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Re: 2008 NFL season
Anyways being the arrogant Cowboys fan that I am I just purchased 4 lower bowl endzone tickets to teh Cowboys vs Giants game on December 14th. Just wanted to watch my Boys lay a beatdown on the Midgets in person. No offence to anyone but I have a role to fill and I guess that's the "arrogant Cowboys fan"
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Re: 2008 NFL season
Romo is impressive but he seems prone to big mistakes. That fumble in the end zone is just plain unbelievable, some of the stuff he did last year on Monday Night was hard to fathom, and of course all the playoff problems he's had. I know he overcame those slip-ups versus the Eagles and the Bills on Monday Nights, but isn't it a little worrying to see your star QB drop the ball for no reason and fail to fall on it?
Cowboys look very strong in the West and I wouldn't be surprised to see them win it all, but I can't put my confidence in a team that plays offense first and defense second. Teams equally talented have come up short with an offense-first mentality (early 90s Bills, though it hurts to say, Colts many times, Pats last year, Rams when they played the Pats). Unless they can run the ball with priority and play better D for the rest of the season, I'm still making them a big post-season question mark.
And although I'm slightly upset that sports radio and the ESPNs are ignoring the Bills so far, I think the longer they can avoid the spotlight the better for the team.
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CC, ESPN First Take was pumping the Bills this morning, though I think it was a columnist from the Buffalo area or something to that effect. He said the Bills will win the AFC East this year. And here in New England, on Fox Sports New England last night they said that the Bills are the major challengers for the Pats, not the Jets. They went on to point out how talented and well coached Green Bay is, and THAT is the reason Favre had such a good season last year. He finally listened to the coaching staff and they put him in the perfect position to be successful. Goes to show you how overrated Brett Favre is. People just expected the Jets to compete for a playoff spot because of him. He can't do it all by himself. Back to the Bills, they're a very solid team. Very good D, good running game, Edwards is playing solid. Very good chance at some post-season football in Buffalo this year.
As for the Cowboys, I've got to agree with CC here again. Sorry Bono. As good as the Cowboys are on paper, and they're quite talented on offense. Their defense is far from elite, they gave up some huge plays to Philly. Far too many, they have to shore that up and I'm not convinced they have the personnel to do that. And Romo is a great QB, but as CC said, he does seem prone to making big mistakes at crucial times. Kind of like, BRETT FAVRE. He's still young though, so there's time to grow out of that. Favre never could, he still makes stupid decisions.
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You're completely missing my point. Romo simply put the ball on the ground for no reason. Nobody ran into him not even his own guy. He simply dropped the ball after he had full control.
McNabb did the same thing in the 4th quarter!!!
You won by 4, and the game WAS as close as the score. An 18 point win would be a blowout, this game was not.
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Bono wrote:You're completely missing my point. Romo simply put the ball on the ground for no reason. Nobody ran into him not even his own guy. He simply dropped the ball after he had full control.
McNabb did the same thing in the 4th quarter!!!
You won by 4, and the game WAS as close as the score. An 18 point win would be a blowout, this game was not.
Are you being for real PaSnow. C'mon. McNabb's was a miscomunication with Westbrook but even that didn't hand the Cowboys the ball in the endzone or even near the endzone. Follow me here. the Eagles caught two major breaks. An unrushed, no preessure, no reason for it at all fumble in the freaking endzone by Romo. The defensive pass interfernce call(when it was actually offensive interference) handed the Eagles the ball on the 1 yard line. Seriously man comprehend what I'm saying here. The Eagles caught two very huge breaks. Gifts if you will. The types of gifts you rarely ever get in a game let alone two of them. Got it. 14 gimme points. The Cowboys didn't get any gimme points. THAT'S ALL I'M SAYING!!!
I agree with you guys that the Cowboys defence in paticular the secondary needs alot of work but they'll get it together. Newman is still hurt and playing limited action. Adam Jones is new and still learning the Boys system. Roy is out(might be a good thing) so guys are shuffled around out there. It'll come around but really that defence only gave up 23 legit points like I said. And they completely shut down the Eagles offence allowing only 7 in the 2nd half.
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Cowboys D problems really don't matter, do they? I mean, who can outscore them. Maybe the Eagles, but they couldn't Monday. Patriots? Not now. Indy? Two seasons ago, maybe. New Orleans, Chargers? Not with those defenses.
I hate to even suggest it, but, how about the Giants? They've looked pretty good so far, granted haven't played the best of competition. But they ARE the defending champs. Their offense looks solid and their defense IS solid. I'm not saying the Giants can outscore the Cowboys, but their defense could contain them possibly. Again, I hope I'm wrong. I don't like the Giants, just thought I'd throw that out there.
How about the Packers. They've got a pretty solid all around team, both offense and defense. I guess we'll find out soon enough when the 2 teams square off this weekend.
I'll say this, and it is still really early in the season. But at least for now, it appears that the balance of power in the NFL has shifted to the NFC. Things can change though.
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Green Bay looked pretty damn good with Rodgers at QB. They stopped a team many think could go to the Super Bowl in the Vikings.
unfortunately the vikings decided, after creating a great team, to keep a crappy quarteback to lead them. 1st year qb rodgers made third year qb jackson look like the rookie. 5 straight filed goals against the colts cost them that game.
if you haven't heard, jackson is now benched for the rest of the season in favor of backup qb gus ferotte. i think he has a 40 percent completion average in 12 years or something like that. not great either.
they need to go after garcia.
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The Packers/Cowboys game should be a good one this week. I think the Cowboys will win, but it'll be interesting to see Rodgers this week. He has looked very good this year.
