Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Mounted By The Cowboys by Blane Thomas ‘We weren’t supposed to win’: How the Cowboys mounted one of the greatest comebacks in team history. ARLINGTON — Ezekiel Elliott said the Cowboys were flat. Four fumbles on the first five possessions of a football game will do that to a team. Down 20-0 in the first quarter with a 19-point deficit at halftime adds to it. The Cowboys kept believing. There was no choice but to believe and when kicker Greg Zuerlein made his 46-yard field goal as time expired Sunday afternoon at AT&T Stadium, it allowed the sidelines, Jerry Jones' suite and the 21,708 in attendance to forget about social distancing. The Cowboys completed one of the great comebacks in franchise history, with a 40-39 victory over the Falcons. Do you know what the Cowboys' record is now when they trail by 19-plus points at halftime? 2-35. You could say the Falcons choked. “We weren’t supposed to win that game,” Elliott said. “But it’s a testament to everybody in this locker room and we went out there and got it done.” Asked to describe the scene in the locker room, the running back said, “It’s crazy. A lot of juice in there. A lot of happiness.” The entire day seemed surreal. The Cowboys allowed fans to buy tickets to an NFL game in the midst of a pandemic. They had social distancing rules, towels placed on seats to signify where people were allowed to sit. There were no standing room tickets, some booing when the Falcons ran onto the field, no reaction from the fans when Dontari Poe knelt during the national anthem. As the Cowboys trailed 20-0, the place sounded like an Arizona Fall League game. When the Cowboys ran into the locker room at halftime, boos came quickly. “We were just flat,” Elliott said. “We didn’t have any energy. But I think after that third turnover, we got together. ‘Man, look they’re not stopping us. We’re only stopping ourselves we’re giving them the ball. If we take care of the ball we’re going to have a chance to go win that thing.’ We took care of the ball and scored and the defense made the stops they needed to make and we ended up getting the dub.” The Cowboys started this contest like they were taking their dogs for a Sunday afternoon trip to the dog park. At some point the Cowboys needed to wake up. “You’re never out of a fight,” linebacker Jaylon Smith said. “This league is won at the last minute, at the last second a lot of the times that we play. You got to fight to the finish and that’s what we did and we came out victorious.” It sounds like a cliché, but it’s the truth. Sometimes you need breaks to win much like Julio Jones dropping a touchdown pass on a shot put of a throw from fellow receiver Russell Gage. You need Michael Gallup to land his backside inbound after he made a leaping catch for a 38-yard gain. And sometimes you have to overcome your own mistakes, like a fake punt at your own 29 and making questionable decisions like going for two points after a touchdown while trailing by nine with five minutes left. “Hey man, that was one of the best games I’ve been a part of,” linebacker Joe Thomas said. “I still can’t believe we came back and won that game. We talked about at halftime to win the second half, and I think we did that. We counterstepped and came out with a ‘dub.’” The Cowboys had life when Prescott sneaked in from the 1 with 1:52 left to make the score, 39-37. The home team had no timeouts and was desperate to recover an onside kick. Smith believed a recovery was possible. Zuerlein’s kick kept spinning and spinning and spinning until C.J. Goodwin dived on the ball, giving the Cowboys life. The sideline erupted, the fans erupted and the Falcons faltered. All that was needed to reach field goal range. Prescott spiked the ball when the Cowboys reached the Falcons' 28 with five seconds left. Zuerlein jogged onto the field and calmly made the kick to complete the comeback. Jerry Jones hugged Jerry Jones Jr., in the suite, and players mobbed Zuerlein on the field. Elliott’s mother, Dawn, posted a selfie of herself on twitter: “Ugly Game. Zeurlein has me crying? #That’s my kicker.” Yeah, it was that kind of day, a game that you kept believing. If not, you were crying. “Ecstatic,” Smith said of the locker room scene. “We understand how tough it is to win in this National Football League, and we’re blessed to get a victory and we needed it. And now we’re 1-1 and were .500 and we got to keep this thing going.” The Cowboys' comeback from a 20-point deficit tied for the fourth-largest deficit overcome in a victory: mounties v. cowboys. ​ 1. Sarah Vowell reverses her friend’s assertion of Canada not being inspirational by writing about the Royal Canadian Mounted police, and how they are different from American cowboys who were taught to shoot any Indian that approached camp. The Mounties knew to avoid America’s problem with the western Native American tribes. She compares Canada’s one law for everyone to the America that always spoke of equal rights, yet they still have a lot of work to do about it. Although Canada may seem like a boring country that hasn’t really done much, it was actually a place of refuge for the north-west Native American tribes back in the day. The Indians called the border line between America and Canada the “medicine line”, and if they did not want to be shot at for approaching American settlers, that is where they needed to go. It may look like the Mounties haven’t done anything dangerous or victorious, but they are known for their fairness to Indians who seek refuge in their country, and that is how I see Sarah Vowell reversing her friends’ assertion that Canadian history “isn’t inspiring”. 2. I think Sarah Vowell was expecting her readers not to be so surprised that Americans don’t really think about Canada at all. Canada isn’t really considered a threat to America because it’s such a peaceful and harmless country. Sara vowell even mentions how Canada gained independence through polite meetings with Britain. Other countries would just go to war to gain their independence. If Canadians could gain their independence just for being nice and cooperative, what is there to worry about? People don’t really take Canada seriously anyway. Canada is like that one neighbor that never leaves the house, but is always happy and welcoming when people go to visit. So when an American says they don’t think about Canada at all, they mean it. 3. “Cowboys v. Mounties” is a Rhetorical mode compare and contrast essay. Sarah Vowell compares the Canada and America’s patriotism. She compares the Canadians who are so selfless and non-violent, to the Americans who are so aggressive and prideful. One way we know for sure that this is would be a compare and contrast essay is just by reading the title. It says “Cowboys V. Mounties”. Another way we know that this is a compare and contrast essay is by the way the Canadian woman asked an American man what Americans really thought about Canada. His response would later lead into the author comparing two countries. 4. Sarah Vowell’s introduction strategy begins with relevant background material. She starts off her first sentence in all capital letters, and that definitely catches the readers’ eye. I like the way Sarah Vowell keeps her readers interested and curious through her opening sentence “CANADA HAUNTS ME”. Of course, people want to know how a very peaceful country could haunt someone. I think that the audience that Sarah vowell was trying or expecting to hook was the Americans, and that her whole purpose was to change their point of view on Canadian history and their country. 5. Sarah Vowell’s opinion in the sermon is similar to her ideas about American and Canadian culture in “Cowboys v. Mounties”. Just from synthesizing the article and quote from the book, we could tell that in general, Sarah Vowell thinks that the “peaceful and cooperative” America that everyone dreams of is actually Canada. In the quote and article, it looks like Sarah admires Canada for the way they handle things, like their fairness to everyone. It looked like she was trying to say that America needs to be calmer instead of being all aggressive, and that they need to start acting on things they always speak of. Both of these countries were under the rule of Great Britain and they both wanted independence. They just achieved it differently. America went to war and Canada went to meetings. I think what Sarah vowell is trying to say through her writings is that America doesn’t need to be so prideful and mean just to be a great country. Die größten Hörerlebnisse nur bei Audible. Erlebe Audible auf dem Smartphone, Tablet, am Computer oder deinem Amazon Echo. Auch offline. Die größten Hörerlebnisse. Entdecke genau das, was du hören willst: Wähle aus 200.000 Titeln und inspirierenden Audible Original Podcasts. Natürlich werbefrei.