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After Tom Brady's knee exploded in the first week of the NFL season, I thought that the team most likely to win the Super Bowl this year would be the Dallas Cowboys. Now, however, my opinion has totally changed. After losing to the Redskins at home and then giving a less than stellar effort against the hapless Bengals, the Cowboys find themselves in the line of fire. The Dallas-area media and national media are starting to come after the team a bit, and rather than manning up and saying they're going to work hard, the 'Boys are whining like a bunch of babies.
“I guess everybody expects us to be some kind of superheroes,” linebacker Bradie James said. “I come in here on Monday and I’m trying to enjoy my win and people are, like, beating us up. So it’s really tough, man. With us having so many expectations, the only people we can make happy is in this locker room, and that’s really it.”
Welcome to the National Football League, son. People will always have ridiculous expectations for you, especially when you're clearly the best team in football (on paper) and play in a large market.
But I guess the real question here is simple. Isn't there a leader in the locker room who can wake this team up and get the team playing to its full potential?
“We don’t have that guy,” acknowledged defensive lineman Marcus Spears.
Um, that's not good.
And just so you know, head coach Wade Phillips wants everyone in the media to know that while his team might be struggling a bit on the field, they have the best damn walkthroughs money can buy. Yes, he actually said that to defend his team.
"We have the best walkthrough team I've ever been around in that they pay attention to everything," he boasted. "There's complete focus on that. Nobody even talks. They go out for 30 minutes every day that you don't see them and they go through the plays and the defenses and the things that are going on they concentrate on those things. And that's part of teaching and learning and that's part of our philosophy on how to get things done."
As Deadspin points out, Phillips's comments provoked the Dallas Morning News to run this awesome headline: "Where should the Cowboys put the walkthrough championship trophy?"
I gotta admit, that's pretty good.
But with their "hey, we won, give us a break" attitude, combined with TO's craziness and Romo's inability to lead, and I smell another disappointing playoffs loss. That is if they even make the playoffs.
Cowboys Would Like All Those Press Meanies To Cut Them Some Slack [Deadspin]
Cowboys complain pundits are 'beating us up.' [NBC Sports]
Where should the Cowboys put the Walkthrough championship trophy? [Dallas Morning News]
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