IRVING, Texas (AP) -Terrell Owens downplayed a report Friday that he falls asleep in team meetings.

``As long as I don't sleep on Sunday,'' the Dallas Cowboys receiver said as he left the locker room at the team's practice facility. As is customary on Friday, he did not conduct interviews.

The receiver said in Friday's editions of The Dallas Morning News that he informed the Cowboys about a sleeping problem before signing with them.

``It's nothing new for me to fall asleep in a meeting,'' he said.

ASHBURN, Va. (AP) -Washington Redskins receiver Santana Moss missed his sixth consecutive practice Friday with an injured left hamstring and isn't expected to play against the Dallas Cowboys.

Asked whether he'd ruled out Moss for Sunday's game, Redskins coach Joe Gibbs said: ``Yeah. Looks more and more like it will be hard to have him go.''

On Washington's official injury report, Moss was downgraded Friday from questionable to doubtful.

Moss has more yards receiving (435) than the other four wideouts

The Indians had lost nine games the year before Tuberville's arrival and made the Division I-AA playoffs his final season.

``They were getting ready to fire me,'' said Lacewell, who went on to become the Dallas Cowboys' scouting director. ``We were an awfully young coaching staff. I was the oldest by far. We turned it around and got it going largely because of guys like Tommy, who were paid very little and got to work at 6:30 in the morning and stayed until 10 at

IRVING, Texas (AP) -Because he grew up in Wisconsin, it's no surprise that Tony Romo is a Brett Favre fan.

Romo, now the Dallas Cowboys' starting quarterback, also has Favre-like confidence that he can make any throw along with his ability to scramble. But Romo isn't so sure about being compared to the Green Bay quarterback.

``The comparisons are ridiculous. He's an unbelievable player and he's accomplished so much,'' Romo said. ``The fact that people even say his name and mine together is kind of ridi

``They're cool. I like them,'' Smith said of the old-fashioned, cherry-red jerseys. ``Hopefully we'll play well enough to do them proud.''

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But ugly days have been few and far between for the quarterbacks, even the younger ones, who have faced the Washington Redskins this year. Besides, Romo won't be a nervous newcomer when he comes to town with the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday - he's the league's latest instant celebrity, his gaudy 1-0 record only 14 wins shy of Ben Roethlisberger's 15-0 regular-season debut run with the Pittsburgh Steelers.

``I'm not thinking of him as a guy making his second start,'' Washing

TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) -Matt Leinart can find solace in the knowledge that some pretty good quarterbacks began their NFL careers on bad teams.

Take Troy Aikman, whose first Dallas Cowboys team went 1-15, or Peyton Manning, who went 3-13 in his debut season at the controls of the Indianapolis Colts.

Leinart's Arizona Cardinals stagger into their bye week at 1-7, the worst record in the NFL.

``It's tough, it's frustrating, but in this game and this profession, we're going to go through ups and downs,'' he s

There's too much of a pattern for this budding relationship to be considered a coincidence - even if everyone involved insists that's all it is.

And they truly are insisting.

``I don't know about that,'' Dallas Cowboys coach Bill Parcells said Wednesday when asked about the growing rapport between his new quarterback and the No. 1 receiver who didn't look like one when Drew Bledsoe was throwing the passes.

``Well, I mean, I think he's trying to get the ball to t