24 hour rule extended

this week my 24 hour rule about posting thoughts about the Cowboys will be extended to
48 hours due to the extreme bad taste i have in my mouth right now.
that is all. later Poke

That Was Fun

Been a while since the Heroes of My Youth have been in a game like that !  2 years ago they beat the Seahawks by 21 points but other than that the wins for the Boys seem to be nail biters.

Different kind of game too,  the run game really shined but it’s hard to know if that was totally by design or a case of the Rams being so bad at defending against it.  Either way I was just tickled to see it.

Now all around the craziness that is Dallas Cowboy fan messageboards is talk of the Second Coming.  You know, DeMarco Murray !!  That was an impressive showing by the rookie running back.  I just have to be the one who says let’s wait before we start figuring out a way to put #29 up there with the numbers 22 and 33.

The best thing to see was the run blocking by the o-line and the fullback.  That’s the kind of stuff you will need late in the year to win division games.  I am not saying we will have to be a power run team but you need that component to seal the deal after Romo and Bryant and Witten and Austin get you the lead.

As for Romo, love him or hate him, just know that however his season goes is how the Cowboys season goes.  When he is playing at his best this team is hard to stop.  At his worst, well we have seen enough of that already this year, haven’t we ?

To be honest I don’t want to nit pick this team too early.  Keep reminding yourself that a lot of new pieces were added during an off season where there was no real off season.  The potential to be great is there.  The Good Guys just have to keep putting in the work.

I don’t know about ya’ll but I can’t wait till Sunday to see what happens against the eagles.  Been a while since I felt that way too.

later Poke

Where We Are vs Where I Thought We Would Be

We are 2-3.  I thought we would be 3-2 now.

Not time to wring hands, gnash teeth, moan and roll over playing dead.  One games difference in a league where fortunes can change in the snap of an ACL or a shoulder.

Close games, all competitive, in it to the end.  Not always the best end result but so far the Good Guys have shown they can play.

I hate the mistakes, turnovers, penalties and the way our Heroes look lost at times.  I really expected a Garrett coached team to not show those tendencies.

I am not a Romophobe, nor a RomoHater.  More of a wait and see kinda guy.  The same things that make us love watching him are at times the things that make us hate watching him.

I still see the offensive line as our biggest concern.  Run blocking especially.  Pass blocking too if you think its important for your QB to have time to make all his reads AND be able to step up into the pocket and make strong throws instead of making throws where the footwork isnt right and panic is setting in.

I still think this team gets better this year.  We have been seeing the results of the lockout and now its time for the Boys to start playing like a team that should know their assignments.

Rob Ryans defense has looked great at times but then they have let me down too.  Sure that was Tom Brady last week but I don’t care.  If you have a lead and there is 2 minutes left and you give back the ball the defense has to make a play if you are gonna win close games. On that last drive I don’t think the Pats had any negative plays other than one missed pass.  That aint gonna cut it from a championship type defense.

Looking forward to the next few weeks.  I think we will see a better result. I am thinking we go 3-2 over the next 5 games, if we can steal a win in there to make it 4-1 and be 6-4 at Thanksgiving then get ready for a exciting finish !

later Poke

quick blog

just want to get this out there before sunday since i am busy playing with grandkids.

Cowboys will beat the patriots this sunday.later Poke

A History Making Blog

Todays edition of this blog started out great.  I was writing at home. The words were just piling up and the other bloggers couldn’t keep up with me.  It looked like I had an insurmountable lead.  I had never written better.  I was scoring points with great ideas and awesome turns of phrase.

I wasn’t letting the other bloggers score any points as I shut them down with ease, everything they tried I outwitted them with style and grace.  If there was a “mercy rule” for blogging the writing would have been stopped halfway through this blog.

Then I took a short break, got a drink, listened to my blog coaches, devised a magnificent plan for the last of the blog.  Came back to finish this blog off and ride off into the sunset victorious with my fans cheering and telling me how great I was.

Then I goofed.  I threw in a poorly worded phrase.  Oh well I thought, that one phrase won’t hurt me even if the other bloggers capitalize on my mistake.

Amazingly my concentration must have faltered at that point because the very next paragraph I did the same exact thing.  With the same results, the other bloggers scored off my mistake.

Undaunted I wrote on, I still had a huge lead over the lowly bloggers chasing me, they haven’t been good in years I told myself.  My blog coach told me to keep throwing wild phrases out there.  So I did.  Sadly I slipped up again.  Mistakes seemed to be catching up to me at every turn.

Then the other bloggers started writing better than me.  They couldn’t be stopped it seemed.  One in particular appeared to be almost Superman-like in his ability to just grab phrases out of mid-air and nothing I did could keep him from it.

Before you knew it my huge lead in the blogging contest was gone, I was so stunned I couldn’t think straight.  Nothing I tried worked anymore and the other bloggers pressured me into even more bad writing.

I had one last chance to redeem myself, time was running out.  By this point though all my supporting bloggers also seemed to be bewildered.  My last gasp at writing the perfect ending to a superb blog came crashing to halt as I caught a phrase in my mind and then unexpectedly I just turned off the computer without trying to write it down.

I’ve never seen anything like this in all my years.  Well, that’s not totally true…I may have seen something eerily similar just today in fact as I watched the Heroes of My Youth.  later Poke