Bengals Plan Cowboy Surprise [Oct 28]

	So, this is Cincinnati's big game?
	Against the Cowboys, in Dallas?
	With a third-string quarterback?
	``This is going to be their Super Bowl,'' Cowboys guard Nate
Newton said of Sunday's game with the winless Bengals. ``They're
like a snake waiting to strike.''
	If that praise sounds a little too effusive for a 6-1 team
facing an 0-7 team, hold on, there's more.
	Preparing for what should be one of the great mismatches of the
NFL season, the Cowboys are finding all sorts of strengths the
Bengals and their seven previous opponents didn't know existed.
	``Cincinnati has a very talented defense,'' running back Emmitt
Smith said. ``I just hope all that cream doesn't come to the top
this week.''
	The Cowboys are fooling no one into thinking they are anything
but a continuation -- despite the change of coaches from Jimmy
Johnson to Barry Switzer -- of theclubs that won the last two Super
Bowls.
	Switzer, on the tall end of many a lopsided game in his college
days at Oklahoma, is taking a more realistic, but still-cautious
approach.
	``The reference point I always use is Iowa State,'' Switzer
said. ``If we play our game, it's no problem. If we don't, it could
become one.''
	It never did. Switzer's Sooners scored at least 56 points in six
of the 16 games he coached against the Wildcats. Overall, they were
16-0, winning by an average of 43-13.
	That can't be comforting to the Bengals.
	But it doesn't seem to bother Jeff Blake, expected to be the
Cincinnati quarterback.
	``I won't be in awe, so that's going to help me out a lot,'' he
said.