"So this team, guys have shut up; they have stepped up and they have elevated their play."
* The NFL Network goes almost all-Cowboys tomorrow from 6 a.m. to 5 p.m., when game-related programming begins. (There is a break from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.) The shows include America's Game episodes on Dallas' five Super Bowl champions and a profile of former coach Barry Switzer.
* Local ratings for Sunday's Ravens-Steelers game put Pittsburgh and Baltimore in first and third, respectively, in the NFL for the weekend. In Pittsburgh, 48.1 percent of the audience watched the game. In Baltimore, the number was 35.7. And while the share in Baltimore - measuring the percentage of homes watching among households where television was in use - was an impressive 56, it was 70 in Pittsburgh. Less than a third of homes in Pittsburgh turned on their TVs to watch something other than the Steelers.
