How ‘bout dem COWBOYS!!! What an embarrassment!! I still can’t believe me eyes! Hey Dorothy, are we in Kansas? Two games come right to mind after watching the Eagles beat the living crap out of them pokes. First in 1995, there was the NFC Wild Card Playoff versus the Detroit Lions. Who could forget Lomas Brown’s prediction and the way the Eagles took it to the Lion, beating them 58-37. It was 38-7 at the half after a Hail Mary pass from Rodney Peete to Rob Carpenter. Second was the 2004 regular season game against the Green Bay Packers. Poor Brett Favre and those cheeseheads get toasted 47-17 (35-3 at half) at the Linc. And now this debacle! It did not take long into the second half of the game to make it officially a knockout. Actually just 3:37 into the third quarter as the Eagles DE Chris Clemons scooped up the fumble of Tony Romo caused by future Hall of Fame safety Brian Dawkins. Clemons took the fumble and rumbled down the field behind a convoy of blockers all the way to paydirt for a 73-yd TD return. That made it 34-3. Just 3 minutes later, Joselio Hanson was doing his best Deion Sanders’ funky dance routine. Dawkins again, stripped the ball from the arms of Cowboys running back Marion Barber. 96 yards later, Philadelphia had a stranglehold on the last playoff spot with a 41-3 lead. Akers added a 41-yard FG two minutes later and it soon became a complete laughter at 44-3. In just over an 11-minute span of the game and 4 turnovers, the Eagles scored 34 points thanks to the sloppy handling of the ball by Tony Romo and Marion Barber. Three fumbles and an INT and the Eagles went from just 7 up to 41 points ahead. Incredible!!!

The Philadelphia Eagles put a licking to Dallas like they had never had in a real long time. In fact, it was the largest margin of victory for the Birds ever over the Cowboys. The previous worse game was way back in 1961. The Eagles dominated Dallas on offense, on defense and on special teams. Just think back to week #2, Dallas scored 41 points on Monday Night and looked for sure like they would be the favorites to win the Super Bowl. In this game, the Cowboys were shut out of the end zone and managed just 2 FG’s. Those two third quarter drives of 59 yards and then 85 yards only netted two things: 2 fumble TD returns for the Eagles defense. So even if the Eagles offense was shut out, the defense alone would of won this game, 14-6. But before this victory was possible, the Eagles needed a small miracle. Thank you Oakland and Houston. Houston beat the Bears 31-24 and more importantly, the Raiders beat the Bucs 31-24 in Tampa. Oakland was down 24-14 at one point in the third quarter. Then this game between old rivals all the sudden became a playoff game. A fight for the 6th and last spot in the playoffs in the NFC. A play in game, which was basically over at half time, when the Eagles led 27-3.

The Philadelphia offense won the first half, while the entire Eagles defense totally controlled the second and off to Minnesota we go. The Eagles first possession almost led to disaster after Brian Westbrook fumbled the ball away after making a catch on a short pass in Cowboys territory. The Eagles defense held the Cowboys and they were forced to punt the ball back to Philly. Thanks to a nice 21-yd return by rookie sensation DeSean Jackson, the offense was given good field position at their own 46. After two first down runs by the tandem Buckhalter/Westbrook, the Eagles were forced into a FG attempt. Akers was good on a 40-yd FG. Dallas then answered with their really only positive drive of the game as QB Tony Romo engineered a nice 15-play, 61-yard drive. But thanks to a great Eagles red zone defense, the Cowboys were eventually forced to settle for just a FG to tie the game at 3-3. After that, it all fell apart for the Cowboys. Dallas managed just 14 yards the rest of the half. Two 3-and-outs and a very costly INT by Sheldon Brown, which was the first of the year for the cornerback was all that Romo and the offense, could muster. The Eagles on the other hand had no problem on offense. First Correll Buckhalter caught a short pass over the middle and he broke free through the porous Dallas secondary and was finally tackled at the 3-yard line. He had gained 59 yards on the play. The longest of his career. Buck had a nice game3 with 122 total yards (63 yards on the ground). Even Donovan McNabb had a decent game, but only had to complete 12-of-21 passes for 175 yards and 2 TD’s. He found Jackson on a nice 34-yd pass down to the Cowboys 3-yard line. Then McNabb eventually found Buckhalter open along the sidelines for a 4-yd TD pass and a 17-3 Eagles lead. Then just 47 seconds later, Brown intercepted Romo on pass intended for Roy Williams. McNabb then ran the 2-minute offense to perfection. A great accurate soft pas to Brent Celek made it 24-3 with 15 seconds left in the half. The ensuing kickoff was fumbled by Pacman Jones and Akers made it 27-3 with his second FG.

The Eagles answered the bell in a big way this week and came up with plenty of upper cuts and body blows to the Dallas Cowboys’ egos. Terrell Owens had a nice game with 6 receptions for 103 yards. Forty-two of those came on a trick play in the third quarter. The play must have been drawn up in Romo’s hotel room? Two plays later though, it was 34-3 when Clemons recovered that first fumble. T.O. later said, we got off to a good start after we tied the game, but then the wheels fell off. He did not have an explanation to why. The Eagles were clearly the hungrier team and they proved it on the field in a totally convincing way as they beat the Cowboys 44-6 in one of the most lopsided victories in recent Eagles memories.

I only have one more thing to say as the Eagles season ends again with another trip to the postseason,
HOW ‘BOUT DEM COWBOYS!