If you would've told me earlier today that we'd score 24 points on the Ravens, and still lose, I would've snitch-slapped you all the way to the border...what a choke-job by the defense.
If our defense wasn't forced into that situation, we would've been better off. You can't pitch a shut out, no-no, or 1 run game for too long.
This is NOWHERE close to that. That is and will forever be the most heartbreaking game I've ever witnessed. Not only were the stakes much higher, but unlike this game, all signs pointed to the Birds winning. Hell, we even went up 7-0 as easily as you could possibly make it look. That one also ended our season whereas the Cowboys aren't mathematically eliminated yet. I still have nightmares of Joe Jurevicius, running and running and running and running.
Oh Well, Only team that beat us in the NFC East in our last season at Texas Stadium, was the Skins... so Washington, Go out and win tomorrow, and talk all the crap you want. Giants fans can only talk crap until they are no longer the defending superbowl champs, and Eagles fans can't talk any crap.. because.. well... they've never did anything in the NFL. Goodnight. :-*
I wouldn't pin it all on the defense, in the 1st half the offense was anemic and Romo looked like he might continue his December swoon.......I will say the 2 long TD runs by the Ravens were embarassing, and I'm not even a Cowboy fan.
Anybody watching the farewell ceremony? They're turning off the lights "for the last time", and even took down the Super Bowl banners...what happens if we end up playing the NFC Championship at home? :icon_cheesygrin: of course, there's a 0.0000001% chance of happening, but still possible
Goodbye Texas Stadium Oh well, it is the end of an era so deserves a mention I guess The Cowboys played their last game at Texas Stadium last night (barring some sort of play-off situation which allows them to qualify as 5th seed then play the 6th seed in the post season at some point - which looks unlikely although not impossible) but the result didn't go their way as they looked more like they were playing their last pre-season game there - only waking up once the Ravens opened up a two score lead. Anyway, most of the memories around Texas Stadium - at least the ones the media harped on about - include Clint Longley's mad comeback against the Redskins and Emmitt Smith becoming the leagues all time leading rusher. Given the Redskins play the Cowboys once a season at Texas Stadium, I have mixed emotions about the place. It has given me some of my most painful memories as a fan but also some of my best moments following the Redskins. The pain comes from moments like when veteran QB Vinny Testaverde hit then rookie receiver Patrick Crayton for a last minute TD after trailing all game in Week 16 of the 2004 season or in Week 1 of the 1992 season when the Redskins came into the season as defending World Champs only to be served notice by Dallas that a changing of the guard was coming as they beat the Redskins comprehensively 23-10. The Redskins have lost more than they won at Texas Stadium and have being on the wrong end of a few beatings but at the same time - as I mentioned before - it also holds some great memories. Go back to 2005, Week 2 of the season on MNF with the triplets of Troy Aikman, Emmitt Smith and Michael Irvin being inducted in the Cowboys Ring of Fame at half time. It was all going swimmingly for Big D as they took the lead 13-0 and did the induction but then with it looking almost finished Mark Brunnel hit Santana Moss on 4th and 15 for a long TD strike. The Skins gots the ball back and Brunell and Moss repeated the trick from 70 yards. The Pokes had a chance to come back but turned it over on downs and Sean Taylor delivered one of the great all time Redskin hits when he parted Patrick Crayton from the ball. It's known in Redskins folklore now as the Monday Night Miracle. My other favourite memory is from 1987 when the players strike was just ending. The Cowboys had got the majority of their started back for the Week 5 clash but the Redskins weren't getting their regular players back until Week 6. Dallas at home against the "scabs" should have being a blow out but the scabs turned the Pokes over 13-7. Maybe the Cowboys were a bit rusty and maybe the Redskins players were a bit more battle hardened after a few weeks together as well as being motivated to put on a show before the regulars came back but it still makes a heck of a story. So whilst Texas Stadium is now consigned to the memory bank and the thought of the Skins playing there has issued some of my harshest times as a fan, I'll still have some good things to look back on about it as well as smugly knowing the Skins won the last ever clash between the two sides there. It was certainly a stadium with presence, I always recall as a kid my mum would watch the TV show Dallas and the stadium was in the opening credits. It had the hole in the roof - apparently so God could watch the Cowboys. I prefer to think of it as a giant toilet bowl where God would drop the kids off at the pool every Sunday There is actually a part of me that will miss the old place. I'd love to do a TO and stand on the star to spike a football but the Cowboys are moving on and I'll just have to hope I can get some new memories from their new stadium - all good ones for the Redskins I hope!
