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But they certainly felt better Monday. Sort of. “Oh whew, does it feel better? Yeah, it feels better,” Emmitt Smith said a day after the Cowboys beat the Tennessee Titans 21-13 in their home opener. “But it has a hollow feeling because we let one get away.” The Cowboys aren’t ready to com pletely forget the sting of that humiliat ing season-opening 19-10 loss at the Houston Texans, who became the first expansion team since 1961 to win their opener. “The bad feeling is gone but we need to keep that same focus that brought us to winning this game,” said receiver Joey Galloway. “Definitely, we need to keep the same focus.” That is the message Galloway had for his teammates after he caught a 38-yard TD pass from Quincy Carter, despite two Titans defenders surrounding him in the end zone. That capped a 95-yard drive and gave the Cowboys a 21 -10 lead in the fourth quarter. Dallas plays its next two games on the road, Sunday at Philadelphia and Sept. 29 at St. Louis. The Eagles played Monday night at Washington and the Rams are off to an 0-2 start. Coach Dave Campo said there were plenty of obvious reasons for the Cowboys’ quick turnaround. They did n’t have any turnovers and had just two penalties for 15 yards, after being penalized nine times for 117 yards against the Texans. There was also a marked difference in Carter, who was 14-of-24 for SMITH 240 yards with two touchdowns and no interceptions. But Campo and several players, including Carter, downplayed the quar terback’s improvement. They insist Carter wasn’t as bad against the Texans as it appeared, even though he was 13-of-30 for just 131 yards with an interception. “I think there was improvement, but I don’t think it was a drastic improve ment. The play of the upfront people gave him more time,” Campo said. “I went back and counted the number of throws he had a week ago, and he had 12 of what I would consider excellent protection, and he completed 8-of-l2. I think it’s more the overall unit having to come together than just Quincy.” Galloway and Smith both said they like what they’re seeing in the second- year quarterback, who is 4-6 as a starter. Carter is just maintaining his youth. “I’m feeling the same as last week,” Carter said. “That was just my 10th start, so I’m still learning. I keep the same demeanor whether I’m playing good or playing bad. I keep doing the same thing week in and week out.” While Carter showed his emotion on the field after his second TD pass, stand ing on the blue star at midfield with his head and arms upward, he remained sub dued the day after — just like he was a week earlier. By splitting their first two games — in an unexpected order — the Cowboys have a .500 record for the first time since the end of the 1999 season when they were 8-8 and went to the playoffs the last time. “If a confidence boost is what we were looking for, we got it,” said safety Darren Woodson. “But that game is over.” The win against the Titans did at least restore some of the optimism and good feeling that had been created during the offseason and a 3-1 preseason. Astros 5 playoff hopes look dim as season ends HOUSTON (AP) — A playoff atmosphere might be as close as the Houston Astros get to the postsea son this year. They begin a critical road trip at Milwaukee on Tuesday, having all but blown their best chance to catch the St. Louis Cardinals by splitting a four-game series at Minute Maid Park that carried some elements of a playoff frenzy. “We’ve shown, regardless if we make the playoffs, we’re a playoff caliber team,” Lance Berkman said. “If this were the playoffs with the Cardinals we were even.” Unfortunately for the Astros, it wasn’t the playoffs and they’re not likely to get there. Even if the Astros win all 12 of their remaining games, the Cardinals would have to win only seven of their final 13 games to retain their division title. A shutout by Wade Miller, the first of his career, in Sunday’s finale of the four-game series with the Cardinals, got only a split for the Astros and a 6 1/2 game deficit — the same as when the series started. “We’re farther back than we wanted to be at this point in the season but we can’t do anything about that now,” Miller said. “We just have to go play good ball and hope they lose.” The math doesn’t look good. “Technically, we’re still in it but we need a lot of luck,” Miller said. “We need to win our games and hope fully, St. Louis will lose a few games here and there.” The Astros got within 2 1/2 games of the Cardinals on Aug. 30, but the charge they anticipated never came. When the Astros won, so did the Cardinals. “We dug ourselves a hole early in the season,” said Miller said. “We realize we should have played better early in the season and we would have a better chance to be neck and neck at the end.” The Astros slumbered through the early part of the sea son and found themselves 10 1/2 out of first on June 19. It took two players having standout games. Miller and right fielder Lance Berkman, for the Astros to get the shutout. Miller said it was his best stuff ever and Berkman went 4-for-5 and drove in four runs. “You can’t expect to go out there and beat a team like that on a whim,” Miller said. ‘You’ve got to go out and attack. You can’t pitch around guys., over there. You’ve got to go after everybody.” The Astros played the Cardinals close, but they needed much more. “A break here or there and you’re looking at a less er deficit,” Berkman said. “You look at the first half and we put ourselves in such a hole that basically, we really had to play .700 ball and that’s unrealistic. “But we really played pretty well.’ Rookie Kirk Saarloos is pitching on Tuesday and he will be followed by another rookie on Wednesday, Brad Lidge, who will replace ailing Carlos Hernandez. “We’re going to stay in rotation basically except for Carlos Hernandez,” manager Jimy Williams said. “His shoulder is bothering him a little bit, so we’re going to start Lidge.” The Astros need to sweep the Brewers to get up steam for their series with the Cardinals beginning Friday. After the Cardinals series, the Astros play their final three home games against the Brewers and close out the season with three games at San Francisco. Dilfer, Seahawks trying to overcome tough times SEATTLE (AP) — Talking about fac ing trouble, Trent Dilfer tells this story about getting beaten up in high school. He says he was a 17-year-old who got into a lot of fights. “I got jumped one time in Burger King,” Dilfer says. “I thought I was going to die, and it just got worse and worse. But you can’t quit. Finally, I’m lying on this Burger King table and I’m realizing, ’You better do something, or this might be the end.’ ... So you get up and you say, ’Come on, you got any more?’ You just keep going and going. Eventually I won.” Dilfer offered that allegory to suggest that he and the rest of the beaten-up, ego- battered, 0-2 Seattle Seahawks will rise from the training room table and fight back, starting Sunday against the New York Giants in Giants Stadium. They’re a miserable bunch right now. They thought they had the talent to go to the playoffs, maybe win it all as they opened a $430 million stadium. But they’ve come out with a defense like a sieve and an offense that has stalled too many times within sniffing distance of the goal line. Through all the twists over the past few years, from castoff with Tampa Bay to Super Bowl champ with Baltimore to sub then savior for Seattle, Dilfer hadn’t lost in 15 straight games as a starter until the Cardinals beat the Seahawks 24-13 Sunday. That streak put him in some heady company with Jim McMahon (25), Joe Montana (17) and Ken Stabler (16). Now he wants to start over and show he really deserves to be mentioned with them. Dilfer’s blood was rushing something fierce Sunday after a month on the sideline with a sprained knee. He bolted out of the tunnel when the announcer called his name, and he ran right past the rest of the offense into the end zone. “We’re waiting for him and he never came back,” center Robbie Tobeck said, laughing. “We felt that emotion right off the bat with Trent today.” Dilfer showed quick feet, good timing and the alertness to call a half-dozen audi- bles at the line. He hit on 29 of 47 passes for 352 yards and no interceptions. But the Seahawks broke down three times near the goal line — twice on fumbles from the 6 and the 9, once on downs at the 1 — and the team is officially on Red Zone Alert. Dilfer did about all he could to get his team going. On the sidelines, he waved his arms and a towel to the crowd and the defense. The crowd, at least, responded. But he didn’t march on the field to stop Thomas Jones from rushing for a career- high 173 yards. He didn’t recover team mates’ fumbles. He didn’t play on the spe cial teams to prevent MarTay Jenkins’ 95- yard kickoff return. Dilfer insists he’s as much to blame as anybody on the Seahawks, even if that’s not quite true. It’s the sort of thing that a leader says, that he takes responsibility. He even offered a public apology to Seahawks fans for the loss. Leadership is what separates the great quarterbacks, men like Johnny Unitas and Joe Montana, from all the guys with can non arms and swift legs. More than any of his other talents, Dilfer has shown himself to be a leader on the field, and that quality may help him right the Seahawks yet. Dilfer thought these Seahawks were the most explosive team he’s been on, more so even than the Baltimore Ravens he led to a Super Bowl victory over the Giants two seasons ago. So far they’ve only been self- exploding, but Dilfer hasn’t lost faith. “I really believe in my heart that we’re going to be one of those teams that makes the big plays to win,” Dilfer says. “Each one of those teams I was on, we went through our times where we weren’t that way. When you have guys that care about one another and want to be good, you learn from them. You don’t look at the guy next to you and blame somebody else. You look in the mirror and think about the things you can do differently. That way you don’t make the same mistake the next time.” Dilfer said he will study the films of the game “as closely as I’ve ever watched a film” to see what went wrong. “If I fix that, we win,” he said. “That’s how I will approach it.” Unless Dilfer wants to play on defense and special teams, too, he can only hope the rest of the Seahawks will approach it the same way. genetics, izzawor College ParK(X9tli) 822-DAVE Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 11:00am - 2:30pm Lunch B uffe t every day All you can eat of DoubleDave's great branded products, Pizza, Salad, ’Pefc&UMi ‘RioUa ,Stromboli & Staffers male black ,00 reward for .LANEOUS »d books, col^ ,63. 2l00Cavin- 11:00 A.M. - 5:00 p.m. Monday - Friday A medium one topping pizza and a drink — dine-in or pick-up for $5 tax included!! \come watch the Cowboys and the Texans at DoubleDavesl! Monday Mayhem ^>5.99 Pick-up $6.99 Delivery Large One Topping Pizza ALL DAY! Twofer Tuesday Buy 1 Get 1 Free ALL DAY! 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