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        I have a lot to say so bear with me...

     I've been reading through the posts and of course I see the
Eagle fans giving kudos to their team on a job well done.  I see fans
of other teams posting about their suprise of the Eagles success and
admit them to be a force this year.  But, of course we have the
cowboy fans who cannot "woof" anymore are playing the defensive by
saying "you couldn't convince me if it was 80-0 it was still bad
luck" These are not ALL Cowboys fans, just the ones who were foolish
enough to think that they would kill the Eagles.  These are the
people I want to speak to. 


      I know exactly where you are coming from.  Last year, it was
week 5 and the Eagles faced the Redskins on Monday night football.
The Eagles were 3-1, the Redskins were 4-0.  Even though the Eagles
lost Cunningham and lost to Phoenix, they destroyed the Cowboys and
played well against the Steelers and Pakers.  The Redskins,
demolished the Lions, but of course back then no one though the Lions
were a good team.  They then barely beat Cincinatti and luckily
squeaked by Dallas.  The game was the game to end all games for NFC
East fans. (not anywhere this year though) If the Eagles won, they
would have tied with Washington, if the Redskins won, they would
ensure the #1 spot in the division.  I remember what happened, and I
also remember having a huge headache from an early hangover.  The
Redskins blew them out 23-0, BUT I argued Jim Macmahon was out of the
game and Pat Ryan was clueless since he recently joined the team and
didn't know dork about the system.  I also said that the Eagles had
SO many chances to come back in that game.  The Redskins didn't play
that great...I remember the Eagles INT's Rypien numerous times and
sacked him twice.  In fact I remember when Ryan was on the Redskins
10 and guess what...(he threw the ball RIGHT into coverage) he didn't
see Keith Byars wide open in the corner.  It was pitiful.  Of course,
the rest is history, as much as I put down the Redskins thinking they
weren't that good, the ended up going 14-2 and on to the big show.
The Eagles  decline started that night. They were finally turned
around against the Giants.  


        Anyway, the point is, teams that give up the ball are going
to lose and it's not BAD luck.  You want to talk bad luck?? Let's say
there was still instant replay, I can guarantee that Emmit Smith
would have fumbled on the second possesion giving the Eagles a chance
to score deep in Dallas territory...the score could have been 38-0.
THAT would have been BAD luck.  I don't call Aikman throwing into
coverage, getting hit by Seth Joyner as he throws and Kelvin Martin
losing his stride because Roger Ruzek getting in his way (along with
a Dallas Blocker) bad luck.  I call it defense forcing things to
happen.  Someone also mentioned the Eagles getting good field
position from Dallas turnovers.  Well, I can think of 4 Dallas
possesions that started near midfield...howcome they didn't become
TD's like the Eagles were able to pull off?  It wasn't bad luck, it
was good defense.  Someone also mentioned Cunningham unimpressive.
Well, yes he did have one of his off days.  Dallas did a great job in
holding him to 120+ passing yards.  Very sub-par.  I also can
guarantee that if that happened a year to two years ago, Dallas would
have won hands down.  But guess what, there is somthing called a
running game which sometimes can help, and it did.  Not bad luck, a
running game, something Dallas needs to win, and they didn't get it. 



To all of those who say "we better look out IN Dallas"  get a life.
If we can beat you without a passing game we can beat you anywhere.
Just think if we could pass Monday, plus if Maurice Johnson was at
TE, AND Mike Pitts and Leon Seals were on the DL would the game have
been that close?  

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