My post-game thoughts…
Okay, I’m about to hit the sack here in Dallas…just got a chance to make a final post.
I will have 3-4, 2-3-4 minute post-game interviews on Friday’s show—with Chris Canty, Marcus Spears, Anthony Fasano, Jerry Jones, and a couple of others.
I hope you enjoyed our coverage throughout the afternoon and evening from Texas Stadium.
Cowboys were very impressive in the first half, but I’m not so sure what happened from the time they took a 27-10 lead until Green Bay cut the lead to 3, 27-24.
TO’s dropped-tipped-Al-Harris interception sure didn’t help—a TD there could’ve salted it away, but the Cowboys still had enough left in the tank to close the deal.
Despite the drop, TO was big again tonight, and tied the club record for touchdown catches in a season (14), once held by Frank Clarke.
Of course Tony Romo was incredible…and although watching a game on television is good—there is NOTHING like being at the stadium to really see a play or game develop. There were a handful of throws Romo made to different receivers that were amazing.
I came away from the post-game locker room with two obvious thoughts from the players, and I talked to a lot of them, Roy Williams, Kevin Burnett, Marcus Spears, Chris Canty, Demarcus Ware, Jason Witten, and Sparano…and of course-Jerry Jones.
Two themes…
1) This isn’t a big win until they follow it up with another one, and this team has done a very good job of going week-to-week. And they deserve the 10-day break…something they would normally get after Thanksgiving, but back-to-back Thursday games didn’t allow that. Now, they get a few days to get away from football. The Cowboys have gotten ahead of themselves once this season, right after the Patriots thumped them—some players, especially Patrick Crayton started talking about the Super Bowl. Wade Phillips got everyone back on track with a scolding…and it’s week-to-week as it should be.
2) This may come as a surprise to some of you, but every single defensive player I spoke too in the post-game locker room told me, “we really didn’t want to see Favre leave the game.”
They all talked about their respect for him—but they also all said they didn’t want him leaving because they knew he could move, and they sent him a message on his first throw, “we’re going to hit you.”
And his (Favre) first interception was a terrible decision. He was about to get drilled and couldn’t step into a deep throw…and he just lobbed one over the middle, for an easy Hamlin pick.
It was the salty veteran Favre who appeared to be a little jacked-up, not Romo.
I watched the entire Packers-Lions game last Thursday, and although Favre hit some deep passes—his most effective routes were underneath to Donald Driver.
He never threw that pass before the injury.
Meanwhile, Aaron Rodgers threw it underneath a lot–and brought the Packers back and to within three…and perhaps whenever “Father-Time” (Favre) does retire—Packers fans can now rest easy knowing Rodgers is more than capable of continuing the momentum.
Well, I’m tired…I saw a good game tonight, but it was a strange game as I drove away…I don’t think either team played a really good game.
Maybe if they meet again in January, it will have a little more rhythm to it—and of course, after tonight, if the two teams meet again…it will be right back at Texas Stadium, where Favre is now 0-9.
David Smoak
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