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We should make a thread of videos of classic Cowboys moments.
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Outside of the 90s superbowl wins, that's my single favorite moment in a game that I can remember. That game was weird. You just knew after that slant to Michael Irvin to tie things up, you knew they'd find a way to pull it out. Then after the Skins march down for a chip shot fg, they blow it and it goes to OT.
Perfect playcall down and distance wise. I thought it was going to Emmitt, so did every other player on that defense.
You can see Emmitt start to lean right before the snap, I thought for sure it was coming back as a false start.
Great clip, Jon.
Perfect playcall down and distance wise. I thought it was going to Emmitt, so did every other player on that defense.
You can see Emmitt start to lean right before the snap, I thought for sure it was coming back as a false start.
Great clip, Jon.
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The real fun part of this is this was Dan Snyder's first game as an owner. They supposedly had the better team, they had the giant stadium that held 90,000 people and the atmoshpere was that it was going to be the redskins day.
Terrible Michael Wilbon wrote a big column that morning about how irvin, aikman and emmitt were a bunch of has beens and hadnt been good in years. He went on and on, pretty much how he does today about how Bad the cowboys are for society etc etc etc...
That comeback and then the win in overtime was just awesome.
The skins 99 season where they talked and talked about how good they were started with this sucker punch and ended with brad johnson fumbling the snap on the game winning field goal to be tampa at home in the wildcard round....(funny how they never bring that up when they goof on romo isnt it?)
anyway. That was great game. Matt Millen was really good in the boothe back then also.
I'll never forget Snyder being so giddy during the game when they were beating us. Then we came back after a 21 point deficit in the 4th. They never showed his short fat ass again.
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yep. That was just one of the many mistakes made earlier in the game. For all the aikman couldnt throw the deep ball, he sure threw a pretty one!
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I've often laughed at those who said it was a "weakness" or "he wasnt any good at the deep ball" when I watched every game the guy played his entire career, and have seen numerous perfectly thrown deep balls for long gains or TD's to a number of different WR's.
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One of the crazy stats about aikman and he still talks about it to this day is that he always laughed and said he must lead the league in passes that stop at the 1. And if you watched all those games or rewatch them its pretty amazing how true that is. It seems like you could set your watch by aikman making a great throw and the wr getting tackled inside the 5 and then emmitt taking care of buisness.
and the best part of all, aikman didnt care that emmitt was racking up the stats because it was all about the wins.
He and Rocket hooked up for the deep ball that season quite a few times before Irvin went down.
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Yeah. A lot of times a player is so good, you have to reach for a fault.
I do know that toward the end of his career(not sure how true it is for all QBs) he went from being able to throw the ball 65-70 yards, to about 50-55.
I never read what he attributed that to, if it was his back or what.
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It was the back. The 2000 season was really tough to watch because he just didnt have the same zip anymore.
I went to training camp in 1992, I've never seen anyone throw a football like he did. The accuracy and velocity he had on the ball was just amazing. I was there a whole week and the only time a ball hit the ground was the rare time when a receiver dropped it.