Death of the Cowboys huge exaggeration

The Dallas Cowboys are 0-2 and, trust me on this, it really isn't the end of the civilized world as we know it. Jeez, I heard one radio commentator Monday said he was completely giving up on the Cowboys, was going to focus all his attention on the Rangers' pennant chase and wait patiently for the start of the Mavericks season. And this was not some loony calling into the station. It was one of those paid professional sports "experts."

I'm betting most of those folks giving up on the Cowboys right now are those who drank Jerry Jones' Super Bowl-flavored Kool-Aid.It's no secret Jones wants his Cowboys in the upcoming Super Bowl Bowl that will be played in Jonestown. But folks who really thought the Cowboys were a Super Bowl team were deluding themselves.

The Cowboys are a fairly decent team -- decent enough to make the playoffs -- but they are not Super Bowl-caliber. I said the day NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell reduced Pittsburgh quarterback Ben Rothlesberger's suspension from six to four games that the Green Bay Packers would defeat the Steelers in this year's season finale. I see absolutely no reason yet to back off that prediction -- in fact, it's looking more solid than it did two weeks ago.

Yes the Cowboys are 0-2 and they'll probably be 0-3 after this weekend, but the other three teams in the NFC Least are just 1-1 and has anyone seen one of those teams -- the Giants,, the Redskins, the Eagles -- looking that much better than the Cowboys? I certainly haven't. And the Cowboys have only played one of those other teams and in that game the Redskins didn't beat the Cowboys. Dallas got on its knees and begged Washington to win it and the Skins reluctantly accepted the gift.

So I'm convinced the Cowboys have just as much of a chance of winning its division as those three other clowns and might even win a home playoff game against a wild-card team before bowing out in the second round. It's not Super Bowl but it's not bad and certainly not worth committing sports suicide over.