Hail To The Deadskins

Here’s to Brent Fahv-ruh and his postgame mocking of the Cowboys singing “Pants On The Ground.”

Back at ya, buddy.

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The Tennessean
January 25, 2010

A Bellevue man was arrested early Monday morning while running along Morton Mill Road wearing nothing but gold lame briefs and a New Orleans Saints helmet.

Metro Police spokesman Don Aaron says the man smelled strongly of jambalaya. “Our officers found him screaming incoherently and making a general nuisance of himself,” Aaron says. “He’s been charged with disorderly conduct.”

The man’s identity has not be determined as he, obviously, was not carrying any identification. Asked to identify himself, the man would only say, “Who dat?”

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This is a long dead issue in my mind, but current events keep bringing it up. Anyone still wish we’d drafted Shawne Merriman over DeMarcus Ware?

Casting no aspersions on Merriman for his continuing personal travails (he’s probably a good person who’s just taken a few wrong turns — who hasn’t?), but D-Ware seems to be everything you want in a ball player, person and role model for kids.

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You read it here first: Jerry Jones has signed Cowboys coach Wade Phillips to a three year extension. Jones hasn’t commented officially and a team official has denied media reports that a deal is a done. But that won’t stop HTTD.

How do I know? The RSS feed for the team’s own site has the headline above. And the error message includes a broken link with a telling file path:

“An error occurred when performing a file operation read on file /export/home/webuser/cowboys/docs/Phillips-Returning.html.”

Okay, it’s not exactly a revelation. Still, scoopage!

Discuss.

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Game on. Cowboys at Vikings Sunday, and this may be the pivotal game. We’ve seen in years’ past how a team with two weeks of rest and preparation can steamroll one coming off a Wildcard round win.

We’ve also seen bye-week teams fall flat.

Minnesota is undefeated at home. Dallas has beaten three playoff teams in the last four weeks. If I had to point to items that give the Cowboys the edge it’s their O-line and tight ends run blocking the Vikes’ front seven. It’s the propensity Favre has for being rattled when playing Dallas. And it’s Dallas pressure against a less than dominant Minnesota O-line.

All that said, I still don’t think I can give Dallas a clear edge. Too close to call, if you ask me. If, and that’s a big one, Dallas does win, I like our Super Bowl chances. They can beat the Saints. The Cardinals don’t have a defense.

Is the season a success with a loss on Sunday? No. It’s hard to get here, and a real shame not to make the most of it. Still, seven of these eight teams will be going home unhappy. I like this team and believe it has the potential to contend consistently. How great would that be?

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• The Cowboys are simply a better team than the Eagles. No shame for Philly, they’re young, thin on the lines (light on D, in particular) and obviously do not match up well with this Dallas team.

• Dallas is now officially the hottest team in the NFC. At least until we see the Arizona-Green Bay game.

• So happy for Wade Phillips. Truly. Happy for Jerry, the fans, Romo, Flozell, random people I’ve never met. I’m just happy.

• Can we beat Minnesota in the Thunderdome? That one might have to wait a few days.

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Run & Done: Felix Jones slams the door on the Iggles as Dallas grabs the NFC East championship.

Yes, those are feathers on my plate. Not Eagle feathers, mind you. They’re crow.

I must admit to predicting a 7-9 record for this team and, as late as a few weeks ago, posting that they were “slightly above average.”

Well, I was wrong on both counts. Thank goodness. The fortitude we saw in the win at Philly reemerged in New Orleans, took a stand in Washington and was unbowed Sunday against the Eagles.

This is the first championship caliber “team” we’ve had in Dallas in quite some time. Now, will that be “ratified” by success Saturday night and deeper in the playoffs? Impossible to say.

But to everyone talking about how hard it is to beat a good team three times I’d like to ask, “You like the alternative better? Losing and going on the road to try to earn the franchise’s first playoff win in more than a decade?”

Thank you, but I’ll take the home game and count on the years-long avalanche of frustration giving this team plenty of motivation — if not anger — to fuel another physically imposing performance against a team traveling twice in a short week.

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So many positive things are being said about the Cowboys after their shutout of the Deadskins Sunday night. And to that I have one thing to add:

Stifle.

It’s Eagles Week. Get your game face on. The ‘Boys may consider the Jints their biggest rivals, but for this fan, the Philadelphia Eagles and Andy “Onside Kick” Reid are the most despised team in the division.

The Deadskins are an ongoing comedy, the Jints are a face-plant waiting to happen (”Sweet Caroline” — sing it with me!), but the Iggles have a history of adding injury to insult against the Cowboys. Can you say pickle juice?

That their coach is one of the NFL’s best, that their QB is everything you want in an NFL field general, that they consistently prepare and play exactly the way you’d expect a group of professionals to do so only infuriates me further.

There is only one redeeming thing about the Eagles, and he’ll be posting here soon.

So, you playoff-clinching, shutout-pitching, bandwagon-hitching Dallas Cowboys coaches players and 90,000 ticket holders for Sunday, forget everything that happened in Washington.

Get your game faces on. Now.

It’s Eagles Week.

And one more thing: 44-6.

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A few quick thoughts:

Bravo, Wade, Jason, Demarcus, Anthony, Mike, Tony, Miles and a few others.

Good if shaky win. But it means nothing if we lose next week.

If Roy isn’t benched it will only be a confirmation that Jerry’s ego runs this team.

You had your chances, Mr. Folk. Have a nice life.

The offensive line is this team’s greatest area of need.

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