dallasnews.com - 8/23/2008
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Starters look sharp in win versus Texans
Blogging The Boys —
The 'Boys escaped with a 23-22 victory Friday night against the Texans. The score wasn't indictive of how dominant our starters looked against theirs but at least we got the win.
This was a weird game. A lot of good things (Romo looked sharp, MB3 ran well, Crayton played well) and a lot of not so good things (too many turnovers, special teams still struggled). But overall an improvement from our previous preseason games.
The DMN picked up on this phenomenon.
During the regular season, how the Cowboys react to situations -- good and bad -- ...
DALLAS COWBOYS PRESEASON ONE-LINERS
ProFootballTalk.com —
... games that you needed to turn it on. I think everybody felt that, even the novices that don’t know as much as coaches do.” Overall, the Cowboys looked ready for the regular season . RB Marion Barber carried the ball 13 times for 75 yards and a touchdown .“Marion embraces every opportunity of whatever we give him,” offensive coordinator Jason Garrett said. “He loves to play football. I think we all see that each and every game .” The Cowboys’ offense had four first downs on its first five plays . OTs Flozell Adams and Marc Colombo did a good ...
Cowboys vs. Texans: What They're Saying
Blogging The Boys —
... There was quite a bit of criticism about the way the Cowboys were playing in the preseason, but Wade thinks this was the game that counts and the Cowboys did what they needed to do. ...
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Texans WR Williams leaves on stretcher (AP) —
Yahoo! Sports - NFL News 8/23/2008
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Romo solid as Cowboys beat Texans (AP) —
Yahoo! Sports - NFL News 8/23/2008
Take away a couple of bad throws by Tony Romo, and the Dallas Cowboys finally resembled the team that everybody is expecting to see this season. At least when Romo and Terrell Owens played in the first half. Romo made up for overthrowing T.O. on ...