From: kday@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Kevin Day)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.football.pro
Subject: Re: Dallas was beaten by bad luck, not the eagles!
Date: 7 Oct 92 11:03:33 GMT
Reply-To: kday@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Kevin Day)
Organization: Carderock Division, NSWC, Bethesda, MD

In rec.sport.football.pro, c1h3384@rigel.tamu.edu writes:
>Look at last night's game, a break here and there would have turned the game
>to the opposite direction. Eagles got all the breaks --- Cunningham fumbled
>twice, and lost none. Dallas was bad luck, especially in the first half ---

  And on their only TD drive, Dallas fumbled the ball and lost it and
the refs let them keep it anyway.

>Martin's kick return should go all the way to give the Cowboys's a 14-10
>lead. Instead, he bumped with his own guy and was stopped with even resulting
>a field goal to tie the score at 10.
>
  He bumped into his own man, thanks to a good job of bottling things
up by Roger Ruzak. Not bad luck, just good play by an Eagle.

>Besides, one weekness of the Cowboys was the rockie kicker. That made the
>decision at the end of the first half extremely difficult for Jimmy. At
>the eagle 33, he opted to try to draw the eagles offside on 4th down. If he
>had a more consistent kicker, he would rather kick the field goal to tie
>it.
  The kicker is a member of the team. If it's a weakness, it's a weakness
the Cowboy team has. This is a weakness the Eagles don't have. This
is one reason the Eagles are a better team. That's one of the reasons
they play these games, to see which team is best.

>Oh, well, I am not impressed at all by the eagles. Granted, their defense
>is the best right now, but how about their offense? Cunningham is a so-so
>QB, definitely not the most completed QB in the game, IMHO.
>
   I wouldn't expect a die hard Cowboy fan to be impressed by the Eagles.
It's like trying to convince a Redskin fan that their team could ever
lose a game. Anybody thinking with a clear head though has got to be
impressed by the Eagles. So far this year, they have shown themselves
to be the best team in the NFL. So far this year, there has also been
no other QB that has looked better than Cunningham. With his ability
to run so well and his pinpoint passing, there is not a better QB around.

  May I add in closing. I grew up a Baltimore Colt fan. When they were
stolen away in the middle of the night, I tried to root for the Redskins,
but couldn't really do it. Since then, I have been a man without a team.
I have never been a real Eagle fan, but I am extremely impressed with
the quality of that team. I just couldn't let Bob's, Cowboy biased comments,
go untouched.
  By the way, the reason I couldn't become a Redskin fan was not as
much not liking the team, but not wanting to become like most Redskin
fans. Up until this week, I found myself becoming as much a Cowboy fan
as an Eagles fan. After reading Bob's post, I don't think I want to
be part of them either.

K. Scott Day   (kday@oasys.dt.navy.mil)
Carderock Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center
Code 1252
Bethesda, Maryland 20084-5000

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