"We Can't Celebrate Long"

This is the main difference between a championship NFL coach and a good NFL coach: good coaches are pleased with a win, while championship coaches want to be dominant.

I'll let you guess which category Wade Phillips falls into.

I hate making comparisons that are apples to oranges, but you would never hear Jimmy or Parcells say something like "We can't celebrate very long" after a game as pitiful as the one the Cowboys played today. I can imagine Bill refusing to talk to the media. I can imagine Jimmy being incredibly pissed. There would be no celebrating. Period. Roy Williams would be gone a long time ago for not being able to catch the ball. Heads would roll on Jimmy's watch. There is no way a team as talented as the 2009 Cowboys would put together these awful back-to-back offensive games.

So yes, a win is a good thing, but a win like this? Let's skip the celebration and figure out how to score more than 7 points. We're too talented to be messing around.

Also, I'd like to hear from you, the readers, about the officiating debacle at the end of the first half. Is it just bad luck for the Cowboys, or should we begin to investigate a conspiracy? Two weeks in a row where the guys wearing the stripes can't get it figured out is twice too often for me, and shouldn't happen in a league with as much class and success as the NFL. Someone ought to either be suspended or fired over crap like that.