PREFERS TEMPLE'S OFFENSE TO PRINCETON'S
The Eagles face the Dallas Cowboys for the 100th time when they meet Sunday at Lincoln Financial Field.In today's Eagles Playbook, Mark Kram looks back at the first game. Here are some facts about the series:
Overall: Cowboys lead, 55-44.
In Philadelphia: Eagles lead, 26-22
In Dallas: Cowboys lead, 33-18
In the playoffs: Cowboys lead, 2-1
At the Linc: Eagles lead, 4-2
Under Andy Reid: Eagles lead, 14-6
Reid vs. Wade Phillips: Cowboys lead, 3-2
Biggest Cowboys win: 56-7 (Oct. 9, 1966)
Biggest Eagles win: 44-6 (Dec. 28, 2008)
Eagles shutouts: 2
Cowboys shutouts: 1
Longest Cowboys winning streak: 11
Longest Eagles winning streak: 8
Games decided by a TD or less: 37
Games decided by two or more TDs: 44
Games decide by three or more TDs: 30
Overtime games: 1*
Monday night games: 11
Sunday night games: 2
Thanksgiving Day: 1
Saturday games: 2
Friday games: 1
Season openers: 3
Season finales: 3
Cowboys points scored: 2,149
Eagles points scored: 1,929
* Eagles won, 16-13, Nov. 5, 2000
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* USA Today wonders what has happened to the NFC East. Once a powerhouse, the teams in the division appear to have some serious flaws and that is even if you eliminate the woeful Redskins from the conversation. Some interesting points here.
* The Cowboys are confident that Marion Barber is continuing to improve after suffering a quad strain in Week 2. In the four games since he returned from the injury, Barber has gained only 194 yards on 54 carries. "He’s got a little more juice," Wade Phillips said, according to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. "It’s an injury that you lose strength. It’s not something where you’re going to get injured again. He lost some power in one leg. He could play, and I thought he had his best game last week. He looked good today. I think more and more we’ll see the Marion Barber that we know and love."
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Les Bowen has covered the Eagles for the Daily News since 2002. Before that, he spent nearly 13 years covering the Flyers. It took Les only a few seasons after the switch to figure out that there was no penalty box at the Linc, and that the time really wasn't his, despite what Andy Reid kept saying. Les came to Philadelphia and the Daily News from Charlotte in 1983. In the intervening years, he has pretty much lost track of NASCAR, and his accent. He, his wife Barbara, and their two sons live in Haddon Township, New Jersey.
Paul Domowitch has been with the Daily News since 1982. He has spent most of his 27 years at the paper covering the Eagles and pro football. For the last 10 years, he’s been a selector for the Pro Football Hall of Fame. A native of Wilkes-Barre and a graduate of Wilkes University, Domo came to the Daily News from the Fort Worth (Tx.) Star-Telegram, where he covered some god-awful Texas Ranger baseball teams. His first beat at the Daily News actually wa s boxing, which he covered just long enough to lose two sports coats to blood spatter before moving on to football. Domo and his wife Shelley, a University of Oklahoma grad and very dangerous to be around following a Sooner loss, have been married 29 years and have raised 2 terrific daughters – Allison, 26, a lawyer and graduate of Boston University School of Law; and Amy, 23, who graduated from Clemson and works in marketing and sales for a professional baseball team.
