1989 Week 12 - Philadelphia at Dallas

i agree with that and i think that this is the team that's getting better jimmy johnson is getting his own team and i think i think that's why he got rid of herschel walker herschel walker was the running back that you had to run the ball to 25 or 30 times a game i think jimmy johnson wanted to get away from that he wants to be a passing team troy aikman is his quarterback he's going to be a great one in this league so today if they are going to do anything offensively it has to be troy aikman and the thing that jimmy johnson worries about is can he control that line of scrimmage can he get the pass protection for his quarterback that's what he has to do well he'll have a chance to find out very early because the cowboys have won the toss and they will receive the kickoff roger rouzik will kick it off for the eagles he was with the cowboys up until two weeks ago and zendejas the eagles kicker was with the cowboy and this has been a musical chair situation with the exchange of kickers in fact the two of them met in midfield before the game started and swapped apartment keys one in philadelphia and one here for zendejas one thing in this lake pat i don't think you want to take a long-term lease on an apartment if you're a kicker james dixon back deep and it'll be derek shepard who handles the kickoff and gets back to about the 24. for a return of nine troy aikman will start at quarterback he missed five weeks because of an injury and a hot week last week 25 out of 33 and he'll operate this offense tuning a newton rafferty crawford current kevin gogan with steve folsom the tight end paul palmer and darryl johnson the running backs james dixon and derek shepard opened at wide receivers the cowboys have really been [Applause] decimated [Applause] [Music] a pickup of 11. stop by wes hopkins and let's look at the defense [Music] the philadelphia eagles very tough defensively white pits brown and clyde simmons having a great year reichenbach starts at outside linebacker for the first time in his career evans and harris the other two in the secondary jenkins and allen the corners hopkins and waters the two safeties first and ten dallas at their own 36. dixon split wide to the right quarterback [Applause] i think the cowboys realized what they had in daryl johnston last week you can see he gained 50 yards and they just started to use him they started this game with two fullbacks daryl johnston and broderick sargent so that has to be their plan come out get some running run straight at him try and soften up that defense and calm the pass rush down before it starts another first down for dallas at their own 49 first and 10 from there palmer now has the deep background [Music] city acquired from detroit palmer into eagle territory stopped by byron evans i think i'd keep pounding johnston at him i mean they got something out johnston was a second round draft choice out of syracuse rookie and he's just getting the feeling of this offense and i think that they have just figured out that they can be a fullback running team that now a final score the lions upset the browns in detroit 13-10 second down late seven [Music] [Applause] attempt incomplete this is a new thing that the eagles are doing fat you see they're wearing their black shoes last week they had 13 guys wearing them reggie white got him for all the guys he said he was watching colorado play nebraska and he said colorado was wearing black shoes and he kind of liked it so he asked any of the other guys if they wanted to and he got a load of them put them on they got a note from the nfl that that's not part of the uniform code but they're doing it anyway one of them even has a wristband around his ankle to go with the black shoes thanksgiving made sure he stayed down but he got 13 and another dallas first down this is a tough guy troy aikman you know you can talk about his arm and about his passing ability and silence but i'll tell you he'll hang in there and if you give him a hole like this he is going to take a look at that big gap there see they didn't stay in their pass rush lane now once he gets by here he can see that he can get 10 yards before he has to go into the slide he's not only a tough guy he's a big guy about 220. [Music] making a lot of money daryl johnson the ball carrier but a flag on the play will take it says jimmy johnson i'll tell you buddy ryan is probably saying i told you guys he'd been preaching it's a short week and he'd been preaching to his guys hey this is an improved team and these guys are going to come after you [Music] [Applause] now jerome brown that's gene barth the referee first and five for the cowboys at the eagle 31 just inside there again a happy thanksgiving day it couldn't be more delightful than it is here in texas today as far as the weather and the playing conditions are concerned [Applause] started wide came back inside stopped again by jerome brown it was a pretty good move by paul palmer there they just picked him up remember he was the kansas city chiefs and then the detroit lions they picked him up it's supposed to be that counter tray and he just stops here he sees that whole big bunch of guys he just stops and makes a cut back about two holes before he was supposed to second and two that's what that quickness gives you you know those guys that can cut on a dime the hole's not there they don't have to run into it anyway palmer has been very effective since he's been here now they're backwards maybe two and maybe a first down [Applause] but he's standing over there he wants him to pass because he wants to see what kind of blitzes are gonna work he doesn't like this when someone keeps a ball on him and controls it and runs it that's what he likes to do he doesn't he thinks the only way you can have a real good defense is to have a good running game he went back and did some personal surveys himself of the teams that had won the super bowl about two inches short looks like and he said no team has ever gotten and won the super bowl unless they could run the ball third down you know this isn't a bad thing if you have third and inches this isn't a bad play pass down you know if you're going to take a shot you're on the 25 yard line you can go for it on fourth down this isn't a bad thing get them all bunched up and give them that play fake and throw one jerry rome standing next to jimmy johnson now go for it that was sergeant the ball carrier hit first by jerome brown with an assist from mike pitts no game yeah jerome brown is a big guy he's he's over 300 pounds and when he gets going watch him jerome brown is right there and when he gets in your backfield get some penetration there isn't going to be a hole there there isn't any cut back there like there's a whole bunch of green shirted black chute guys on that file they might have lost about a half yard of that cindejas with saxon moving 45 yards no good and after a very impressive beginning the cowboys get down in eagle territory and come away with nothing defense led by jerome brown 9 27 left to play in the first quarter at texas stadium randall cunningham the eagles quarterback in front of him will be darwin shad alexander sultron heller tackle and keith jackson back a tight end byers and tony start at running backs although buyers often have split out of the backfield johnson and carter are the wide receiver randall cunningham last week threw it 43 times against the vikings they've had tough time scoring [Applause] [Music] buyers [Music] [Applause] [Music] that's the dallas front four notice the absence of ed too tall jones talbert starting instead of him second at eight situation the linebackers del rio lockhart having an outstanding year in the middle and that's the secondary walls and williams horton and all britain second and eighth flag on the play buyers and tony were the two banks behind cunningham there's ed jones remarkable career he's had i'll tell you and he's 15 years 15 years in the league and not starting now but a guy that has added so much to this dallas cowboy organization and this team well he's a great player in the field a great representative off the field second down [Music] about a yard shy jeff coat and jack del rio brought it down jack del rio was one of those new players that the that the cowboys got since the season started you know the first part of the season they were picking up guys like jack del rio they were getting guys on offense defense from all over the lake and after they finally traded herschel walker jimmy johnson had a meeting with the team and he said okay guys this is it this is our team now and he said since that time everyone's felt a lot better about it that's a quick kneel down by gene barth and they're about an inch shy of the first down it appears i think it is a first down and randall cunningham was saying the play that he hates the most to do is quarterback snake i was going to say even if it were short i bet one thing you wouldn't see is a quarterback sneaky but not much there only a yard vince all britain up in a hurry to not keep jackson down well one thing the the cowboys feel that that on defense the guy that they have to stop is keith jackson that that they feel that it's cunningham's security blanket you know by having him in there he knows that no matter what happens he can always go and get a completion most of the time to keith jackson he had a great rookie year last year was the first cowboy to hit him with an assist from lockhart you're that crowd dude they're just getting it they've either eaten their turkey already and then they come to the game or they come to their game and then they go eat their or else if they have one of those luxury boxes they eat it during the game or you can do all of the above eat it before during after that's what it is turkey and football goes together something about it good mixture [Applause] made the stop dean hamill as the man who put the pressure on cunningham and this is the exact way the cowboys wanted to start today to be able to control the line of scrimmage to move the ball which they did on their first drive put pressure on cunningham max reneker been around a while derek shepard back deep for the cowboys [Applause] [Music] and gets back to about the 18 before he is stopped by ricky shaw 53-yard punt by running her six-yard return so they net 47. well done and again a happy thanksgiving to you [Applause] back at texas stadium on a delightful day nothing nothing yet average rushing so far the cowboys with johnston a couple of strong runs early doing well i think they ought to stay with that they don't even have them in the game they got paul palmer back there now palmer john said gets it to steve folsom complete that's a tough throw that's the type of thing that aikman can do though he can move he could move to his left and still throw the ball now as you say this is a tough throw because you're sprinting out to your left then you're getting pressure that's what makes it tough you're getting pressure the guy's going to come up and hit you right in the head and then make that completion that's reggie white that hits him and you know and he just had a concussion two weeks ago in fact he still has a hematoma in his right ear that sounds serious that's a big old hematoma there is nothing there clyde simmons on the stop a loss of two i think the cowboys first idea in this game pat when they went to the two fullbacks daryl johnston and broderick sergeant just banged it with man blocking right at him is probably the way to go draw stuff and delay stuff does not work well against the eagles because they're a big pass rush team and all four of those up front guys are very very active second at 12 that's jerry rome on the headset jerry rome has probably had as much to do with troy aikman's advancement in this league as anyone cornell burbidge is the man in motion and aikman back to throw and he's going to be hurried out of there they get the ball to calm isn't that against the eagle i heard one of the officials say when the ball's in the air you can't hit them buddy ryan [Music] and the first down that's the big factor they did not have enough yardage to give him a first down yeah that's a tough thing that iselle jenkins had to do there a screen pass is in the backfield and it's like a running play so you can use your hands on a running play to play off a blocker but what they're saying is a ball was in the air then if you use your hands when it falls in the air it's pass interference 33-yard line is the line of scrimmage is randall cunningham communicates with the eagle staff [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] to the 35 2-yard gain stopped by andre waters [Music] you know here's what the eagles do pad if we look at it you know in that 46 defense you see they put the three guys in here now here's reggie white over the center now they put clyde simmons over here with their three linebackers on this side they got their safety up so they get eight men in this box and that is darn near impossible to run against part of the reason they do that is so they get single blocking on reggie white he's tired of those double teams yeah and he likes to play over the center because of the single block [Applause] deep in dallas territory defensive lineman i think that's the second time in two weeks he's handled the ball last week reggie white picked up a fumble and he lateraled it to golden golic is looking at this he's saying look i'm just standing on the line of scrimmage he was right there he was being blocked he was being blocked up there by nate newton just standing there and here comes the ball the pressure is what caused everything that was the guy who got the interception didn't put the pressure off he was the cop that was hanging around the line of scrimmage that's his first career interception and the eagles had the ball at the cowboy 13 fumble jack del rio gets the ball back for dallas that's the type of play you need from a defense with something bad happens to your offense instead of getting down you get up go in there get the ball back you watch the reverse pivot here cunningham lost the ball as he was coming out on his reverse pivot he never really had it he didn't have any idea where the ball was but jack del rio did [Applause] 3 52 left to play in the first quarter at texas stadium the eagles get on his interception and the cowboys get a fumble recovery they've got the ball back now at their own 14-yard line first and ten the first couple of times out didn't work this time here's the fumble you know on that phone watch it mike chad is a pulling guard as he comes by he hits the ball and knocks it out of cunningham's hand but watch it on the clicker here you see right there his right hand see the right the the left guard when he pulled he hits it right there knocks the ball out of cunningham's hand as he's going on a reverse pivot that's something a poor old guard you're just trying to make a block and what happens you whack the ball out of your quarterback's hand daryl johnson again [Applause] in all fairness has not had much time the eagles putting great pressure on him well and the other thing in all fairness to aikman is you know he lost calvin martin who was his top receiver right he got hurt last week he's lost michael irvin his other receiver in fact it's iron you know the cowboys have had seven guys that have torn anterior cruciate ligaments and that's the worst leg of an injury you can have it they've had seven of them this year two of them to their starting wide receiver that's an awful lot in one spot well that's the that's the injury that takes the longest time to rehabilitate too much time [Applause] [Music] still third down and here's that changing offense you were talking about john if you look when they started out michael irvin and calvin martin were the wide receivers and then and then the next thing you see is the is the guys that are starting to date dixon and shepard scott and walker were the two running backs and now at palmer and johnston so four of the guys that he has grown to are different third and 13. it's tough to make [Applause] with flags all over the place that's going to be a penalty against the eagles this is one of those that continues [Applause] we need the marcus of queensberry here instead of gene barth they need a cage to put those guys in a cage match they forgot it's thanksgiving well one thing that just because the offense move that doesn't give the defense a free shot at your quarterback brent hager come in and hit aikman that has to be a penalty against the eagles [Applause] [Applause] 74 [Applause] you don't get a free shot you see they jumped off on defense now the whistleblowers are stopping the thing you don't get a free shot to come in and throw the quarterback down 74. it's 54. it's hager well hager was the first guy that made the hit i would say that pitts probably did something in here c74 there probably something in that pile some action in there buddy ryan wants to make sure who is disqualified hager's the guy who made the hit on aegwynn well the guy that originally jumped off sides was jerome brown the whistle doesn't blow they can get the quarterback if the whistles does blow then they shouldn't be able to hit him now they are saying [Applause] that it was pitts who was disqualified but i think they're going to take another look i don't know what they disqualified him for but [Applause] they could disqualify him we had an enforcement file against the defense which was enforced we have offsetting unnecessary reference files however the philadelphia file was a disqualification file on number 74. it was number 74. i didn't see what he did well you're in the pie you'll see he's right here in the middle of the pile right there so you can see what he's going to do that's what they took that punch right there on gogen that had to be it he just got the right hand in there i watched gogan come back man those both hands are pumping up yeah look you got those elbows in here comes reggie that was a free-for-all that's about as long as you'll see one last eric shepard the intended receiver was the late punch by pitts that caused that disqualification and after all that we'll have mike saxon coming to punish henry williams gizmo back deep for the eagles he's been having all kind of difficulties hey one thing this game has started off with some real high intensity really yeah 72 on the level [Applause] williams at his own 36th [Applause] [Music] [Applause] a lot of shouting going on now over in front of the eagle bench yeah they were trying to yell for a face man penalty they got a face [Music] in fact i did see a flag come out that official could have been talked into that one pat in front of the eagle bench we have a five yard face mass family tacked on from the end of the run five yards let's see well here's gizmo and it's going to happen right here in front of the bench he did grab the face mask that is a legitimate call he did try to let it go very quickly but it's still called nothing nothing at summer of john madden at texas stadium 249 remain first quarter here's what happened to pitts's hand during the fight when you punch somebody who has a helmet on you have to suffer the consequences and you can see they're still working on his hand down there that's why when guys fight they put tape and gloves and stuff on pits look like he'd been in more than one of those things you see the scars on that hand that doesn't look like the first time that deal got like that golden looked like he knew what he was doing too didn't he well he had a lot of motion he had a lot of things he kept his elbows in his chin down [Music] [Applause] [Music] yards jack del rio is playing pretty well for this cowboy team he looks very alert he's been around remember when he was playing at usc he was a he was also a heck of a baseball player and he had to decide whether to be a baseball player or a linebacker he decided to go the linebacker and it was new orleans and then kansas city and now here i remember him when he was in high school [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] he made the stop because he's been thrown out he's going to have to leave the field they don't let him stay out there and i think maybe because they're working on him he can stay out this long but what they like to do is when a guy is thrown out they like to kind of sneak them off the field and not let the crowd get excited about a quiet departure [Applause] [Music] [Applause] 25-yard pickup for randall cunningham and this is what he does so well i mean you you have to have a spy and you have to have everything on randall cunningham you see him he's back here now if you don't stay in your lane if you give him the lane you see he's going to see the lane here but then if he can get through that even though there is a spy on him randall cunningham is good enough to beat the spy see the move right there he gets a block and a move and then he has the talent and the speed to make a long gain out of it he does have a first down deep in dallas territory now anthony tony bangs over the left side stopped by eugene lockhart you know that shows what a great player randall cunningham is because everyone knows that he can scramble or run so they keep a spy on him a guy that just mirrors him and stays with him so now the eagles know that so when he goes to scramble boom they send a blocker to the spot not a lot of spies who can stay up with him anyway [Applause] is a guy who moves all over he's not only in the backfield tight end wide receiver probably keith jackson is the favorite target of randall cunningham and the second favorite target is keith byers he that time was lined up as a wide receiver it's funny you know johnny when he was at ohio state he had a reputation of course is a great running back and nobody knew he could catch the ball but in the last couple of years he has really emerged as a fine receiver bailey you know probably you know with mike quick out now and and not having that receiver that big play receiver the eagles passing game is more of that possession type thing with fires in jackson that's the end of the first quarter with the score the cowboys nothing and the eagles nothing [Music] boys at texas stadium just beginning the second quarter no scores yet but the eagles have it third down and one at the cowboy 12 is mike pitts who is involved in that fight and the first quarter has left the field ejected and dejected hey this this is the area that that buddy ryan has been most concerned about maybe not only for this game but for this whole run at the the playoffs getting inside the 20 and then boom getting it in the end zone as we said earlier they have only scored one touchdown in eight quarters and that was last week against the vikings and it took a miraculous catch did you accomplish that yeah chris carter made a kind of a one-handed type of thing in the end of the great catch that's carter [Music] goes cunningham carter norton on the defense it'll bring up a second down and go from the eight yeah i think that's what it goes back to i think it goes back to not really having a great running game and then you get down there and you have to pass and the closer you get to the goal line the tougher it is to pass because everything shortens up and when you don't have any deep threat that's an advantage to the defense the ball is at the nine actually second and goal from there you watch this this drawer delay type of play you see it's kind of a counter and then they come back but the cowboys played it well they controlled the line of scrimmage they had their secondary up everyone in a lane this is a big here's an area that randall cunningham likes to spread the defense out and then have the option to either throw it or run it or run it and throw it and he can do both touchdowns that was a great catch there i think he ended up getting it with the with the one hand it started out with a two-hand and then looked like it ended up as a one-handed catch randall cunningham is just going to come back it's a timing for one two three both throw it up over there now watch this catch carter makes he goes up has it in two hands then he has to bring it down with one hand for the extra point with running or holding yeah another sensational catch by carter two hands in one hand [Music] basically there have been two highlights so far mike pitts in a fight midway in the first quarter was disqualified and chris carter just caught that sensational touchdown pass here's what started the fight here's how it all began well again it started the whistle blew brit hagar came in and threw aikman to the ground aikman started the fight now you don't see that too often now i think he's smart enough to get the heck out of there number eight in fact two in a grabs him and pushes him out then you see the action down there and the guy who finally gets thrown out is number 74 mike pitt just keep watching he'll become further involved through that right hand right there in any case the eagles score on a seven-yard touchdown pass from cunningham to carter they lead 7-0 falls on it and keeps that was the reason that jimmy johnson got rid of roger rouzak because of his short kickoff now he gets a short kickoff the eagles just signed him the other day kicks a short kick off and rusek gets to recovery [Applause] see you like to kick the ball off to the goal line that was on the 10 yard line he does a wise thing right here instead of trying to pick it up just fall on it you don't see a kicker make many plays after he kicks no you don't as a matter of fact like tackling and fighting and recovering plays and those types of things [Applause] they're going to review this after review by the replay official the call stands first down yeah that ball was popped out well before dixon went down the only thing revue did is waste some time that was a quick review however and the eagles have it first and ten at the cowboys 43-yard line [Music] here's cunningham looking deep that should be intercepted or knocked down at least it is [Music] [Applause] yeah that's the thing when you have a quarterback that has a lot of confidence he will try and get something in even though there is double coverage i mean they got johnson covered every way you can cover again short and deep front and back in and out they had him in a sandwich isaac holt and ray horton we're back there with him right now as you say i think i think i think part of that is the type of thing that that they just throw so many passes and kept so many passes and know each other so well that these things just come naturally i think cunningham really has a feeling with those two guys with keith jackson and keith [Applause] again lined up as a tight end again and an eagle first down stopped by lockhart after the gate of seven that's where this team is so dangerous pat this eagle team you get him in that third down and with cunningham you always get that three-way goal you only need five yards so you call a pass and then again he could go back pass it for a touchdown as he did to chris carter he could go back and run and throw it or he could go back and run enough to get the first down which is exactly what he did at the dallas 28. eagles lead seven and on fire and one man stopped by jeffco and then we're going to get the blitz now this is a run blitz where you just get all of these gaps filled so it's not the past thing it's a first down so you just hit holes now you see here the cowboys have every hole filled there is no place to run [Applause] [Music] jumped a little early i think yeah you know that's the other thing randall cunningham is a master at changing that defense number 73 encroachment five yard penalty still second down that was one where the defensive lineman instead of watching the ball is listening to the cadence and then you get that thing that hard count that cunningham gives you and what you jump second at five and for philadelphia see if we can hear that count if he does it again quick this time [Applause] what a throw that had to be perfect and it was what a penalty as you say that was a heck of a throw that was shot out of a cannon 73 offense a gm to the face 10 yard penalty replay he threw that thing right over eugene lockhart the penalty is on 73. ron heller he's the right tackle he'll be at the top of the picture right there you see 73. see they said right there you see him hit him with the right hand in the face to me i think that's pretty good fast protection he had perfect position didn't he yeah i mean you have to let those guys use their hands but if you get them to the face then it's a penalty second and 15 fires split wide to the right this time cunningham throws the screen [Applause] the guy got that penalty ron heller there has turned into a pretty good tackle i mean he's a good run blocker he's a good pass protector he's a big guy he he reminds me of how he long look at him i mean i mean that face and the way he talks and stuff reminds me of a defensive guy but he's a tough guy you know and he's one of those guys that will block on the line of scrimmage then when the play goes downfield he'll run down field and kick off the set to the third guy third and 11. mrs ryan johnson incomplete and we'll see a field goal try i think by rusik i know it'll be uh [Music] didn't expect this kind of thing he's out of football he's not any place they call him up here he is on thanksgiving day kicking off recovering football getting booed in dallas stadium wearing a green jersey matt kavanagh is the holder [Music] i think somebody on the eagle offensive front set drew the cowboys offside i would think so fast that was a big play because as you say that took them out of field goal range or what buddy ryan thinks is field goal range and puts it back into a punt situation with max running back where's chad's having a tough time he was the guy that knocked the ball out of cunningham's hand on that fumble [Applause] derek shepard standing back at about the 10 for dallas [Music] aim it at the sideline goes into the end zone they almost had a chance to knock it backwards lily was there trying to do that but it went into the end zone the eagles lead the cowboys seven to nothing in the second quarter at summer all john madden back at texas stadium where the eagles lead the cowboys seven to nothing in the second quarter nine minutes 52 seconds remaining tomorrow 2 30 eastern standard time the razorbacks of arkansas against texas a m at college station tough place to play i can tell you okay i i see the arkansas band is here today then they've got to go so they got a tough deal too in fact on the bus we go up to washington we'll go through arkansas tonight incomplete almost it really is something when you get to the 34-yard line and you have to punt in the national football league and then you punt in the end zone you only really picked up 14 yards and you think that the eagles are at their position in their development that and somehow you shouldn't have to punt from the 34-yard line well they've changed kickers maybe buddy ryan just didn't believe here's aikman one out of six so far [Applause] pass complete to derrick shepard gain of eight reichenbach made the stop derek shepard is the guy who started out in the first game of the season the cowboys played the new orleans saints and shepard was on the saint team he had a big return in that game and then the saints later waved him and jimmy johnson remembered it and picked him up and now he's a starting wide receiver [Applause] third and about two cowboys operating from their own 28-yard [Applause] [Music] line [Applause] hey here's a good matchup pat here's what an island what's nate newton here against jerome brown now this is two guys that really go over 300 pounds a peach this is like two sumo wrestlers out here boom they get in it they're just pushing shove it knocking each other around those guys are going to be two sore big guys after this game so aikman scramble for the first down both quarterbacks as a matter of fact have more yards rushing than they do pass it palmer left side not much maybe five of them you ever notice how a heavy guy will always pick up his pants always always pull up his fan he watched nate newton he made a good block that time on on jerome brown then they always pull up their pants and your shirt tails always hanging out i think when you're a fat guy you always dream of the day that your shirt tail won't hang out [Music] second down [Applause] you see that it's automatic you always block block block and then you pull up your pants i don't i've done that all my life so that's not something you're getting here i mean you just watch him here watch your protection here you're going to see nate newton there against brown you see brown starting to the outside then he clubs back to the inside then he just gets a push but when you get that type of thing there's no way that you can just push that guy and then the minute it's over you got to pull the pants up see get those pants pulled up there where they belong the problem is they won't stay up now you got some combilations third and two aikman back to do it again over the head of james dixon and the cowboys well they got the ball out towards midfield where where they can punt from good field position and kind of back the eagles up a little here henry williams gizmo back deep for the eagles mike saxon to punt it his first one 48 yards [Music] and he's knocked around back there good kick by saxon and good coverage by the special teams junior toddlertosi down to cover it 48-yard punt by saxon a return of five seven nothing eagle second quarter 6 35 left to play before halftime the eagle seven the cowboys nothing eagles have the ball they at their own 14-yard line [Applause] jesse solomon finally made the stop eagles have had pretty pretty secure control of things so far one turnover three times inside the 20-yard line they've been only got seven points one penalty brought back a touchdown pass from cunningham to buyers and the other penalty moved them out of field goal range they had to punt that's the type of thing that will make a coach have a tough time digesting his turkey on thanksgiving i'll tell you him again once again lately eugene lockhart made the stop [Music] that's going to be a holding penalty against the eagles that's a penalty i think they ought to just throw out that that it never used to be that holding against the run 65 offense holding 10 yard penalty repeat the first down i mean they ought to just let him block 65 is right here is ron salt and you used to just let him drive into each other and you know you know and kind of punch around in there a little now i don't think that's the play that held hamill out of there i mean that was a block and he just kind of turned him tony ran by and i think that's an equal penalty [Music] in the earlier game today in detroit the lions upset cleveland 13-10 the rookie sanders the first back this year for detroit and in the nfl as a matter of fact to rush for a thousand yards this year that's what it does it's isaac holt who's down number 30 for the cowboys he had replaced everson walls seven nothing eagles lead seven nothing philadelphia they have taken isaac holt right to the cowboy locker room i assume for x-rays well it's his left hand i think he was coming across to make the tackle pat and his hand got caught in a face mask and it looked like he's just dislocated so i'm gonna pull something out because they just grabbed the hand took him off the field lockhart and howard brought him down here it is let's see if we can watch it here's holt right there and we'll watch watch his left hand as you reach to see it gets caught right in there see as it comes up here that's when it happened now now watch you'll take the hand off see him pull the left hand out then he just keeps it out the trainers came in just grabbed that left hand and took him off the field and keith jackson who just caught that pass is still down he's had an injury injury problem all year long he's just getting back almost to a hundred percent that's a big loss well he had the the back injury first then he had a knee and then both angles hey that looked like that could just be a twisted ankle again but again that wasn't a well ankle in the first place see he knows it's hurt right right away and again he was coming in with two bad ankles and a he knee that after last sunday's game he said he woke up the next day and he said he just put his leg out of bed and he said it felt pretty good and he put the other leg down he said he felt still good they said this is going to be a good week it was for a while mike pitts standing back in the tunnel he was ejected from the game following a scuffle in the first quarter rules he has to leave the field he's already showered and shaved and ready to go home keith jackson is a is a player that if the eagles are really going to make a run on this division and a real serious run into playoffs and possible championship super bowl that type of thing they they have to get this guy help just been one of those nagging things all year long you can see the frustration as he walked off well you know when he was out randall cunningham kept saying that he misses keith jackson because he's the guy he goes through for this and he said boy that's putting a lot of pressure on me randall saying how much he misses me jimmy giles takes his place first down philadelphia and now what they're probably going to do is take off his his sock there and shoe and just probably put some more tape on there well in fact they're not going to take it off they'll just tape right over the shoe you see under under that sock he has a tape job on his ankle so now what they're going to do is they don't have time to go in and take all that stuff off so they're just going to put a tape job on right over the outside [Applause] that doesn't have his number one guy in there he'll throw it to his number two guy there's 41 keith byers just starts out boomi goes out into the flat makes a catch here then he turns it on with speed gene lockhart is trying to catch him byers gets that step on him makes a good cut back gets a ball out there and then finally puts it away because he knows he's going to get hit again of 36 yards cunningham to fire [Music] inside the cowboy 20 stopped by lockhart the word john on isaac holt is that he has a dislocated shoulder and will not return to today's game well it must have been when he slapped with that left hand and the shoulder that the shoulder popped out because he just pulled everything right off it on that play second down eagles they need eight for a first from the cowboy 19. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] gain of one yeah this is the thing that that sometimes something gets on your mind you know like you get inside the 20 and you start having trouble and you get a penalty and you don't make it you only score one touchdown and eight quarters and so on then you start to press too much when you get there and you can relax going up and down the field what your eagles are and they get here and maybe they are pressing away that's to be a mental thing i've seen that happen to a lot of teams third down eagles lead it 7-0 they've controlled the clock and so far the scoreboard now roger rousek has to put him further ahead it'll be from 36 yards [Music] right down the middle right into the band in the tunnel [Applause] experience kicking here in dallas stadium and the eagles just signed him we've talked to mike saxon yesterday the punter the cowboys he said he talked to roger rusek and he said that he went up there for a tryout and he hit 12 out of 12 and he knew buddy was signing him that was a good news the bad news is he had to take a pay cut it's nice to be employed though well you know he held out and that's probably the thing that slowed him up here and i'm sure the thing that upset jimmy johnson with him one thing about this if you look at this pat buddy ryan doesn't uh keep a kicker along to get real comfortable he doesn't keep him around long enough the book on buddy ryan's patience with kickers is not one that would lead you to believe you have a lot of security and i'll tell you anyone who has a lot of kickers on their team or who has had a lot of kickers somewhere along the line has had a zendejas i'll guarantee you i think there's like 13 of them i think half the teams of the nfl have us in day out if not yet they will sign with the cowboys four different times at the conclusion of today's game will select players of the game from each team will be candidates for the national miller life player of the week honors james dixon [Applause] jackson has retwisted his ankle but the eagles tell us he will be back well i think when they when you see him put the tape on the outside that that's a pretty good indicator that he's going to come back if they thought it were more serious or he thought were more serious than that he would have got into the locker room but the fact that they taped him up right there in the sideline he's going to play first and ten the cowboys ball at their own 39. the eagles lead 10 nothing boys [Applause] [Music] [Applause] made the stop pick up a degree [Music] the rest of the crew that's not in action right now second at seven [Music] [Applause] you know in that past it looked like aikman didn't have anyone open or someone ran the wrong pattern because he sure looked confused on that play let's just watch the thing we'll watch when he's ready to throw and see what he has down field see if we just stop it now you see he doesn't have anything here he doesn't have anything here he probably could have gone here or here but he didn't and he didn't look confused then he started to step up in there but that's what he was looking at when he was ready to throw now he couldn't throw and he had to do this i would have think that maybe he could have gone out there to the left side that was the first sack today for the eagles 201 left they were going to get the two-minute warning but dallas called a timeout with one second to go before that two-minute warning so they'll have two left here you talk about football and thanksgiving all kind of going together and here at dallas stadium it just seems funny not seeing tom landry here that's that also kind of goes together dallas cowboys thanksgiving dallas stadium and tom landry and tech sram sitting up in his box on the far side of the field so long so much a part of this organization to dixon [Applause] to big brothers big sisters of america making the total commitment to the organization 157 000 look up at the ring of honor don meredith bob lilly don perkins roger staubach and the last name just put up there not too long ago leroy jordan mel rimfrow and chuck howley are the two that you didn't see that one was done very recently and deservedly so saxon back upon it for the cowboys and gizmo williams back deep saxon standing about his own 26-yard [Music] line [Applause] and another flag further back downfield the first one was for roughing the kicker and i'm sure the interest again it's only a five yard penalty now and it won't be a first down the cowboys are going to have a decision now you see saxon punt and you see him get hit after he kicks the ball right there by andre waters now the flag goes down and it can either be a 5 yard or a 15 yard if it's unnecessary roughness it's a 15 if it's just running into the kicker it's a five if it's a five it won't be a first down and obviously if it's at 15 it would be there's no foul downfield all we have is running into the kicker so this is going to be an interesting decision now for jimmy johnson we see here we see the punt and then we see the run into the kicker and now it's going to still be fourth down but it looks like it'll be about fourth and two at about midfield i think they're gonna say about three yards yeah he's still saying kick the ball penalty for the fourth down and past years that would have been an automatic first down but that's a change that was made but two years ago that was a rule change it was made so it wasn't an automatic first down unless it was really trying to hurt the kicker and he just barely praised him well we saw jimmy johnson say the kick again i i think when you're down 10 to nothing and you're one in 10 this isn't a bad position to to go for a fake punt we know they're not going to do it because we saw him already tell him to kick saxon was down but the act that time wasn't good enough [Applause] and nothing the eagles louie america's homecoming week continues saturday with college football action at 12 o'clock eastern time number two number 22 ranked penn state against number 19 pittsburgh following that is the season premiere of the nba on cbs michael jordan the chicago bulls taking on the golden state warriors and then just to continue with what's coming up on saturday here on cbs the big game notre dame in miami is the eagles are out quickly number one ranked notre dame against number seven miami second and one cunningham again out of the spread outside trying to get out of bounds but got close to a first down nevertheless eagles have three timeouts remaining it is a first down by buyers from [Music] cunningham [Music] [Applause] you know the interesting thing here if the eagles could get another 10 or 15 yards they would have a chance to throw a hail mary but you can see on that last one randall cunningham got hit watch jeff goat number 77 right there is going to come and hit cunningham just as he throws the ball or right after it looked like he took a shot that just knocked the wind out of him as a rip i think cunningham is still hurting here i think he's he's getting down there trying to just get some air back in himself you know what happened last last week at the end of the half dan marino got one more play and he threw a hail mary and they got the touchdown with one second left in the halftime the eagles of course have seen that film so you know that the eagles are thinking about it you also know the cowboys are third and eight balls at the eagle twenty-eight chris carter was the intended receiver the eagles have to put it away with 37 seconds left to play ron francis was a defender i think matt darwin is down too back to he is he was in pass protection and he went down just at the end of the play [Applause] he's the left tackle for the eagles in fact the eagles felt that you know that he was just coming into his own and just playing his best football right now they're still checking on darwin ten nothing the eagles lead the cowboys were in the first half back at texas stadium the eagles leading 10-0 over the cowboys with 37 seconds left to play in the first half darwin is still still down buddy ryan and his eagles got in late last night worked out in philadelphia yesterday in the cold well the toughest thing about playing on thanksgiving day is that you have to you have that short week but if you can get through it without any injuries and a win then you have the advantage of having 10 days of course in 10 days they have to go up and play the giants at the meadowlands the giants play san francisco on monday night well that was an encouraging thing seeing matt darwin walk off even though he's walking out through the back of the end zone and just going right into the locker room at least he's walking without any help running her back to kick for the eagles derek shepard back deep for the cowboys standing in about his own 30. 37 seconds left to play in the first half 10 nothing philadelphia [Music] [Applause] eagle coverage is excellent the cowboys have two timeouts remaining 34-yard punt by renegar coming up at the half brent nerve with the scores the other scores from today the other game in detroit and also the inspirational story of joe gibbs the redskins coach his efforts to create a caring environment for troubled teenagers and he is really involved in that [Music] word on darwin is that he has a twisted knee he's in the locker room he's already gone we don't know if he'll be able to return or not [Applause] [Music] [Applause] he's trying to in the opinion of the officials get rid of it to avoid a loss that's your penalty did you see reggie white take off though i mean this guy watched 92 here when he takes off he's running about a 4-6 he's throwing that and aikman had to get rid of the ball so they penalized him for throwing the ball away but what the heck else can you do when you got a guy who weighs 290 pounds running a 4-6-40 flat at you hey that's what makes him one of the best defensive lineman in the league he's not only big and strong and all those things and quick but he has that speed i mean a guy that is that big shouldn't be able to run that fast he got some good parts when he handed out that view didn't he though [Applause] outside the 30 by wes hopkins gain of four time out philadelphia 14 seconds left to play in the first half well the eagles are trying to get one more shot at it they probably want to do a stop him here on third and then they want to go for a punt block and if not get one more shot perhaps for roger ruzic if they can block the punt rusek either needs a little less shirt or some more arm he doesn't look like he should be playing the same game as reggie white does he you see big old reggie white running around there knocking guys around and the guy is here isn't even messed up you know reggie wears a jersey a couple sizes too small too i mean that you know i mean norma guy i mean he'd wear triple extra large that's probably about a large and those are like kids shoulder pads too i know it he does we'll see what that the thing that bothers wrench is guys holding them and he thinks if you put tight stuff on they don't have anything to hold with nine seconds left they'll have to put some heat on mike saxon well you know sometime with only nine seconds sometimes the play is you just put all 11 guys up there and try and block the point you don't even have a punt returner back there and if you've got the ball sometimes the players just run around with it back there if your kicker is a good enough you run the athlete that way oh the eagles are putting gizmo back there so unless they play with 12 you know they're only going to have 10 up there nine seconds remaining in the first half reggie white checks back in to help with the rush on saxon i don't know what he's going to do maybe they just want him to put a pass rush pick 92 and come straight up the middle saxon just barely got it out of there williams gonna try to fill it i think saxon saw reggie white light up didn't come in here trying to kick it away from him i think you're exactly right that's the end of the first half with the score the eagles ten the cowboys nothing [Applause] at texas stadium on a bright clear thanksgiving afternoon the eagles lead the cowboys 10 nothing they also kick off to start the second half sandejas back deep for philadelphia [Applause] nothing eagles lead [Music] to about the 25 a return of 11 stopped by bill bates so long a fixture here now plays on special teams and dejas is down i think he got knocked out he's going to the wrong sideline he's groggy well he was with the eagles you know i know it but he's either going over there because he doesn't know where he is or he's going over there to argue with someone [Applause] i think he sees a galaxy or something [Music] and then the penalty is against the cowboys but zendejas got hit and he was groggy [Applause] and he got up he talked to cunningham and then he went back down he probably forgot or lost who is with gene barth the referee and still has a lot of milling around going on and zendejas is still down jimmy johnson out on the field now talking with one of the officials and dejas is back up you know most times if a kicker kicks off and doesn't really run down to make the tackle they don't block him the eagles sent someone after zendeja that's probably what he was arguing about he wasn't going down but i don't think that he knows what he's arguing about i don't think so either not right now at least oh that johnson is very upset well zendeja still doesn't have his bearings i used to be when you kicked off you had to run down and cover kicks and they always send somebody after you he got knocked off his axes first down and 10 eagles at their own 41 yard line stopped by jeff copeland after a gain of [Applause] three you know one thing about randall cunningham you can see how he likes his running backs and tight ends wide receivers he's only two for nine running back seventh grade that's buyers most of it and then tight ends three for three so other than the tight end and the running backs you've only completed two passes to the wide receiver one of them was for a touchdown here comes the flips off cunningham chased out of the pocket in the direction [Applause] the call against the cowboys tobin that's tony tolbert and you see cunningham throw the ball goldberg pushes him after he throws it i don't know how tough that is but i think gene barth the referee is trying to get control back of the game you know after there's a deja thing we had a big fight in the first half we had an injection we had jimmy johnson out in the field arguing and he's probably saying i'm not going to let this thing get out of hand that really didn't look like rubbing the [Music] passive [Music] [Applause] [Music] eugene lockhart leads all tacklers in the nfl he's had an outstanding year and it continues well he likes this this defense although they have different guys playing he's playing with different guys on either side but the old flex defense was more of a read and take a gap than this gives gene lockhart this defense gives them a little more freedom to just go after the ball carrier and jump on it second and seven fires split wide to the right as a wide receiver this time [Music] in the direction of fire the fans are still upset about that call on tony tolbert you said that had to be one that the referee was just trying to show him that he had control back of the game because it sure didn't look like a roughing penalty of anything sounds like more of a push than anything else third and seven eagles at the cowboy 38. [Music] excuse me ken reeves is in a left tackle matt darwin i saw it just came back on the field not in the lineup in the slot left this time he'll be looking in that direction now he looks in the other direction to keith jackson [Applause] yeah we just got word pat that zendejas took a shot in the head and they're not sure if he'll be able to kick again well he's chewing gum that's a good sign and that's smelling salt they had the smelling salts up there to try to get those cobwebs cleared out looked like he took a pretty good shot first down the eagles and the cowboy 22 [Applause] [Music] finally got it down watch this play back this is that counter play where both the guard and tackle pull fires is going to take a step and get in behind him ken reeves is number 66 he'll end up leading you see him now watch byers just looks for 66. gets right in behind him runs off that thing keeps the feet going and the cowboys just can't get him down looks like an old bulldog around here finally they did second down at the 13. [Applause] [Music] well we've had everything else we might as well have one of those crowd noise things [Music] [Applause] yard penalty attacked against the eagles i think randall cunningham was talking to the bench and he gave him that hurry up signal you know get it in there sooner that makes it second six in any case cunningham another spectacular catch by chris carter in the end zone and it's a touchdown i don't think everson thought he had a chance to catch but again a one-handed staff they i think what helped is randall cunningham pumped before he throws it and as you say everson walls was beaten and he just gave up he just stood there they had he gone and run through him he could have knocked that ball out of there but what could it help was the punk faked by randall cunningham did you get both feet down you sure they're gonna did it i think a guy does an acrobatic catch like that with one hand you gotta give him the touchdown [Applause] something about chris carter in the end zone and making one hand the left foot's down and the right foot it's hard to tell if that is on the on the line or not we have to look at it here we can look right down the line he has the ball left foot's in right foot is in i think if he had possession his feet were in now you watch the ball i think he had possession all the way i think that's a good catch official the score counts touchdown touchdown ruzick will try the extra point 18-yard touchdown pass cunningham to carter another brilliant catch rusex extra boy is good [Applause] nothing eagles with 11 27 left to play in the third quarter at texas stadium [Applause] let's look at the pattern that chris carter runs easier here's emerson walls carter's going to take him here bring him in here he gets walls turned around then he breaks back to the corner but watch the quarterback also randall cunningham with the pump you see the pump there everson walls was looking took a peek in there just at the time he was given that move by chris carter who made a spectacular catch for the second time today go along with the one he made last week he's having a good time in the end zone update he's made all thanksgiving day he really has it kicked off again it's short gonna [Music] [Applause] coming up tomorrow at 2 30 the razorbacks against the aggies in college station at 2 30 eastern time the winner in all likelihood to the cotton bowl the loser perhaps to the john hancock sun bull [Applause] ball that's the stuff they put on fighters pat they put some stuff up there to stop the bleeding i'm surprised they don't have that that thing they pull out of ice you know to put the pressure on it i think it's been like the prize [Applause] [Music] yeah they started off running with daryl johnston they got away from it i think that wasn't a bad way to go this is a tough guy i mean this guy's a guy who's a good blocker good hard runner you don't know what he you know he's a combination he's tough when he was in high school he had a 4.0 average the guy's an a student too look they just run in there they get their helmet knocked off just checked the head's okay the eyes are still there and the eagles are claiming they've got [Applause] it wes hopkins thinks he got it and he did the eagles come up with it they already lead 17 to nothing i think andre waters came in there and made the pop it's going to start off to the left and watch number 20 come in they get pretty good block in there he has a holy good we're watching right there 20 came in andre waters you talk about a little guy who brings a big load he came in there and really put a whap on johnston this guy is a guy who plays the game like a linebacker he's a defensive back and he stays fired up he knows he made a hit the other guy knows he made a hit and they're going to give him high fives and backslap for about five minutes on that one eagle first down from the dallas 43. hammers inside the 40. five yard pickups that's the thing to make the eagles a good team if you look you know they don't really have all their things clicking on offense yet they play good defense we look at that turnover ratio and that's the thing that gives them a 7-4 record and look at the difference between them and the cowboys and that's part of the reason the cowboys are one and ten that's right second down five nine and a half minutes remaining third quarter 17 nothing eagles you know that's what buddy ryan preaches he preaches turnovers i'm sure he's happy as heck with andre waters because he buddy believes that that on defense you can get the ball and on defense you can score points you don't have to just sit there and play defense you can be offensive on defense play good defense and develop a running attack that'll get you there buddy ryan says [Applause] first see heller down there 73 and there's completed passes man he runs down he wants a hunk of someone you don't see a lot of tackles down field on a completed pass that's randall cunningham back here finds fires in the middle just zips it to him a little spin after the spin he's going to find a whole bunch of white jerseys but then he's going to get some help from his friend watch there's reeves there comes heller he just puts his helmet in there just starts knocking the pile off chipping away fire split out wide to the right [Applause] hey randall cunningham tried to throw that that same pass to buyers that he threw to chris carter even the pump part of it you know he came back boom he pumped then he came back reloaded and threw it out there that makes it second at 10 the eagles the dallas 17. they already lead 17-0 [Applause] [Music] that is a tough thing when you're gonna here's all britain and you're gonna come out this way and you're sprinting into a blitz it's almost impossible watch cunningham come out there all britain come this way cunningham just had to throw that one away that's the one thing if you're going to audible that would have been a play to audibilize out of [Music] [Applause] [Music] third down [Applause] francis a 12-yard pickup i think that's why cunningham feels so comfortable with keith jackson because he's getting a blitz he's getting a heavy rush and he knows jackson's going to be in the middle and he'll find something jackson plays off a defensive back the way a pass rusher plays off an offensive lineman you see that yes same technique first [Applause] about a half yard short with an assist from reinhardt but we'll see the plate coming right here now tony is trying to reach the ball and break the plane of the goal line but once your knees down it's where the ball is where your knees down see he did touch the goal line but his knee was down second and goal at the one fires a tony by cunningham [Applause] [Music] they extend their lead [Music] [Applause] [Music] a delayed spike yeah that was a man-sized spike they're getting pretty good control there myers just does this one himself i mean he has stopped he has stopped outside and he just keeps running and moving and clawing and pushing and push the ball out there hits the extra point and it's 24 to nothing little knows your leads 6 52 left in the third quarter a commanding advantage [Applause] the eagles scoring drive after the fumble recovery eight plays 43 yards 337 it kept it meyers got the touchdown from one yard way still working on ron soap yeah they still don't have that thing stop but on thanksgiving day he could come up with a wink happy thanksgiving day for the eagles flying drive kickoff finally did get out of bounds and he'll bring it back to the 35. [Music] america's homecoming week continues saturday with college football action at 12 eastern time penn state against pittsburgh following that as the season's premiere of the nba on cbs michael jordan and the chicago bulls taking on the golden state warriors and later that day more college football action would number one ranked notre dame taking on number seven miami big day coming up saturday here on cbs hey that last touchdown i think he had to give to andre waters because it was his hit on daryl johnson that got the ball for the eagles good field position trying to get away from the center fell down got back up finally throws in the direction of palmer but there's nothing there he just couldn't get enough on it aikman is having a frustrating day there's not much has gone right for him and i don't think it was protection his protection really hasn't been all that bad but it's these types of things you know the right guard crawford curse steps on his foot knocks him down and he has to get up not having guys to throw to not having guys open plus he's got that hematoma big old hema coleman is right here second attempt [Applause] is down he was hit by white pass was intended for steve folsom and aquin is struggling to get up why did reggie white make a move watch him right here he's going to come up and take a hard inside charge here luckily they had a double team on but watch when he decides to take the inside you see it right there then he goes back to keep a back in to knock him down but when you feel a guy like reggie at your feet and then a guy like clyde simmons coming to the other side you better get rid of the ball [Applause] third and ten the heat will continue [Applause] thing that reggie white did that we talked about before that he does he has so much speed i mean he got the size watch him boom he's going to come inside defense he comes up the field five yard penalty now watch he takes off watch his feet aikman has good speed reggie white can catch him from behind then he does some damage when he gets there and a penalty marker on the play that's a neutral zone here now the neutral zone is the length of the ball so it's here so when you get lined up in this zone you get that hand and stuff over then that's lining up in the neutral zone that's a penalty you know he started out he was okay you see and then when he goes here now watch that here and there gets in that line you can't do that shepard but not enough for a first down a gain of four ray waters up to make the head they're going to measure waters is down on the far side of the field the guy who made the stop he's also the man who caused that fumble earlier that led to the eagles last touchdown jerry jones the owner president the gm of the dallas cowboys down on the sideline i'll tell you that's tough to be an owner on the sideline when your team's down 24-0 i was talking to him before the game there were some reports in a paper earlier this week that the cowboys are having some difficulty meeting some of their financial obligations and all that has been retracted and he said in fact to me that financially the cowboys are as in as good of help as any team in the nfl there was a story that the old aikman a 1.5 million dollar check and he didn't get it of course there was no truth to that fourth and one [Applause] he did he was like he was shocked hey there was a good block on the line of scrimmage by nate newton he's turned jerome brown out watch it he's going to turn out right there see 61. turn him out there that gave the hole now what sergeant's going down the field and you're going to see right where he pulls the hamstring right there that thing popped you don't know the pain unless you've had one of those that's like it could be a cramp though too but that's like driving a car and getting a flat tire getting that blow out that really knocked hurts man at the last second derek shepard was the intended receiver eric allen knocked it away watch eric allen here he's a guy who is who is becoming one of the top corners in this league it's only a second year guide but a real good cover guy in fact of all the plays that's the first play that i can remember today being thrown at him and that is coverage like blanket coverage and the thing that really helped him with confidence was having to cover mike quick to practice every day as a rookie this is the cowboys deepest penetration of the day in a [Applause] almost picked off by byron evans and he had a touchdown in front of him see broderick sargent there taking him to the sidelines you said a pulled hamstring is a real painful thing it's just like something snaps in there and and there's no way to get comfortable after it happens there's a guy who doesn't look comfortable he doesn't have a full hamstring but he's [Applause] james dixon the intended receiver allen was with him as a flag down in the end zone i don't know that i would mess too much with eric allen because his coverage has been excellent maybe we're gonna throw that i'd find someone else to throw it on [Music] you wonder why officials have to have conferences look at those eagles standing around they're [Music] [Applause] however he demonstrated if i illegally speculate [Applause] well you know what they're saying and i kind of agree what's the difference between that and a guy who scores a touchdown and spikes the ball because the clock is stopped anyway after the interception was called taunting that is an unsportsmanlike call for counting see they put a new rule in about five or six years ago that you can't taunt or bait now if you know what either one of those two words mean you shouldn't even be playing he spiked the ball as you said [Applause] the eagles 24 dallas nothing pat summerhall with john madden 520 left in the third quarter i'm not sure what kind of animal that is [Applause] no gain 5 14 left third quarter made the stop on fire what a penalty holding against the eagles [Applause] i think the eagles are going to be in good shape you know now they have in the third quarter they have a 24 to nothing lead so anyone that is injured buddy can start to rest now and then after the game they're going to get three days off and then that will let him rest support and then they'll have a long week of preparation for the giants so he'll be in pretty good shape as he's running three days will help [Applause] [Music] these fires caught the pass a gain of three jack del rio can't make the tackle you know they're going to play the giants the giants will be coming off a short week because they play on monday night in san francisco right so it'll be a combination of one team having a long week the other one having a short week then you remember the first time they played the eagles beat the giant [Music] third down and seven [Music] [Applause] and chris carter gets to the 42 of eagle first down stopped by hendricks with a gain of 29 yards and they'll keep the ball and keep the clock in motion you know the thing that that that chris carter does is he really has the movement and you know he'll come up then he's going to come across and you watch him at the top of the screen he's coming all the way across then he catches the ball now he thinks touchdown now he's still making moves still trying to get up the field the other thing that impresses me though is the way cunningham pumps the ball he's he's a lot like a basketball player playing football he is in fact an excellent basketball [Music] player [Applause] [Music] stopped by robert williams they're the only two guys cunningham's cunningham started to go down the fans starting to cheer and he just jumped up again and said the heck with it he's not coming out watch him here he's going to throw the ball out here number 77 jeff goat is going to hit him around the leg right after he throws it it looked like he got twisted but there was no way he johnson gets another eagle first down by lockhart 13-yard gains over on the cowboy bench sergeant i'm not sure what happened we thought it was a hamstring now it looks like they're working on one of his ankles i think sometimes you can get a combination thing where you can get more than one thing in fact i see they're bringing that stretcher card out now first down at the dallas twenty seven years [Applause] tony was upset and remains upset [Applause] that's ken norton jr in there number 51. he was the guy in there you know who his dad is two flags down now i think something's gonna happen to number 51 the cowboys on that one [Music] this is this is an all-time thanksgiving record for brawls pat we've had more time spent brawling than ever in thanksgiving day history these guys think whoever wears the different color they do is is their turkey for the day well you know there's that thing between buddy ryan and the cowboys and when jimmy johnson got the job with the cowboys he said there's no east carolinas on this schedule and those types of things roderick sergeant this ought to be this might take us to sunday to describe this penalty probably some have offsetting ejections i had unnecessary i had unnecessary leftists on the land who tackled the wall carrier however the ball carrier grabbed his mask and pulled him down there was a subsequent foul by 51 defense in all offsets we're going to replay the now that's the dumbest rule they got where they just go through all that they're all off set they're saying it was a penalty on norton the first one then a penalty for tony for fighting back then there's going to be another penalty on norton they didn't know the same guy did both of them but that's a stupid thing when they offset it even cunningham's in there he shouldn't be in there look at him that's the second one for uh norton [Music] stupid penalty when they just say it's right this thing has been a highly intense game the whole way i mean there has really been some hitting in this thing we've had two brawls we've had an ejection we've had a taunt and i think buddy ryan loves him he doesn't object to toning or scrapping or al harris was saying but he likes confidence and he said well he really likes coffee that's what he likes [Applause] intended for jimmy giles incomplete [Music] jackson is coming into the game so giles i think is just spelling jackson and they're still keeping jackson playing but just let them not have to get tired by playing every play 50 seconds left to play in the third quarter the eagles lead the cowboys 24-0 third down and seven at the dallas 24. jackson now comes out they go with four wide receivers one of them with fires [Applause] flag on the play again danny noonan made the stop you know the other thing i think that we have to be reaching a thanksgiving record for penalties we've had 18 close to it i mean that's we're not through with the third quarter yet holy 79 offense 10-yard penalty replay the third down golden call against mike shan [Applause] or schatz had some stuff today yeah he was the guy to knock the ball out of cunningham's hands i think he was a guy that moved on a field goal took him out of field goal rounds had a holding penalty but he's doing a good job of blocking you all you hear is his name then but you haven't seen his guy get to cunningham third and 16. [Applause] [Music] cunningham but he got him back in field goal range without question that's the thing that cunningham i mean he had so many dimensions that he's he's just like a guy that could make something happen any time that he's out there [Applause] that's the end of the third quarter with the score the eagles 24 the cowboys nothing at texas stadium pat summer all john madden here on thanksgiving day hope yours has been a good one it has been so far for the eagles 24 to nothing they lead dallas we'll come back with matt kavanaugh holding for roger rousek to try to make it 27-00 eagles cowboy roger fourth and four [Applause] for philadelphia 38-yard attempt by johnson has little to celebrate today the eagles have shut his team out [Applause] the cowboy you were talking about this earlier [Music] the cowboys not only haven't been able to get anybody open aquin hasn't had any time to throw somebody did happen to get open well i mean it's a frustrating game for the cowboys all around offensively because they really haven't been able to get any running going and they haven't been able to really calm down that pass rush then if they do they don't have anyone open and so they just they haven't hit on any one thing and then if you don't hit on any one thing then it's tough to get the other things going send turkey and cheesesteak in that order yeah good combination hey we have a great turkey for the bus it's a barbecued smoked one that you gotta want to thank you for that we're gonna we're gonna cut into that thing we're gonna whack that thing apart when this game's over oh we'll be headed for washington on sunday when the bears visit rfk stadium all i can say is save me a piece okay in fact i was thinking you know what we ought to do is just cut the drumstick off you know the big old drumstick and give it to like the player of the game it's a good idea yeah yeah i mean you get a big old hunk leg of turkey and you just whack it off and someone goes in the locker room and gives it to the guy and let him start his turkey eating right after the game i think i'll do that 27 nothing [Music] as we begin the fourth quarter will be handled by dixon [Applause] [Music] the cruiser in readiness down underneath the stadium and the turkey is in readiness on board look at that thing there's a turkey right there enjoy that's dave on the driver he's just pulling it out of the oven that thing looks like it's ready to go look at that that'll get you up the road at least halfway there oh look the tape we got a tape to watch a big old knife and a fork there i don't like those brakes on them i'm gonna whack the leg off that we'll give it to the player of the game [Music] cunningham were buyers i guess here's eight clyde simmons on the stop 47 nothing the eagles scoring summer cunningham hit carter another spectacular catch in the end zone rusec 36-yard field goal in the second quarter cunningham again to carter 18 yards away another one-handed catch and keith fires with a one-yard touchdown run and then ruzek another field goal that's all the points none for the cowboys kavanagh starts loosening up on the side [Applause] wrestling match with jenkins to get a cowboy first down a gain of 13. [Applause] yeah i think buddy ryan figures in the fourth quarter with a 27-nothing lead that he's happy with his quarterback randall cunningham and cunningham has gone down a couple times today and i would expect that buddy's gonna take him out and rest him for the next one he's taken a couple of pretty good shots 13-yard gain gives the cowboys a first down their longest pass completion of the day fumble the exchange from center and i think he got it back jerome brown caused the confusion yeah jimmy johnson was saying yesterday when someone asked him what he needs i think he needs to get those draft choices or maybe make some trades with the draft choices get some players but he says what i need to really start improving this team is another training camp with his first year he said i wasn't sure what the training camp really was but then as you go through a season you realize how important it was when you won it again he was down wes hopkins came out of there with the ball but he was he was down jerome brown now has it jimmy johnson had that outstanding record in college this has to be a very very frustrating year for him and for the new owner and they gets chosen well you know like he said he said it's easy to talk about and you expect it you know it's gonna happen he said but then living through it is a tough thing first down dallas at the eagle 36 straight back aikman's pass is picked off we'll return to texas stadium after this word from your local station the eagles have changed quarterbacks that's matt kavanaugh cunningham's day is probably over 21 out of 33 he was for 234 yards two touchdowns it's back in that area of offensive holding that's going to be the indication and that was a up until now and that was an interception against the denver broncos then he comes in he gets another shot he throws one and there's a penalty so he is yet to complete a pass to a guy on his team that counts the eagles have been penalized 12 times for 85 yards myers and drummond now are the two backs behind kavanagh i'll throw it again [Music] johnson bounced off his hands manny hendricks was the defender here's steve walsh the other rookie quarterback for dallas getting ready to get some exposure today here is two tall jones playing in the closing minutes of perhaps his career and this game with 11 minutes left to play first ed tutor jones has been a defensive end for years now he's moved in one man to defensive tackle robert williams made the stop a gain of seven this is the type of thing as the eagles that you always like to do of course is you know get that big lead on the road at this part of the season it's even more important because now you know after the first four or five or six games everyone in the national football league league's playing hurt it's just you know how hurt so when you can rest some of those things it gets to be a big advantage for you [Music] [Music] that would be enough for a first down but it's well there's two flags on the play they're not going to let matt kavanaugh have an official completion for this season yet we're again that's the second one that's going to be another holding against the eagles and then there's another one downfield dave remington is now playing center and plays at david alexander for the eagles we've got medical files against the offense an illegal block in the back after completing downfield by number 85 that penalty refused we got offensive hold by number 50 we'll enforce that file we'll replay the third down well that was dave remington who i just said had replaced the dave that replaced dave alexander watch he's right there over the ball and they're saying that he's holding on shotgun that's tough having to center the ball get it between your legs get your left hand up then get back into pass protection right there at the beginning of it he had pretty good blocking looks like pretty good position there they moved the eagles back it's third and twenty three now dallas 27 to nothing troy aikman over on the sideline he didn't have much today i'll tell you it's been a it's been a long day for him looks like it's going to be walls when the cowboys get the ball back aquin was 5 out of 18 for only 29 yards big apart seven of 21. you know the thing is he had had big days the last two games but he played against miami and phoenix who didn't have the pass rush they were softer defenses that he faced today against this eagle team [Music] [Applause] [Music] acre so we have 8 52 remaining in the fourth quarter 27 nothing after a 16-yard punt by renegade that's pretty much the story of this game five turnovers by the cowboys carter two spectacular touchdown catches and cunningham 21 out of 33 for 234 yards that's about all you can say about summarizing what's happened here the defense has done well as well right i think in this game we have just what we started with we had one team that's one and ten is one of the worst teams in national football league we had another one that's seven and four that is playoff bound and one of the best teams in the league and when they meet something like this is going to happen on first down walsh goes back to junior and he gets to the eagle 20. [Applause] pick up a 15. steve walsh a lot of speculation particularly earlier in the year about whether they would keep him and eglin one of them would be traded rakeman has a clause in his contract that said it can't be he [Applause] [Music] brought him down okay when things go bad there's not much that can be more lonely than being a quarterback when things go well i'll guarantee you they're all jumping around your locker nobody even calls you on the phone second and three by reggie white that's where reggie white likes to line up best we talk about that when he can get a pass rush up the middle you watch him here he's right over the center now here's remington he's going to take a side and come straight up the middle watch him 92 he's over the center rafferty he just takes aside he's just too strong for him and the good thing about lining up over the middle is once you break by him you see once he gets by rafferty there now you're right on the quarterback when you come from the outside you can get by your guy and you still have four or five yards to run that'll make it third and ten income for derek sheppard and momentarily sammy lilly back there with him [Applause] he's just a little short he hadn't come back but he had it there shepard again had his hands too close to his body and any time you have them that close when the ball hits your hands it's going to simultaneously hit your shoulder pads that's exactly what happened and then when it hits your shoulder pads they're hard plastic and the ball just bounces out and lily got a hand in there to help it stay bounced out fourth down [Applause] intended for bernard ford incomplete eric allen back there with him and so the eagles will take over they lead 27 to nothing with 6 51 left to play on cbs [Music] stopped by lockhart randall cunningham had an outstanding day yeah you see him there in the sideline pat it reminds me of the pre-season he's there smiling and stuff in the pre-season he wanted to go see whitney houston and it was a a saturday night game so he played the first half and buddy ryan led he and keith jackson leave in the second half and you know it's that type of thing you know when people say that buddy ryan is a player's coach it's that type of thing that makes him a player's coach i don't know why mark higgs was the ball carrier for philadelphia that time for a gain of eight jesse solomon made the stop coordinating producer of the nfl on cbs is charles milton iii today's game produced by robert center directed by sandy grossman and the executive producer of cbs sports is ted shaker they have produced today andre waters is down here he's so happy he's the guy that made the best hit of the game now he's the guy that made that that hit and caused the fumble on johnston and that sort of put the game away when they scored after that giggs again less than six minutes less than five and a half now danny noonan made the stop after a gain of five you know the one that knows more about players than anyone knows their mother it really is because she's the one that no matter what happens in the game she watches her son on every play and when a mother says you played well the guy played well the mother says you didn't play well that guy didn't play well [Music] that's a pretty good judgment they don't watch anything else the fathers will be watching strategy and who's got the ball the mother will be [Music] [Applause] [Music] here's the way it'll stand now the eagles winning today will make it eight and four the giants in san francisco on monday night lead with a record of nine and two dallas will be one and eleven buddy ryan says we have to win the rest of them if we're going to win the division they play dallas again in two weeks at the giants for the big one tough challenge at new orleans and then they close with phoenix [Music] i think that his idea is a right idea that you don't go at this point of the season looking for a wild card you go to win the whole thing and if you end up with a wild card you still got something if you start thinking wild card then you usually end up empty-handed the season ended today the two wild card teams would be the rams and the eagles but there's still some action left nine yard game those are two teams that are playing well now i think both of them went in a little slump eagles lost a couple games in a row the rams lost four games in a row they were getting ugly there for a while but they kind of put some perfume on their deal last time we saw the rams they beat the giants convincingly [Applause] last shutout against atlanta 54 games ago kavanagh missed the handoff tenant for heath sherman [Applause] keith jackson over on the sideline he's through for the day good day keith well he's happy though i mean he's taking all the wrappings off like we said he had a bad back a bad knee and two bad ankles said just being able to get up the next day and stand up makes you feel good and he's only in his second year he's happy though he's celebrated he wasn't that happy you know he played with troy aikman they were both at the university of oklahoma he said when troy aikman left and transferred out he said he took his heisman trophy with him [Applause] tony i believe the ball carriers no drummond the eagles just running out the clock now with the two minute warning about to come up a five yard gain by drummond i think if you're a member of the cowboys you think what are we going to do how are we going to get this ship turned around and how long is it going to last the eagles lead 27 nothing or go to college station there they go right now as we speak they've had enough of this one they're walking out they're going down to get ready for that game tomorrow no razorback man brings back [Applause] [Music] he had the one in denver there was an interception hadn't completed a pass all year started out every time he complete went here today there was a penalty they finally got his first one see if he walked up against that nice catch the eagle shutting out the cowboys 27 to nothing a minute and 20 seconds down remaining have it all just running out and the cowboys will not call a timeout what good would it do [Applause] the eagles improved their record to eight and four and stay on the heels of the giants depending on what happens to them against the 49ers on monday night [Applause] they could either be a game behind or remain too behind [Applause] should be the last play sherman gets the carry from kavanagh gain of four ron heller he's still down here he's still got some action going boy this is a long game i started out the last play of the game they're still trying to get through my shield well we'll be back we've still got to pick the outstanding player for both teams once again the final score is philadelphia 27 the dallas cowboys nothing

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