Dallas is playing its hated division rival, the Philadelphia Eagles, on Sunday with a chance to clinch a first round bye, and possible clinch home field advantage. What do we get to talk about?
(a) Whether we should give credit for this season to Bill Parcells (sure, but good riddance otherwise).
(b) Whether T.O. is better for the Cowboys than Keyshawn Johnson was (sure, but what’s the point?)
So we’ll start off with this for our Questions Waiting for Answers.
I just don’t care about this. But if you do, here is the latest from T.O.:
Enjoy!
I’m really searching hard for poll questions. You might have noticed.
With regard to our last question, there is plenty of blame to go around from last week:
On Monday, Cowboys coach Wade Phillips took the blame for his defense’s struggles in Detroit.
On Thursday, he got company. Defensive coordinator Brian Stewart and safety Roy Williams held themselves accountable as the team prepared for Sunday’s game against the Eagles.
“Players executed their game plan,” Stewart said. “They executed their game plan against Green Bay, and the quarterback ended up not being able to finish the game. … And then going into this game against Detroit, they ran the ball more than we anticipated.
“So that’s fine, as long as our guys go through the game plan we put forth, it’s on me to do the adjusting.”
Williams’ problems, meanwhile, came early on. The safety took a bad angle to the ball on a 10-yard run by Kevin Jones in the first quarter. Then he overran T.J. Duckett on the 34-yard touchdown that gave the Lions a 7-0 lead. The four-time Pro Bowler had no problem taking his share of the blame, while adding that the problems are correctable.
“Yes, we got gashed,” Williams said, referring to the Lions racking up a season-high 152 rushing yards. “There was maybe one or two players out of position, and that’s it. You know what? I was out of position.”
