Dallas Cowboy Coach Bill Parcells said the NFC East title would come down to who got the best quarterback play
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Inside the NFLAround the league with Observer staff writer Pat YasinskasThe last QB standing ...Dallas coach Bill Parcells said the NFC East title would come down to who got the best quarterback play.
As it turns out, the division could come down to who can survive poor quarterback play.Although teammates were campaigning for him to win Most Valuable Player early in the season, Dallas' Drew Bledsoe has looked a lot like the washed-up quarterback he was in Buffalo last season. With Bledsoe's mobility becoming a major problem, the Cowboys (7-5) have hit a slide and no longer are a playoff certainty.Then again, they could win the division because the Giants certainly aren't getting much out of their quarterback. Eli Manning was flinging touchdown passes all over the field in the first month of the season, but the second-year quarterback suddenly is playing like a rookie again. Manning had nine touchdown passes in the first four games. In the past eight, he has 11 touchdowns and eight interceptions.
Manning's completion percentage is a dismal 51.4."I'm concerned about the completion percentage,'' New York coach Tom Coughlin said. "I want it to be higher. Some of the misses are things that you think would be kind of second nature and, obviously, we have to go back and bear down with some of these things.''
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Inside the NFLAround the league with Observer staff writer Pat YasinskasThe last QB standing ...Dallas coach Bill Parcells said the NFC East title would come down to who got the best quarterback play.
As it turns out, the division could come down to who can survive poor quarterback play.Although teammates were campaigning for him to win Most Valuable Player early in the season, Dallas' Drew Bledsoe has looked a lot like the washed-up quarterback he was in Buffalo last season. With Bledsoe's mobility becoming a major problem, the Cowboys (7-5) have hit a slide and no longer are a playoff certainty.Then again, they could win the division because the Giants certainly aren't getting much out of their quarterback. Eli Manning was flinging touchdown passes all over the field in the first month of the season, but the second-year quarterback suddenly is playing like a rookie again. Manning had nine touchdown passes in the first four games. In the past eight, he has 11 touchdowns and eight interceptions.
Manning's completion percentage is a dismal 51.4."I'm concerned about the completion percentage,'' New York coach Tom Coughlin said. "I want it to be higher. Some of the misses are things that you think would be kind of second nature and, obviously, we have to go back and bear down with some of these things.''
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