For years the Arizona Cardinals have been good for one thing—taking up space. Their best season came back in 2001 when they won seven games. Last season they were a paltry 5-11. Could this season really be any different? Since the Arizona Cardinals had money to spend this off-season, they went out and picked up running back Edgerrin James. Will this move be enough to propel the hapless Arizona Cardinals into a possible playoff scenario?
Quarterback
It’s hard to believe that Kurt Warner is still around. He had some great years, but he’s highly injury prone. When Warner is healthy and on his game he can toss 300 yard games with the best of them. Unfortunately, that doesn’t happen very often. If Warner goes down, the Arizona Cardinals have no viable replacement. It’s really going to come down to the offense line protecting their quarterback. Perhaps the addition of a superstar running back will help some.
Running Back
Anyone that’s been watching the NFL for a least one year knows the name Edgerrin James. He’s a former cog in the wheel of the Indianapolis Colts high-powered offense. Now he comes to the desert hoping to revive a struggling offense. The Arizona Cardinals had been lacking a good rushing attack. Now that James is in camp, that problem looks to be solved. Practically overnight the Arizona Cardinals go from having a nonexistent running game to being one of the best in the NFC.
Receivers
There’s little to argue about when it comes to the receiving unit for the Arizona Cardinals. First, you have Larry Fitzgerald who’s a big-play receiver. He made the Pro Bowl last season, and he should play very well again. Next, there’s Anquan Boldin. While he’s not going to burn cornerbacks down the field, he’s a solid possession receiver. Finally, there’s Leonard Pope. He’s a rookie out of Georgia who’s fast and athletic. He could be the next good tight end in the NFL. All of these guys have one thing in common—they’re young.
Defense and Special Teams
The defense of the Arizona Cardinals is lacking. It’s a mix of aging veterans, inexperienced starters and injury prone players. The defensive unit really needs the offense to step it up, because they’re not going to stop anyone. The secondary of the Arizona Cardinals is pretty bad and the team didn’t draft anyone to help fill the gaps. The Cardinals have a pretty decent special teams unit, which is anchored by a Pro Bowl kicker Neil Rackers and former Pro Bowl punter Scott player. During the preseason, the Arizona Cardinals will be looking for a solid return man.
2006 Prediction
While Arizona Cardinals fans are extremely optimistic thanks partly to the addition of Edgerrin James, they should temper their hope a bit. It’s been quite a while since the Arizona Cardinals have won over seven games and this doesn’t seem to be the year they will do it. Their schedule is fairly meaty with a healthy dose of better teams. If the Cardinals can beat the weaker teams, like San Francisco, Oakland and Detroit, they might get to six or seven wins this season. In the end, it should be another losing season.
Arizona Cardinals Preview 2006
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Colts Are On The Defensive
January 12th, 2010I’m really not sure what the Colts going to do this year. This pre-season they have not looked all that bad. Then again pre-season does not mean much only in the first quarter. It was pretty funny though watching their defense get torn apart.
It is interesting that the Colts can go and pay Dwight Freeney a huge amount of money, but start over with the rest of their defense. They’re going to have three new starters in their secondary but Tony Dungy is saying that no one should be worried because they play a cover 2 defense. I’m not sure what he is talking about considering you still have to have smart players and talented players playing in the cover 2. They have none of that. The best thing they have is Bob Sanders.
One of their biggest losses of the off-season will be Cato June. They really began to believe that he was only good because of the cover 2 defense they use. As bad as their defense looked without him at the linebacker position I would begin to worry. He was a good tackler with good speed and strength. Right now, they’re looking at replacements that have none of that.
Another loss they had by injury is McFarland. He will be sitting out the whole season to rehabilitate. He was one of the main reasons that the defense was able to begin to stop the run throughout the playoffs. If they would never have got him from Tampa Bay I’m not sure that they would have won the Super Bowl. Okay, actually I’m positive they would have not won the Super Bowl. The defense is actually why they won in the first place. Payson Manning continued to play at one of the lowest levels in playoff history.
The offense does look good like always which always makes you feel better if you are a Colts fan. I’m not so sure that they’re going to have as good as an offense though. Peyton Manning is assuring us that Joseph Adai will have a huge year at the running back position. Remember though that this came when he had Dominic Rhodes to take off some of the load. Plus Peyton Manning’s backside offense of linemen retired giving him a new linemen that is yet to be named. You will finally now have a new backside lineman for the first time in his career. As we all saw this preseason, Manning was getting nailed from the backside, no pun intended.
For all the Colts fans I’m sorry to say that I would be worried for this upcoming season. You’d better really hope that Bob Sanders does not get injured as he will be the only reason that the defense is anything this year. If you are a fantasy player I would not go for the Colts defense, but that is just common sense.
State of Play Movie Review
January 12th, 2010There’s a journo, a murder and a babe who slips beneath a subway train. There’s gossip and a sly love affair. We’re talking of State of Play movie adapted from its BBC television drama show. Noir (Russel Crow) is the hack hooked to newsroom buzz at The Washington Globe. He’s really toned down his macho image here as Cal McAffrey, a reporter. The movie takes off with a tangled skein as a petty thief is found dead and a passer-by who is witness to the murder is shot at too by a sharpshooter. Meanwhile, Congressman Collins (Ben Affleck) comes to know of his assistant having fallen beneath a subway train. Cal doesn’t want to pick up the trail as he’s been fooling around with Collins wife (Robin Wright Penn). Cal and Collins were college buddies. Then, there is the gossip that Collins may have been having an affair with his assistant who is no more. Collins is also supposed to be on the panel trying to sniff out the illegal dealings of Point Corp suspected to have it’s finger in too many pies including the US Government offensive in the Middle East. Point Corp is intending to take control of Homeland Security. What links what to whom? The audience has not one dull moment in the movie. Amidst the hoopla is the sexy reporter Della (Rachel McAdams) attached to McAffrey as his sidekick. As always, he wants none of her. Helen Mirren pitches in as the editor harassing everyone in the line of sight. Director Kevin Macdonald (The Last King Of Scotland) and co-screenwriter Tony Gilroy (The Bourne Trilogy) have done a good job at jostling together the modern state of journalism and the goings-on among Congressmen. This one’s dynamite, watch with care.
Cowboys Have Adam Jones Who Will Play All Season
January 11th, 2010
Adam “Pacman” Jones has returned to the Cowboys, and he will be able to play in the Dallas first regular season game on September 7 against the Browns in Cleveland, as the NFL agent Roger Goodell has informed it.
The NFL player Jones has made some statements to the Dallas Morning News in regards to his situation and that he is grateful to have a second opportunity and that he will take advantage and he will not disappoint either his team or himself.
In 2005 Jones was selected during the draft by Tennessee then during his professional career Jones has faced six arrests and he has been implicated in 12 police incidents. Presently, during the low season Jones arrived to Dallas as an exchange from the Titans and he is trying to surround himself of good people who can help him stay away from breaking the law. Jones himself has repeatedly stated that he has been in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Over these past months Jones has been closer with the former players Michael Irvin and Deion Sanders as well as teammate Tank Johnson who had a similar suspension last season and the Cowboys helped to come back. The team’s managers believe that chances are giving to someone that recognizes having a problem and is in the path to producing good results.
“I am very thankful with Jerry, also with the Dallas fans and with my teammates, for trusting me. Now I should continue doing what I was doing to get back on my feet and keep focusing and stay away from undesired friends. ” Mentioned “Pacman”.
Last June, Goodell partially gave Jones the ok to be part of the team and allowed him to be present at training camp as well as the preseason games. Jones was suspended in April 2007 due to his legal problems including a cross-fire incident at a strip club in Las Vegas which left three injured and one of them became paralyzed. The people involved in the accident made charges against Jones.
For this NFL season Jerry Jones accepted the risk to let the Titans draft in the fourth round in order to acquire Pacman and give him a second opportunity, as Jerry himself was a character who received second chances during his career.
During the NFL history another important event such the one mentioned before was that of Charles Haley in 1992. He was an incredible defensive wing but with serious conduct problems. The 49ers wanted to rid of him, but they found no team interested, it was until Jones offered Haley a chance, which he took, and by result Haley helped the Cowboys win three of the following four Super Bowls.
We still need to wait and see how the “Pacman” story ends, but one thing is certain and that Jones has given the most important step which is to come back to the game and now it is just a matter for him to show what he can do on the field.
Weight loss/fat loss basics
January 11th, 2010The cataclysmal information overload on weight/fat loss issues most often leaves people confused. This is very logical because there are a lot of controversial ,ambiguous and conflicting tips,secrets and recipes on these matters. There is a real war out there and the loot is the money of the deliberately misinformed,misguided and manipulated people. Fitness imposters and charlatans try to outbid one another by giving groundless promises and trying to feed unrealistic expectations. Weight/fat loss industry is a multi million industry and therefore attracts many vultures and hyenas. I strongly urge you not to fall prey to their mercenary motives! There are no effortless solutions,no shortcuts,no magical secrets. If there existed such methods all of us would be sylphids and models!But obviously we are not!! Instead the problem of obesity is a real plague,an unprecedented menace for the developed western countries! Am I right or not? Am I exaggerating? What really exists is solid knowledge,the power of our minds and the unshakeable faith of a strong character to achieve his wisely targeted weight/fat loss objectives! In this articleI will try to give you my best knowledge on weight/fat loss issues. The rest remains for you. I hope you will honor yourselves First and most important:work it in your mind!Mind dominates the body. Harness your mind ,make it identify itself with the big cause:weight/fat loss! You cannot rinse down sins,bad habits and mistakes of many years in only one month,can you? So learn to loathe all unrealistic pledges!Look the other way! Keep in mind that you will need clever and consistent work. For the first 2-3 months you will need a plan to work on. The long-term goal will be the full detachment from plans and the adoption of a self-regulating,active lifestyle. This will happen after you can achieve full exploitation of the super-weapon called “mind”. Though,until that time comes you will need to have a plan! Ok then!We are ready to embark on the trip to weight/fat loss! Let’s set together a both realis?ic and ambitious objective: to lose 0. 5kg of fat/week On first thought this target might appear quite modest! Think it over! This meens a whopping 26 kilo per year!Any comments? And what if I said you that in order to achieve this “modest” goal you will need to reduce your maintenance caloric intake by an impressive 22%? This might probably change your view,eh? Where does this 22% derive from? I take 2500cal as a maintenance caloric intake for an average person. 0. 5kg of fat is equivalent to 7700/2=3850cal/week or 550cal/day. 550 equals to 22% of 2500. (I take 7700 and not 9000cal per kg of fat because human body fat contains water too) Now please ponder over the promises/allegations of losing e. g. 1kg/ day! To achieve this we would need to literally eat nothing and additionally burn- in a magic way ?-another 7700-2500=5200 cal! It’s preposterous as exactly is the promise! Now let’s go to our plan. We need to create a daily caloric deficit of 550 cal. Since we are sane and mature people we forget all exotic solutions and turn to the solid facts. We are going to use a combination of physical exersise and a diet regime. To proceed only with a restrictive diet is not a clever strategy for the following reasons: 1. This caloric reduction is quite severe and practically difficult to follow for a long time. 2. We are going to lose a lot of valuable muscle mass and this is the last thing we need. What we really need is to improve our body composition by burning/losing fat and maintaining or- even better- increasing our precious muscle mass. 3. Our bodies will interpret this severe caloric resriction as a real menace for their existence and will try to react by reducing our metabolic rate and by activating our fat storage mechanisms. These are very undesirable consequences indeed and will raise serious obstacles towards the completion of our mission. For all the above reasons we will forget this option and adopt a plan which combines physical exercise with a mild and nutritionally sound caloric restriction. Tips about nutrition 1. First thing ,you will need to create a mild caloric deficit of let’s say round 300cal/day. For this reason you will need to count calories- something I personally detest! However there is no other way in this phase. Later,and as you gain control you will be in the position to stop this boring to death habit 2. Second you will need to preserve your muscle mass. To achieve this you will need to receive 1. 5-2gr of first quality protein per kg of weight. And this must come from real,unprocessed foods. No supplements,no nothing!Just plain,good food. 3. Finally you will need to support your immune system in this phase. Consequently you will need big quantities of micronutrients. You should eat only the most nutritionally dense foods and forget every type of junk food. I strongly advise you to read my article:”Fitness and nutrition:the big picture” Tips about effective workouts 1. Depending on your level of fitness you slould exercise at the maximum intensity you can comfortably tolerate. 2. You will need both strength training and an aerobic activity. 3. Five short mixed type workouts per week are advisable. These should last 30-35′ and burn about 400 cal each. I like very much total bodyweight workouts,HIIT and sprints. I have found them to be the best investment for my limited workout time. To get some powerful ideas please take a look at my following articles: “The best outdoor workout ever” ( see how humble I am!) and. . . “The most effective workout ever”(ditto!) To your great health! Chris Strogilis
Bottom Fishing For High Dividend Stocks - Part 1
January 9th, 2010Given the 30%-plus rise in the S&P 500 since March 9th, 2009, income investors are increasingly challenged to find high dividend stocks whose prices haven’t gotten ahead of themselves. On a recent bottom fishing expedition, I screened for 3 preliminary parameters:1. High Dividend Yield - Above 5 % (The S&P 500 average dividend yield is approximately 3. 42%). 2. Moderate Dividend Payout Ratio - Below 50 % (The S&P’s current payout ratio is approximately 59 %). 3. Less Than 40 % Above 52-Week Low4. Options AvailableThis preliminary screen yielded several companies, from 4 different sectors: Consumer Goods, Industrials, Basic Materials, and Financials. I then added the following 2 balance sheet screening ratios, in order to find the most well-funded companies:1. Current Ratio: Over 1. 52. Long Term Debt to Equity: Under . 5These additional screens yielded just 5 companies, one of whom I’ve been following for awhile - Cal-Maine Foods, (CALM). You may have often heard the advice, “Only invest in what you understand”. Cal-Maine Foods just happens to be one of those easy-to-understand companies - they’re the biggest distributor of eggs in the US. Eggs are a basic food staple, something that consumers aren’t going to do without, even in a recession. In fact, during a recession, consumers tend to eat at home more often, which plays to Cal-Maine’s strength as a major distributor to supermarket chains. CALM compares favorably within its peer group, Packaged Foods: Poultry & Meats, sporting the 2nd highest dividend yield, (7. 5%), and the 2nd lowest beta, (. 40). Right in line with the S&P 500’s rally gain, CALM is currently 34% above its 52-week low of $17. 01, and approximately 53% off its high of $48. 80. What’s the best way to invest in CALM? That depends upon your risk profile, and your assessment of the market. If you’re an income investor, looking to maximize your yields, there are 2 different approaches that may suit your needs, each based on different outlooks:(For simplicity’s sake, we’ll illustrate this trade example by buying 100 shares, since 1 option contract controls 100 shares of the underlying stock. )Scenario A (BULLISH): Covered Call/Buy-Write approach:1. Buy 100 shares of CALM at $22. 58, (its 5/28/09 opening price). 2. Sell 1 November $25 call contract for $1. 75/share. (A 7. 75% yield)3. Collect $. 86/share in dividends before expiration. (A 3. 81% yield)When the November 21, 2009 expiration date comes, you’ll either:1. Collect an additional $2. 42/share in capital gains, due to the stock rising to or above $26. 75, (the $25 strike price plus the $1. 75 call money). OR2. You’ll get to keep your shares, if the stock doesn’t rise to the resale trigger price of $26. 75. Your new basis would be $19. 97, (your original cost of $22. 58 less the dividend and call income you received). At this point, you could repeat this strategy, if you wanted to hold CALM for an additional period. SInce your cost basis would now be $19. 97, you could research selling new calls at $22. 50, or even at $20. 00, if you weren’t feeling as bullish in November. The annualized yields on this 6-month trade, ($22. 58 cost basis), are as follows:1. Call Yield: $1. 75/share = 15. 98%2. Dividend Yield: $. 86/share = 7. 85%This $2. 61/share in income equals a 23. 83% annualized static yield. Notice how the call yield is over twice the dividend yield? This gives you added protection, in the event of an unforeseen dividend cut or other negative event. 3. Assigned Yield: $2. 42/share = 22. 1% (As noted above, if CALM rises to or above $26. 75, your shares will be sold at the $25 strike price)Your breakeven in this trade in $19. 97/share, or 11. 56% for 6 months. Your maximum profit is $5. 03/share, or 22. 28% for 6 months, which equals an annualized yield of 45. 9%. That’s a pretty good day’s fishing. In Part 2 of this series, I’ll detail a less bullish, more defensive strategy with this stock, which gives an investor an equally impressive yield. Disclosure: Author is long on CALM.
Carolina Panthers Vs. Chicago Bears
January 9th, 2010We look at it this way from a fan point of view… It is about risen above misfortune, having faith that the guy next to you is going to be doing his job and you being responsible by doing your job and having conviction that it is going to happen, having tolerance, because you know that sometimes you make errors and there are ups and downs through the game, that there’s this tide and flow going on. Throughout all of that, the teams that overcome that kind of adversity are the teams that are going to win.
The Panthers overcame about as much adversity as a team could in their 20-17 home-opening victory over the Bears last Sunday September 14th.
As much determination as the Panthers demonstrated a week ago, winning their season-opener at San Diego on a last-second touchdown pass from Jake Delhomme to Dante Rosario, they managed to dig out of an even deeper hole to improve their record to 2-0. On Sunday, the Panthers battled back from a wicked first half filled with penalties and other mixed mistakes, including allowing a punt to be blocked and returned for the game’s first touchdown to help the Bears to a 10-3 halftime lead (which would grow to 17-3 early in the third quarter).
This is not to deceit the Bears. They opened the season with a convincing win over the Colts at Indianapolis. They have an impressive rookie running back in Matt Forte, who rushed for a game-high 92 yards Sunday and they have a highly talented defense, we’ve stated this before (Preseason Preview NFL – Chicago).
The Panthers were simply inferior through two quarters. How bad? They nearly had as many yards in penalties (40) as they had in offense (47). They were called for multiple false starts and illegal-formation penalties (one of which was declined).
Muhsin Muhammad finished with five receptions for 59 yards, making him the 29th player in NFL history to reach 10,000 career receiving yards, but he was not alone, Jake Delhomme’s 3 for 3 and running back Jonathan Stewart gave the Panthers a boost in the second half after the team managed just 47 total yards in the first two quarters. The rookie finished with 77 yards and two touchdowns on 14 carries.
Just how is it possible to overcome a 17-3 lead by Chicago at the end of the 3rd quarter? The Panthers’ final five full series included two touchdowns. Chicago’s final five series ended in three punts, a fumble and a turnover on downs, creating a result that showed how both the offense and defense picked each other up and carried the team when the other side needed it the most.
More importantly, the Panthers learned just how intensely they can count on each other, a lesson that could serve them richly in the weeks and months to come.
The Life of James Dean
January 8th, 2010James Dean, strange you know the name before the man, indeed many film buffs I know never even seen the movies he made and many are startled on discovering that he only starred in three movies. Yet, everyone knows James Dean, his ubiquitous image charms us from all kinds of angles, you would have to live on the moon to not recognise his face, and indeed it appears that to know him is to be seduced by him. The enigma that he is though is still somewhat of a riddle, how can one man, no matter how attractive he is and no matter how impressive his duds, how can he capture the imagination of people born decades after his death who have never seen any of his movies? The 1950s in America were an era of unprecedented growth, people were beginning to have extra cash to spend on luxuries, people were beginning to realise that they could enjoy life, it was the beginning of a lifestyle that would make America the envy of the world. This was a golden era for a America that was reeling from the deprivations of the 1930s and the horrors of the 1940s. The children of the fifties were a blessed bunch or at least they were supposed to be, that was what was preached to them. They had everything that their parents had not, times were good, children could stay in school, unbelievably some could even drive there, they had countless options, college was on the horizon and everyone was beaming. Except perhaps their parents and well, also their children, so in fact does that mean that nobody was beaming at all? Why not? Life is not that simple, the consciousness of the country would not allow everybody to move on, there existed a shared memory of the brutality and inhumanity of the Second World War and the humiliation and constant yearning of the decade before that. Those who had lived through it were not going to be overjoyed that their children had the keys of the kingdom in their back pocket. Of course there was envy involved but more importantly there was an overriding fear that addled their minds. It had been drilled into their heads that life was not supposed to be easy and so they maintained a heavy feeling of dread, drifting around like harbingers of doom. Obviously, to their children’s bright eyes and light hearts their parents were gloom merchants who refused to enjoy in the frivolity that was life, there was going to be friction, there was going to be a lot of friction. The older generations knew the dangers of the world and therefore did their utmost to maintain the most moderate course possible, anything extreme was stamped out immediately. There were still lingering dangers in the world like the Korean War, Castro’s Cuba and the Suez Crisis to ensure that they remained vigilant. Cinema was to mirror this mass paranoia, this mass holding back; the ravages of the past had taken hold, the country was scarred. Bette Davis starred as an ageing Broadway star in Joseph Mankiewicz’s All About Eve (1950), Gloria Swanson was a troubling symbol of living in a faded past in Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard (1950) and old Bogie never looked so wracked in John Huston’s The African Queen (1951). The great stars were aging, and Hollywood was up to other tricks - scaremongering the already suspicious populace with the brazenly analogous The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) or the desperate escapism that Gene Kelly was peddling in Singin’ in the Rain (1952). James Dean grew up in the midst of this overbearing conservatism, or rather existed through it as he put it, on his uncle’s farm in Fairmount, Indiana. He landed in the eye of the storm, California in 1949, studying drama in UCLA and it appeared to all intensive purposes grasping for the American Dream. And it seemed like he would gain it as he starred in a Pepsi-Cola television commercial, landed a few walk on parts in movies and got to say a few lines in Sailor Beware (1952) starring Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin. On moving to New York he gained admission to America’s most prestigious acting school, the Actors Studio to study Method Acting under the legendary Lee Strasberg. The world was opening up for the young Dean, he caught the eye of Elia Kazan who wished to cast him in his adaptation of Steinbeck’s East of Eden. Kazan sent Dean to see Steinbeck, the novelist viewed him as something of an upstart, he and Kazan were sold, Dean would be perfect for the main role of Cal Trask. Indeed, the character was pure Dean - disaffected Cal railing against the stuffy conventions that attempt to bind him, exposing the unholy truths that lie beneath the charade of modern living and of course looking mighty fine and attracting all the girls. And it ain’t all straight forward, it’s muddy and confused, hard to tell exactly whether Cal is good or bad, Dean had arrived, he keeps us guessing to this day. It got him the Oscar but tragically he wouldn’t be around to receive it. The guessing game would become all the more compelling in Rebel Without a Cause (1955), in which he played THE rebellious teenager Jim Stark. In retrospect it’s a strange portrayal, Dean like an overgrown teenager, a little man in the Edwardian style of the word. Impossible to understand just like adolescence. Shot in little over a month, the movie would change everything at the time, Dean was a megastar, no doubt. Giant (1956) was tragically to be Dean’s final movie, it’s so alluring, unnervingly offering us glimpses of an aged Dean - a washed up drunkard with busted ego, lonely and wretched. Dean was dead before the film was edited, pointedly he would not live to even see himself old on screen. The ultimate young rebel would remain forever young, and the hordes lapped it up, raising him to messianic proportions. Each year that passes, Dean becomes younger than us, trapped in teen angst forever, unattainable forever.
Dallas Cowboys Tame the Bengals
January 8th, 2010It’s not many times I get to go to Dallas cowboys games. I had been to one about 5 years ago for the Thanksgiving game and then also a preseason game two years ago. Tickets are getting more and more expensive and they are only going to get worse when the new stadium arrives next year.
The Cowboys must have listen to my last post about them. I wrote they needed to give the ball to Felix Jones more. Well sure enough he got it plenty of times and scored a touchdown. He average 10. 7 yards a carry. I would be running him 20 times a game with those numbers.
The Bengals were struggling in the first half and the score was 17-6 Cowboys in the first half. They couldn’t get in the end zone due to the relentless defense by the Cowboys. Chad Johnson had promised if he scored he would kiss the star at the 50 yard line and take the fine. It wasn’t looking like this would happen as he rarely got the ball. He was booed every time he got the ball as well. Plus the last time someone tried to kneel in the star they got hit very hard!
I believe it was lack of offense by the Cowboys that let the Bengals come back in the game in the second half. Tony Romo just didn’t look motivated and they didn’t get the ball to Terrell Owens enough, I mean 2 receptions c’mon! He gained a 33 yard average on each of those returns. I think Wade Phillips fell asleep at the wheel. I also found out that a relative of Owen’s passed away on Sunday. That most likely affected his game play.
Because the Bengals kept getting the ball back in the second half they started to capitalize. T. J. Houshmandzadeh scored in the 3rd and 4th quarter. A surprise onside kick by the Bengals in the third quarter was actually recovered by them. But they fumbled on the consequent drive thanks to Chris Perry who has fumbled 5 times this year. Watch out for your job Perry! The Bengals attempted the two point conversion on their second touchdown when the score was 22-24 and fell short. After one more change of possession the Cowboys got the ball and threw it to none other than T. O. who finally got the attention he deserves(craves)-same thing with a touchdown to put away the Bengals! The final score was 31-22.