REPOST AUGUST 2005...+ GOODBYE

well it finally happened....ol Bill finally gave up. admitted he didnt have it in him
to do the year long grind. hung up his whistle.
so let me say..thanks for your effort. i hope you enjoy the house by the racetrack in jersey. you had a great career and you DID improve the Cowboys. not as much as i had hoped but you did. you also proved a real head coach could work with jerry jones.
that will help in the next search. now having said all the nice things let me
REPOST my blog from august 2005 ( i think ).


--->originally titled " out of the closet"

hah !!!! got you with that title i bet. different closet though. i just cant stand it any longer, i have a secret to tell. i want to get it off my chest before the season starts because it really has nothing to do with wins and losses. okay...here it goes. I DONT LIKE BILL PARCELLS. Ahhhhhh i feel so much better now. sure he's the coach of my favorite football team. sure i even think he is the best coach for us right now. after years of incompetence and yes men jerry jones had to get a real coach. bill parcells is definitely a real coach. until jones proved he could butt out and let a coach be the coach we were not ever going to get anybody here worth a dern. parcells is a good coach, a winning coach, a smart coach....but it still doesnt make me like him. Im not sure why. it probably comes from the fact that for years he was the coach of the NY Giants and we played them twice a year and sometimes they beat us. or it could be that its because he is a yankee..you know..the whole speech, mannerism attitude thing. just rubs me the wrong way. for too many years we had coaches who at least acted like they wanted to keep the fans happy, the media informed and project a whole "one big happy family " theme. he doesnt do that. or at least not very well. do i wish him ill will ?? of course not, i am pulling for him all the way, i hope he gets us to another super bowl win....soon really soon. and then i hope he takes his grumpy, sarcastic, joisey sounding , condescending , smart aleck butt back up there. its just a personal thing , if you dont agree i understand completely..later Poke

no clever title..sorry

well i waited all week to wake up. find out it really was a nightmare.
romo didnt really drop the snap on the field goal. but here it is saturday,
got the old cowboys sweatshirt on, turn on the TV and realize...yep it happened,
it wuz real, the Boys In Blue did lose to seattle. season over, outta the playoffs
ugggghhhhh. i wasnt ready for the year to be over. i wanted more Cowboys football.
too bad for me. Im not ready to worry about whether ol Bill will coach next year,
or if TO will be back, or who is gonna be the new Defensive Coordinator. way too
many things to worry about, who to draft, which free agents to sign, which of our own players to let go of. so im just not gonna do it yet. not my job anyway.
i am going to watch indy and baltimore battle it out, then watch the saints
beat them sorry eagles outta the playoffs. just sit back and enjoy watching LT
run wild against the Pats and then watch like everybody else and see if the bears QB
has another horrible game or the seahawks are maybe better than we gave them credit for. i am going to just enjoy watching the games for what they are. i will worry
about our Boys later, maybe next week, maybe not. heck if Big Bill doesnt have to
decide until February no sense me worrying about till then.
and truth be told i am still so DISGUSTED i hate to say anything lest i say something
i regret saying later...cuz win or lose they are still MY DALLAS COWBOYS.
so watch the playoffs, enjoy ( and keep an eye out for available free agents).
later Poke

how bout that romo ??

how bout that romo...
thru a great team effort we managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
listening to the ticket 1310....pig vomit..pour the anointing oil down the drain...
greatest choke job in team history..the cowboys dont own a linebacker..those guys are almost as mad as i am !!
oh well its too much to listen to. but it was funny and i so needed something to cheer me up. later Poke

im gonna say it

i havent been drinking, no drugs, nor have i been hit really hard in the head...lately.
i really feel like the Good Guys are gonna come out and play a real game in seattle.
i think julius jones has a big game this week. parcells wanted him rested for something..this has to be what it was. if the Boyz can get a ground game going then LOOK OUT for the play action stuff to start clicking.
on the Defensive side...those guys have to still be mad about last weeks drumming.
im looking for some slobber knocking hits from the Cowboys. surely they have heard the jokes about changing the name of the Dallas Cowboys to the Allas Cowboys ( cuz we all know there isnt any D in these guys...i know i have heard it enough this week
that i wanted to hit somebody ).
so no matter what the weather, no matter if all of the seahawks starting cornerbacks
are hurt...i am expecting the Dallas Cowboys to show up and play like the Dallas Cowboys. ol Bill ain't my favorite coach but he has been in a few playoff games, he knows what the team needs to do and i feel certain he has been telling them all week
whats at stake today.
so here ya go...Cowboys 24 seahawks 17...now sit back and enjoy the game. later Poke

embarassed and mad

for the 7th year in a row our heroes have failed us in their last game of the regular season. i thought last year was bad but in reality im sure there was a natural letdown knowing they were not playing for any post season hopes.
and i realize that this year a playoff berth was already clinched. BUT...
a win today and an eagles loss and the Boys could have been playing at home next week. instead we were treated to an uninspired, gutless, mistake filled
display of ineptness. watching that game you had to wonder if the boys in blue even cared. i hope the millions of tv veiwers saw it differently than it looked to me at the stadium. as soon as that interception was nullified on the first series it looked
like we just deflated. our first 6 plays gained us a whole 2 yards. woopeee.
i know we eventually scored 31 points, but you do know that was a 2-13 team we were playing dont you ? that 2.7 yards per carry tells me we got whipped. and that powerhouse offense that detroit trotted out there ?? i hope everybody saw that stephen peterman ( you know, that 2nd round draft pick of bills that never played for us) was the starting right guard. im telling you that game was embarrasing.
the crowd was never into it either. my gosh it was only the 2nd quarter when some of those idiots started trying to get a wave going. the game was so bad that when it was over the fans didnt even boo the sorry way it ended. everybody just left.
i didnt even want to stop and buy gas on the way home because i was afraid somebody would want to talk about the game and i wasnt sure i could even be polite about it.
yeah yeah i know we got next week to worry about ...but tonight i need to rant.
so there it is..maybe i will feel better now. nope i dont. later Poke

no time to let down

hey its the last game...its detroit ( with their 2 wins all year)
and the Boys have their place in the playoffs wrapped up.
but remember...the eagles could easily lose to michael vick and the falcons.
it seems every week some team loses that shouldnt have lost.
and if...IF the dog breath eagles lose and the Good Guys win then
ta-da !!! The Boys win the NFC East.
so put on the lucky socks, wear the good luck hat..whatever you need to do,
if you are at the game scream as loud as possible when the lions have the ball.
dont forget last years embarassing loss to the rams when the Boys didnt show up to play. there is still plenty to play for.
having said that, its been an interesting year. who wudda thought that Romo
would have bailed us out, that TO would lead the league in td catches...and also
drops? its been one of those funny years and its not over yet.
so keep your heads up..its no time to let down. later Poke

all i want for christmas is.................

the cowboys to beat the proverbial snot outta the eagles.
dont care how, who does it, lucky breaks, bad calls against
them dog breath eagles...dont care, doesnt matter to me.
the Good Guys have put together too good a season to let it
get away from them now.
a win against any opponent is good but i want the eagles and their
ignorant classless fans to feel bad this christmas..real bad.
i have a long memory ( well sometimes anyway).
the eagles fans booed santa.
they throw batteries.
and they cheered when ol number 88 (michael irvin for you youngsters)
went down hurt. thats just wrong. so payback time, i dont care how many
times we have beaten them since..it ain't enough.
rip their stupid eagle heads off and stuff em down their stupid eagle necks,
tear off their arms and beat them bloody with them and jump up and down on their cold
lifeless uniforms.
and oh yeah...Peace on earth, Goodwill to men..Merry Christmas. later Poke

take it like a MAN and get ready for next saturday

if this was baseball i could fall back on the old
win some, lose some and some get rained out quote...but its not,
its football. sometimes in football the other team just whips your butt.
their tand cryeam shows up more ready to play than your team, their coach
shows up hungrier, more creative and more willing to chance things.
momentum changes...a 77 yard run should make your team play harder,
not softer.
sometimes you game plan for the other team and they suprise you with a
fullback who hasnt scored all year and he scores 3 against you.
so next week you never look at this games films, you tell your guys to just forget it.
look ahead not behind cuz this game is gone,you never get it back.
how mr. romo responds next week will tell me a lot more about his game than what
i have seen so far.
our defense will have to overcome the butt kicking they are getting and get ready to chase Vick around. its not time to hang your heads and cry. its time to resolve
to not let it happen again. it will be very interesting to hear parcells this week.
this is what he gets the big bucks for. i am already looking forward to next week
(cuz this week sucked !!) anyway lets go Boys..later Poke

time to blog this

ok in spite of thousands of requests for daily updates i can only
blog when the muse strikes. or whenever i get 10 spare minutes.
its time i give credit where credit is due. anyone who has waded
thru my months of blogging knows i am not a big Bill Parcells fan.
he is a great coach and all that i just never liked him when he was
at New York or new England and i have a hard time liking him now.
BUT....his decision to swap QB's is looking like genius AND his timing
on getting rid of the liquored up idiot kicker was perfect.
so in the spirit of the season i give Parcells his portion of the credit for
the success the GooD Guys are having.
okay..updates: the Boys are healthy, the saints have a few banged up players
and one who is suspended for 4 games due to steroid use. TO admitted he tuned
out Parcells "what champions do " speech. TO had a birthday party in hollywood
(i wasnt invited..go figure). The Boys signed a safety who was hurt last year
but may provide needed depth for us, they released Skylar Green cuz he didnt
show them anything. and Romo was selected player of the month by somebody.
i am predicting a shootout this week...we have to outscore reggie bush.
please dont wait so long to comment...i often forget what i wrote about and then
i have to re-read what i wrote for all my readers comments to make sense.
anyway i wont be at the game but son of poke will be so if it turns out bad its all his fault........later Poke

we will just have to wait and see

lots of talking...on the radio, in the papers, ESPN.
the gints implode, cowboys are rolling, romo is the greatest,
doomsday is coming, shockey says no way in hell.
experts say cowboys will win, experts say giants will win.
thank goodness they will actually play a game sunday to decide this.
since the Boys let the giants beat them at home, they really need
to return the favor. if/when they do it could be the final nail in the coffin
of the dying new york football giants.
if the good guys want to be a playoff caliber team then this is the kind of game
they have to show up for. they have made it past thanksgiving and are in the hunt.
thats what bill preaches. now its time to do something with that position.
i dont know about ya'll but im digging this important game stuff in december.
im betting low scoring, defensive struggle......but what the heck do i know ??
cowboys 17 gints 13. later Poke