CAT5 Hurricane Terrell is howling into Jacksonville
Mike Tanier / FootballOutsiders.com
TIDBIT:Cowboys at Jaguars: All eyes are on the Cowboys' major off-season free agent acquisition, a man who will be playing with something to prove this week: Akin Ayodele, who seeks revenge against his former team on Sunday.
OK, just kidding. We all know the free agent in question, the loudmouth who sometimes calls out his quarterbacks through the media, the guy who nursed mystery injuries and infuriated his coach throughout the preseason: kicker Mike Vanderjagt.
Enough already. We're talking about a wide receiver, a player the Cowboys expect a lot from, a guy whose conditioning habits left him in Bill Parcells' doghouse: rookie kick returner Skyler Green (who failed to make the team).
OK, the jokes over! You guessed it, folks: Hurricane Terrell is howling into Jacksonville, a Category 5 nitwit who blows all other storylines off the front page. All Cowboys news this year will be sucked into the T.O. blender and pureed into indigestible sludge. T.O. has a way of reducing the other 89 participants in any game to bit players.
That's especially easy to do to the Jaguars, the most disrespected team ever to come off a 12-4 season. Even casual fans are hip to the fact that they got fat on a pastry schedule last year, then turned into creampuffs themselves in the playoffs. These Jaguars are no pushovers, but major off-season departures (the retirement of Jimmy Smith, a season-ending injury to Greg Jones) have left them as a team without an offensive identity.
The Jaguars' strength is their defensive front four. That's trouble for the Cowboys because their offensive line is their weak link. If Drew Bledsoe doesn't have time to throw, he gets shaky in the pocket. If he gets shaky, he won't be able to connect with a certain short-tempered receiver.
But despite the cobbled-together line and all of the distractions, take the Cowboys and the points this week. Parcells will play max protect; Bledsoe will have just enough time to throw and the Cowboys will get a huge game from their impact receiver: Terry Glenn.
TIDBIT:Cowboys at Jaguars: All eyes are on the Cowboys' major off-season free agent acquisition, a man who will be playing with something to prove this week: Akin Ayodele, who seeks revenge against his former team on Sunday.
OK, just kidding. We all know the free agent in question, the loudmouth who sometimes calls out his quarterbacks through the media, the guy who nursed mystery injuries and infuriated his coach throughout the preseason: kicker Mike Vanderjagt.
Enough already. We're talking about a wide receiver, a player the Cowboys expect a lot from, a guy whose conditioning habits left him in Bill Parcells' doghouse: rookie kick returner Skyler Green (who failed to make the team).
OK, the jokes over! You guessed it, folks: Hurricane Terrell is howling into Jacksonville, a Category 5 nitwit who blows all other storylines off the front page. All Cowboys news this year will be sucked into the T.O. blender and pureed into indigestible sludge. T.O. has a way of reducing the other 89 participants in any game to bit players.
That's especially easy to do to the Jaguars, the most disrespected team ever to come off a 12-4 season. Even casual fans are hip to the fact that they got fat on a pastry schedule last year, then turned into creampuffs themselves in the playoffs. These Jaguars are no pushovers, but major off-season departures (the retirement of Jimmy Smith, a season-ending injury to Greg Jones) have left them as a team without an offensive identity.
The Jaguars' strength is their defensive front four. That's trouble for the Cowboys because their offensive line is their weak link. If Drew Bledsoe doesn't have time to throw, he gets shaky in the pocket. If he gets shaky, he won't be able to connect with a certain short-tempered receiver.
But despite the cobbled-together line and all of the distractions, take the Cowboys and the points this week. Parcells will play max protect; Bledsoe will have just enough time to throw and the Cowboys will get a huge game from their impact receiver: Terry Glenn.
posted by The Gryphon at 9:44 AM
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