The Dallas Cowboys, behind a solid effort by Tony Romo and a record breaking performance by Demarco Murry defeated the NY Giants 31-21 to improve to 6-1 on the year,
Romo threw for 279 yards and 3 TDs. Dez Bryant caught 9 of Romo's passes for 151 yards. TE Gavin Escobar caught 3 passes for 65 yards and 2 TDs.
The story of the game though, was Demarco Murray recording his 7th consecutive game to start the season. The old record was 6 in a row by Jim Brown set in 1958.
Murray, on a pace for more than 2000 yards rushing this season has 915 yards through 7 games a 130.7 average. That would work out to 2091 yards over the 16 game schedule.
Read the ESPN Recap here.
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Sunday, October 19, 2014
Sunday, October 12, 2014
Eagles Shut Out Giants 27-0
The Philadelphia Eagles shut down and shut out the NY Giants on Sunday night 27-0. With the eagles lack of offense the past couple of weeks this was comforting to the Eagles fans.
Conversely, the Giants fans, who had high hopes after the last two weeks need to be concerned. With the Eagles and the Cowboys both at 5-1, the Giants will have to play extremely well against Division and Conference opponents to make the playoffs.
By the way, this was the Eagles first shutout in 18 years! Their last shutout came against the NY Giants on December 1, 1996.
Read the ESPN "Rapid Response" article here.
Conversely, the Giants fans, who had high hopes after the last two weeks need to be concerned. With the Eagles and the Cowboys both at 5-1, the Giants will have to play extremely well against Division and Conference opponents to make the playoffs.
By the way, this was the Eagles first shutout in 18 years! Their last shutout came against the NY Giants on December 1, 1996.
Read the ESPN "Rapid Response" article here.
Monday, October 6, 2014
Browns Comeback to Beat Titans 29-28
Brian Hoyer threw a TD pass to Travis Benjamin with 1:09 left in the fourth quarter to complete a dramatic comeback. The Browns were down 28-3 before the offense and defense took over.
The win was the largest comeback by a road team in NFL history. The Buffalo Bills came back to beat the Indianapolis Colts 37-35 in 1997 after being down by 26 points.
It was also the Brown's biggest comeback since 1966 when they cameback to beat the Giants 49-40 after being down 34-14.
Read the Teresa Walker/Yahoo Sports story here
The win was the largest comeback by a road team in NFL history. The Buffalo Bills came back to beat the Indianapolis Colts 37-35 in 1997 after being down by 26 points.
It was also the Brown's biggest comeback since 1966 when they cameback to beat the Giants 49-40 after being down 34-14.
Read the Teresa Walker/Yahoo Sports story here
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