ball on me and he just grabbed my head and I looked like a top. He said turn me around and I end up down at his feet.
Darryl with a bizarre sense of humor. He's very, very good. A native of Houston. And having another superb season.
Covered up by Monty Coleman. So coming up, the 13th play of this Houston Drive.
Well, there was no place for Moon to go and the blitz was on to the outside.
Fred Stokes came up as a defensive lineman. One of the linebackers was in the game, Monty Coleman, number 51, so they were blitzing.
At that time, Moon read it very well. Picked up about four yards. Down to the third and about one and a half.
Remember, there are no tight ends on this football team. So they've got to go with four wide receivers.
Making the tackle on Lorenzo White. You know what I like about this play, if we could just hold this once we start to play with Lorenzo White.
Moon runs to him. Watch this. Here comes White and he gives Lorenzo White a chance now to pick his hole.
Here comes Moon out. Can we stop it? Right here. Now look at White. He can look at the whole field now, Marvin.
Just say, okay, now all I need to do is cut right there and I've got the first down.
With that kind of running look, he gives him a chance to pick his hole. Doesn't have to be to the right. Straight ahead. Could be anywhere.
Oh, very impressive replay work. Hey, John Gonzalez and Jeff Francis are good. Not great, good. Yeah, just good.
Well, Givens is looking for a call there. But first of all, Moon really had to fire this ball. Watch this line. The ball is on. Bam. It goes in there.
You've got to give Brad Edwards credit for just great coverage. Givens had no chance to catch that ball, even if it was wide open.
He might have knocked his head off. It was a second. Fifteenth play of the drive, so Houston answering directions hanging out of the football by holding on for almost nine minutes here in the second quarter.
He was looking for Haywood Jeffries the entire way and Darryl Green had him covered man to man.
Darryl Green told us yesterday, I want to be alone with a receiver on the outside. I don't need help.
Ernest Givens, when you see him, he's sitting down here. Can we do this on? He kicks the ground twice. And when he does that, he just tell them it's an automatic pass play that Haywood Jeffries is going to be single on the outside.
That is his signal.
Givens, he knew he was offside, but he just kept right on going. The noise is so bad in here. Here comes Givens. Watch this. You think he's offside?
Here's Givens. Here goes Givens. Now that's the first penalty of the game. Yeah, they're going to call it, you know, mode and everyone else are looking to say, wait a minute, defensive linemen. But Givens, you can't be that far downfield. That's drawn the defense up.
Well, because of the noise, Ernest Givens will kick the ground twice, indicating to other receivers that it is an audible call. Now, if he kicks it one time, that's a first, but it's an audible.
Or sometimes he kicks it three or four times. Then he's like, more like, he goes, oh, the fur is down. And 15.
I said Darryl Green is good. He is real good. He was on Haywood Jeffries, number 84. He leaves him when he sees the ball thrown and makes the tackle on Drew Hill. That's heads up defense.
The field goal unit has come on. Ian Howfield, who, as we mentioned earlier, has had more than his share of problems last week, missed two extra points plus a 45-yard field goal.
Another extra point attempt has a new holder in the product, Red Montgomery. He's tied the game. Houston and Washington in an exchange of field goals after long drives, two minutes to go, first half.
Well, Paul, earlier you were trying to sell this man the syndication rights for your cable television show in Buffalo. Bill did not seem to be extremely interested, I should point out.
Well, I tried to sell it to you first. Here's his mother right next to him.
Bill Cosby on hand. They're at RFK Stadium. The Oilers and the Redskins tied at three. The return by Brian Mitchell.
Here's it from the crowd running it for 24 yards.
Here's a look at the ITT 10-minute ticker, Detroit, with that 7-3 lead on Chicago. Buffalo's 6th zip. San Francisco with the score. Steve Young, 97-yard touchdown pass.
John Taylor catching the CD. Cleveland now 43-over-0-8 Cincinnati. Here in Washington, Houston and Washington tied at three, just under two minutes remaining.
A penalty flag is down. He hit his old man on the head. He slurred it right in the head, and D'Coby is coming off, but when he throws it out and it hit an offensive lineman, he didn't try to.
Joe D'Coby left off the field. Russ Gribble replaced him. Ball hit at number 69 and Ellsworth in the head. That's illegal touching. Lost it down. Second down.
Illegal heading. Right in the head. You don't think that's a funny feeling. You're running out to get into the screen and bang, get one in the head.
Meanwhile, they're checking out for the right tackle, Joe D'Coby. Pro Bowl man. In the mid-80s, a perennial Pro Bowl selection. Russ Gribble has come on for D'Coby.
It'll be a second and ten at the 36. A 21-yard field goal by Loebler, following a 17-play drive, and a 24-yard field goal by Howfield, following a 17-play drive for the 3-3 score.
Rippon nearly went down. Now Smith made the stop. Joe Gibbs telling us yesterday that last Sunday night, Mark Rippon had his best night as a professional.
He turned it after a lucky first half against the Giants. Not that his statistics were so impressive, 12 for 25, 159 yards, but the manner in which he came brought his club from behind. Rippon making a pop-up through to Sadler.
At a first down, Lamar Latham made the stop. And you know, here's the team, the Redskins, now that are coming down the field. They're at the 50-yard line, and you'd think it would take a timeout after a long pass like that. They're not. They're going right at the line of scrimmage. Look out.
Rippon got it off, and it was picked off. The pressure on Rippon leading to the interception. Lamar Latham with his third interception of the season. Fuller is the man, the Fuller rush man, number 95 is the man that hits Rippon.
You had a chance to use that line before you did. And Latham got the interception now here. The Houston Oilers with 58 seconds to go, and they're in great field position. Here comes Fuller right there. He grabs Rippon, turns him, and the ball comes out of his hand, slides out of his hand. Latham gets the interception. They have the ball at the 44-yard line.
Well, the difference from a year ago for Lamar Latham, who broke in slowly as a rookie, he says the number one factor is he's healthy, and he says his attitude is much better than it was last season.
Lamar Latham telling us that he feels that he made strong statements to the media last year unnecessarily. He said he'd be a rookie of the year. He said he'd be an impact player right away. In effect, he talked too much and could not back it up.
But he's been backing it up this season. We'll be right back.
Well, coming up at halftime on the Domino Pizza NFL Live, it'll be Bob, Bill, Will, and O.J. All the scores, plus a look at Bill Parcell's superstitions. And I worked with Bill in the booth during their absence the first four weeks. He claimed one of his superstitions was taking a swing at the play-by-play man before he could get underway.
He's comfortable. Second down and six. And more passes completed inside the 30-yard line of Curtis Duncan, Martin Mayhew on the stop. And that went for 23 yards, 41 seconds remaining in the half and a timeout taken by Houston.
We'll be back at RFK Stadium in a moment.
The problem with this play was here the Redskins are these the three linebackers, but they have only three down linemen. And those are the only three guys that are sending. Moon has time to throw the ball.
You know, you're only sending three people and you have five offensive linemen blocking. It's tough to get to the quarterback. Houston first down at the Washington, 29. Lorenzo White could not hang on.
It'll be a second. And Ted, the Oilers now have one timeout remaining Washington with two left. All right. This time it was just a little dump pass across them throughout the top. Not really a screen to Lorenzo White. They figured to get him out and let linebackers try to cover with him.
Collins was there number 55. Moon said it was my fault. I threw the ball too high. If he hits him, it's only about a six or seven yard game, but it's down the middle of the field and closer for the field goal. That's what they're really looking for here.
Like to get seven, we'll accept three.
12 to 21, 121 yards. 38 seconds. Remaining number half.
Moon taking the long walk. Has Jeffries wide open. Has a first down. Hey, what Jeffries. Run out by Darrell Green.
Lorenzo White made a great block on Charles Mann on the outside, but here's Jeffries. Watch this. Green's going to let him go. He goes down the field. He's looking somewhere else. Jeffries just drifts to the outside and then finds the out of bounds, stops the clock.
But Lorenzo White, what a super block he got on Charles Mann. He came back out, helped out with the tackle. That's what he's in there for. Block it. It's a 14 yard advance. Now Houston with 31 seconds can think about the possibility of six.
Down to the 15. Look at that. Big walk. White able to make the catch. Somehow Moon got it off, although he took that hit. They're hurrying up. They're trying to get another playoff before.
They only have one time out. It's 15 seconds before the ball away. Here's another look. Wilbur Marshall on the blitz. Somehow Moon was able to complete it. I'm sorry, but Wilbur is on the blitz.
When he comes on the blitz, the guy that really makes a super fight that saves touchdown is Collins. Wilbur Marshall is over here on the top side. No, he's not on the top side. I'm sorry. He's going to make the blitz up the middle is where he's coming from, and he's on the left side of the offense where he blitzes.
But here's the play I'm talking about. Look at Collins, 55. He comes back to make the tackle on Lorenzo White. Here comes Wilbur, 58. Moon does not seem it's on the backside. Never gets there. But Collins is the guy, number 55, that makes a super play.
14 seconds to go, put him through at the 8. Time running down, first pass, White with the screen pass. And now the timeout is taken to stop the clock with 7 seconds.