Posted by | Madison | in Weekly Recaps

What a game.  The Bills won the turnover battle by five but ended up losing the game by two on the Cowboys’ second attempt at a last second, 53-yard field goal AFTER Dick Jauron pulled the Shanahan special by calling a timeout just before the snap of the first attempt.

You know what scares me about those plays?  What if the Nick Folk missed the first attempt that Jauron called the timeout on?  A 53-yarder is no chip shot.  A 53-yarder by a rookie who looks kind of like Jesus Kitna in an unfriendly stadium is less likely.  If that had happened and Folk went on to make his second attempt, it would have been Norwoodian.

Like Don Cheadle said, “Crazy.”

Anyway, I’m not entirely surprised at Romo’s transformation into Rex Grossman in the first half.  During the first four games, when Romo would move around in the pocket and wing those crazy ass passes into very tight windows, the defenders would always just miss.

In the Cowboys-Giants game, I remarked to Alikat that it was crazy that the Giant defenders weren’t intercepting those passes as it seemed like they were always just a few inches off.  Tonight, it didn’t matter about the inches since Romo basically threw to Buffalo all night long.  By my count, he could have very easily had thrown seven interceptions.

I’m also not entirely surprised at Romo’s transformation into Joe Montana at the end of the game.  He showed a lot of guts tonight but he’s going to have to get his house in order because, while I hate to be Mistress Obvious, a performance like that is just not going to cut it next week against the Patriots.

As for the Bills, they never could beat the Cowboys in the early 90’s and apparently that inability has stuck with them.  Though Trent Edwards (who by the way if you missed the ten times they mentioned it in the broadcast has a note from the late Bill Walsh handwritten to him on his refrigerator) played well, this is going to be a loss that doesn’t clear out of the locker room easily.  They played tough, the defense put 21 points on the board, took the ball away seven times, and they still lost.  If you saw Dick Jauron in the post game interviews, it looked like he was about to cry.

This is going to sound crazy but I feel like the Bills probably had a better chance allowing the two point conversion and then going into overtime.  The Cowboys just seemed to have too much momentum at the end of the game.