Given how ex-Cowboys coach Jimmy Johnson cut Curvin Richards after he fumbled twice after the Chicago game in 1992, Nebraska should be eminently thankful he’s not coaching them.
#10 Oklahoma 23, #13 Nebraska 20*
Dallas 38, at Indianapolis 35 (OT)
*at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington
Nebraska’s problem was simple:  They failed to protect the ball, and turned it over too many times in their own territory, giving Landry Jones and the Sooners fields that were too short, too often.
Ball game.
Taylor Martinez threw a pass back across the field into traffic; OU picked it and turned it into a field goal.  Roy Helu fumbled; OU recovered and turned it into a touchdown.  Martinez fumbled – another OU field goal.  Burkhead fumbled a snap (not his fault; it was a bad snap) – OU’s winning field goal.
Jones was 23-41-342 with a score.  Kenny Stills caught three balls for 83 yards and a TD.  DeMarco Murray & Robbie Finch combined for 105 rushing yards and a score.
But most of that would not have been possible had Nebraska not given the game to OU.
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Where has this  team been?
Granted, Peyton Manning was playing with a couple cans short of a six pack (no Joe Addai, no Dallas Clark).  But two months ago, the four picks he threw would have just clanked off Cowboy hands.
But the Cowboys scored 20 points off those four interceptions, two of them pick-sixes.
‘Bout time the defense picked up the offense for once.
This week:  2-1.  Overall:  69-17.
The PFW will return on Friday to handicap (?) Dallas-Philthydelphia.
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