however, apply to the sh– word, as seen here. I like the consistency.
If you want to see the highlights of today’s game on this site, then you are an Eagles fan who is trespassing. But here they are anyway:
Jerry Jones was none too happy. Here is his press conference clip:
Our friend Bill, the elite and masterful coach, shed some light on this pathetic bunch of crap in his post game comments, along with Tony Romo and our fingerless star receiver.
What you can’t see, and what I don’t feel like posting, is a shot of Owens in his Santa Claus outfit. “Ho ho … holy crap, I dropped your presents.”
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For some positives, we turn to Tim Cowlishaw, unusual as that sounds. Tim?:
The good news for Cowboys fans is that the Seattle Seahawks are a really weak 8-7 team, losers of three straight and looking nothing like last year’s NFC champions.
In all likelihood, in the wake of what looked like a Cowboys wake – a disturbingly easy 23-7 Eagles victory at Texas Stadium – Dallas will be headed to Seattle for its first-round playoff game.
That was the extent of the positive news from Mr. Cowlishaw, though. Here’s more:
Who in the secondary is not susceptible to the big play? Maybe Terence Newman, but that’s it, and after the game, Newman talked about being nervous about what lies ahead.
“We couldn’t stop anything,” he said. “Next week if we play anything like we did today, we might as well hang it up and not even play in the playoffs because the way we are playing makes no sense to me.”
And a bit more:
Cowboys coach Bill Parcells called his team “noncompetitive,” accepted the blame for its poor preparation but didn’t single out areas of concern. There were too many.
But owner Jerry Jones, who has spent both millions of dollars and valued No. 1 draft picks to build this defense, didn’t hide his frustration after watching Jeff Garcia and Eagles backs rack up 426 yards.
“That’s pitiful,” Jones said. “Under these circumstances with the players I believe we have, I didn’t think there was any way in the world we wouldn’t be able to slow them down.”
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Thinking of some reasons why I should care what happens next week. That may take a while.
