Two Go Bowling

the Pro Bowl is such a joke. Very rarely do the right people make it. LA does not deserve it clearly. Its aruguable about Roy. No one else deserves it except Newman- based on the whole season as it is now. Glover was no longer a starter and has not done much the last few games; Witten has not done that well either- his blocking has really not been that good this year.

You hit it on the head Rafael. The “Madden Treatment”, perfect. Name rec and pop mythology about a player’s greatness at his position seem to be the key ingredients to getting a ticket to Hawaii in February. If a player gets his name in the headlines for acting like a jerk, cheap shotting an opponent and drawing a fine, or dancing around after making a good play he gets on SportsCenter and everyone starts to learn his name. This is especially true for positions that don’t have easily understood metrics for superior performance, such as cornerback or offensive linemen. The guy who blows his horn loudest (or has the media do it) and beats his chest gets the nod a lot of times.

If T-New danced around and talked smack and wore flashy suits like Deion used to then maybe people would notice that (like Deion in his prime) QB’s have been extremely reluctant to challenge him this season. That’s the true definition of a shutdown corner!!

I just voted again and the Cowboys blog is officially in the lead!

Newman is truly deserving of the Pro Bowl but is anyone but me sickened with the choice of Vick? What does he have…a 70 quarterback rating? In games he wins he usually throws for less than 150 and about 50% completion. Give me a break! He may be a quarterback some day but right now he is the most overhyped player I have seen since Deion Sanders.

Rev. Michael:

Guys like Vick, T.O., Chad Johnson, Jeremy Shockey, Deion in his prime, and Randy Moss get all kinds of media exposure because of their celebration dances, antics, or shooting off their mouth. They are/were all great players, but a lot of great players don’t get the same recognition because the media doesn’t think they are exciting enough.

Vick reminds me of a basketball player who averages 15 points a game but everyone thinks he’s a star because he gets 2 or 3 highlight reel dunks a game. His output is pretty average, but people want to see him because they like to see the flashy play.

Vick is a winning look at that team before he got there and when he is not playing. Roy has had a good year but T-New should be there. AH I would have said if he didn’t get hurt but no other cowboy should go. If they would use Witten right he should be there. I knew Bledsoe and Glenn were not going to make it or should they have. Who got robbed is Galloway.

The three Cowboys who deserve it the most might be DBs (Newman, Roy and Henry). Amazing given last year’s debacle at DB that they’ve been arguably our biggest strength since the bye.

My friends,
I ask all of you to pray for Tony Dungy and his family.. His 18 years old son was found dead at his apartment in Tampa. No foul play is determined.
This must be a devastating blow to Tony and his family. As we all know Tony is a man of faith and integrity. It pains my heart to see anything like this happen to anyone. I am beleiver that prayers work. I ask each one of you to take a moment and pray for them, for strength and comfort through this awful time. It makes football irrelevant.. Thank you and God Bless all of you

I’m with ya Toast. Dungy is a class guy and from whaty I gather his kids were 1st rate.

Tony Dungy and his family are in my thoughts. No parent should have to outlive their kids. This puts all sorts of things in perspective.

I really want Roy Williams to be the league’s premiere safety, and I think he’s got it in him, but this selection is a bit confounding. Roy has problems in pass coverage, and it seems to me that most of the highlights I’ve seen him in this year are the ones where he’s way out of position on the deep ball. I definitely think he’s one of the best safeties out there, but there are others who have done better in pass coverage this year, and I don’t think he’ll be the absolute best until he fixes these problems. This selection, and to a lesser extent LA’s as well, seem more like obligatory “conventional wisdom” selections than performance-based ones (this year, anyway).

For the life of me, i don’t understand how Larry Allen or Roy Williams made the Pro Bowl. Well, there’s their reputation, but beyond that there is no reason.
Terence Newman is the only Pro Bowl-worthy player on this team.
Oh well. Whatever.
Go Cowboys.

I think it’s a pretty safe bet that LA got the vote of just about every defensive lineman he’s faced this year, and that probably goes for every other year he’s been selected too. The guy is a monster.

Yeah, I think so too, if Allen can get his hands into any DLineman he can’t be moved back into the pocket, his problem relies in that he isn’t good anymore at making sidesteps to stop a defender going by his side.

larry allen is only in it because of people remembering how good he used to be and thinking, o yea, he must still be a great player, man i wish i still thought that

Any predictions on Saturdays game? Desperate team wins, Cowboys 21-17.

lou c:

I am not making anymore predictions about Cowboys after last week. I predict Texas wins the Rose Bowl, and I live in L.A. so that says something.

I thought the Cowboys would embarass the indians. As I was typing out some of my hubris-riddled Cowboys rah-rah’s…a small but potent negative thought crossed my mind. What if I am wrong? What if I have it exactly opposite… bizarro-universe-wrong? I thought…naaaawwww…objectively speaking the Cowboys should pass all over that secondary.

That was the last time. It reminds me of when I was a senior in college and I had been on a 3 week winning streak betting big money every weekend. I thought I couldn’t be beat and that I would have an extra $500 to $1,000 income every week just betting on football.

Then I bet on the Cowboys for the FIRST time ever, to cover on the road against the Cardinals. Aikman got his jaw busted in the first half by Wilbur Marshall. I don’t even remember if the Cowboys won the game (I think they did, but they might have lost), but they didn’t cover the spread. I lost my ass that weekend.

Luckily, and Oh-So ironically, the Eagles covered the Then-RunNShoot-Oilers in the last 2 minutes on MNF (when they were up by 3 and had to cover 5, weird) or I would have been out my tuition money for my senior year. I promised myself I would never bet football again at about 3 minutes to go in that team.

Thank you Charlie Garner, the unlikliest of heroes…you saved my ass.

Also, about everyone ragging Roy Williams and Larry Allen.

Roy Williams decided the Eagles game on MNF with a pick returned for a TD for the last score of the game. He was the deciding factor, whether you believe it was gift-wrapped or not. If T-New had done it he would very likely be going to Hawaii. The fact is that of all the safeties in the NFL I would not take a single one to play on the Cowboys over Roy.

Larry Allen is clearly more of an icon pick, but what are the fans to do when there is no sensible metric to judge an Offensive Guard? The fact is, if the vote was only among former Cowboys QB’s (who better to rate their O-Line?), I would bet anything that LA would be the #1 or #2 pick. He is good, and he is a beast. He is FAR from being an “obligatory” pick. Give me a break!!

Hopefully next year T-New will make and return a pick for a TD in Primetime TV. If given the choice, I would rather have a RB tandem that can average close to 200 yards a game and nobody makes the ‘Pro Bowl’.