Sam Hurd
9 October 2009
to run for the first down. Instead he flipped the ball into the middle of the field to…Sam Hurd? And then Hurd began running down the middle of the field like Larry Fitzgerald in the Super Bowl. All I could think was that this was the moment that would define the Cowboys season. This was that game changing play that they needed to get back to glory. After running down the field about 45 yards Hurd was caught… by 35 year old safety Brian Dawkins! Are you serious? But the Cowboys still had plenty of time and eventually they would have a couple of shots at the endzone. Unfortunately, they wasted those chances on two slant passes to the aforementioned Hurd who was matched up with all world cornerback Champ Bailey. Had Bailey been just a millisecond slower in his reaction on both plays he would have missed the ball by inches giving the Cowboys a chance to win the game in overtime. But he wouldn’t let that happen. Bailey is too much of a pro to let those inches slip away.
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