Grumpy coaches right to criticize call
Channel flipping on the first weekend in September, giddy about the return of football:
Grumpy guys. The “Grumpy Old Coaches” of Barry Switzer and Jimmy Johnson on “Fox NFL Sunday” were on target for criticizing game officials for their excessive celebration call against University of Washington quarterback Jake Locker, costing the Huskies a potential victory over BYU game:
Switzer: “Emotion like this wasn’t ‘look at me’ emotion. It was just excitement!”
Johnson: “You have good coaches, you have bad coaches. You have good officials, you have bad officials. This official is an idiot for making that call!”
Rich Ocho Cinco. After Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Chad Johnson changed his name to Chad Ocho Cinco, NFL Network network host Rich Eisen liked the sound of it as he introduced himself on NFL GameDay Sunday. “Along with my GameDay compadres Deion Sanders and Steve Mariucci, I’m Rich Ocho Cinco.”
Can the Dallas Cowboys get over the hump this season. ESPN’s “Sunday Night Countdown” crew gave their views Sunday.
Cris Carter: “I love the talent that they have assembled. They have a very good coaching situation. A great high school coach taught me, ‘It’s not the Xs and Os Cris, it is the Willies and the Joes.’ The Cowboys, we can say what we want, they have as much talent as anyone in the league.”
Tom Jackson: “13 Pro Bowlers, a possible 14 with Pac Man Jones in that lineup, but they went backward last year. So this is not about the talent on the football field. They lost under Bill Parcells, a botched snap by (Tony) Romo. They got beat up by the New York football Giants last year. So, this is about the integrity, the mentality, the way you approach the game. It is not about the players that you have. It is about the way they play at the most important time of the season. I still haven’t seen it yet.”
Keyshawn Johnson: “I like the Dallas Cowboys, I really do. But when you look at it, and I watch it from one end to the next, the coach is Wade Phillips and the coach waiting in the wings is Jason Garrett. To me, that’s the coach … With all that talent in the world, will they go back to last year? Will everybody start to point the finger?”
Mike Ditka: “Another coach on ESPN says, ‘Not so fast.’ Here’s the deal. This is a talented football team. We all know that. What’s going to happen when they get hit on the nose? Are they going to hit back or are they going to bleed? If they don’t hit back, they are going to be ‘also ran.’”
Chris Berman: “If things don’t go well, how will they respond? And to quote another Hall of Fame coach, he was a high school coach once, Marv Levy, he once taught me, I learnt a lot from Marv, ‘I don’t want Pro Bowl players, I want Super Bowl players.’ Maybe they can be both. We’ll see. They haven’t won a playoff game since Emmitt (Smith), and Troy (Aikman), and Michael (Irvin) and the boys were there.”
Looking back at ‘Hail Mary’ game. The 1975 NFC Divisional Playoff, dubbed “The Hail Mary Game” between the Dallas Cowboys and Minnesota Vikings changed the way people talk about the game of football. The NFL Network will replay the game at 8 p.m. Friday as part of its classic games series.
The Cowboys got the ball with only 1:51 left, down by four, on their own 15-yard line. With 24 seconds left in the game, Cowboys quarterback Roger Staubach threw the 50-yard winning touchdown pass to wide receiver Drew Pearson on a play that is now commonly known as a “Hail Mary” pass. The play was dubbed a “Hail Mary” by Staubach in a postgame interview, the first time that term was used to describe such a play.
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