Me, at the end of the game: "You know what would be worse than the Redskins getting their streak broken?"
Ellen: "What?"
Me: "If the goddamned Cowboys won."
Ah well. I enjoyed my 3-0 streak, you enjoy your win and our congratulations. Somehow I think neither of us will have much to crow about from this point out.
Meh, there's always next year!
Freaky "Oh but my 'Boys will break all spacetime, probability, and causality laws to end up in the Superbowl while peeing on the burgundy-and-gold" trufan comment in 3... 2... 1...
(don't worry... he's utterly delusional, but he's still our friend.)
Not yet will we be breaking the laws of space-time, but maybe in a year or two. Our defense is still a bit inconsistent (though by the goddess, we did stomp the Eagles something fierce!) for any predictions of that nature. Two things for the Cowboys to worry about right now:
1 - Can our defense stop a team that isn't one dimensional? We've stopped the run, we've stopped the pass*, but we haven't stopped both at the same time.
2 - Will our offensive coordinator continue to be aggressive? And the follow on - how will we do if teams actually plan for our passing game? That should open up our running game. However, that being said, when we've decided to move the ball, we've been quite successful (think Niners, Chargers, and Eagles).
And kudos to Scott for his second** post dealing with God's Team. America's Team. The Only Team That Ever Mattered.
Oh - and for p1ssing on the mustard and ketchup of Washington - note that we do own the Skins - We've won 14 of the last 16, and have a 20 game or so lead in the series, as I remember it. That aside, we couldn't meet them in the SB - championship game, potentially (due to wierd wild card match ups, I think it's possible for teams in the same division to face each other in the NFC Championship game.).
*Yes, I do remember those Redskins catches, and that one R. Moss catch, but I also remember the passing game being ineffective outside of those and we did hold TO to 5 for 50 - and the entire Eagles offense to 129 TOTAL YARDS.
**The first happened to be posting a pic of Amber and myself at the Dallas-Washington Monday Night game that Dallas won.
Ok folks, I rest my case. This is one LoOn who will owe me a solid Franklin next time he makes a comment about my biking.
You hear me? Franklin.
Posted by: scott on October 10, 2005 06:32 PMFranklin - one must assume you're talking about large greenbacks, else I have no bloody idea what your talking about.
And by the way, neither does the roadie slang dictionary I consulted, nor does urban dictionary.
Posted by: ronaprhys on October 10, 2005 08:51 PMI think he means "Benjamin."
Nothing sadder than an old guy trying to be hip, except maybe an old guy trying to be hip and falling flat on his face.
It's all about the Benjamins, baby.
PS you can't really say that you stopped a passing game that never got started. Try again when McNabb hasn't been through two weeks of cheap shots.
Posted by: DensityDuck on October 11, 2005 08:25 AMThat CLICK sound you just heard was DD inadvertently stepping on the bouncing betty that is Ron when someone mentions the Eagles in relation to the Cowboys. Ball bearing explosion in 3... 2... 1...
Posted by: Scott on October 11, 2005 08:29 AMReally, the worst part about this is going to be seeing that dickhead Gregg Easterbrook whooping it up about the Eagles, with plenty of "pass-wacky" and "stop me before I blitz again" shyte.
I don't know why I bother to read the column anymore. Easterbrook is like the stereotypical right-wing commentator--he doesn't know anything about the things he's talking about, but by God that's not going to stop him! (PS here's a picture of a hot cheerleader, because I'm really not a dried-up old fart, really!)
Posted by: DensityDuck on October 11, 2005 03:51 PMhmm - seems that McNabb has managed to do fairly well when he was banged up for the last few weeks. Hell, he was throwing for 300+ yds a game until he ran into the Cowboys. The simple fact of this game is that the Cowboys outplanned, outplayed, and outh-hustled McNabb and TO. Plain and simple. Right now, Philadelphia has nothing but a passing game and a defense (which got PWN3D, by the way). That allowed us to just tee off on them - which we did. Over and over. For 60 minutes.
You can say all you want about their passing game not getting started. And I'll agree - it didn't. Because we stopped it. 129 total yards, was it? 110 of those passing? TO with 5 for 50? Sounds stopped to me.
Took me this long to get to this because I'm travelling this week. Dammit.
Posted by: ronaprhys on October 11, 2005 07:14 PM