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Dallas Cowboys Must Make the Right Moves to Energize Their Fans
February 21st, 2012 at 8:47 AM
The NFL Draft is coming. Free agency is not far off. Peyton Manning hysteria is about to begin. Combines, OTA's, mini camps, all closer than you think. Yes, the 2012 NFL season, for all intents and purposes, is about to begin. For the Dallas Cowboys, this 'off-season', which in reality no longer exists, may be the most important...

Dallas Cowboys Leadership Void Becomes an Issue Once Again
February 18th, 2012 at 5:37 PM
The Dallas Cowboys have been considered one of the most talented teams in the NFL since around 2007. Year in and year out, there has been high expectations, bold predictions, and annual Super Bowl talk. Yet, each season has ended in disappointment, some in utter ruin. Blame starts flying around, aimed at the usual suspects; Jerry Jones, Tony Romo, and whomever the head coach is...

Dallas Cowboys Off Season Report: Yes to Joe Baker, and No to Randy Moss
February 14th, 2012 at 7:42 AM
The Dallas Cowboys continue to revamp their defensive coaching staff, yesterday naming Joe Baker the teams new assistant secondary coach. For those of us who have witnessed the shortcomings of Dallas' pass defense over the last couple of seasons, the turnover in the coaching ranks is a welcome sight. Baker has coached four teams during his 16 year career, the...

Are the Dallas Cowboys Truly Close to Being Contenders?
February 9th, 2012 at 11:26 AM
It is amazing how mediocrity is perceived in the NFL.  An 8-8 football team can be viewed in two ways; either the team is a player or two away from being a true contender, or it is hanging on by a thread before a great fall comes. Which of the two are the Dallas Cowboys? The answer is in the eye...

Three Former Dallas Cowboy Legends Pick the Super Bowl Winner
February 5th, 2012 at 5:38 AM
Super Bowl Sunday is here, and another one has arrived without the Dallas Cowboys participation. Still, the game goes on, and after two weeks of non-stop prognosticating, over-examining and the lunacy of Media Day, it's time to play football. Thankfully, because in a few more days it seems every player on each side will have guaranteed a victory or a parade in some...

Cowboys 101 Checks in from Indianapolis and the Media Day Circus
February 2nd, 2012 at 8:39 AM
Cowboys 101 headed to Indianapolis to observe the circus that is Media Day at the Super Bowl   ***PHOTO1***  MONDAY (thoughts from the tarmac) This year, as the New England Patriots try for revenge against Eli Manning and the New York Giants, who four years ago ended what up to that point was the greatest season put together by a team in NFL history, one...

Troy Aikman Discusses the Super Bowl, His Post -Dallas Days and UCLA with the LA Times
January 31st, 2012 at 6:53 AM
It's Super Bowl week, which means there's a lot of talking and pre-game analysis going on everywhere you turn. It's very easy for all of the chatter to turn into one long inane drone about how the Giants must pressure Brady and how Eli is ready to surpass his brother, yada yada, yada. There is one voice, obviously very familiar to Dallas Cowboy fans, who is worth the listen on just about anything football or Dallas related....

Yes, Kids, Dallas Cowboys Once Used to Play in the Super Bowl
January 29th, 2012 at 1:14 PM
(The following is a hypothetical conversation between father and child....how hypothetical is up to you) Yes,there was a time, not really all that long ago, when the Dallas Cowboys and the Super Bowl were virtually synonymous. When you're Daddy was growing up, if it was January and championship football games were being played, you can bet your dad's Cowboys were right in the middle of it in one...

Cowboys 101 Crystal Ball Needs Some Work, So We Need You to Predict the Super Bowl
January 7th, 2012 at 1:23 PM
With our regular season crystal ball having turned out to be a bit, well, cloudy, Cowboys 101 has opened up our Super Bowl prediction page to you, our loyal followers. We've made our picks, and now it's your turn. We asked our followers to give us the AFC and NFC Champions and the final score. The winner will be featured...

Hits and Misses: a Look Back at Cowboys 101 Preseason Picks
January 7th, 2012 at 6:26 AM
So the 2011 NFL regular season has come and gone. Back in September, Cowboys 101 looked into it's crystal ball and predicted the final standings. As we look back, we realize we may need a new crystal ball. So here are all 32 teams, the records we predicted and how they actually finished. We've decided whether each individual pick was a win or loss, or even a tie. So let's look back,...

2011 Dallas Cowboys: Growing Pains, or a Bitter Disappointment?
January 4th, 2012 at 8:04 AM
So what was 2011? Was it a learning process, a season of expected growing pains under a first year head coach, new defensive coordinator, and completely revamped offensive line? Or a frustrating year full of missed opportunities, late game mistakes and, finally, a poor performance in the season's biggest game?   ***PHOTO1***  After the Cowboys lost to the Lions in week four, the feeling was Dallas was exactly what they should have been; a .500 football team....

Dallas Cowboys 2011 Season Ends with a Whimper in the Garden State
January 2nd, 2012 at 5:45 PM
  ***PHOTO1***  Eight wins, eight losses. A 4-4 first half, followed by a 4-4 second half. Good enough to win some games they should have lost, not good enough to close out games they should have won. A .500 football team, NFL mediocrity. That is the 2011 Dallas Cowboys, in a nutshell. The roller coaster ride came to an end Sunday night, crashing and burning...

New York Giants Win NFC East, Defeat Dallas Cowboys 31-14
January 1st, 2012 at 9:53 PM
  ***PHOTO1***  The New York Giants dominated the first half and held off the Dallas Cowboys, 31-14, to win the NFC East title and advance to the NFC Playoffs.  New York (9-7) will host the Atlanta Falcons next week, while Dallas (8-8) will end a roller coaster season on a down note and enter the off season with many questions. The Giants bolted out to a 21-0 lead before halftime,...

Dallas Cowboys Vs. the New York Giants for the NFC East Title, and a Legendary Speech
January 1st, 2012 at 7:52 AM
Gameday, flexed to Gamenight, is here. The Dallas Cowboys are in New Jersey to battle the New York Giants for the NFC East Division Championship, and the opportunity to advance to the NFC Playoffs. The Cowboys are 8-7. The Giants are 8-7. One team moves on, the other goes home. It's do or die, and that, friends, is the last cliche' you will see in...

Dallas Cowboys Tony Romo and Jason Garrett Face Statement Game Together
December 31st, 2011 at 6:37 AM
  ***PHOTO1***  Statement games. They are what defines athletes and coaches careers. Fair or not, it is how we remember those who have risen to the top of their respective sports when the lights were shining brightest and the pressure had reached its boiling point. Conversely, those that have not risen to the occasion have had legendary careers muted by big...

One Dallas Cowboy Fan Heads North, Seeking the Boss and the NFC East Title
December 30th, 2011 at 5:05 AM
The following is a true account of one loyal Cowboy fans trek from Ft. Worth to New Jersey, as he follows his football team north in quest of the NFC East division championship. My name is Bob Smith. We’ll leave it at that because my employer thinks I am home sick this...

Dallas Cowboys Vs. New York Giants: Insider Report – New Jersey’s Side of the Story
December 29th, 2011 at 6:09 PM
The bulletin board material is out there. Justin Tuck hates Dallas, Mathias Kiwanuka says the Giants are going to shut out the Cowboys, and Brandon Jacobs is doing his usual, talking more than he runs. The bottom line is this....the winner of Cowboys-Giants Sunday night wins the NFC East. The loser goes home. End of story. Yet, the talk is quite entertaining. ***PHOTO1*** With all the back and forth...

Dallas Cowboys and New York Giants Traveled Bumpy Roads, but Both Have Led to New Jersey
December 29th, 2011 at 5:54 AM
Every season, a team looks back at the path it has traveled and wonders 'what if?' For the Dallas Cowboys and New York Giants, there are so many 'what ifs' on their respective highways they each should have lost count by now. One thing is sure, however; the bumpy roads filled with land mines have led the Cowboys and Giants right back to each other,...

Dallas Cowboy News Out of Valley Ranch is Encouraging, on Some Fronts
December 28th, 2011 at 4:30 AM
  ***PHOTO1***  A lot of news flowed in and out of Valley Ranch Tuesday; some of it good, some bad, and some just not all that relevant to what lies ahead Sunday evening in New Jersey. Most importantly, the injury front: Tony Romo's valuable right hand is improving, and his coach and owner are optimistic about getting number nine on the practice field Wednesday. "It looks like it is...

Dallas Cowboys Vs New York Giants, and Echoes of Emmitt Smith
December 27th, 2011 at 2:51 AM
On January 2nd, 1994, the Dallas Cowboys took on the New York Giants in the last game of the 1993 regular season. The NFC East title and a first round playoff bye were on the line. That cold, sunny New Jersey afternoon, one player put on one of the most incredible, gutsiest performances of all time....