Newsgroups: rec.sport.football.pro
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 21:50:49 -0500 
From: "Michael D. Goettsche" <mg5c+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: dallas over bills

>In article <1993Jan23.062233.39340@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>,
kjs5@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu >(K
>RISTIAN JOHN SCHAFER) writes:
>>By winning the NFC East and beating the 49'ers the Cowboys have firmly
>>established themselves as the class of the NFC.  Emmit Smith was the leauges
>>leading rusher, Aikman was the NFC's second highest rated quarterback, and
>>Irvin is clearly one of the top receivers in football.  And don't forget
>>Dallas's #1 rated defense which is playing for pride after being snubbed by
>>the league by not sending any Cowboy defenders to the Pro Bowl.  The Cowboys
>>are riding a wave of momentum right to a Super Bowl victory.
>>The Bills have not been nearly as consistent as the Cowboys this year.
>>Quality teams don't have to make 32 point comebacks because they don't find
>>themselves in such a mess.
>>
>> Cowboys: 34
>> Bills: 13
>>
>> -A dedicated Cowboy fan.
>>
>Don't forget that the team that had to make the 32 pt comeback was the Bills
>backup team, who also won the next week over Pittsburg, the "Best" team in the
>AFC. Also, was it the consistant Cowwimps who lost to the Eagles? Well,
>rather, embarrassed by the Eagles? Didn't the Cowgirls also lose to the
>Cardnals? And who had to play the #2 toughest schedule? wasn't the Cowwimps. I
>agree that Dallas has a good Defense, but don't forget that they only went up
>against a very limited few quality offenses. The Seahawks, Denver, and Raiders
>do not have quality offenses, so the "rating" system is somewhat off.
>Remember, it rates on sheer numbers, not quality faced.
 
-- 
-Matthew Narby-

OK, Matt, in response to your question, maybe the Bills should then use
their backup team to play the Super Bowl since they seem to be a lot
more consistant than their regular team, which loses to such powers as
the Jets and the Colts.  Woo-yeah, there's some quality teams there!!!!
8^)  For all you Bills fans who say that the Bills play to the level of
your opponents to explain these losses, think about it a second -- it
means that you don't have the consistancy to be considered a GREAT team.
 Great teams beat all teams, good and especially bad.  Wow, so you beat
Pittsburgh in the playoffs.  Did you see Pittsburgh at the end of the
year?  They couldn't beat anyone.  The Bills should have beat them.

For the consistant Cowwimps thing, were the Cowboys embarrassed by the
Eagles?  Did you see the game?  Also, that was in week 4 of the season!!
 Was it not the mighty Bills who lost, rather got annihilated by the
Dolphins in week 5?  I'd put the Eagles against the Dolphins or Bills
anyday of the week.  I saw both of the above games.  Where the Bills got
their butts creamed on every side of the ball, the Cowboys were
competitive.  In fact, the Cowboys outgained the Eagles by 150 yards -
the determinate factors were turnovers -- the Cowboys had 4 or 5, the
Eagles had 1.  Have you seen the Cowboys since then?  They do not turn
the ball over anymore -- the one game they did, to the Redskins, they
lost, although they certainly dominated the game.  Look at the facts,
bud.  The Cowboys have yet to be OUTPLAYED this year -- they just shot
themselves in the foot a couple of times to very tough teams.  No, the
Cowboys did not lose to the Cardinals -- get your facts straight, son. 
And who played the #1 toughest schedule?  The Cowboys were rated as
having the toughest schedule this year, although they made a mockery of
it.  They went up against just as many good offenses as the Bills did
this year, easily.  And it's kind of a burn on your Bills to say the
Raiders, a team the Cowboys handled with ease, does not have the offense
to test Dallas' defense when that same Raiders team gave the Bills a
20-3 drubbing.  Are you saying the Bills faced quality teams?  Play in
the NFC East.  Who does the AFC East have besides Miami, which had a
very suspect offense the last 7 weeks?  Hmm?  Can you say that the AFC
East's third best team, the Colts, could have beaten the Redskins?  Do
you think the Jets would beat the Giants?  Do you think the Dolphins
would beat the Eagles???  Come on, get real.  Dallas played just as
stiff if not more stiff competition as the Bills.  The difference
between the Bills and Cowboys is consistancy.  The Bills have the means
to be one of the best three teams in the league easily, but they find
themselves being outplayed by teams that they should easily beat.  The
"rating" system is off a little bit, but should the Bills deserve to be
rated in the top three when they lose to scrub teams like the Jets,
Colts, and Raiders.  If they lost to just one of these teams, fine,
maybe even two, but three??  Get real.

Anyhow, please think before you speak.  You embarrassed yourself and
other Bills fans when you don't put the big picture in perspective.

C-Ya.