Thursday, January 7, 2010

EAGLES VS. COWBOYS- It's playoff time!

I came to Dallas almost 5 years ago, and with every year my hate for the Cowboys grows more and more. It's actually a funny thing. I try and try to grow a liking for them since I am living only 15 minutes from the stadium and I do love the NFL, but the fans/radio/espn-dallas make it impossible. This is probably the worst city for fans I've ever exper. The crap I heard from day one of training camp to this morning on the way to work has wavered so much that it makes me dizzy. I listened to Emmit Smith predict a 7-9 season, I listened to talk shows and fan callers talk about how they need a new coach, a new offensive coordinator, a new quarterback, new running backs, a decent receiving corps. I've heard just about everything you can imagine in the negative about how they can't win in December, they can't win a playoff game. Personally I'm a Broncos fan and I can't say I've never been disappointed in a loss or a bad coaching decision but to depleat my own team weak in an weak out everytime they have a loss is non-sense.
Now, the Cowboys have come out of the regular season as the division champs and with home field advantage for game 1 of the playoffs and these same people who cursed them are now 100% confident that they will play in the super bowl. That makes me sick. Have they really gotten over their wows just like that. They win their last 3 games and all of the sudden there is not a team in the NFL that can beat them? Let's please not forget that the Cowboys only had 4 really quality wins this season. I mean not to say that every win you get in the NFL isn't important because it is, but come on. They lost to the sorry Giants both times. 6 or 7 of their wins came agains sub .500 teams, and oh yeah they haven't won a playoff game since 1996. Dont' get me wrong I think they have great momentum and I think they could possibly beat this somewhat defeated Eagles team, but to just ignore the fact that they are going to have to beat 3 really good teams in a row to make it to the Super Bowl is absurd. I've heard people who I thought were intelligent just dismiss the first 3 games like they are nothing. Fact is they are going to have to beat 2 of these 3 teams if they make it past the Eagles: Minnesota, Green Bay, New Orleans. Yes they have beat the Saints, but to think the Saints won't have revenge in mind and blow the Cowboys out is crazy. The Packers pretty much dominated the Cowboys this season and the Packers got beat twice by Favre and the Vikings. Like I said I have no problem with the confidence of winning Saturday agains the Eagles but I would find it hard to believe that the Cowboys even stand a chance of winning 2 let alone 3 playoff games this year. I don't know maybe I'm wrong, let me know what you think.