Cowboys, Redskins lose; McNabb benched
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Cowboys, Redskins lose; McNabb benched
Daily News staff
If you are an Eagles fan and watching the scores roll in today during the Birds' bye week, you had to be pretty happy.
Things went from bad to really bad for the Cowboys with a 35-17 loss to Jacksonville. David Garrard, whose passer rating was virtually non-existent against the Eagles, equaled a team record with four TD passes and ran for another, along with posting a nearly perfect passer rating.
Dallas is 1-5, its worst start since 1989 and is also 0-4 at home. Quarterback Tony Romo was on the sideline with a broken clavicle. Jon Kitna was 34-for-49 for 379, but threw four interceptions.
The Cowboys have now given up 41 and 35 points in their last two games.
According to the Associated Press account of the game, this is how bad it was:
The mood was summed up by two fans holding this sign, which somehow made it onto the humongous video boards: “Hurry up Cowboys, I have a Rangers game to go to.” Some of the biggest cheers were for a beefy, mustachioed fan wearing a blonde wig and a skimpy Cowboys cheerleader outfit, bare midriff and all. He proved so popular that he was shown several times, including the kiss-cam segment; he got the smooch, too.
Chants of “Let’s go Rangers! Let’s go Rangers!” broke out in the second quarter and again in the third. By the fourth, there were hardly enough people left to even make boos echo.
In Detroit, the Redskins fell to 4-4 with a 37-25 loss to the Lions. Matthew Stafford threw four touchdown passes, including a final one on fourth down with 4 minutes left.
The big news there, though, is the benching of an apparently healthy Donovan McNabb, whose interception led to the go-ahead score.
Washington coach Mike Shanahan put Rex Grossman in for McNabb and Grossman fumbled on his first play. Ndamukong Suh returned it for a TD.
This is the second time that McNabb has been benched in his career. The other, you might recall, was in 2008 when he was benched at halftime for Kevin Kolb. Both times the backup QB led to defensive touchdowns -- Grossman's fumble and Kolb's interception that was returned 108 yards by Ed Reed.
Here is McNabb, via the Washington Post: "He makes the decisions. I just continue to go with it and just cheer for my team ... When you get benched, you get benched. Just have to learn from it and move on."
"I continue to focus as if I'm the starter," he added. "He said I'm still the starter."
Just for comparison's sake, here was McNabb on that chilly day in Baltimore in 2008: “You go along with it. You just continue to try to motivate the rest of the guys to rally around Kevin and help us win this game. Unfortunately, that didn't happen." McNabb said his first reaction was "wow."
Imallaboutdatruth: Moron. Truth is 5 has no air in his guitar But you've got nothing but air between your ears.
— jjthree
The Redskins were better off with Jason Campbell. Under genius Mike Shanahan, Campbell would have developed into an elite QB.— road515
Ugly loss for the Deadskins at the Lions. Oh, and who is their QB now?— wylies99- lol @ Imallaboutdatruth.. you're nothing about the truth you fraud.. Dumbest coach in the NFL has McNabb for his qb, and then benches him against the Lions, the LIONS hahahahah, at least Reid benched him against a GOOD TEAM like the Ravens... the LIONS hahahahahahahahahahaha..
and maybe if you knew how to spell "the" instead of spelling it "da" you would know a thing or two in this world, i guess the school systems have been doing wonders out in D.C.— Because Im Right 
Comment removed.- only surprise is it took 8 games for shanahan to realize #5 is washed up..where's that contract extension sit at now????— jabac
- Put in AJ!
- McNabb's benching proves once again that the reason for the Eagles 10 year winning run was overwhelming due to Jim Johnson and his defenses...NOT Reid and #5.— Carlos2
- You have just moved up to #1 on the Philly.com dumbest comments of all time...Congratulations...How exactly does his benching by the Redskins this year take away from all the games he won when he played for the Eagles???As much as I am glad #5 is gone you cannot ignore the fact that he was responsible for a lot of victories while he was here. — Bifocals for the Blind
- And the McNabb obsession goes on...— birdseed
- Comment removed.
- I AM SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO GLAD 5 is a Skin!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!— george22
- But does Grossman play Air Guitar?— azarze
- Ha Ha Ha ha haaaa.........McSlob BENCHED! That's all I needed to hear to make my Sunday! Haha! And 'Imallabout...' is a complete jackanape who switches names every month or so. Ha ha! Deadskins, deadskins.....FAIL! FAIL TO THE DEADSKINS!!!! YAY! GO EAGLES! I can't wait until we get to DC in a couple of weeks!
- Really, is there anything more satisfying, on a day we couldn't watch the Eagles play, than to see the Cowboys go down in flames? The game wasn't even as close as the score would seem to show.
Icing on the cake was the Redskins loss, though I have no anomosity toward McNabb. His benching is interesting. Is Washington about to self-destruct?
The Giants remain the Eagle biggest problem, though.— Stoshie
