The Instant Gospel on Week Six

Wow! Wasn't Week Six an action-packed, wild weekend!?!? So many close games! So many wild finishes! So many...

OK, let's cut the BS. I didn't log on immediately following this afternoon's games to discuss the Rams pulling a Milton Waddams on the Initech of good feelings the Redskins had been building. Nor did I come here to discuss that wild and crazy game of between the Dolphins and Texans in what is being called the Greatest Game Ever Played Between Two Teams Who Inevitably Will Be Picking Between 10-20 Come April (look for it on ESPN Classic tomorrow). And I doubt you want my opinions on the performance of Charlie Frye in the loss to Green Bay today...

No I logged on here to discuss one team and one team only. And that is your Super Bowl Champions, The Dallas Cowboys!!!


Wait...what's that you say? The Super Bowl doesn't get played til February? Oh I see. Well, why are they bothering? Have you read the Cowboys roster? Tony Romo, Marion Barber, Terrell Owens, Jason Witten, DeMarcus Ware...The list goes on and on! Plus they added Adam Jones! You know, the cornerback from Tennessee? Former TNA Tag Team Champion? Throw that in and they are a mortal lock for the Super Bowl! And don't you worry about chemistry issues. They've got Sheriff Wade Phillips, whose "good ol' boys will be good ol' boys" attitude is perfect for this team!

At least that's what it seemed like every single publication was telling us this offseason. All I heard from the end of Giants/Patriots up til and including around 7:35 PM was "Dallas Dallas Dallas!" Pay no mind to the fact that if you add up Tony Romo and Wade Phillips' playoff victories and multiply the sum by 50....you get a big fat zero. And I guess it slipped everyone's mind that one Mr. T. Eldorado Owens is the single most selfish player currently in sports. And don't even get me started on the walking, talking, rainmaking distraction himself, Adam Jones.

But it was made abundantly clear today out in Glendale, Arizona that this Dallas Cowboys team will never win a Super Bowl. They won't even play in one. In fact, I doubt they will win a playoff game. They have a ton of talent. They are probably, top to bottom, the most talented team in all of football. But they lack something that makes champions.

Heart.

And unfortunately for the NFL's Tin Men, there is no great and powerful Oz hiding behind any curtains to give them something to cure the finger pointing, the pouting, and the arm waving. And even if there was a Wizard, nothing in his big black bag would keep Adam Jones from fighting in hotel bathrooms and seal Terrell Owens franchise destroying mouth shut.

There are plenty of instances in today's game (or the Bengals game for that matter) that I could point to that display the Cowboys problem. Whether its Tony Romo sitting on his butt crying to the officials instead of scrambling for a ball he fumbled (excuse me, "tucked") or T.O. sitting by himself on the bench, frowning like a preschooler on timeout or any of the countless other mini soap opera episodes that went on during today's game, the truth about the Dallas Cowboys was exposed today.

So I'm sorry to all the Cowboys fans who preordered your Super Bowl champs gear this summer...Unless Tony Romo and Friends find themselves a Yellow Brick Road within the next few weeks, there won't be a happy ending for "America's Team" (although it seems with Tank and Pac-Man, "America's Most Wanted Team" would be more fitting now.)

On paper, it may have looked like there wasn't anyone in the NFL that could trip up the Dallas Cowboys this year, but I think they (and us) all forgot about one team...themselves.