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For the Dallas Cowboys and the NFC East, the Road Ahead Is All Uphill

Posted: 7th November 2009 by Gene Strother in NFL
The NFC East is boiling down to the Big Three and the Big Mess. Dallas, Philadelphia, and New York will duke it out for the Division Title, while the Redskins just duke it out. (Of course, this assumes the Giants will right their listing ship soon.) All Dallas Cowboys fans get nervous as the holidays approach and the dreaded month of December looms like a team of deranged reindeer with bloody ...

The Latest Word From Jones Town

Posted: 31st October 2009 by Gene Strother in NFL
What He Said ôLetÆs just say this, the decision is made a lot of times à the agreements call for the GM ultimately to make decisions. If not, the only one that can overrule the GM is the owner. Period. And thatÆs always been the way itÆs been for 20 years.ö (Jerry's answerá to Richie Whitt's question of whether it was ultimately the head coach's call to demote a player.) What He ...

Dallas Cowboys Fans Can Hang Their Stetsons on These Five Truths

Posted: 28th October 2009 by Gene Strother in NFL
Some things are personal opinions. These are just plain facts. FACT ONE: Tony Romo does NOT suck. It is a favorite pastime of CowboysÆ haters everywhere to play fast and loose with RomoÆs name. The usual choice is ôTony Homo,ö and the old, tired, standard assertion is simply, ôTony Homo sucks.ö That is just not true, people. Consider his record. He has now started a total of 44 regular season games in ...

Keith Brooking: A Leader Emerges

Posted: 25th October 2009 by Gene Strother in NFL
A leaderless locker room is a rudderless ship. The Dallas Cowboys are a team needing compensation. The absence of sideline leadership under Wade Phillips has led to frequent chaos. The Patrick Clayton flap is just the most recent evidence that there is poor communication between the coaching staff and the men in the trenches. Crayton said he did not even know he had been demoted. No one told him. I believe him. A ...

The Word from Jones Town

Posted: 23rd October 2009 by Gene Strother in NFL
JoneSpeak is a tricky language to learn. You have to listen closelyùor be very drunkùto make any sense of it at all. Happily, I am fluent in the language and offer a mini-course to those interested in learning it (for a nominal fee, of course). However, the learning curve can be brutal, so I also offer my services as an interpreter for those who simply haven't the time or the recessive ...