Super Bowl or Bust
Kyle Beck
This probably won't be a popular thing to say in Florida, but the Dallas Cowboys, in my opinion, are the best team in football. No team in the NFL has the offensive balance and firepower that the Cowboys have. Although, I guess I am just a tad bit biased since I am from Texas.
You can argue against the Cowboys being overrated, but if Tony Romo can consistently hold onto the ball, then they will be very hard to stop. Jessica Simpson jokes start….now. That is if they ever ended after last season’s disappointing, life-ruining playoff loss to the eventual Super Bowl champions, the New York Giants.
You can’t argue with numbers though; Romo continues to be one of the best quarterbacks in the league, even though he led the league in interceptions last year. Romo’s stats through five games, 104 of 162 for 1,368 yards and 11 touchdowns, put him on the list of elite quarterbacks again.
He has help getting these numbers from one of the greatest players of all time, wide receiver Terrell Owens. Love or hate him, because there is definitely no in-between. Owens has 19 receptions for 331 yards and five touchdowns, but he trails tight-end Jason Witten, who has 35 catches for 442 yards and two touchdowns, for the team’s leading receiver. While Romo and T.O. are the ones that people love to watch, and by far one of the most exciting tandems ever, the real success to Dallas’s offense is the running game led by Marion “The Barbarian” Barber.
Ask anybody in Texas and they were glad to see Julius Jones leave the team at the end of last season to make more room and carries for Barber. With the addition of Felix Jones, formerly a standout at Arkansas, the rushing attack is more balanced than ever.
Barber runs over people, end of story. Jones runs around them and has provided explosive running plays for the Cowboys so far this season. One of the major factors for successful defense has been linebacker Zach Thomas. Thomas returned to his home state this season after spending the previous 12 in Miami. He leads the team in tackles, up to this point, with 34 total. I will be the first to admit that the Boys have looked sluggish the past two weeks in a two-point loss to Washington at home and a nine-point win against Cincinnati.
The Redskins played perfect on defense while Dallas struggled and lost by only two points, and they should have been able to put up more than 31 on the middle-school team that goes by the name Bengals.
If the offense can keep up the consistency and the secondary holds up, I see no reason to believe the Cowboys won’t make it to the Super Bowl.
Start booking your plane tickets to Tampa, Cowboy fans, I'll see you there. I'll be the guy standing outside the stadium because I can’t actually afford the tickets.
New sports editor Kyle Beck is a junior from Abilene, Texas. He invites fans’ opinions and thoughts about other teams, college or professional. He can be reached at .