The quarterback is like the most important member of the team. He is like the rudder that guides the ship...

So, ok today was yet again, realtively normal, i.e. boring, which i suppose i should be thankful for in some ways. Anyway the title of my post is from the Season 7 episode of BtVS called "Him". Dawn says this when she's making a complete fool out of herself while trying to talk to R.J. the quarterback for the Sunnydale High Razorbacks. I chose it because twice this weekend, while watching my two football teams i was let down by the quarterbacks.

First was Texas Tech; they played Missouri this past Saturday, a team which remains unbeaten after our meeting with them this weekend. Now i don't know very much about football, but i know enough to get by and not be lost when i watch and i know enough to thoroughly enjoy football. Anyway Tech's quarterback is Graham Harrell and according to most is completely awesome. He seems that way most of the time too. My dad was so excited about Harrell getting the starting quarterback position at Tech and before that he was excited about Harrell even coming to Tech. I love watching Tech play, there aren't very many college football teams i can watch and not get bored. Tech i love to watch because theirs is very much a passing game, which for me makes for exciting football.

Anyway this Saturday we (and by we I mean Tech, but i am a fan and so i say we) started off shaky and it did not look good. Of course now that i'm trying to post about it i cant remember the exact sequence of events that unfolded, but i do rememeber that it seemed our offensive line wasn't blocking very well and Harrell wasn't doing so hot either. I rememeber that towards the end of the second quarter he threw two, interceptions in a row and there was much screaming and yelling in our house between my dad and I. Then, they brought in our backup quarterback Chris Todd (i dont know if thats how you spell his last name or not, sorry), and the whole stadium, (this was a home game, and homecoming no less), erupted in cheers. They always like the player that hasnt played, that's what one of the commentators said and i agreed and felt really badly for Harrell. Todd came on the field and threw a couple of complete passes and then before the second quarter was even over, Harrell had come back on the field and was seemingly restored. We scored a touchdown and a fieldgoal i believe and our defense was holding Missouri's offense and not allowing them to score.

So after halftime, it seemed that Tech had all the momentum and would carry that with them and go on to score more and get a strong hold on the game and increased confidence that would prevent Missouri from pummeling and embarrassing us any more. However, that was not to be. It seemed for a while that we had indeed carried that momentum with us into the second half but that was an illusion. We soon after the second half began, started making the same mistakes and mental errors again that had plauged us in the first half. Harrell did not look impressive at all and for a university nationally known for its huge passing numbers on the field, Harrell's numbers were pretty dim. I was so disappointed becasue it seems like we could do so much better than that.

Anyway today i was let down yet again by the quarterback from the Cowboys, my other team. Today was the much hyped, much anticipated game between the Cowboys and the Eagles, much anticipated because Terrel Owens was going to be playing his first game there since being fired by the Eagles last year and signing with the Cowboys. My dad and I were more concerned with the game because it was a division game and it would have been great for us to win it. But of course the media wants to turn everything into a media circus and incite anger and use soundbytes to make people say what they want them to be saying so it looks dramatic. I hate that.

Anyway, it started off promising with the Eagles fumbling on their kickoff return and us recovering it. However, we failed to capitalize on that, (I am again forgetting the exact sequence of events as they unfolded but the gist of my rant is relavant all the same) and soon after that the Eagles began to pound on us. Now I'll admit that it wasn't just Drew Bledsoe that fucked up so royally, T.O. dropped a couple of balls he should have caught, a few players missed key tackles, Jason Witten didn't run the route correctly that allowed the ball to be picked off at the very end of the game, this was the touchdown that would have sent us into overtime, Roy Williams made two big blunders, missing an interception he should have had and allowing his man to run right past him and make a huge reception that almost resulted in a touchdown and i believe did end in a touchdown in the next play, Matt McBriar allowed the snap for his first punt to slip right out of his hands and that was disastrous, but the large majority of the blame i place on the offensive line, which sucked hard and long today, and Drew Bledsoe, the rudder that guides the ship.

Our offensive line played like a pee wee football offensive line today, allowing i think like 7 sacks, which is a statistic you expect to see with the Houston Texans, not the Dallas Cowboys, and they just allowed player after player to get in there in Bledsoe's face and hurry him and cause him to throw the ball away a few times. However, more often that that, Bledsoe simply stayed in the pocket, held onto the ball, rather than throw it away or try for a receiver, and took the sack and the punishing hit. He threw 3 interceptions i think, on throws that kind of floated and allowed the defense ample time to get in there and get it, or else on he threw it and it was like, "oh my god, where the hell was he throwing that besides to an Eagle?". This loss sucked because we honestly had a chance to win it, we stayed in it for so long, even leading by a few going into halftime, we just failed to capitalize on the opportunities we were given and that killed us.

I hate the weekends when Tech loses and the Cowboys lose, and of course today was a little cold (for me anyway) and rainy and gray, so that made it all the worse. Other than that, like i said, today was normal and uneventful. My sister went to go spend the night at a friends house, my dad washed my car despite the grayness outside and he even said he knew it was gonna rain, but he said, he just couldn't stand the car looking so dirty. Now, my brother and I are going to go color for a bit, he's off from school tommorrow thus, the lateage of our coloring session. Oh yeah, watched "Never Kill A Boy On the First Date" from Season 1 last night, and it was adorable, i had been wanting to watch that one for a long time. I love the innocent Scoobies and un-weighed down by the burden of her slayerness Buffy. I really feel like watching "Doppelgandland" from Season 3 with Vamp Willow in it, so i might do that in a little bit. Who knows?

"I was the one you always dreamed of
You were the one I tried to draw
How dare you say it’s nothing to me?
Baby, you’re the only light I ever saw
I’ll make the most of all the sadness
You’ll be a bitch because you can
You’ll try to hit me just to hurt me
So you leave me feeling dirty
Cause you can’t understand" "Slow Dancing In a Burning Room" by John Mayer

So beautiful. Night.