Reporter Blasts Cowboys!!!

[HarveyWallbangers]

Peyton Manning completed 69% of his passes for 402 yards and 3 touchdowns. He had a ball go right through the backup rb's hands on the goalline that cost the team the game. Peyton Manning played well enough to help his team win.

Romo completed only 50% of his passes for 201 yards and 1 touchdown. He did not have a great game.

Say again who sucked worse than who?

I don't think either guy played particularly well, but Romo wasn't helped by some really bad drops.

[The Leaper]

Manning had as many bad throws as Romo.

Neither played great. Both had chances to grasp victory, and fell short.

Comparing the two is ridiculous though. Romo hasn't even won a damn playoff game yet...let alone a SB.

[vince]

Manning had as many bad throws as Romo. His interceptions were ill timed and poor decision on his part. The one you are referring to was thrown too high with tight coverage. It was a poor decision by Manning. Completion percentage and yards doesn't tell the whole story. Manning chocked when it counted. He had ample opportunities to win the game and blew them. 9-10 year vet and a player who is a 1.5 year vet. Romo played badly but he alone didn't cost them the game. Manning, for all the numbers he put up, threw poorly thrown balls for ints in crucial drives. You would think a 9-10 year vet would be smarter then that. He isn't Favre after all.

You, like a lot of the pundits, are always making excuses for Peyton Manning. He is not a great QB. Take away his weapons and he is mediocre. I don't care who had the better numbers, Manning has the experience and supposedly is some kind of QB god. If you are going to climb on Romo, then Manning doesn't get a free pass.

1. I'm no Peyton Manning fan, although I think I can be objective about his career.
2, I have NEVER ONCE made excuses for Peyton Manning.
3. Other than to correct a personal mis-accusation, I'm not about to engage you in a debate about Peyton Manning. Been there, done that on other subjects.

[CaliforniaCheez]

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[FritzDontBlitz]

I think all this shit is TFF. A lot of people on this board had pretty much conceded the Super Bowl berth to Dallas weeks before the Packers met them in Green Bay. The comparisons to Favre have been nauseating, even yesterday Romo makes a lame little flip to Whitten on the run and every show that had highlights follows it with a clip of Favre. Stumbling. In a blinding snowstorm. Making a blind pass. And SWEARING Romo's throw is "Favre-esque" each time.

Barf-esque.

If Romo wants to be compared to Favre when he's winning he needs to accept getting ripped to shreds whenever his team loses. Now THAT would be Favre-esque.

[motife]

The Dallas radio game broadcast noted that WR Terry Glenn was in tears after the game. (Yes, another Dallas wideout bawling.)

Terry Glenn with Parcells is a tough, gutty receiver.

Terry Glenn without Parcells is a timid rag doll, injured 13 games out of 16. Worthless.

[Freak Out]

I left the house right after the pick at the end....were the Boys out there shaking hands after the game?

[motife]

I left the house right after the pick at the end....were the Boys out there shaking hands after the game?

from the sound and the looks of it, they were shell-shocked.

I didn't think any loss could have been as disheartening as the Dallas loss last year on the failed snap, but Jerry Jones said it was the worst loss in his 19 years as owner.

I listened to the game on Real Player and the crowd was almost silent on the last drive.

One of the announcers said after the game that the fans and the players seemed to both fold after the tying NYG TD at the end of the first half.

That was a 7 play, 71 yard drive that started with :53 left in the half.

[b bulldog]

romo didn't lose that game for the Cowboys. The Wr's had some big drops, they had some huge penaties and the OC decided to change their O. Garrett went away from the blitzkrieg O that got them there and settled for 3 yards and a cloud of dust that the Gmen wanted. The Giants were able to slow the game down and in the end, the Boys choked.

[pbmax]

Don't forget the defense each was playing. The Giants have a great four man pass rush, but their secondary has had more injuries than the Packers D Line.

Manning faced a very good Chargers defense that puts as much pressure on the QB and can cover. Romo and his O (I don't think you can separate out the two so easily esp. when Romo is so young) had a MUCH worse day. Manning was a catch versus a tipped ball away from pulling that game out of the fire.

The biggest culprit, as I saw the game, was the Cowboys D. All those Parcells guys allowed an awful lot of points this season.

[GrnBay007]

No. 9-wearing blonde crashes Cowboys game
by JENNIFER FERMINO, New York Post

IRVING, Texas - Jess win, baby!

Even a fake Jessica Simpson was good enough to throw off the Dallas Cowboys yesterday, as New York took a Giant step toward the Super Bowl.

The Giants, who notched a stunning 21-17 victory over Dallas in the NFC Divisional Playoffs, had a good-luck charm in the stands — in the form of Simpson lookalike Lynsey Nordstrom.

The real Simpson was the subject of great hand-wringing in Big D all week because of her budding romance with Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo and his habit of falling short on the field when gal pals are in attendance.

Simpson — nicknamed "Yoko Romo" by some superstitious Cowboys fans — didn't show up yesterday, but The New York Post brought Nordstrom, a beautiful, 21-year-old nanny from Bothell, Wash., to Texas Stadium.

The Post sat her in the third row at the 50-yard line behind Dallas' bench. The stunner's Simpson-esque vibes must have made the difference — Romo's final drive was stopped short of the end zone.

"I knew we were going to win when I saw her [Nordstrom]. I'm dead serious!" said Giant die-hard Anthony Triglia, 21, of Staten Island who cheered Big Blue in the heart of enemy territory.

"You have to come to Green Bay," Triglia told Nordstrom.

Then, in true Jessica, Chicken-of-the-Sea fashion, Nordstrom candidly responded: "What's Green Bay?"

http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/7674832

[swede]

I wonder if her employer even has any kids.