NFL Week 5 Recap

Top 7 Points From Week 5- #1. Denver Broncos

All it took were five wins for Josh McDaniels to go from being young and arrogant to being prodigious and shrewd, for Brandon Marshall to go from childish to exhilarating, for Kyle Orton to go from mundane to dependable, for this defense to go from makeshift to multifaceted and for the Broncos in general to go from laughable to laudable.

This team is for real, and yes, that is shocking. With Kyle Orton completing 35 of 48 passes for 330 yards against a stellar Patriots defense, and with the Broncos having a “Monday Night Football” spotlight at San Diego in Week 6, you’ll be hearing about how the fifth-year quarterback is 26-12 as a starter, and how he is collected under pressure and comfortable in McDaniels’s offense. Be ready for the media onslaught.

And through all of it, don’t forget the value of Denver’s offensive line. The second-year sensation Ryan Clady is the best left tackle in football, and the third-year right tackle Ryan Harris isn’t far behind. And the interior of the line is as cohesive as they come.

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Patriots Sign LB Junior Seau

The New England Patriots have signed linebacker Junior Seau.

The 40-year-old Seau is a 12-time Pro Bowler. He is entering his 20th NFL season—13 with San Diego, three with Miami and four with New England. His signing was expected after the Patriots gave him a physical and a workout last week.

Seau came out of retirement last year to play the final four games with the Patriots after playing 27 games with them in 2006 and 2007.

To make room on the roster, the Patriots released defensive lineman Terdell Sands(notes), who signed Sept. 28 after being waived by Oakland before the season.

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Cowboys Win in Overtime

Austin only saved the season and some jobs (but just wait)

A season nearly died here Sunday, but even after his team ended up buying life-support time, Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones made a murky point clear:

The smell of lingering football rot, he says, won’t change a made-up mind.

“No,” Jones said, emphatically, then added with a smile, “and you will not trap me on that one.”

That answer was in reference to what might had been on Monday if the Cowboys hadn’t managed — in overtime, and with a Miles Austin miracle afternoon — to finally subdue an opponent that has now lost 28 of its last 30 NFL games, a futility record for the books.

Fire Wade Phillips? Jason Garrett? Himself as general manager?

Jerry, as the Valley Ranch boss of bosses, was spared, probably temporarily, from having to deal with any of those pertinent queries, once the Cowboys had stumbled and bumbled and gone many Miles out of the way to beat the gawd-awful Kansas City Chiefs 26-20 in OT.

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Cowboys Win – Defense Comes Up Big

Cowboys’ D leads the way to 21-7 win over Panthers

Leading, but not by much, Tony Romo(notes) and the Dallas Cowboys were desperately in need of a big play.

Jake Delhomme(notes) helped them make several.

Terence Newman(notes) returned an interception 27 yards for a lead-stretching touchdown with 5:07 left, then rookie linebacker Victor Butler(notes) got two sacks and forced a fumble on the next series, sending Dallas to a 21-7 victory over the Carolina Panthers on Monday night.

Considering the Cowboys were coming off a last-second loss in the opener of their $1.15 billion stadium, a crowd of 90,588 was especially tense until the defense put the game away. The biggest sigh of relief likely came from team owner Jerry Jones.

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NFL Week 3 Recap

NFL Week 3 Results Overshadowed by Favre Touchdown Pass

The most talked about NFL week 3 score was in Minnesota, mainly because of one pass thrown by Brett Favre. But although the Favre touchdown pass will be replayed over and over for a while, the rest of the NFL week 3 results had highlights and surprises of their own.

The NFC North got most of the attention in week 3, due to Favre’s touchdown pass to beat the 49ers, 27-24, and due to the Lions finally winning a football game. The Lions beat the Redskins and put coach Jim Zorn squarely on the chopping block – so if another team is going 0-16 this year, it won’t be the Lions.

Other NFL week 3 results featured a return to form for teams like the Patriots and Eagles, who took care of the Falcons and Chiefs. The Patriots erased the taste of their bad loss to the Jets, while the Eagles took care of an inferior opponent, got through one week with Michael Vick, and can start healing in their bye week.

The Steelers were on the wrong end of the biggest upset in week 3, as the Bengals overtook the defending champs, 23-20. The Steelers have played three last-second games in a row, and lost two of them, as their title defense is not starting that well.

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Romo’s Dallas Cowboys Win in Tampa Bay

Bradie James tossed and turned much of the night, unable to sleep. So did Ken Hamlin.

Each blamed the Cowboys’ raggedy defensive performance against Tampa Bay for their sleepless night.

Even Wade Phillips, who believes in the power of positive thinking to a fault, said three times during his 17-minute news conference Monday afternoon that he wasn’t satisfied with the Cowboys’ defensive performance against Tampa Bay.

This is good. Really good.

This should make you pop the cork on the champagne you’ve been saving for just the right occasion, or take your significant other to Al Biernat’s for dinner.

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Cowboys/49ers this Saturday- Preview

Dallas Cowboys vs. San Fransisco 49ers Preseason Game 3 preview

Niners coach Mike Singletary named the veteran quarterback his starter this week over Alex Smith and Hill figures to get most of the playing time against the Cowboys. After scuffling a bit in his last preseason game vs. Oakland, Hill can now play more freely knowing he has the starting job locked up. If he falls on his face, he could make the Niners coaching staff — and fans, alike — wonder if the correct decision was made.

There were a lot of positives for the Cowboys in their rout of the Titans last week, but one concern is the amount of penalties the team committed. Thirteen flags were thrown on Dallas to the tune of 113 yards — not a habit the Cowboys want to pick up as the regular season creeps closer.

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Texas HS Football Preseason Rankings

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In 2009, Class 5A Region I will still house some of the toughest competition and biggest home run hitters in the state when it comes to the teams overall and the talent pool that resides within it.

Looking at the region’s top teams and the way the potential playoff brackets align themselves, it will be a certainly obvious observation that not only is Division II the stronger of the two playoff brackets, it is also the most top-heavy collection of teams assembled for one bracket in recent memory. But that senario is a bit too far in the future to gage on how things will play out. There is still an entire season left to be played out. As they say, don’t get your hopes up too high, anything is possible, especially in the world of Texas HS Football.

The Top Dogs

Despite losing some of its top stars such as Rex Burkhead, Nate Bonsu, Jerod Monk and Nikita Whitlock, the scene in 8-5A is still very competitive and hot off the presses. Allen, the defending Division I state champion, with the reemergence of the Plano East Panthers back onto the playoff scene, could find themselves thrown into a much tougher and challenging Division II bracket. Plano East comes into 2009 on a high note not only with a win in its final game of the season, but qualifying and competing against some of the state’s best at the annual state 7on7 tournament. SImply learning how to win and using motivation can almost certainly change the entire structure of your outlook ahead.

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Dallas Cowboys/Tony Romo Season Preview

Tony Romo Is Ready To Lead The Dallas Cowboys, But To Where?

Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo sure is prepping himself to be the true leader of this dysfunctional football team.

There’s a lot of talent on this team, and there has been since Romo starting take snaps full-time for the Cowboys in 2006.

He’s ditched his blonde bimbo girlfriend. He’s playing excellent football in preseason, with a QB rating of 105. He hasn’t had any turnovers. And he’s got Felix Jones behind him, a player who is really starting to grab attention as a true playmaker comparable to former running back Tony Dorsett.

The Cowboys desperately need a leader and Troy Aikman and Michael Irvin played that role well during the heydays of the 1990s.

This is the year Romo has to make strides, leaps and bounds over what he has done in the previous 2 1/2 years. With a triple backfield of runners who could start on almost any team, and a group of wide receivers, many of whom are hungry to compete, along with two tight ends who can catch the ball and gains yards after the catch, and it sounds like a recipe for wins.

But the Cowboys also seem to flop in December. That’s where Tony Romo comes in. That’s when he really needs to step up.

Let’s hope he does.

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Michael Vick Plays with Eagles Thursday Night

Michael Vick has looked sharp zipping uncontested passes to open receivers and racing past defenders who aren’t allowed to touch him in practice.

Now he’ll see what it’s like to face 11 guys going after him again.

Vick will make his Eagles debut in a preseason game in Philadelphia on Thursday night. The three-time Pro Bowl quarterback hasn’t played in an NFL game since Dec. 31, 2006, with the Atlanta Falcons—against the Eagles on the same field.

“I can only go off what I’ve seen in practice and it looks like he’s moving around pretty good,” Eagles coach Andy Reid said. “Realistically, it’s been two years. We’ll see how it works out. We’ll give him a couple shots in there and see what he can do.”

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