It was probably too quiet, for too long.
But there’s now some genuine trash-talk from the Eagles in the direction of the Cowboys, if you’re into that kind of thing.
Via Eliot Shorr-Parks of NJ.com, a pair of Eagles players stepped outside the bounds of the cliche to take a few shots at the Cowboys in advance of Sunday night’s rematch.
“They just whine and complain about everything,"Eagles defensive tackle Bennie Logan said during an interview on 94WIP. “Shut up and play ball. I’m gonna hit you hard every snap. Stop complaining about this and this. That just bugs me. You’re a man. It’s football. Shut up and get hit and take it like a man.”
Then in another bit, rookie cornerback Eric Rowe bit on what seems like a set-up, agreeing that the Cowboys were “cry babies.”
“From the last game, I saw at least on the offensive side, a lot of them cried a lot,” Rowe said. “They also want a lot of penalties. I saw [tight end] Jason Witten, every time he was covered he looked for a flag and complained and pointed at the ref. Couple of the receivers were looking at the refs looking for PI [pass interference]. Cry babies? Well, yeah if you want to put it like that.”
Of course, the Cowboys beat the Eagles in Week Two, which apparently sparked some strong feelings. And now we’ll wait for the inevitable riposte from Dallas, perhaps something clever along the lines of “are not.”
