NEW ORLEANS - 'Physically? A little beat up,' Cowboys defensive tackle Tyrone Crawford tells me as we walk across the Superdome field after Dallas' OT loss. 'Mentally? Tore up. Because we shoulda won that game.'
I am walking alongside Tyrone Crawford and we are marching the length of the Superdome field, leaving the depressed locker-room mood behind and moving toward the depressed mood that will surely infiltrate the team buses and then the flight home following this crushingly bizarre 26-20 OT loss to the Saints. "Physically? A little beat up," the Cowboys defensive tackle tells me. "Mentally? Tore up.