Eagles Need Win Over Cowboys

	Rich Kotite is testy.
	For years, he's been trying to find a full-time running back for
the Philadelphia Eagles. Now he's got one in Charlie Garner and is
being second- guessed about using him too much.
	Why quibble?
	After losing their first game, the Eagles go into Dallas Sunday
tied with the Cowboys at 4-1. A win and they take control of the
NFC East ... for the time being.
	In some ways, the Eagles are lucky this game is being played in
Dallas.
	Two years ago, the same scenario played out on a Monday night in
Philadelphia when the Cowboys (3-0) came in to face the Eagles
(3-0). The city went bonkers -- the pre-game show came on at 6 a.m.
-- and the Eagles won 31-7.
	They never recovered. Philadelphia lost its next two games, lost
in Dallas, then lost again there in the playoffs. Dallas went on to
win the first of its two Super Bowls.
	Does that mean to the losers go the spoils?
	No, the spoils go to the better team and the odds say Dallas,
which is favored by 8 1/2 points.
	OK, Emmitt Smith has a sore hamstring, but Garner, the rookie
with two 100-yard games in two starts, is still recovering from a
stress fracture in the uppermost rib underneath the collarbone.
	``If Charlie Garner is ready to play, he's going to play, and
I'm going to give him the ball,'' Kotite says.
	Barry Switzer says the same thing about Smith.
	COWBOYS, 21-16