El Tejano
Hall of Fame
Dale, just want you to know that I loved your article and it certainly stays true with a Texan win this week.However, I'd like to take a second to remind us that this season just started.
On Thursday, I took a one day sebaticle. I wanted to get away from it for one day so that I could soak up pretty much everything DaleMurphy talked about in his post and then get back to thinking straight. In that time, I realized that we were getting alot of press but that press was mainly by way of Dallas Cowboy media hype. The only real way we were mentioned was something that sounded like this ".....and those struggling Cowboys will go on to face the 2-0 Houston Texans" or "with the Cowboys struggling, Houston could start 3-0 for their first time in franchise history".
Everything is set for the media to blast for their ability to lose a game vs. our ability to win a game. Experts have picked us but only because Dallas is "struggling to find their identity." I can only think of Warren Sapp who said "The Texans know who they are, Dallas is still trying to figure that out. I'm going with The Texans."
Then when you look at the news about Duane Brown, you hear about Demarcus Ware and how that's going to stop us and Dallas will figure it all out during our game. No talk about how Mario is on a terror, how Texans offense one one game on the ground and one in the air. If there is any talk it's about our secondary giving up all the yards. While that may be true noone says that we just got through going up against two perennial HOFers and how one game went into overtime or how we as a team overcame those numbers to win.
My point is.....YOU HAVEN'T PROVEN A DARN THING TEXANS. Not to the fans, not the media, and hopefully not to yourselves because you need to be hungry for this game. You can't afford to come out and turn the ball over on offense, or allow Dallas' offense to come down and shove the ball down your throat or pass at will in this game. You have to come out and smack this team in the mouth. Tony Romo's trying to stir up his running game through the media and is basically saying he thinks he can run on you. You got to make them one dimensional early. If you jump on Dallas early, they will mail it in. They are 0-2 and you've been there before. You know what a team like that starts to think if you go up 14-0 on them early. They've been pointing fingers on their bench during games - they are not a team. YOU ARE THOUGH and noone should be able to come to this house and kick us around. They are the team in the way of your goal for the season. This isn't about Dallas vs. Houston, Houston vs. Dallas. This is about making sure this team doesn't knock you off track.
I'd love to talk about how great you are but frankly there is no time for that until after you've wrapped up a playoff spot and even then we want to be able to talk about home field advantage. The pressure continues.....no time to get sappy.
On Thursday, I took a one day sebaticle. I wanted to get away from it for one day so that I could soak up pretty much everything DaleMurphy talked about in his post and then get back to thinking straight. In that time, I realized that we were getting alot of press but that press was mainly by way of Dallas Cowboy media hype. The only real way we were mentioned was something that sounded like this ".....and those struggling Cowboys will go on to face the 2-0 Houston Texans" or "with the Cowboys struggling, Houston could start 3-0 for their first time in franchise history".
Everything is set for the media to blast for their ability to lose a game vs. our ability to win a game. Experts have picked us but only because Dallas is "struggling to find their identity." I can only think of Warren Sapp who said "The Texans know who they are, Dallas is still trying to figure that out. I'm going with The Texans."
Then when you look at the news about Duane Brown, you hear about Demarcus Ware and how that's going to stop us and Dallas will figure it all out during our game. No talk about how Mario is on a terror, how Texans offense one one game on the ground and one in the air. If there is any talk it's about our secondary giving up all the yards. While that may be true noone says that we just got through going up against two perennial HOFers and how one game went into overtime or how we as a team overcame those numbers to win.
My point is.....YOU HAVEN'T PROVEN A DARN THING TEXANS. Not to the fans, not the media, and hopefully not to yourselves because you need to be hungry for this game. You can't afford to come out and turn the ball over on offense, or allow Dallas' offense to come down and shove the ball down your throat or pass at will in this game. You have to come out and smack this team in the mouth. Tony Romo's trying to stir up his running game through the media and is basically saying he thinks he can run on you. You got to make them one dimensional early. If you jump on Dallas early, they will mail it in. They are 0-2 and you've been there before. You know what a team like that starts to think if you go up 14-0 on them early. They've been pointing fingers on their bench during games - they are not a team. YOU ARE THOUGH and noone should be able to come to this house and kick us around. They are the team in the way of your goal for the season. This isn't about Dallas vs. Houston, Houston vs. Dallas. This is about making sure this team doesn't knock you off track.
I'd love to talk about how great you are but frankly there is no time for that until after you've wrapped up a playoff spot and even then we want to be able to talk about home field advantage. The pressure continues.....no time to get sappy.