Thanks for the explanations, fellas. I suspect it would take my brain a few reps to trust doing something other than the wing-low/cross control method.

Going wing low in a 737? That thing can barely taxi without dragging it's knuckles on the ground! I drove SC-7 Skyvans in a previous life...stiff crosswinds with that big upright billboard fuselage was fun work, though.

Looking for a visual, I came across this video, which I imagine most people here have already seen, but it was interesting to see that most of these guys landed pretty much in a crab, though maybe that has more to do with how strong the winds are in this video. (Also saw one guy deploy only the upwind thrust reverser @the 2'02" mark...never seen anything like that before).