Posted on 09/13/2010 6:47:15 AM PDT by Immerito
LANDOVER, Md. – Sometimes 60 minutes of football comes down to one terrible decision by the offensive coordinator. Sometimes one chorus of "Hail to the Redskins" after a touchdown is all that it takes.
The Cowboys gave the Washington Redskins seven points on the last play of the first half, and in a game in which both offenses were supremely challenged, that was the difference.
Dallas was a 13-7 loser at FedEx Field on a night when, well, you can't say the Cowboys deserved to win, but they certainly weren't destined to lose.
Not until one ridiculous call, anyway.
In a situation where the only reasonable thing for the Cowboys to do was to have Tony Romo take a knee, Garrett called a pass play. This was 64 yards from the Redskins' goal line and with four seconds to go in the first half.
And instead of heaving a deep ball, Romo threw short to Tashard Choice. Redskins cornerback DeAngelo Hall stripped Choice of the ball, recovered the fumble and ran 37 yards for Washington's only touchdown of the night.
The game would end with Garrett and the offense getting a chance at redemption – one final shot at the Washington end zone from the 13-yard line. But a holding call on tackle Alex Barron kept Romo's final pass to Roy Williams from meaning anything.
There was some measure of justice in that. You simply don't deserve a shot to win when you make a call as brutally bad as the one the Cowboys called at the end of the half.
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Yes, cut Barron. His overall play was poor. If any one player crippled a overall poor offense it was him. Neither team looks like a winning season even a remote possibility.
Had that fumble not happened at the end of the first half, and the game played out the way it did the rest of the way, Dallas would have won 7-6. The Skins got lucky on that fumble. Otherwise, they weren’t any better than the Cowboys. They were as equaly inept as Dallas was.
That tickled the ol' funny bone!
He doesn't want a decent head coach. He wants a spineless puppet that he can manipulate.
I’m a Redskins fan, we’re 1 and 0!
Good quarterbacks don’t win superbowls...with few ecceptions it takes great ones...he’s not...to be fair the head coach ain’t there yet either!!!
The Boys will never win with Phillips!
I’m a Redskins fan, but they didn’t deserve to win this game.
Redskins offense scored two field goals.
Cowboys offense scored two touchdowns, the last one called back due to a stupid holding mistake.
Except when they really need a stop in the fourth quarter. Washington drove right down the field and got the FG, that forced the Cowboys to have to score a TD on their final drive.
You do realize that if Barron doesn't hold, Romo probably never gets the pass off.
It was a broken down pass play, Romo tried a desperate backward toss to Choice who was probably thinking to block at the time.
The play should have never been called anyways
No, that’s weak. You can’t complain when a D gives up 6 points. No coach in the league would say that’s a weak D, no matter what happens “at the end of the game.” Dallas has a superb D, much of it the result of Wade’s ideas. He couldn’t possibly be a worse offensive coach than Garrett.
They are a good defense, a great defense makes that stop in the fourth quarter.
No, a great defense holds the opponent to 6 points. A half-decent offense doesn’t give up the ball. As I say, you shop this defense to the league, I don’t think you’d find one coach who wouldn’t trade his D for this group.
A great defense does what it takes to win, even when the offense is having an off-night. It’s not about how many points you give up, it’s when you give them up. And we’ve seen many times where the Cowboys defense has folded in the fourth quarter of close games during the Wade Phillips era.
Please. You have to know how silly this is. By your logic, a team that has given up 45 points is a “great” defense because it stops the other team from getting 46???? Really? Try that one on some football guys.
I’m wondering where all this talk around Washington about McNabb having a good day comes from, given Romo had a much better statistical day than McNabb, and the Washington Offense is still non-existant.
On the other hand, this had freed up my Sundays; and Virginia Tech has pretty much freed up my Saturdays now, so I can take a second job to afford the Obama economy.
Finally! After 26 years!
LOL! You sound like one of those Rush Seminar Callers: I’m a lifelong Republican but George Bush is the worst president ever!
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