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Sports
Monday • September 1, 1997^^J^y
Cowboys rain on Stewart’s
debut, romp Steelers 37
PITTSBURGH (AP) —They spent last year in contro
versy and courtrooms, sometimes even in handcuffs. If a
player wasn’t in trouble, tire coach was. Eveiyone said the
Dallas Cowboys weren’t what they used to be.
They were right. The Cowboys might be even better.
The Cowboys made all their troubles — the video
taped cocaine buys, the dormitory trashing and Barry
Switzer’s handgun charge—go away by doing what they
do best: Playing football better than almost anyone.
Troy Aikman, making his 126th NFL start, gave Pitts
burgh’s Kordell Stewart, making his first, a lesson in tire
art of big-play quarterbacking by throwing four touch
down passes as Dallas routed the
Steelers 37-7 Sunday.
So much for the rematch of the
Cowboys’ 27-17 victory over Pitts
burgh in the January 1996 Super
Bowl. The Steelers (0-1) were over
whelmed offensively and defensive
ly in their worst defeat in Bill Cowher’s
six seasons as coach.
“With all of the emphasis put on
things in the offseason, it was quite a
road for us mentally and physically,”
receiver Michael Irvin said. “The
whole object is to get back to having
Aikman
fun and playing football,”
Irvin, suspended for last year’s opener and a magnet
for all of the Cowboys’ off-field problems, picked on each
of the Steelers’ new cornerbacks, rookie Chad Scott and
Donnell Woolford, forTD catches among his seven re
ceptions for 153 yards.
“It’s been quite a while since I had this much fun. I
think you can start not loving what you do, and that’s
what happened.” said Irvin, who considered retiring af
ter pleading no contest to a cocaine charge.
Aikman, admittedly embarrassed by the Cowboys’ nu
merous mental breakdowns last season as they were held
to one touchdown or less in seven games, looked Super
Bowl-ready by finishing 19 of 30 for 295 yards and no in
terceptions. It was his most proficient game since he
threw for four touchdowns against the Bills in the Janu
ary 1993 Super Bowl against the Bills.
A year ago, Aikman threw only 12 touchdown passes
all season.
“And Troy is going to have even better days than this,”
Switzer said. “Once he and our receivers get in sync, who
knows what kind of day Troy can have?”
The Steelers have replaced more than half of their
starting defense, including key starters Rod Woodson,
Chad Brown and Willie Williams, and they looked it by
giving up 380 yards and failing to sack Aikman even once.
Greg Lloyd, back after a year’s injury layoff, wasn’t a fac
tor at linebacker despite making nine tackles, and the re
tooled secondary was repeatedly a step or two behind
any Cowboys receiver.
“We had a lot of breakdowns in pass coverage,” safety
Darren Perry said.
The Cowboys almost didn’t notice that Emmitt Smith,
who ran for 171 yards in a season-opening 26-9 victol
in Pittsburgh three years ago, was held to 69 yards on(
carries as they outgained the Steelers 380-174.
“I watched the first game last year (a 22-6 loss to Chic
go that led to a 1-3 Cowboys’ start), and that first game|
important for the way you feel about your team,” i
said. “You set a tone. You either go home feeling gocj
about your team or you say, ‘Oh, my God, it’s going toll
a long season.’ ”
The loss was the Steelers’ worst since a club-record5
0 defeat to Cleveland in the 1989 season opener, andf|
was especially unexpected after their 5-0 preseason.
“Certainly, in my worst nightmare, I didn’t imagine
day like today,” offensive coordinator Chan Gailey sait ^
The Steelers have been outscored 65-10 in theirl
two games, including a 28-3 playoff loss to NewEngla
“But if any team can fight through this, we can,” lin
backer Levon Kirkland said. “I still think we’re a sped;
team.”
Stewart was near-perfect in the exhibitions, leadiij
scoring drives on all but two of his possessions. Butl
never got into a rhythm against a Cowboys defense th|
consistently altered its coverages and blitz schemes, go
ing 13-of-28 for only 104 yards. ■ 17180 Hea * h *
“Kordell Stewart was introduced to the NFL toda^'^ °* Oklahoo
Cowher said.
The Cowboys, three-time Super Bowl champions ir By STEPH
the 1990s but second-round playoff losers last season Sta
struggled at the start by losing three yards on their firs
three possessions. Sophomore d
They wanted to get All-Procornerback Deion Sande»i secured a sea:
on the field as much as possible after he missed the endorthe sixth rar
tire preseason, but certainly not when he was flagged team over Oklal
a 15-yard unsportsmanlike conduct penalty for leavinpat could have
the bench on the Cowboys’ opening drive. The penal^the waning sec
negated Aikman’s 15-yard completion to AntlionyMillei "All I saw wc
but Sanders later had a 38-yard punt return that set upought I was goi
Dallas’ finalTD. fial,” Fendley s<
Sanders, playing with a damaged disk in his back, sup'enching for a s
plied one scary moment by laying on the turf for severa With undei
seconds after slamming headfirst as he tried to break uptime left and th
a pass. But the fans booed him once they realized he waies leading by
OK, angering the Cowboys. Moma drove <
“I said to myself, ‘Golly, I didn’t expect that from thee right flank o
Steelers’ fans,’ ” lineman Nate Newton said. “That kind oil defense. Th
shook me there. We got a little more motivated from that’s were slow in r
Dallas went on to score on its next six possessions. Amng, which alh
thony Miller, cut by Denver, made a 31 -yard catch againsi) to make a
nickel back Randy Fuller to set up his own 12-yard scorn into the pe
ing catch at 13:25 of the second quarter. Irvin then outox where Sc
faked Woolford, the former Bears comer, with a stop-andneri Whatley got
go move for a 42-yard TD catch at 5:12 of the second t( “Ourgoalkeep
make it 14-0, and the rout was on. lefarpost. (The
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