Cowboys Top Giants Behind Tony Romo’s 3 TD Passes

Boley intercepted a Tony Romo pass in the second quarter and was headed for a pick-six before Smith brought him to the ground after a return of 51 yards. The Giants couldn’t punch it in from the 2 after the penalty and settled for a field goal for an early 3-0 lead. So the tackle, while financially costly, saved the Cowboys from an early touchdown deficit.

Indeed, as Smith told ESPN’s Dan Graziano, the illegal tackle was worth it. And two years into a contract worth over $12 million, the rare chance for an offensive lineman to make such a crucial tackle was probably worth the money.

With all the dust settled following an exciting Week 1 in the 2012 NFL season save the Monday night games, it’s time to take a look at which teams escaped without serious damage.

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Just a friendly reminder that Eric LeGrand is still fighting and still awesome. He was at Wednesday night’s season-opening matchup between the Giants and Cowboys. And he looked incredibly happy to be there, as always.

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Drummond also pointed out how the usually powerful Giants defensive front began to fall apart in the second half after the Cowboys offense took control on the ground.

It appeared to be a very encouraging night for Dallas, as they proved they could hang with one of the best teams in the NFC. They’re far from perfect, but they seem to be progressing to a place they want to be as a football squad.

As Ed Valentine of Big Blue View put it, the Giants received a “reminder that their run to Super Bowl glory is over and a new season has begun.”

New York had issues on both sides of the ball, which resulted in some harsh reviews from Giants fans on Big Blue View.

We could write 1,000 words on the Cowboys’ win over the Giants on Wednesday night. It wasn’t always pretty, but it was professional football once again, and for that we should all be happy. But since a picture is worth 1,000 words, a GIF should suffice as an easy recap.

See? That takes care of it all.

The big winner: Tony Romo

Who is Kevin Ogletree?

They really should start outfitting NFL wide receivers with those things that beep when you backup. Would’ve been useful here.

Now let’s all blame this on the replacement refs!

Those glasses he whips off? They were cleaned by the man sitting behind him. Jerry Jones is just living life and looking for glory holes. And oh man is he GIFable.

This is kind of like a crazier Chuck Norris thumbs up.

Bennett got off to a good start with a fourth quarter touchdown catch against his old team in the season opener on Wednesday night.

Watch how Romo throws it in the perfect place for Austin to stop and snag the ball.

And it’s not all Romo. That’s an extremely difficult play for Austin to make.

Nice tackle in the open-field here by Bryant!

Woopsiedoodle. Way to wrap up, too.

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Let’s take a look at it in GIF form.

Here’s the first touchdown. The second one was this 40-yarder:

That’s against that “suspect” Giants secondary. You may want to talk to SB Nation Fantasy about him.

Exactly like everyone thought, right?

1. Michael Boley picks off Tony Romo and returns it 50 yards to the 2-yard line. Just a bad throw by Romo and the perfect setup for a return from Boley and the Giants defense.

I guess we all should’ve assumed Jerry Jones has servants for everything. I mean, it makes sense. He’s Jerry Jones. He built a massive, billion-dollar playground with a screen that could just play movies for him when the Cowboys are out of town. It’s logical that Jones probably has someone that follows him around and cleans up after him.

Or, you know, wipes his glasses and such.

This was just an odd sight.

That has to be a tear. Just has to be. There’s no other sweat around, and he’s blinking like he’s trying to hold back tears. And it’s definitely coming from his eyes which, along with his expression, makes it seem like there’s a tear trickling down his face.

He didn’t see the Giants defender at all. Watch Michael Boley just camp in the middle of the field.

You can almost hear his foul language!

If a pass breakup elicits that response, what would a Super Bowl trip do? If only the Cowboys could find out.

Costa, the third-year pro out of the University of Maryland, has re-aggravated a prior back injury, according to Nick Eatman of True Blue Fan Club. Costa played in just four games as a rookie in 2010, but in 2011 he started in all 16 Cowboys contests. There has been no further word yet on if the 6-foot-3, 313-pound center is expected to return.

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I vaguely remember this happening at some point in the past. When a center doesn’t realize the quarterback is in shotgun, and snaps the ball like the signal-caller is under center, hilarity ensues. How a center doesn’t realize that a pair of hands isn’t resting ‘neath his hindparts is beyond me, but it happened (again?) on Wednesday night.

Neither player is having a great start to his NFL career.

That’s a minor mistake compared to what fellow rookie David Wilson did on the following play: