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IRVING, Texas (AP) — Now that
the Dallas Cowboys have won a game
nobody thought they would, their goal
is to keep the same focus they did after
losing the opener they weren’t sup
posed to lose.
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.
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