Sunday, December 28, 2008 , Updated
Philadelphia Eagles 44, Dallas Cowboys 6
In a painful display on Sunday afternoon, the Cowboys squandered their final chance to make the postseason, losing to the Philadelphia Eagles, 44-6. The Eagles got on the board first with a field goal, answered by the 'Boys. From there, however, Philly would score 41 points before Dallas capped the game off with a second field goal.
As a team, Dallas had four fumbles, with turnovers on each. Tony Romo was 21-for-39 with 183 passing yards, two fumbles, and an interception. DeMarcus Ware ended his season three sacks shy of the league record. Tashard Choice, Roy Williams, and Marion Barber struggled, Terrell Owens was a joke, and "Pacman" Jones was a huge, sucking vortex of despair. Game over.
(Jason Witten and Nick Folk, however, played pretty well.)
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James Scott, says:
Did the Cowboys play today? I thought they were letting the practice squad try-out for next season or something. Might have been better off.
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Todd Maternowski, says:
Cowboys = Gutless, overpaid underachievers. As much as it pains me to say I Told You So... this is typical Wade Phillips Football. Ask any Bills fan. And expect more of the same next season!
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xdavidwattsx, says:
Absolutely glorious! The football gods have rewarded us for sitting through season after season of hearing how Romo was destined for the HOF and the Cowboys were going to win the Super Bowl.
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Frank Heinz, says:
A huge, sucking vortex of despair. Very nice. :)
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Christin Richard, says:
If we do win get into the play-offs or a Super Bowl next season, we'll know for sure that Jerry Jones called his boys off this year in anticipation of the new stadium. Seats will sell either way.
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Scott Doyle, says:
I wouldn't pass Folk as playing 'well' - opening kickoff out of bounds to bring the Eagles out to the 40 seemed to have been an omen.
Obviously it's relatively insignificant in the grand scheme of a 38 point loss, but it certainly didn't help morale from the get...and is a pretty inexcusable way to begin a game of such importance.
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Erin Rice, says:
I count being the only person on the team to score as doing <b>relatively</b> well. You are right, the opening kick was pretty awful but as I recall Philadelphia didn't do anything with it. A professional team should be able to get over it, but as we saw last night, Dallas was far from professional in every respect.
Perhaps I just like to give Folk a break because he, too, can kick a ball (nearly) the length of the field.
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Scott Doyle, says:
Are we talking futbol Americano or soccer? Those cats kick from the 30. =p
I'm not trying to knock our sole scorer too hard, but seriously - division rival Eagles, at the Linc, win and in (overused yesterday, btw)...I hung my head at the beginning of the game and hopes didn't get much higher as we never had a lead.
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FrankO, says:
For all the Dallas football junkies, now that the "boys" are out feel free to root for the Carolina Panthers the rest of the way. Thanks for your support!
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Rawlins Gilliland, says:
That game was so terrible (and dull as a chat with a robotic cadaver) that I got up and willingly folded 7 loads of laundry. If I ever sit through another game like that, I will arrange to have an elective root canal or colon-rectal cancer probe.
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Mike Orren, says:
"FrankO" is clearly a hooligan commenter, given his limited but checkered posting history and is certainly not to be trusted.
Are the Braves still in the hunt?
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Rawlins Gilliland, says:
I tracked 'FrankO' and learned that it is actually North Carolina alum Merle 'Buster' Rampage, once legendary founder on a major canned ham empire who now lives in Balch Springs with a his South Carolina transgendered Cher impersonator wife who dances under the name 'AreLean'. Raul's meteoric career in the pork industry began after he won a scholarship to the Hormel Institute after annuling his teenage marriage to one of rock/country legend Brenda Lee's backup singers, Muriel Monroe who was later, in the late 1990s, the winner of the Pilsbury backoff with her unlikely recipe for Spam/Velveeta fritters.
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xian, says:
Favorite part of the game was when we scored the late field goal and the whole bar erupted in spontaneous (albeit sarcastic) cheering.
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