thanks Dallas Cowboys

what a day.
thats the kind of day Thanksgiving was invented by Al Gore for.
great weather, GREAT FOOD, great company and GREAT FOOTBALL.
The Boys took care of business, hopefully the injuries arent too bad
for Ware and Barber...use these 10 days to heal up.
Tashard Choice looked really good running that ball.
Great to see Witten and Romo hooking up again.
TO did what he does...(make great catches, miss a routine one )
and Roy 11 seems to be getting a feel for the offense.
Holland at left guard appeared better than Proctor.
The DEFENSE was awesome, NO TD's !! Scandrick is a player !
James was what he should always be.
Good grief we even had a great kick return by Stanback !!
how long have we been waiting to see him do something ?
so the Boys have set themselves up to be able to make a run
at the playoffs....it oughta be interesting !
later Poke

is it Thanksgiving already ?

man i am slipping.
its game day and i never even waxed poetically about last weeks
big win over the whiners.
the way that game started i was afraid we were in for a long day
at the Tabernacle.
the big plays to TO,and the defensive stands in the red zone kept the game
from getting away from us.
The blocked punt felt huge in waking the whole team and the crowd up.
Good job but no time for looking back.
The Boys will hopefully come out smokin T-day, get ahead early and stay
with it so I can enjoy the feasting and holiday atmosphere that is Thanksgiving
Day at Texas Stadium.
I can only imagine if I am having trouble finding time to blog for 5 minutes
about the Good Guys how hard it is for the players and coaches to get focused
on playing again Thursday after the game Sunday.
So heres wishing all a Happy Thanksgiving....we all have plenty to be thankful for.
later Poke

long road back

well that was the first step.
good job Cowboys.
they played with an urgency and sense of purpose.
those bye weeks are a good thing.
good to see Romo out there, push passing that ball......
you could tell that pinkie bothered him some but he was so much better
than the other guys we could send out.
thats the defense we thought we would have all year, thanks T-New !!
i agreed with Wades choice at the end not to kick that field goal because
the last thing i wanted to see was our kickoff team have to stop anybody.
at some point you have to impose your will on the other guys and show them
that you can beat em and thats what our o-line and Mr. Barber did.
this was the start of that long road back the good guys face to get into the
playoffs. our earlier miscues have cost us the right to look too far ahead.
the biggest game of the year is against the 49ers. its a must win.
i plan on copying that last line and re-blogging it every week and just cutting
out the opponent and typing in the new opponent.
thats part of my saving energy....going green initiative...gotta save all the electronic trees you can you know...
shouldnt be too hard to work up a hate for the 49ers should it ?
so heres hoping the Boys get back to work this week, add some new wrinkles and
maybe spend a few extra minutes working on kickoff coverage.
later Poke

back to work

well i feel good. the effects of blogging for 9 games was catching up to me.
strained eyes are kind of day to day but that nagging carpal tunnel seems to be 100%.
the aching back from sitting hunched over typing has responded to treatment and i expect to be on top of my game from here on out.
i also expect to see a different team against them no good deadskins sunday night.
this team will have newman, kosier, spencer, felix jones, tony romo all back from injuries along with the added threat of roy (ut) williams. flozell should be closer to
100% than he was and the ribs of witten have got to be feeling better even if they arent healed up.
there is no reason we cant expect marked improvement over the last few weeks with our guys back and healthy.
maybe the coaching staff did make a few tweaks and will have a better game plan, heck maybe they spent some time talking about penalties and dumb mistakes.
special teams may still be a little "iffy" , a new holder could be a problem but our substitute punter seems to be working out okay.
i am looking forward to seeing the Good Guys play with a renewed sense of enthusiasm and purpose.
see how much the week off helped my blogging ?? maybe it did the same for our beleaguered guys of the gridiron.
later Poke

the bye week

no blog this week.
besides i was taught if you cant say something nice then dont say anything.
later Poke