1.   Although Deion Sanders is expected to play despite a toe injury, a bad pass rush defense will play without injured sack leader Kavika Pittman.

2.   An improved pass rush is half the equation.

3.   An improved pass rush, though, would lessen the pressure on the cornerbacks in man defense.

4.   And as long as Kopay was willing to block on the pass rush, he, too, was protected from locker-room gay bashers.

5.   And first-round draft choice Greg Ellis, for one, knows that the Cowboys must begin showing considerably more productivity with the pass rush.

6.   And it appears that everyone from Lincoln to Omaha knew that Huard was susceptible to the pass rush.

7.   And he had wound up with stitches in his chin and blood on his uniform thanks to an Arizona State pass rush that produced five sacks.

8.   And his inexperience left him ineffective protecting quarterback Troy Aikman from the pass rush up the middle.

9.   And not with a pass rush that young Donovan McNabb must have been laughing at.

10.   And then the defense came through, literally burying Hutchinson under its most ferocious pass rush of the game, a sequence that forced a Stanford punt.