If you are a Skins fan, it might be best for you to skip this posting. Jerry Jones is the man. He knows how to run an organization. Actually if you are a Skins fan read this. Dan Snyder should take a play out of his play book because I haven't seen, read, or know (maybe I'm a little ignorant like some suggest after reading my postings) of any extremely bad football decisions made by Jones. Look how T.O. in Dallas turned out... great. T.O. showed he is still a dominate force/threat as a WR (2007-- 81 Receptions, 1,355 Yards, 15 TDs, Avg 16.7 Yards). The Pacman Jones episode has yet to play itself out. However, the terms and conditions of the Pacman Jones trade to Dallas is brilliant. Trading a fourth and sixth round pick in this year's draft for a first round CB with only two years of mileage is a great deal (plus if Pacman fails to play this coming season, Dallas will get the Titan's next year 4th round pick). Who cares about off the field issues. IF Pacman gets reinstated (I'm sure Jone is making big moves as we speak to try to make this happen), it's not like he's going to mess up again and get arrested. No way. Can you imagine all the money Pacman has lost from salaries, bonus, and legal fees. I think his ignorant days of making it rain hundred dollar bills on strippers are over.

Over the past two years Jones has made Dallas a dominate and significant threat in the NFL. 2006 season = 9-7 record and losing to Seattle as wild cards. 2007= 13-3 and 1st place in the NFC East. Not only does the record speak for itself look at the draft record. Jones (along with Bill Parcells) drafted quality players over the past five years, such as Terence Newman, DeMarcus Ware, Bobby Carpenter, Felix Jones, Mike Jenkins. All solid and productive players who started immediately (minus Jones and Jenkins).

This year's draft was a serious statement by Dallas and Wade has to live up expectations. Look at their Defense: Newman, Ware, Carpenter, Jenkins, Williams, Hamlin, Ellis, Zach Thomas, Tank Johnson, Pacman; that rivals the Ravens. With the addition of Felix Jones to complement Barber, Dallas as a solid one-two punch in the back field. The only question they did not address in the draft was WR, which worries me. Given the WR draft class wasn't so deep/solid (the Redskins for some odd reason drafted the two best and an additional TE--opting not to address their dire need for a pass rusher) Dallas is probably waiting until next year to address this or maybe in the free agent market. Additionally, I'm not sold on Tony Romo. I seriously question as man's work ethics and drive when he's going on holiday to Mexico a week before a playoff game. How he manage to get away with this I still do not know. Plus he is a sketchy QB, his track record in big time games is not so solid aka Tony Nomo.

However, despite these short comings I am predicting that the Dallas Cowboys will be NFC Champions in for the 2008/09 season and play the Jacksonville Jaguars in the 2008/09 Super Bowl (I already predicted Jacksonville see below).

Barber and Jones present a great threat in the back field. It will be interesting to see how opposing defenses will handle the Barber/Jones threat while TO, Witten, and Glenn are lined up at scrimmage . Will they stack the box? Or response to man to man coverage? We'll have to wait in see. In the mean time though, Dallas is the dominate threat and leading team in the NFC.

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