Cowboys/Eagles Game

[Susquehanna Birder]

I'll be surprised if the 'roaches return.

[ice grillin you]

i couldnt have been more wrong about yesterday...donovan is on top of his game and playing by far the best football of his career

this offense would/will be scary good with a healthy stallworth

shawn andrews is so ill....if he doesnt make the pro bowl this year there should be an investigation

[ice grillin you]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cT8MP3AACzE

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cT8MP3AACzE

farging beautiful.

[stalker]

i couldnt have been more wrong about yesterday...donovan is on top of his game and playing by far the best football of his career

this offense would/will be scary good with a healthy stallworth

shawn andrews is so ill....if he doesnt make the pro bowl this year there should be an investigation

Great mea culpa. It takes a big man to admit he is wrong.

[ice grillin you]

Source: Owens mouths off in locker room after game

Staff and Wire Reports

Terrell Owens' dismay with the Cowboys' performance and his lack of involvement in the offense reportedly did not end when he left the sideline Sunday at Lincoln Financial Field.

As he ran into the locker room, an animated Owens was yelling and asking why the Cowboys bothered signing him in the offseason, a stadium employee who witnessed the tirade told the Associated Press. He did not want to be identified because he is not authorized to talk about team matters.

A short time later, Owens could be seen talking to team owner Jerry Jones, who appeared to be encouraging the player he personally brought to Dallas.

Owens did not talk to reporters yesterday. Both he and Drew Bledsoe are expected to address the media tomorrow.

In his news conference yesterday, coach Bill Parcells said he knew nothing about Owens' comments on the sideline or on the way to the locker room.

"I didn't see the comments after the game and I don't know what he said," Parcells said. "We had a little trouble getting him involved early. They were trying to take him out of the game. We didn't get him involved as much as we would have liked to."

[Cerevant]

i couldnt have been more wrong about yesterday...donovan is on top of his game and playing by far the best football of his career

this offense would/will be scary good with a healthy stallworth

shawn andrews is so ill....if he doesnt make the pro bowl this year there should be an investigation

Post of the year.

[Yeti]

Great game.  Whats up with the crowd now a days?  No arrests.  Nothing thrown at T.O.  Dallas fans sitting unharrassed in the stands.
The ghosts of the 700 level are very disappointed.

During the week leading up to the game I was watching the NFL network and Marshall Faulk said he played at the game when the fans booed Santa and pelted him with snowballs.  If my memory serves me correctly, that happened in 1963 didn't it?

Nobody likes a friggin liar Marshall.

[Feva]

Great article.

Wonder if T.O. gets the message

DONOVAN McNABB sent Terrell Owens a message Sunday, and this time he made sure T.O. received it.

Owens didn't need to check his BlackBerry. It was all right there on the field in front of him, on the scoreboard, and on the stat sheet.

The message was: Look what you gave up when you let your ego drive you out of here.

Maybe Owens has "25 million reasons" to be alive and to be in Dallas, but watching T.O.'s obvious frustration in catching just three balls for 45 yards against his former team, it's obvious there is something he doesn't have - a quarterback who is as talented as McNabb, and an offense that looks to get the ball to Owens as much as McNabb got it to him in his season-and-a-half as an Eagle. T.O. is 32; it's far from clear that he'll ever be in such a position again.

The real story was that Bledsoe was under siege, and not having worked with Owens in training camp because of the famous unhealing hamstring, Bledsoe just doesn't seem to look to T.O. when he's in trouble. He doesn't seem to be able to hit him consistently when he does look. Defenses paid a lot of attention to Owens when he played for the Eagles - with Todd Pinkston on the other side instead of Glenn, they were able to really concentrate on T.O. Yet McNabb got him the ball anyway, to the tune of 124 catches in 21 games, for 1,963 yards. That's 5.9 catches and 93.47 yards per game.

Losing Owens hasn't hurt McNabb. His 1,602 passing yards lead the NFL, as do his 11 TD passes, as does his average of 9.10 yards per attempt. One interception in 176 attempts is a nice little stat, as well.

[rjs246]

McNabb has raised the level of his game so far this year. No doubt about it.

[Eaglez]

Gee, it starting to become readily apparent on 'who made who' now that TO is sucking wind in Dallas.

[Diomedes]

McNabb has raised the level of his game so far this year. No doubt about it.

The long passes McNabb is throwing lately are the prettiest passes of his career.  Both Baskett and Brown's TD catches vs. Dallas were picture perfect passes.

[PhillyGirl]

So was the throw to LJ.

I'd like to add, I went back to the "TO signs with Dallas" thread and I think Phreak and I were the only ones saying TO would suck this year with Bledsoe throwing to him behind a shtein oline.

Since my WRONG posts are always shoved down my throat, I'd like to bring that little tidbit up.

Thanks.

[Seabiscuit36]

For GF 
From the Sportingnews

Trotter plays the role of unsung playmaker
October 10, 2006


For Eagles fans, Sunday's game against the Cowboys was like a roller coaster ride. Up, down. Up again, down again. It was so draining that Tammi Trotter, watching from a suite in the corner of Lincoln Financial Field, had a headache midway through the second quarter.


Now, with 30 seconds left, another sudden descent loomed just around the corner. Trailing, 31-24, the Cowboys faced second-and-goal at the Philadelphia 6. As Drew Bledsoe dropped back to pass, overtime seemed almost certain.

What 69,268 fans at Lincoln Financial Field and a national TV audience saw next was Eagles cornerback Lito Sheppard intercept Bledsoe's pass two yards deep in the end zone and return it for a touchdown that secured a 38-24 Philly victory. What most of those eyeballs didn't notice was Tammi's husband.

Jeremiah Trotter, the Eagles' middle linebacker, was responsible for covering tight end Jason Witten, the primary receiver. First, Trotter jammed Witten as he came off the line. Then, he walled off Witten from going inside. That forced Bledsoe to have to adjust and throw to the outside, where Sheppard was waiting.

"Really, it was partly because of Trotter's coverage that made that interception," said Eagles defensive coordinator Jim Johnson.

A four-time Pro Bowl player, Trotter is one of the best run-stuffing linebackers in the NFL. But in an attempt to stop Witten and wideouts Terry Glenn and Terrell Owens, the Eagles played a lot of cover 2 defense -- they practically dared Dallas to run -- so Trotter spent much of the game dropping into coverage or blitzing.

Even so, he finished with seven solo tackles.

The Cowboys rushed 39 times for 146 yards, including 100 by Julius Jones. Those are numbers that stick in the craw of Trotter, who prides himself on shutting down the run. But the numbers that mattered most after the game were 4-1, the record of the NFC East-leading Eagles.

As he sat at his locker, pulling on a pair of powder blue socks to go with his blue silk tie and blue shirt, Trotter was congratulated by Eagles linebackers coach Steve Spagnuolo. "Lito owes you one," whispered Spagnuolo.

Sheppard deserves credit. He made the decisive play and grabbed the headlines. But he couldn't have done it without Trotter

[Father Demon]

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