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A good one.
The season is finished for the Cowboys. A fortuitous call followed by perhaps the most pernicious play in Cowboys history ended our season. Think about it, Tony Romo was about to exorcise the elephant sized demons of picks past. On the verge of going into Lambeau Field and stare down the best QB in the NFL, on his home field, like bringing down the Roman Colosseum on fifty thousand Romans, a 4th and 2 career making pass had done the equivalent. Fifty thousand Cheese heads and millions of Cowboys fans, looked on as the fifty thousand in Lambeau Field began to shiver, while the stadium became unstable, as a cold thunderous blast of shock set in that the Cowboys were about to go up 2 perhaps 3. Then in a moment akin to Julius Caesar standing up, hushing the crowd, extending his arm, making a fist with his thumb extended about to judge. The referee steps onto the field, and switches on his mic.
In that moment, I thought three things. 1), it's a catch, if Murray scores, I win in fanduel (when I say win in fanduel, I mean ironically, "Cheese" in Fanduel), and 2)we're taking the lead and 3)Too bad we can't stop Rodgers. we're going to get beat today but man on man what if we had a defense?"
We all know what happened, we were robbed of watching a great game elevate to one of the greatest. Regardless of which side of the catch you find yourself, there is a part of every football fan that craves to witness greatness. We football fanatics love nothing better than to watch a great game go to the next level and it was about to in one play. A play that Romo has needed to make to be called clutch. A play that would give the Cowboys defense the boost needed to drag it's ragged self onto the field and face the Best Bad Man in the business killing you with 4 minutes, an eternity on the clock. A play that just may put the Dallas Cowboys into the Championship game. A play that catapults Dez into Prime status and could very well be dubbed Optumus after the game. We were denied the opportunity to see it ALL play out as Rogers takes the field down 2 or 3. When they overturned that call, like the dropping of Ceasars thumb, it was over. The game was killed, sucking all the life out of not only the Cowboys players and fans, but the defense that had played like gladiators but were no match for Rodgers this year.
With one leg, Rogers threw for 316 yards and 3 TDs. Practically couldn't move or reach the stretch hand off the entire first half. In the second, after additional "Treatment" the calf be damned. He picked us apart, unmolested. So even had the Cowboys scored on that ridiculous catch by Dez, the odds of stopping Rodgers at home was low. However, we were denied the chance to see it. We'll never get to see if the Cowboys could hold. If we could have force overtime. All of that went though my mind but I just kept thinking, what if we had a really good or great defense? One that can play at, or near Seattle's level?
Seattle is going to beat the Packers on Sunday even with an offense less potent then the Cowboys'. Even now I as many others feel as if the game was incomplete. As if the World Series was rained out in the 6th inning while the underdog had just gone on a 5 run rally to pull within 1 run and one of the players was going for the postseason record for hits. Although the favorite was crowned champion because by rule, the game was official after 5 1/2 innings. Nonetheless, everyone is left to only ponder what could have been, what should have been. A thief had somehow stolen the drama from the game, leaving me and everyone else with a jury summons to endless litigation. Defense was the only thing left. Many left with defending the catch, the Cowboys left to defending Rodgers, and me left with the thought of what if our defense was good enough to get to Rodgers?
I wonder, what if we had a defense that could and did stop offenses, good offenses. What if our Defense was as good as our Offense. With Marinelli signed, we have a full off season to focus exclusively on Defense. If we did nothing on offense but develop or find a right tackle and depth for the O line and spent the entire off season finding D linemen, and secondary players. What could this team achieve?
Cowboys fans, imagine this:
McClain, Lee, Carter, Hitchens at linebacker
Scandrick plus a better FS then Wilcox and better corners
Crawford, 2nd year Demarcus Lawrence and better linemen
So here I am, with 3 games left in the 2014 season to call my shot. The 2015 Dallas Cowboys will be in the Championship game next year.
Go Cowboys!
The season is finished for the Cowboys. A fortuitous call followed by perhaps the most pernicious play in Cowboys history ended our season. Think about it, Tony Romo was about to exorcise the elephant sized demons of picks past. On the verge of going into Lambeau Field and stare down the best QB in the NFL, on his home field, like bringing down the Roman Colosseum on fifty thousand Romans, a 4th and 2 career making pass had done the equivalent. Fifty thousand Cheese heads and millions of Cowboys fans, looked on as the fifty thousand in Lambeau Field began to shiver, while the stadium became unstable, as a cold thunderous blast of shock set in that the Cowboys were about to go up 2 perhaps 3. Then in a moment akin to Julius Caesar standing up, hushing the crowd, extending his arm, making a fist with his thumb extended about to judge. The referee steps onto the field, and switches on his mic.
In that moment, I thought three things. 1), it's a catch, if Murray scores, I win in fanduel (when I say win in fanduel, I mean ironically, "Cheese" in Fanduel), and 2)we're taking the lead and 3)Too bad we can't stop Rodgers. we're going to get beat today but man on man what if we had a defense?"
We all know what happened, we were robbed of watching a great game elevate to one of the greatest. Regardless of which side of the catch you find yourself, there is a part of every football fan that craves to witness greatness. We football fanatics love nothing better than to watch a great game go to the next level and it was about to in one play. A play that Romo has needed to make to be called clutch. A play that would give the Cowboys defense the boost needed to drag it's ragged self onto the field and face the Best Bad Man in the business killing you with 4 minutes, an eternity on the clock. A play that just may put the Dallas Cowboys into the Championship game. A play that catapults Dez into Prime status and could very well be dubbed Optumus after the game. We were denied the opportunity to see it ALL play out as Rogers takes the field down 2 or 3. When they overturned that call, like the dropping of Ceasars thumb, it was over. The game was killed, sucking all the life out of not only the Cowboys players and fans, but the defense that had played like gladiators but were no match for Rodgers this year.
With one leg, Rogers threw for 316 yards and 3 TDs. Practically couldn't move or reach the stretch hand off the entire first half. In the second, after additional "Treatment" the calf be damned. He picked us apart, unmolested. So even had the Cowboys scored on that ridiculous catch by Dez, the odds of stopping Rodgers at home was low. However, we were denied the chance to see it. We'll never get to see if the Cowboys could hold. If we could have force overtime. All of that went though my mind but I just kept thinking, what if we had a really good or great defense? One that can play at, or near Seattle's level?
Seattle is going to beat the Packers on Sunday even with an offense less potent then the Cowboys'. Even now I as many others feel as if the game was incomplete. As if the World Series was rained out in the 6th inning while the underdog had just gone on a 5 run rally to pull within 1 run and one of the players was going for the postseason record for hits. Although the favorite was crowned champion because by rule, the game was official after 5 1/2 innings. Nonetheless, everyone is left to only ponder what could have been, what should have been. A thief had somehow stolen the drama from the game, leaving me and everyone else with a jury summons to endless litigation. Defense was the only thing left. Many left with defending the catch, the Cowboys left to defending Rodgers, and me left with the thought of what if our defense was good enough to get to Rodgers?
I wonder, what if we had a defense that could and did stop offenses, good offenses. What if our Defense was as good as our Offense. With Marinelli signed, we have a full off season to focus exclusively on Defense. If we did nothing on offense but develop or find a right tackle and depth for the O line and spent the entire off season finding D linemen, and secondary players. What could this team achieve?
Cowboys fans, imagine this:
McClain, Lee, Carter, Hitchens at linebacker
Scandrick plus a better FS then Wilcox and better corners
Crawford, 2nd year Demarcus Lawrence and better linemen
So here I am, with 3 games left in the 2014 season to call my shot. The 2015 Dallas Cowboys will be in the Championship game next year.
Go Cowboys!
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