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Even if the Cowboys hadn’t&#160 been playing, it would have been a Perfect Football Weekend&#153 – simply for the fact that anyone was playing at all.

at Atlanta 26, New England 23
Dallas 13, at Seattle 3
at Cincinnati 19, Washington 3
Oakland 16, at Minnesota 13

Adam Vinateri kicks for Indianapolis now, else this one would have gone into the books as a tie.

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Instead of settling for the field goal – and overtime – Minnesota went for the win at home and got picked off in the end zone on the last play of the game.&#160 Memo to Tony Kornheiser:&#160 Degree Solid anti-perspirant.

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I gotta get used to Sunday Night Football being on NBC this year.&#160 Only caught the last 31 seconds of this one.

Clinton Portis hurt his shoulder and may miss the start of the regular season.&#160 The guess from here is that he saw the Cowboy defense on Saturday night and had to hurry to think of an excuse not to face ’em.

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Speaking of the Cowboy defense…whoa.&#160 In previous years, Doomsday had been good by being very fast.&#160 The flip side of that was that they had to be small to accomplish that, which meant they got pushed around a lot.

That ain’t gonna happen this year.

The Cowboy 3-4 defense under Bill Parcells is not only going to be fast…it’s going to be big, as well.&#160 This is potentially Parcells’ best defense since the Giant units that featured Lawrence Taylor.

When you have Demarcus Ware at right outside linebacker, and former defensive end Greg Ellis at left outside linebacker outplays him…you’ve got something.&#160 You heard it here first – there’s going to be a pass rush in Dallas this year.&#160 Bank on it.

Tony Romo played the entire game for Dallas, and no quarterback has done that in a preseason game since John Elway back in ’89 or so.

Whether it’s because they need to get a handle on what kind of player Romo can be (this is his contract year, and they’d like to know what they have in him)…or whether Parcells is just lining up his p’s and q’s in advance of naming him the starter, we don’t know.&#160 One thing’s for sure – though the offensive line played adequately, Romo still had to do a little improv on the run; thankfully, he handled it well.

Much better than Bledsoe would have, in fact – which does tend to make the average Cowboy aficionado wonder a bit.

The preseason PFW will return Friday or so, once we figure out if Sean Payton intends on leaving Reggie Bush on the sidelines on 4th-and-2.