I'm sure you guys are all

.... eager to hear my thoughts on Monday's exciting NFC East clash between the Eagles and Cowboys. It was exactly the kind of game that Ed's people love: Blown assignments leading to long pass plays, sloppy turnovers leading to easy scores, a bonehead rookie embarassing himself on a national stage, and points, points, and more points.

I hated it.

But I did take a few things away from The Tea Party at Texas Stadium:

* Tony Romo wore that bandage on his chin purely to get sympathy. I will not even listen to any arguments to the contrary.

* DeSean Jackson is an idiot. This is one of the dumbest things I've ever seen a professional athlete do. Absolutely ridiculous. Say what you want about Terrell Owens and Chad Johnson. At least they wait until after they have scored the TD to start celebrating.

* The Cowboys offense is nothing short of awesome. Owens is the best WR in the NFL. Witten is the best TE in the NFL. Barber is one of the best RBs in the NFL. The offensive line is excellent. Jason Garrett has already proven himself to be one of the best playcallers in the league. You could take a lousy QB and put him behind that line and surround him with all those weapons and you'd still have one of the highest scoring offenses in the NFL. And Romo is actually a decent player when he's not doing impossibly stupid things like that fumble in the end zone. The Dallas offense is going to be tough for anyone to slow down, let alone stop.

* Having said all that, how many NFL teams have won the Super Bowl by winning big games 40something to 30something? The Dallas defense, especially the secondary, looks very mediocre. (Although their defensive backfield did get better with the loss of S Roy Williams on Monday night.) The Cowboys will have to start playing defense if they want to win a playoff game this millenium.

* Speaking of Roy Williams, I want to touch on what I thought was the funniest moment of Monday's game. Did you guys see that play in the first half when McNabb threw a deep ball and a #31 for the Cowboys jumped up and made an incredibly athletic play to knock the ball away? I was watching it while I was working and my jaw dropped, as for a moment I actually thought Roy Williams had made a good play in pass coverage for the first time in.... Well.... For the first time in his NFL career. It was then brought to my attention that Roy Williams had relinquished the #31 to rookie corner Mike Jenkins and taken back his old college number of 38. Apparently, Roy is doing this because, in the Bible, the #8 signifies new beginnings.

I find the fact that Roy Williams changed his jersey number and that it was taken by a rookie actually less surprising than the idea that he could have made that play. He is absolutely terrible and the Cowboys secondary will be better off without him. If I was a Cowboys "Fan," I'd be rooting for Roy to not play again this season until the Pro Bowl.

* I still don't know what to make of this Eagles team. Their defense is garbage. Their best WR is a rookie/moron. Their QB could go down at any moment and the team would probably fall apart without #5. As much as I hate the Cowboys and Giants, for now I will rank them both ahead of Philly.

* How about those Philadelphia fans? They have to be the biggest collection of morons this side of your average Las Vegas sports bettors. On Tuesday morning, these dopes were calling in to local radio shows saying that the Eagles need to fire Andy Reid and replace Donovan McNabb. So your team is coming off a 41-37 loss and the answer is to replace your offensive playcaller and your QB? That makes a lot of sense. Typical NFL fanbase. "Our team lost so our QB sucks." God forbid they blame the secondary who got torched by T.O. and company or blame the special teams for giving up the Cowboys first KO return for a TD in 5 years. Let's just get rid of the QB. That will cure all.

* Before I move on from this game, someone please explain to me how/why this comment is offensive. All he said was that he doesn't understand Spanish. People are just too sensitive these days. Tony Kornheiser didn't mean to offend anyone with that comment. But he is an idiot. And he should be fired. Just not because of that comment. He should be fired because he is terrible at his job.

* Josh Howard may be taking over the title of "The Biggest Jackass In Professional Sports." I don't even know what he means by these dopey comments. My advice to the Dallas Mavericks: Trade Howard to the Heat for a 2nd round pick.

No, this has nothing to do with my betting the Heat to win it at all at 150-1 at the Hard Rock. Why do you ask?

* You all wouldn't be here if you didn't enjoy a (sometimes) good blog. Check out this blog authored mainly by Redskins TE Chris Cooley. I had heard before that Cooley's blog was highly entertaining and I enjoyed the entries I read. Apparently, on Sunday, Cooley left a naked picture of himself on the blog while he was at FedEx Field, helping the Redskins to a 29-24 victory over the Saints. The pictured showed a naked Cooley studying the Redskins offensive gameplan.

This is a strange story but how surprising is it really? We all realized that Cooley is a weird guy when this picture of him became public last fall, inspiring a certain jokester to name his fantasy football team "Cooley's Tight End" and use that picture as his team logo. Nobody likes a wiseass.


NL East Update: The Mets are choking like the heartless losers they are. Ryan Howard is homering almost every day like the stud he is.

Some update. It's the same thing practically every time. Howard better be the NL MVP.

Jeff's IPhone Update: The funniest thing I have seen in weeks was the look on Ed's face when Jeff handed him his IPhone so Ed could talk to Matt. Talk about panic. Jeff may as well have handed him a priceless vase. It looked like Ed thought it would just crumble in his hands if he held it the wrong way. Hilarious.

Jorgen Update: We only have a few more weeks before the "Y" ditches us all for the "V." Interesting point brought up by Ross this week: Is Amanda going to be okay with Jorgie working at the Venetian with all the pretty girls they have running around that place? She certainly never had to worry about that while he was working at the SuperBook. The Venetian is just crawling with hotass cocktail waitresses that would presumably be very interested in a kind-hearted, All-American farm boy from Iowa. Be careful, Amanda.

Mom Update: This afternoon she e-mailed my sister (Who was at work) to ask her what my Mom's cell phone number is. You read that right. My Mom asked my sister what her own cell number is.

Don't ask.


Before I end this stupid blog, I want to do a follow up to the whole Sharp/Square/Degenerate thing I wrote the other day. Chris Bennett is the one who got everyone at work started on that nonsense. Apparently, he considers himself a "Sharp sharp." I'm not going to deny that Chris is a sharp; He is. But a sharp sharp? Sorry, bro. I can't give you that one. I'll give you Sharp Scumbag or Scumbag Sharp, whichever you prefer. But a true sharp would have kept his blog going for more than a week.


Trivia Question for Wednesday: Lamont Hamilton was better known as....

(Peter - You are not eligible for this one.)

** Monday's Answer: Christina Applegate's first starring role was as Sue Ellen Crandell in Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead. Franco got both ends of that while Ross knew the movie title but not the character name.

Well done, guys.


Big Eers game tomorrow night at Colorado, big weekend of football highlighted by the massive Cardinals-Redskins encounter, and of course the Cup boys attack the Miracle Mile in Dover, Delaware on Sunday. What a weekend it's gonna be. I better rest up.



Enjoy the game.