SNF Live-Blog: Cowboys @ Redskins, First Half
Sunday, November 16, 2008
A minor miracle: finding a Romo photo, non-game action, without Jessica or Carrie Underwood in it. This is from T.O.'s birthday party last year, and you may feel free to start a caption contest because Michael Irvin is in it.
"For the Cowboys, this looks like a visit to the Last Chance Saloon." - Al
Ouch. Good notes for the Skins: Southeast Jerome is a go. I'm picking Washington.
General Motors is offering "Financing that Fits" to get you behind the wheel of one of their automobiles. Consider this while they are looking for a bailout.
The wind looks like it'll blow away Andrea Kremer. Shaun Suisham kicks off to Myles Austin, who brings it back to the 20 before being brought down. Romo's first pass is to Marion Barber III for a few yards. Hearing John Madden talk about full, strong grips is kind of unnerving. MB3 fumbles his first carry, but gains a couple and falls on the ball.
"And the first flag of the night, with referee Jeff Triplette..." - Al, as Triplette announces a time out by Dallas not even a couple minutes into the game. This is going to go well. MB3 takes the pitch and heads right, but gets stopped up big time. Punt up, Antwaan Randle El watches it go short. It's downed at the Skins' 35 or so, and thanks to a face mask on the Cowboys, they start at midfield.
Jason Campbell is incomplete with his first throw.
"I love Randle El. Every time he does that intro, I think he's auditioning to replace Pat Sajak on Wheel of Fortune." - Al, on the WR's player intro. Portis gets a few on 2nd down, and Campbell hits Santana Moss for a first down conversion. Portis gets another first down on two more carries. Jay Ratliff sacks Campbell at the Dallas 28, forcing a loss of eight yards. Portis gets back to the 25. 3rd and 14 is a throw in the flat to Mike Sellers, who is short of the first down by about a yard, and they're gonna go for it -- and Portis almost got a score on it. First and goal.
Campbell rolls out after the fake to Portis on 1st and goal, finds Sellers at the 1, who steps in for the touchdown! Kick is up and good, Skins 7-0.
They run like that all game, this is easy pickings.
Cowboys start at the 22, rolls out to T.O. short, who gets up-ended by Fred Smoot for two yards (insert Smoot double-dong jokes here.) Dallas loses that and a few more thanks to a false start penalty on Flozelle Adams (most penalized dude in the league.) Toss to MB3 on the next play, he gets back to the 26. 3rd down is an 18 yard throw from Romo to Myles Austin at the 44.
Barber takes a short pass for 2, Roy Williams reverses the hand off to T.O. for a no-gain. MB3 gets the next pass for eight yards and a first down. Williams gets the screen pass and gets another first inside the Washington 40. Barber rushes for 7 more. Romo throws incomplete to Austin on the next one, and is then picked on the next play by DeAngelo Hall. Skins' ball!
Campbell fakes to Ladell Betts and passes to Chris Cooley for 3. Betts gets nothing on the next carry, and Campbell's 3rd down pass is incomplete. Brian Plackenmeyer punts to Patrick Crayton at the Dallas 36 to end the first quarter.
Hall doing his best Randy Moss impersonation, by making big plays once out of Oakland. - 49ers16
"He says they're just a bunch of Joes ,and they just play hard. And they are a bunch of Joes, and they do play hard, but they also tackle well." - Madden (via Anon)
Romo throws short to T.O. for two yards, as Carlos Rogers bumps him out of bounds. Barber runs for a first, but it's offensive holding and is called back. Another short pass to Owens up to the 37 and 2nd and 17. We get a shot of back-up QB Brad Johnson with his O-lineman helmet. Romo to Owens is incomplete again on 3rd down. Punt goes to Randle El, who brings it back to his own 29.
It's "Ryan Plackemeier" not "Brian Plackenmeyer" S2N, who are you? Dick Stockton? - SSReporters.
He's a former Seahawk and a punter. He should be used to people screwing up his name. I don't understand the play-calling when 3rd and 8 is a screen pass -- and is offensive pass interference on Santana Moss. Here comes Plackenmeier, he punts to Crayton, who brings it out to the 38 of Dallas.
"As Bono would say, 'I can't live with or without you.' Let's take a look at how the Cowboys lived without Tony Romo...." - Al
MB3 gets 7 on the carry. Romo then goes to Roy Williams at the 31 for a first down. Tashard Choice gets his first carry -- he's probably playing because there is no Felix Jones, still, either. Next play, the pass is tipped, as T.O. is hit when the ball arrives, and it's another pick, this one by Rocky McIntosh. 4 drives for the Boys, two punts, two picks.
With the ball now at about their own 20, Campbell hits Cooley, who picks up eight or nine yards. Quick slant to Moss for a first down at the 33. Portis goes for 2.
3..2..1.. Mount TO is about to explode. - 49er16
That's not fair. *sniff*. That's his quarterback you're talking about! *sniffles*
Totally faked out the Dallas D on 3rd and 8 with a QB draw play, and Campbell took two tacklers with him into Cowboys' territory. Ball on the 41 after a 22 yard gain. Portis busts around the outside to the 37. Skins lose five yards, with the ref claiming they didn't call time out in time -- and they wind up having to call time out anyway! The best part was the aborted bump music of Stone Temple Pilots, but we got Iggy Pop on the way out.
"Devin Thomas, he was in, he was out, he was in, and Zorn says hold on." - Al Michaels with the double entendres (via SSReporters)
Oh, so that was a penalty for 12 men in the huddle. DeMarcus Ware envelops Campbell back at midfield. Plackenmeier punts, Rock Cartwright tries to down it at the one, but he rolls into the end zone and Dallas will start at its own 20.
Jim Zorn challenged it, and Triplette announced "Number 31 recovered the ball which hit him in the rear end." Screen pass to T.O., caught and hit at the line of scrimmage. Barber gets up to the 24 on 2nd down, Wade Phillips has a confused look on his face. Romo to Williams for a first down. Romo to Barber again for six yards past the 45, then hits Jason Witten for the first time at the Redskins 27 just before the two-minute warning.
Keanu Reeves as a robot? Talk about type-casting. - Mal
It's all about how little he can actually say in any given role. Romo hits Owens inside the 10, he's down at the 2 for a first and goal. MB3 fights off a tackle and gets in the end zone. The booth replay team will have a look at it via review. It stands, touchdown. Extra point is up and good, 7-7.
Rock Cartwright takes the kickoff and busts it through for 58 big ones to the Dallas 38. Campbell to Cooley to the 28 and a first. Campbell then hocks one out of bounds. Short pass, but can't get out of bounds. Suisham will be trying a 42 yard field goal. Attempt is through the uprights, Skins go into the locker room leading 10-7.
See you in the second half thread.
81 Comments:
Andrea looking at Tony's pinkie sounds dirty or disgusting either way you look at it.
I posted this in the pre-game thread, but seeing as this is up and everyone is coming here now, I'll post it here as well.
"Blast on your lights for the ultimate show." - Faith Hill who apparently isn't greening her routine.
As far as the game goes and an Eagles fan who, despite deeming the Eagles toast after the Bengals game, has an eternal optimism that they can turn it around, I have no idea who I want to win this game.
If the Redskins win, it will be that much harder for the Eagles to climb back into it, but the Cowboys, my least favorite team in the NFL, may be dead in the dumpster. If the Cowboys win, they're back in the race and the Eagles are looking up at everyone.
A Cowboys win would probably be slightly better, but I really can't pull myself to root for them.
"Lap dances are on me!"
Redskins will win, Cowboys suck.
Right now Al and John are fawning over Romo's cast. Help me, this is going to be a long night.
Did Al just say kick a timeout?
Jfein, as an Eagles fan we should root for a 0-0 tie.
And jfein, personally, Andy Reid should go to Detroit and coach the Lions. They belong together!
Stay classy, mc 8:24 PM. Was that Jillian doing Yoko Romo on the Fox Pre-Game with Caliendo-as-Romie? Yes, I went there
Coach? Hell he could replace Matt Millen as their GM.
@ anon @ 8:27: Ironically, I didn't even consider a tie...
"I love Antwaan Randle El. Everytime he [introduces himself] it sounds like he is auditioning for the role of Pat Sajak."
@ jamescraven: I nearly hurled when I saw that. Caliendo just isn't funny.
Oh, the Pat Sajak quote belongs to Al Michaels.
I'd like to buy a vowel, Alfalfa...
Did Al just say "Sack Thomas" instead of "Zach Thomas"?
There goes that dream of a 0-0 tie...
Al: I talked to Cowboys owner Jerry Jones who said,"his team needs to get of to a hot start...they haven't."
Dear anon 8:31 PM: There will be a power struggle this December between Jeff Lurie and Joe Banner in one corner and Andy Reid in the other. Three guesse what will happen and the first two won't count. The asskissing era is over in Philadelphia.
0-0 ties are actually only common in the MLS.
Fred Smoot just turned TO's world upside down and kicked the extra point.
TO went head over heels for Smoot.
Seeing T.O. flipped like that just made my day, and believe me, this has been a rough day. Not only did my Eagles lose, but the random AFC team that I like for random reasons, the San Diego Chargers, lost a heartbreaker.
BTW, in the BCS, the top nine remained unchanged, while The Ohio State university moved to #10 flipflopping with Georgia. I had to look it up on the interwebs because they didn't show it on Fixed Sports becuase they were running way over with the Beagles-Bungles clusterfuck festival.
And Pass the Douchie to the left hand side Fred Smoot!
There's been a D'Angelo Hall sighting!
Hall doing his best Randy Moss impersonation, by making big plays once out of Oakland.
"He says they're just a bunch of Joes ,and they just play hard. And they are a bunch of Joes, and they do play hard, but they also tackle well." - Madden
Late word from Syracuse. Greg Robinson was sacked as coach today!
Ding dong, the witch is dead!
That Eagles-Bangles game set football back 10 years.
@ jamescraven: How fitting was it that in a game that nobody played like they wanted to win, nobody won. Who are you rooting for in this one?
Is Pasquiloni coming back to Syracuse?
It's "Ryan Plackemeier" not "Brian Plackenmeyer" S2N, who are you? Dick Stockton?
"You wonder where the strength of [the Redskins] defense is and that's where it is, in the back end." - John Madden
Strength in the back end? First, John talked about the tight grips and now this. I'm getting worried...
@ SSR: You should have seen all of my messed up names on Monday Night as I was live-blogging in the comments section.
Jeremy Urbam became Jeremy Irvin
Steve Breaston took several different names, including Steve Breston.
And those were the ones I caught...
No jerk session for Gus Johnson?
Oops, I meant to say Breaton became Preston.
@Jfein, it's Jerheme Urban.....FAIL!
Has Shaun Alexander gotten a carry yet? Too busy watching English soccer to distract myself from the Seahawks.
@ joe d: As much as you ask about Gus Johnson "jerk sessions" makes me wonder if you do it yourself...
It's amazing how Nissan can make a 0% APR commercial so much less annoying...
@ SSR: Like I said, those were the mistakes I knew.
And Shaun Alexander has not gotten a carry yet. Portis has 6, Betts has 1. Nice to see someone who was once a star is now third on the 'Skins depth chart.
Madden discussing grip and balls...oh my.
T.O was obviously caught napping there.
3..2..1.. Mount TO is about to explode.
Tony Homo is picked off again. That makes me feel a little better.
Is "audiblize" a word?
jfein, you guys love Gus Johnson so much that you gather in a group and circle jerk. He is just a yelling fool and he is so overrated.
But you're too busy cumming so I'll leave it at that.
You see the joke I made was in reference to his sleeping pill overdose, and...
Interesting, Jim Zorn left and so did Seattle's passing game.
Now why don't QB draws work on Madden for me?
"Devin Thomas, he was in, he was out, he was in, and Zorn says hold on." - Al Michaels with the double entendres
Why are West joke offensive coaches so bad at clock / game management ?
As far as your one non-trolling point goes, I'd actually argue that GuJo is underrated, at least by CBS, that's for damn sure.
And seeing as it seems like you don't like announcers who are passionate and get excited, I'm sure you spent the 3-hours of the Steelers-Chargers game jerking it to Jim Nantz's monotonous voice.
SSR - try a "25 million reasons" joke next time and it will likely work better.
"I bet you that the Redskins player was in the end zone I bet." - John Madden repeating himself
I agree with Al and John, that looked like a touchback to me. The player who touched it was in the endzone.
jfein I like passionate but not obnoxiousness and loudness like Circle Jerk Johnson there.
I dont jerk it to Nantz nor Brando because they suck, I jerk it to your mom......
And Toto's "Hold the Line" as the music going to commercial on the downed punt. nice planning
"Only Jeff Triplette could make that call." - John Madden after Triplette said the ball hit the Redskin player in the rear.
I have to disagree with myself. That looked like a good play.
To quote Jamescraven: Stay classy, Joe D.
Keanu Reaves as a robot? Talk about type-casting.
Invisible Redskins Secondary.
Are there coaches' challenges inside 2 minutes of a half?
Sincerely,
The Unoffical Yellow First Down Line.
ssr
That's the brilliance of the Cover 2 / Prevent plus crappy tackling.
did that baby ejaculate on the woman in that movie promo?
anon: no, that's just exaggerated puking via Hollywood effects.
Between Al, John, Joe D and the revolving door of anon, are we going for a record of inneundo/outright sexual references tonight? I'm setting the o/u at 35.5
GO ROCK!!
Both of those replay reviews were very questionable, on the calls made.
Wedge...wedge...wedge...wedge busting...wedge. - Madden
Two minute drill = FAIL
Once again, excellent clock management by the Redskins.
These refs have not been doing a good job this game.
The refs are having a tough time w/ the white lines tonight...did they do too many before kickoff?
Zorn face better than Norv face ?
No, John you spike on 4th down !
Jeff Triplette and his crew are the worst. He's the Penn Wagers of the NFL.
SAVED BY ZERO!
mal@9:35: No coaches' challenges inside the 2-minute warning.
"The Eagles and the Bengals want some of their lives back" - Keith Olbermann
Everyone who saw that game want their 4 hours of their lives back. A horribly played game (it wasn't a defensive struggle as the score suggests, it was bad, bad football) and I had to suffer through Tony Siragusa for 4 hours! 4 HOURS! It's a wonder I'm still alive.
Hey its not MYLES Austin its Miles Austin
Um, j, we had a record in the Pammy Chronicles open thread Saturday (11/15)
Irvin: "So Tony, did you hide the drugs in the teddy bears?"