Last days of the Jersey con man?
Cowboys grab wild card spot with loss to Lions (Jaime Aron, AP)
Roy Williams caught a pair of touchdown passes, Mike Furrey and Mike Williams each caught one and Jason Hanson kicked four field goals, helping Detroit (3-13) score its most points of the season and win a game the franchise might've been better off losing. Now Oakland gets the top overall pick and the Lions will go second.
Furrey punctuated his score by firing the football into a plastic Cowboys logo behind the end zone, knocking it off the wall and putting a crack in it.
How symbolic.
Despite owning the top wild card, Dallas (9-7) goes into January having lost consecutive games for the first time all season. The Cowboys also have dropped three of four since owning a two-game division lead in early December.
Following the latest collapse, it doesn't appear that the Cowboys will be securing their first playoff win in ten years this time around.
And that will probably put a wrap on the Bill Parcells era, which was slightly more successful in terms of wins/losses than the Chan Gailey and Dave Campo eras, but came up short of the Barry Switzer era. Not a very pretty way for a Hall of Fame coach to end things, but I'm sure the millions Jerry gave him for zero playoff wins will make him feel a little better.
I wonder who Jerry will turn to. Maybe Jack Del Rio if he gets fired in Jacksonville? Mike Sherman? Cam Cameron? Ron Rivera?
I sure hope it's not Bob Stoops, for his sake and for Oklahoma's. He doesn't need the Jerruh headache. And I sure as hell hope it's not Houston Nutt, but nothing will surprise me given it's Jerruh.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 01/01/07 11:31 | Dallas Cowboys | Technorati
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BOB, BOB, BOB!!!!!
You know in your heart that it's the right thing for everybody. It's win-win-win-win all the way around.
Posted by TFG @ 15:26 on 01/01/07
NO, NO, NO!!!!!!
No heart in that!!!
Posted by whilo @ 18:55 on 01/01/07
I could see JJ making a highly-publicized run at Pete Carroll. He's going to want somebody high profile, I think. I don't know if he wants another Campo or Gailey.
He'd be crazy to take the job, of course.
Posted by another precinct chair @ 19:11 on 01/02/07
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