Dallas beats New York despite its O-line

When watching the 4th quarter of last night's NFC East Cowboys-Giants game, it had a very similar feeling to Dallas' loss at Pittsburgh last week. Link here for recap (I like the line Romo had in his press conference about meeting secretly with TE Jason Witten to draw up the key 3rd-and-9 first down conversion that sealed the win). It seemed that Dallas would make a key blunder / mistake to give the game to the Giants. Dallas' offensive line looked pretty bad against NY's d-line, and Dallas was even getting lots of false start penalties at a HOME game. One of the penalties backed Dallas up and indirectly led to a safety that made the game closer than it should have been, as poorly as NY's offense was playing.

Of course, NY's O-line wasn't faring any better against the Dallas D, so maybe that just speaks to the quality of each team's D-line. But still, the Dallas false start penalties at a home game seems to show a bit of lack of discipline.

Right now it seems to me that Dallas has a somewhat decent shot to make the playoffs, but I can't see them winning more than one game in the playoffs (or beating a hot team like Carolina) unless that offensive line improves.

Wow, Eagles / Cowboys game last night, stomach bug

These days having a busy job and two young kids, I almost never stay up late to watch all the way to the end of a regular season Monday night NFL game. But I'm glad I did (well, sort of -- read on...) for this week 2 Cowboys / Eagles game. The first half was a circus, the 2nd-highest scoring first half in MNF history. Rookie wide receiver Desean Jackson for the Eagles pulled a Leon Lett-level gaffe and dropped the ball on the 1-yard line! Well, I suppose it wasn't as bad as the Lett play since the Eagles got the ball on the 1 and scored on the next play. See here for the play:



I actually felt the Eagles should have won that game with the way their O-line, McNabb, Westbrook, and the receivers were playing. But it all changed on that fumble between McNabb and Westbrook. Unusual mistake for those guys. Other than that mistake, though, McNabb looks really good this season.

My 3-yr-old daughter got a stomach bug and started throwing up around 2am and the rest of the night. That's when I was wishing I'd gone to bed about 9pm instead of 1130. I think my son has it this morning ... ugh. Things kind of stink today for my wife and kids at home. I think I'll get some flowers for her on the way home (or maybe a new bottle of tequila).