The Morning After...

by HEpennypacker on Sep 21, 2009 6:44 AM CDT Comment 16 comments

Here are my thoughts after last night's game:

~Grizz, thanks for the warning to the unruly folks. I will never again hang out on the thread during a game. People are rude to each other, and obviously have no confidence in this team. After one or two crappy plays over half the people here gave up on the game, gave up on our quarterback, gave up on our coach, and gave up on the season. I'm emotional too, but let's be rational.

~ Our D-backs were bad. On the flip side, the Manningham kid is for real, and Eli is truly a solid QB.

~ Romo played a terrible game, this loss is on him. But he still marched down and scored on the last drive. Unfortunately it left NY a bit too much time.

~ Flo got another one. Ended up being a 6 yd penalty, but we would've been out by midfield, so all in all about a 42 yarder. In a 2-point game, against the Giants, that matters, just like I said last week. Oh....and if we were out by midfield, Romo doesn't throw short to Witten, which bounces off his heel for an INT. Flo is up around 75 yards which he cost us this year. Go ahead, say he saved Romo....I was watching too, and I don't buy it.

I could go on, but I won't. Bottom line is this: We played a Terrible game and had even worse Luck. Yet we still took many people's Super Bowl pick to the wire. I'm not much for moral victories, but one question looms in my mind.....

What if we played well against the Giants?

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We would have smoked them.

Again this season just as in seasons past. The only team that can really beat the Cowboys, is the Cowboys.

"Help, it's hot and dark in here and someone is laughing." Taco Bell

by GunsUp on Sep 21, 2009 7:51 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

romo's beat the cowboys three years straight....HE WILL beat us this year again

look up -- get up -- dont ever give up

by tex806 on Sep 21, 2009 8:15 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Hey while you are looking into the future,

could you tell me how the market is going to do the next few weeks? I could really use some money for a vacation.

If I had a nickel for every Super Bowl the Eagles have won, I would have zero nickels.

by Cowboyfan729 on Sep 21, 2009 9:33 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

if i had a nickel for every meaningful game Romos won, i would have zero nickels

look up -- get up -- dont ever give up

by tex806 on Sep 21, 2009 10:42 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

You would have more than zero nickels

since most would agree that game against GB in 2007 was huge and that last year’s Giants game was huge as well. But true to form, a meaningful game can only become meaningful for people like you after we lose.

If I had a nickel for every Super Bowl the Eagles have won, I would have zero nickels.

by Cowboyfan729 on Sep 21, 2009 10:56 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Why do people call that GB game huge?

If we had lost, we’d have been 12-4.

Ooh…skeery.

"Well, we didn't block real good but we made up for it by not tackling."

- John McKay, the first coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers

by 5Blings on Sep 21, 2009 1:16 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Because...

It was more or less for home field advantage in the NFC that year which unfortunately didn’t help Dallas when the Giants came to town.

The 2009 Dallas Cowboys: Talk to me in December.
The NFC East has won 11 Super Bowls; oddly none of those have come courtesy of the Eagles.

by gee-roj on Sep 21, 2009 1:45 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

So...

it wasn’t really meaningful then, was it?

"Well, we didn't block real good but we made up for it by not tackling."

- John McKay, the first coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers

by 5Blings on Sep 21, 2009 6:30 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I say

Give Tony Romo the season and then revisit the issue. This is crazy-so many fans are titty babies, whiners who didn’t get their way and remind of the child in the dept. store who holds his breath, stomps and screams, then flings themselves onto the floor flopping their arms around like that’s gonna help. You’d think this was the freaking SB.

When you hear people talking like this it’s like you’re listening to ducks, I swear. Quack Quack Quack. Have to search high and low on this blog anymore to find someone who is willing to squeeze those lemons to make lemondae and I for one appreciate your sense in this post HEpennypacker, thanx.

by dcfansinceiwasababy on Sep 21, 2009 9:09 AM CDT reply actions 1 recs

scuse me LEMONADE

too early to spell right

by dcfansinceiwasababy on Sep 21, 2009 9:10 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

isn't that a pill you take when something goes terribly wrong?

searches for his morning after pill

by sublimezg on Sep 21, 2009 9:18 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Good post

Unfortunately, I stopped hanging out on the gameday threads as well for all the reasons you said. It takes the fun out of the game and I get black eyes from all the knee jerking going on.

Look around the league all you negative nancies. A lot of good teams lost yesterday and I’m pretty sure they are all going to finish the season.

by Billito on Sep 21, 2009 11:01 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

+1

I dont participate in the game threads anymore either.

The Knights season may have just ended, but the Cowboys year is just begining!

by aussie_cowboy on Sep 21, 2009 3:28 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

+1

I’ll give it one more try for the Carolina game, but the belligerent negativity really started bothering me. At times this was worse than a bar full of drunk Eagles fans.

by One.Cool.Customer on Sep 21, 2009 4:46 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

We are supposed to be classier than that.

I wasn’t on the threads last night because I had to start the game later and didn’t want to spoil it. Sounds like I missed alot of mean stuff that I wouldn’t care to be part of anyways.

Open threads are one of my favorite parts about this site. I hope that last night’s boobirds won’t deter some of you guys (or gals) from being “in” there. I’m sure I can keep a conversation up myself, but it wouldn’t be much fun.

And the sign said long haired freaky people need not apply ...
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by Aaron Novinger on Sep 21, 2009 7:15 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

What do you mean, Romo marched down and scored on that last drive?

That drive included 8 plays counting the kickoff return:

1. Felix returned the kickoff 19 yards (to the DAL 29)
2. Barber up the middle for 11 yards (to the DAL 40)
3. Barber up the middle for 2 yards (to the DAL 42)
4. Romo – incomplete pass to Williams
5. Romo – pass to Witten for 13 yards (to the NYG 45)
6. Barber – left guard for 3 yards (to the NYG 43)
7. Barber – left tackle for 35 yards (to the NYG 7)
8. Felix up the middle for 7 and a TD

Romo’s ONLY CONTRIBUTION was 1 pass for 13 yards.

We ought to thank Barber and Felix for that Go Ahead Score – Romo had almost nothing to do with it.

The smartest thing for Garrett to do on that drive was to keep running the ball. Romo was having such a poor performance all day, so Garrett (very wisely) called run plays for Barber and Felix for the go-ahead-score.

by BishopWest on Sep 22, 2009 1:11 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs