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
Saturday, December 02, 2006
Sunday, November 26, 2006
Definitely a thankful Thanksgiving
lagniappe- Pronunciation: 'lan-"yap
Function: noun
Etymology: American French, from Quechua yapa something added
: a small gift given a customer by a merchant at the time of a purchase; broadly : something given or obtained gratuitously or by way of good measure
a beautiful north Texas november day, clear blue skies, 75 degrees.
with my wife and 21 year old son , my mother, my recently retired brother and his 20 year old daughter (my favorite niece by the way ).
thick juicy steaks on the grill in the parking lot of the Temple. cold drinks on ice.
HOTTT hot sauce for the chips, pecan pie and some zummo party-time sausages just for fun. plenty of time to enjoy the atmosphere, soak it all in.
a great crowd in the stadium to hang out with, current pop stars to entertain us before and in the middle of the game. if the game never ended it would have been okay with me. no matter how it would have turned out it was truly a day to be thankful for. but of course the game ended. and ended good for those of us who bleed
cowboy blue with silver streaks. been a long time since i saw the Good Guys put a
butt-whipping like that on anybody. but i have to admit the score of the game, at least this one day, was LAGNIAPPE. not to say some of my happiness wouldnt have been diminished if the Boys had lost, but the JOY would have still been there. later Poke
Function: noun
Etymology: American French, from Quechua yapa something added
: a small gift given a customer by a merchant at the time of a purchase; broadly : something given or obtained gratuitously or by way of good measure
a beautiful north Texas november day, clear blue skies, 75 degrees.
with my wife and 21 year old son , my mother, my recently retired brother and his 20 year old daughter (my favorite niece by the way ).
thick juicy steaks on the grill in the parking lot of the Temple. cold drinks on ice.
HOTTT hot sauce for the chips, pecan pie and some zummo party-time sausages just for fun. plenty of time to enjoy the atmosphere, soak it all in.
a great crowd in the stadium to hang out with, current pop stars to entertain us before and in the middle of the game. if the game never ended it would have been okay with me. no matter how it would have turned out it was truly a day to be thankful for. but of course the game ended. and ended good for those of us who bleed
cowboy blue with silver streaks. been a long time since i saw the Good Guys put a
butt-whipping like that on anybody. but i have to admit the score of the game, at least this one day, was LAGNIAPPE. not to say some of my happiness wouldnt have been diminished if the Boys had lost, but the JOY would have still been there. later Poke
Monday, November 20, 2006
that was so sweet !!!!!!!!!!
wow...i have seen the promised land !!!!
that had to be the best crowd i have ever seen, heard,
or been a part of at The Temple of the Blue Star.
enthusiastic to say the least, loud, boisterous
( booing our idiot kicker when he was doing a big screen
public service announcement counts as boisterous) and
i will add influential. i know the crowd noise had to in some
small way bother the colts. not near as much as ware knocking the fire
out of manning every chance he got but the noise did help. those passes
late in the game that were just a tad off can be attributed to the pressure
our d put archies little boy under. the majority of the crowd was pretty much
on their feet the whole game, starting with the first time the colts had the ball
and continuing till the very end. do you have any idea how hard it is to eat nachos,
drink something and stand up and yell at the top of your lungs ??
our offense started slow, then did nothing much the first half but our d kept
us in the game. the 5 (i think) penalties in the first half was pretty much what
we've come to expect. BUT...the interception return got things firing in the second half, romo settled down and the o-line started making blocks. i was not and am still not a bledsoe hater, but romo can pump fake and still release the ball quicker than
drew seems to. and romo plays with more enthusiasm..when the game was over and the team was headed for the tunnel romo jumped in the air and kicked his heels together..which was exactly how i felt, i just couldnt do it without hurting myself. even ol Bill gets kudos for that long pass to glenn when we really needed a first down late in the game. i know i wasnt expecting it and im sure the colts werent either. so savor the moment, now get over it cuz we play again Thursday and im looking for the same kind of crowd and the same result. later Poke
ps: i know i predicted 30-something points and if the kicker would have made his 2 kicks and if we werent just running out the clock at the end im pretty sure we would have had that many. close enough for me !
that had to be the best crowd i have ever seen, heard,
or been a part of at The Temple of the Blue Star.
enthusiastic to say the least, loud, boisterous
( booing our idiot kicker when he was doing a big screen
public service announcement counts as boisterous) and
i will add influential. i know the crowd noise had to in some
small way bother the colts. not near as much as ware knocking the fire
out of manning every chance he got but the noise did help. those passes
late in the game that were just a tad off can be attributed to the pressure
our d put archies little boy under. the majority of the crowd was pretty much
on their feet the whole game, starting with the first time the colts had the ball
and continuing till the very end. do you have any idea how hard it is to eat nachos,
drink something and stand up and yell at the top of your lungs ??
our offense started slow, then did nothing much the first half but our d kept
us in the game. the 5 (i think) penalties in the first half was pretty much what
we've come to expect. BUT...the interception return got things firing in the second half, romo settled down and the o-line started making blocks. i was not and am still not a bledsoe hater, but romo can pump fake and still release the ball quicker than
drew seems to. and romo plays with more enthusiasm..when the game was over and the team was headed for the tunnel romo jumped in the air and kicked his heels together..which was exactly how i felt, i just couldnt do it without hurting myself. even ol Bill gets kudos for that long pass to glenn when we really needed a first down late in the game. i know i wasnt expecting it and im sure the colts werent either. so savor the moment, now get over it cuz we play again Thursday and im looking for the same kind of crowd and the same result. later Poke
ps: i know i predicted 30-something points and if the kicker would have made his 2 kicks and if we werent just running out the clock at the end im pretty sure we would have had that many. close enough for me !
Sunday, November 19, 2006
a BIG game....yeah yeah i know they all are,
wow..its november. and the Good Guys are actually gonna play in a big
game. big enough that the networks changed it to a 3:15 start time.
big enough that we get a chance to defeat the heretofore undefeated colts.
(my editor issists i start using bigger words even if they may not be right).
big game because archies boy peyton hasnt been to texas staduim before ( i dont think). that same editor wont fork over any money for a researcher but i think im right. besides its a blog, accuracy isnt what brings in the big bucks.
if that 2-1 record from a 3 game road trip is gonna help us over that playoff
hump its time for this team to win games at HOME. all the experts are saying we need
to run run run, just as fast as we can, cuz the colts cant stop that. im saying if
everybody knows that and expects that and has planned for that....then lets pass
like crazy..get in a real shoot-out with archies boy..light it up. at some point in time you gotta trust your defense to do what you need them to do. lets see how
our undrafted free agent from eastern illinois matches up with the pedigreed wonder
from indy..via tennessee. hey ol archie was good but dont ya'll remember the saints
fans wearing paper bags on their heads ?? surely his kid has a few mistakes in him.
anyway..gotta go..time to get my game face on, gotta find that list of the 138 things
that i have to do in order not to mess up the superstitions. and please remember if you go to the game and you can talk afterwards..you didnt yell loud or long enough and its all your fault !! later Poke
PS: that frazzlin editor said i had to predict the score. this is what i get the big bucks for: COWBOYS 37 colts 33.
game. big enough that the networks changed it to a 3:15 start time.
big enough that we get a chance to defeat the heretofore undefeated colts.
(my editor issists i start using bigger words even if they may not be right).
big game because archies boy peyton hasnt been to texas staduim before ( i dont think). that same editor wont fork over any money for a researcher but i think im right. besides its a blog, accuracy isnt what brings in the big bucks.
if that 2-1 record from a 3 game road trip is gonna help us over that playoff
hump its time for this team to win games at HOME. all the experts are saying we need
to run run run, just as fast as we can, cuz the colts cant stop that. im saying if
everybody knows that and expects that and has planned for that....then lets pass
like crazy..get in a real shoot-out with archies boy..light it up. at some point in time you gotta trust your defense to do what you need them to do. lets see how
our undrafted free agent from eastern illinois matches up with the pedigreed wonder
from indy..via tennessee. hey ol archie was good but dont ya'll remember the saints
fans wearing paper bags on their heads ?? surely his kid has a few mistakes in him.
anyway..gotta go..time to get my game face on, gotta find that list of the 138 things
that i have to do in order not to mess up the superstitions. and please remember if you go to the game and you can talk afterwards..you didnt yell loud or long enough and its all your fault !! later Poke
PS: that frazzlin editor said i had to predict the score. this is what i get the big bucks for: COWBOYS 37 colts 33.
Sunday, November 12, 2006
good and bad
okay its always good to win on the road, and get different receivers involved,
and get some turnovers from your defense and be above .500.
it always is bad when you keep getting dumb penalties ( have you ever seen us get called for so many illegal picks in a year ? im old and i dont remember ever seeing
more than one a year )
its always bad when you lose a Greg Ellis. the man has just been solid every year
and this year he was getting some attention from the national media and doing a good
job in his new position.
i consider it good that on this 3 game road trip we were 2-1, and we should have/could have won that stupid game in washington.
im not gonna say its a bad that our next game is against indy..but, its not who i would have picked to play next. maybe at home we can get some home field advantage going and keep manning from changing the plays every 3 seconds at the line of scrimmage.
it is a good that we still have a reason to play, this race aint near over and the Boys just need to get better and clean up their game some.
its definitely a good that our qb can move around pretty good.
so today the goods outweigh the bads...good enough for me..bring on the colts !!
best wishes to mr. ellis, i hope its not as serious as some media folks are saying,
later revitalized Poke
and get some turnovers from your defense and be above .500.
it always is bad when you keep getting dumb penalties ( have you ever seen us get called for so many illegal picks in a year ? im old and i dont remember ever seeing
more than one a year )
its always bad when you lose a Greg Ellis. the man has just been solid every year
and this year he was getting some attention from the national media and doing a good
job in his new position.
i consider it good that on this 3 game road trip we were 2-1, and we should have/could have won that stupid game in washington.
im not gonna say its a bad that our next game is against indy..but, its not who i would have picked to play next. maybe at home we can get some home field advantage going and keep manning from changing the plays every 3 seconds at the line of scrimmage.
it is a good that we still have a reason to play, this race aint near over and the Boys just need to get better and clean up their game some.
its definitely a good that our qb can move around pretty good.
so today the goods outweigh the bads...good enough for me..bring on the colts !!
best wishes to mr. ellis, i hope its not as serious as some media folks are saying,
later revitalized Poke
Sunday, November 05, 2006
same old same old
no pressure on their qb, weak coverage on passes, poor blocking on passing downs,
pretty weak special teams, dropped passes, bad coaching decsions and PENALTIES PENALTIES PENALTIES. even the game winning field goal wouldnt have been a possiblity
if not for that last face mask penalty. guess that was only fitting that a penalty
would give the skins another chance. im not going to say the refs were calling it wrong, we got away with some ourselves. you just cannot keep giving any NFL team
chance after chance. and if we dont find a way to use terry glenn and quit trying to
put all our eggs in the TO basket we are done. and it would be nice to have a tight end who could run after a catch . oh well i guess if i could have all that it would be a fantasy league. well you cant say we arent consistent, win one, lose one seems
to be the kind of team we are...again. later disgusted Poke
pretty weak special teams, dropped passes, bad coaching decsions and PENALTIES PENALTIES PENALTIES. even the game winning field goal wouldnt have been a possiblity
if not for that last face mask penalty. guess that was only fitting that a penalty
would give the skins another chance. im not going to say the refs were calling it wrong, we got away with some ourselves. you just cannot keep giving any NFL team
chance after chance. and if we dont find a way to use terry glenn and quit trying to
put all our eggs in the TO basket we are done. and it would be nice to have a tight end who could run after a catch . oh well i guess if i could have all that it would be a fantasy league. well you cant say we arent consistent, win one, lose one seems
to be the kind of team we are...again. later disgusted Poke
Tuesday, October 31, 2006
it will all be for naught if....
that was a great win. first start, on the road, nfc opponent. could mean something when the playoffs come around.
but if the Boys dont come out swinging against the deadskins and post another W
then that fun gutty victory means nothing. hopefully everybodys back wont be sore
from all the patting this week and we can actually win 2 in a row.
and yeah all that kissin makes me a lil nervous too.
what i want to see is ol Bill tear somebody up when they screw up. but hey i guess
some positive reinforcement could go a long way.
now, if we ever get TG and TO going at the same time, with Julius and Marion
running hard and sneaking some stuff to Witten and Fasano then we will have a shot
at playing past the last regular season game.
anyway im still giddy over that win. later Poke
but if the Boys dont come out swinging against the deadskins and post another W
then that fun gutty victory means nothing. hopefully everybodys back wont be sore
from all the patting this week and we can actually win 2 in a row.
and yeah all that kissin makes me a lil nervous too.
what i want to see is ol Bill tear somebody up when they screw up. but hey i guess
some positive reinforcement could go a long way.
now, if we ever get TG and TO going at the same time, with Julius and Marion
running hard and sneaking some stuff to Witten and Fasano then we will have a shot
at playing past the last regular season game.
anyway im still giddy over that win. later Poke
Sunday, October 29, 2006
slow to respond
okay im a creep. i should have written this done way sooner. i could say
i havent had time...jobs, family..yada yada yada. but the truth is:
i was disgusted, embarassed, aggrivated, sick, bewildered and just plain mad at how
the Boys played ( or didnt play) monday night.
you just dont show up with that kind of effort for such a big game. at home. on monday night. against a division opponent.
then the big QB change. at the game the week before there were about 30,000 fans
hollering..romo, romo, romo. im sure it was the same monday night even though i wasnt there. my question is....who were they hollering for after that first interception romo threw ?? after the second ?? after the third ?? staubach ?
meredith ?? bledsoe did look terrible. but if the o-line doesnt block it wont matter much whos back there. theres a reason football is considered a team sport.
i dont care how many high paid superstars you have.
anyway that was last week. its a new day. thats behind us.
TIME TO BE BOLD IM GONNA GO WAY OUT ON A LIMB HERE and say that
the Good Guys, DaBoyz, the Pokes are gonna show up in carolina. gonna play a great game, gonna surprise a lot of people and BEAT THEM FRAZZLIN PANTHERS.
NOW JUST LET ME WARN YA'LL....im not doing too good picking winners this year in a couple of pick em contests. but i feel something good is gonna happen here.
im not saying its gonna be all romo to the rescue, cuz i dont feel that way at all.
i just think the TEAM will pick their game up and show us their true colors.
so keep the faith, put on the silver and blue tune in to NBC and lets see what happens. later Poke
i havent had time...jobs, family..yada yada yada. but the truth is:
i was disgusted, embarassed, aggrivated, sick, bewildered and just plain mad at how
the Boys played ( or didnt play) monday night.
you just dont show up with that kind of effort for such a big game. at home. on monday night. against a division opponent.
then the big QB change. at the game the week before there were about 30,000 fans
hollering..romo, romo, romo. im sure it was the same monday night even though i wasnt there. my question is....who were they hollering for after that first interception romo threw ?? after the second ?? after the third ?? staubach ?
meredith ?? bledsoe did look terrible. but if the o-line doesnt block it wont matter much whos back there. theres a reason football is considered a team sport.
i dont care how many high paid superstars you have.
anyway that was last week. its a new day. thats behind us.
TIME TO BE BOLD IM GONNA GO WAY OUT ON A LIMB HERE and say that
the Good Guys, DaBoyz, the Pokes are gonna show up in carolina. gonna play a great game, gonna surprise a lot of people and BEAT THEM FRAZZLIN PANTHERS.
NOW JUST LET ME WARN YA'LL....im not doing too good picking winners this year in a couple of pick em contests. but i feel something good is gonna happen here.
im not saying its gonna be all romo to the rescue, cuz i dont feel that way at all.
i just think the TEAM will pick their game up and show us their true colors.
so keep the faith, put on the silver and blue tune in to NBC and lets see what happens. later Poke
Thursday, October 19, 2006
a very important game
sure i know every game is important. they all count in the standings right ?
but...BUT this is a game against a division opponent, at home..and its on MONDAY night. so far all the Boys have done is win at home against the rapidly falling deadskins, beaten the titans and their talented but rookie qb Vince Young and then
whipped up on the texans at home. this will be the best gauge yet of how good the
good guys really are.
flozell and the rest of the o-line have got to play their best game yet if drew is
going to have a chance at getting the ball to glenn and owens. i am not an expert
at X and O stuff but even i know our line has got perform this game. if they dont the
giants 2 stud DE's will make it a long night at Texas Stadium.
and our defense really has to come up with some new wrinkles, try to make lil Eli
get confused and make some bad choices.
and it goes without saying that drew cant have another of his bad games, his throws
really dont need to be hiting the turf 5 feet in front of the target. i just think that if he does have time to throw he better make good use of it.
anyway thats just some of my worries for this week, theres plenty more to consider but hey this is a blog not a book. later Poke
but...BUT this is a game against a division opponent, at home..and its on MONDAY night. so far all the Boys have done is win at home against the rapidly falling deadskins, beaten the titans and their talented but rookie qb Vince Young and then
whipped up on the texans at home. this will be the best gauge yet of how good the
good guys really are.
flozell and the rest of the o-line have got to play their best game yet if drew is
going to have a chance at getting the ball to glenn and owens. i am not an expert
at X and O stuff but even i know our line has got perform this game. if they dont the
giants 2 stud DE's will make it a long night at Texas Stadium.
and our defense really has to come up with some new wrinkles, try to make lil Eli
get confused and make some bad choices.
and it goes without saying that drew cant have another of his bad games, his throws
really dont need to be hiting the turf 5 feet in front of the target. i just think that if he does have time to throw he better make good use of it.
anyway thats just some of my worries for this week, theres plenty more to consider but hey this is a blog not a book. later Poke
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
win the ones you are supposed to
okay.. another wet rainy day at the Temple of the Blue Star. still a lot of fun though. especially giving the texan fans a hard time. ( only after they started
mouthing off about the "great" mario wiliams. then they razzed TO when he slipped down..i couldnt help it when my mouth flew open and screamed at them..REGGIE BUSH !)
by the end of the 3rd quarter most of them left.
hey i realize it was only the texans but those are the kind of games you have to show up for and win. there is going to be all those games against the tough teams
on the road where winning is harder. you may win but its wont take much to lose one of those games. thats why you have to win the ones where you do have the better team.
no days off.
i was really happy parcells didnt just run the ball when the Boys got the lead. bledsoe seemed to get into a rhythm as the game went on after looking bad at first.
we still dont seem to pressure the qb enough, but the texans went with a lot of quick
release passes so i wont complain too much.
i was sweating ron dayne having another good day against us but the run defense held up strong. our idiot kicker looked okay, but our coverage on punts is scaring me.
what else?? oh yeah the cheerleaders looked great as usual.
anyway, chalk that up as a win...now lets play some nfc east football against the giants monday night. a win then should make us all feel better about the good guys.
later Poke
mouthing off about the "great" mario wiliams. then they razzed TO when he slipped down..i couldnt help it when my mouth flew open and screamed at them..REGGIE BUSH !)
by the end of the 3rd quarter most of them left.
hey i realize it was only the texans but those are the kind of games you have to show up for and win. there is going to be all those games against the tough teams
on the road where winning is harder. you may win but its wont take much to lose one of those games. thats why you have to win the ones where you do have the better team.
no days off.
i was really happy parcells didnt just run the ball when the Boys got the lead. bledsoe seemed to get into a rhythm as the game went on after looking bad at first.
we still dont seem to pressure the qb enough, but the texans went with a lot of quick
release passes so i wont complain too much.
i was sweating ron dayne having another good day against us but the run defense held up strong. our idiot kicker looked okay, but our coverage on punts is scaring me.
what else?? oh yeah the cheerleaders looked great as usual.
anyway, chalk that up as a win...now lets play some nfc east football against the giants monday night. a win then should make us all feel better about the good guys.
later Poke
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