We need this game.  A loss drops us to 3-5 and pretty much shuts the door on our season.  A win puts us back at .500, two games behind the Cowboys.  The odds are against us, but we can take comfort in the fact that we dominated this team twice last year with basically the same personnel. 

 

7:52pm: I received the first of what is sure to be many trash-talking phone calls from an obnoxious Cowboys fan. (Jermaine Gibson, fellow Blickees.com contributor)  I purposely refused to charge my cell last night to minimize these calls, but unfortunately, Cowboys fans have a way of finding home telephone numbers of Eagles fans.  Stalkers.

 

8:24pm: Are you serious!  No one’s open, McNabb is scrambling in the middle of the pocket and is not protecting the ball.  Fumble on the first play from scrimmage.  I just had a flashback to the Giants game that I so painfully documented in this blog.

 

8:27pm: Terrell Owens with a 23 yard catch.  You don’t have to like Terrell Owens.  He drops a lot of balls.  However, in our year with TO we as Eagles fans learned what just happened; TO never gets tackled by the first defender.  He swatted both Sheldon Brown and Brian Dawkins like flies on this play.

 

8:29pm:  Touchdown Cowboys after the McNabb fumble. (Julius Jones)  The crowd has officially left the building.

 

8:38pm:  They don’t call him Downtown Reggie Brown for nothing!  I can’t get too excited because I’ve been extremely hard on Reggie all year.  However, a big game tonight and I promise not to sing anything but his praises for the rest of the year.

 

8:48pm:  I feel like I’m playing against some guy in Madden who keeps calling his money play over and over again.  “Why you gotta keep calling the same play, why don’t you call something different?”  The response is always, “stop it and I’ll stop calling it.”

 

8:50pm:  Touchdown Dallas by their third TE, some bum named Tony Curtis.  He’s had one other catch this year for 2 yards against the Dolphins.  That just happened to be a touchdown also.  Coaches, when you do your scouting on the Cowboy's red zone weapons, prepare in this order: 1) Trey Barber, 2) Tony Curtis (all he does is catch touchdowns), 3) Jason Witten, 4) Terrell Owens.

 

9:02pm:  The first carpet burner of the game by Donovan McNabb.  John Madden in his infinite wisdom does an incredible job of trying to turn McNabb’s trademark carpet burners into a positive attribute by saying, “your guy can’t catch it but neither can the defender.”  The only problem with this logic is that McNabb throws carpet burners to wide open targets.  I only know of one person with 40 times low enough to make a play on McNabb’s grave diggers.

 

9:12pm: Alright, we’ve got the Cowboys in third and long after stopping Marion Barber III.  We hold on third and long and for the first time of the evening I actually saw a defensive back on the screen at the same time aCowboys receiver attempted to make a catch.  Reno Mahe reenters the NFL MVP race with a punt return of approximately 10 yards.

 

9:17pm:  Why in the hell do you check down to running backs on 3rd and 10.  Everyone and their mothers know we’re going to do that!  My wife who doesn’t watch football even commented “why do they keep throwing to that guy, that’s not enough is it?”  Facemask penalty results in a first down for the Eagles.  Ingenious play design by Andy Reid I’m sure he knew when he called that play it would entice such a penalty.

 

9:21pm:  Two downs to get 2 yards, we are only able to muster 1.  We could have used Leroy Hoard on a 10 day.  (Leroy Hoard once uttered the best self assessment in NFL history:  “if you need one yard I’ll get you three,  if you need five yards I’ll get you three.”)

 

9:28pm:  Lito Sheppard with a huge interception.  You may get snacks over there, but don’t think you’re going to get a full course meal!  (If only this was really true)

 

9:33pm:  McNabb gives it right back to Ken Hamlin.  I am finding it really hard to give McNabb the benefit of the doubt.  Don’t talk about how someone has to go through your town if you’re not going to show up when they arrive.

 

9:27pm:  Touchdown Marion Barber.  They cut to a commercial so that we wouldn’t see the Cowboys reward the untamed beast with raw meat on the sidelines.

 

9:39pm:  If you’re going to throw the 10th screen of the night with less 30 seconds left in the game just down the ball.

 

 

HALFTIME.

 

Take from this following halftime section what you wish.

 

So Limas Sweed, the Wideout from Texas returns to Mel Kiper’s big board.  At 6-4, 217, Sweed could provide the Eagles a big play threat and a red zone target they have been sorely lacking since TO left.

 

DJ Hall from Alabama at 6-2 1/2 is also an option, however, considering our projected draft position Sweed should be available.

 

If we continue to stink like we did in the first half, maybe we’ll get a shot at the Darren McFadden sweepstakes.  This will in almost all certainty take a top 3 pick.  Therefore, if we’re going to be losers, it actually pays to be the best losers you can be. 

 

2ND Half

 

9:58pm: Touchdown Terrell Owens, 45 yards.  For the 10th time, Terrell Owens catches the ball with no one on the TV screen from the Eagles during the play.  Once again, the DBs miss the initial tackle.  I think there needs to be some investigation into the substance of Terrell Owens’ uniform.  Did he rub baby oil into that puppy?  Explain to me why he’s so slippery.  129 yards for TO with a couple of minutes gone in the first half.

 

10:07pm: McNabb commented that the return of LJ Smith should make it easier to score in the red zone.  If getting LJ Smith back is supposed to solve your red zone problems, you need to rethink your offense and maybe look towards acquiring some new weapons.  Oh yeah, and HB screen number 30 on third and long to setup a field goal.  28-10 Cowboys.

 

10:16pm:  Screw it, let’s just fight.  I mean, we’re getting our behinds handed to us, we can’t score, and the Cowboys are averaging at least 10 yards per play against us.  Lets just revert to the Buddy Ryan Eagle days.  Poke some eyes out, grab some face masks, stomp on some faces, and spit on some guys.  Anything would work better than what’s happening.

 

10:19pm:  Touchdown Jason Witten.  34-10 Cowboys.  What else is going on in the sports world I wonder besides the Eagles are once again turning in a stinker.

 

10:25pm:  The Bobcats beat the Heat to start 2-0.  The ESPN headline reads, “Bobcats blow double-digit lead but hang on for win.”  We are talking about the Bobcats right?  The same headline last year would read, “Bobcats blow double digit lead, lose by 25.”

 

10:27pm:  I will in the interest of good taste refrain from making any comments about Andy Reid’s family and personal issues.  However, anyone who thinks there is a double standard with coaches is an idiot.  NFL players don’t get punished for being absentee fathers and raising bastard kids.  If they did, Travis Henry wouldn’t be in the league.  Fact of the matter is, you can’t punish coaches and players for the conduct of relatives. 

 

4th quarter:

 

10:36pm:  Owens is working on 200 yards receiving.  I always told Cowboys fans who hate TO that they won’t hate him when he puts up that 200 yard receiving game.  I never envisioned that game being against the Eagles. 

 

10:40pm:  50 yard catch by Jason Witten, the majority of which was made without his helmet.   Mikell tried to kill him, and William “Peterson” James took off his helmet with his hands.   Witten’s run will get him a couple of votes for the BrooklynWHAT! Award this week.

 

10:43pm:  Penalties are good this late when the game is over.  Let’s just try and end some careers here since the game is decided.  Start with Terrell Owens.  BTW, can we just forfeit the second game in Dallas at this point?  FG makes it 38-10 Cowboys.  I guess we can anoint them at this point, since they went through Philadelphia like a hot knife through butter.

Pissed off Eagles fan signing out.

P.S. - After turning my cellphone on this morning, 9 text messages immediately came in.  Here they are and they illustrate why I can't stand Cowboy fans:

"Blog on that TD b**ch" - Brett

"B*#ch a** won't pick up the phone huh after the loss?  Oh well maybe Garcia can save the second half o the season like last year...oh that's right he's in Tampa b*#ch." - Jermaine

"What Bout Dem Cowboys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" - Rodney

"I smell an a** whopping coming on" - Roy

"Don't let me catch your a** in the streets!" - Roy