The Cowboys we noticed Sunday appear like Tremendous Bowl contenders

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The Cowboys we noticed Sunday appear like Tremendous Bowl contenders

"Unequivocally" is the phrase of the day, and it's a wonderful phrase, particularly in case you're a Dallas Cowboys fan.

You would possibly prefer it as a result of it provides emphasis with a contact of sophistication, lengthy sufficient to sound necessary but not so nerdy to be past the bounds of standard use.

Or, for these whose fall-and-winter existence breathes to the rhythm of the Cowboys' fortunes, it simply turned one thing soothing and cheery. As a result of Jerry Jones mentioned it, and he meant it — and it did not sound like hyperbole.

"A powerful ‘sure,'" mentioned the Cowboys' proprietor and normal supervisor, after a 40-3 Sunday torching of the Minnesota Vikings prompted the query of whether or not the Cowboys (7-3) had the look of a real Tremendous Bowl contender.

"Sure … unequivocally."

Jones has mentioned unusual issues through the years, made massive statements, walked the wonderful line between honesty and optimism and executed what he is speculated to — which is to get the Nationwide Soccer League's largest fan base feeling excited and hopeful. These sentiments, we have come to know, do not at all times final lengthy.

This time, it simply feels totally different. Like the way it's not simply bluster. Like how the old-timer may presumably be — you have to be kidding me now — underselling the truth of the place Mike McCarthy's squad sits among the many league's 2022 aristocrats.

It is a scaled-up model of the Cowboys. Jones by no means lied, and Dallas followers by no means fully lied to themselves. However what has occurred, yr upon yr, tease after tease, is that the crew's elite gamers — they at all times have elite gamers — would placed on the occasional unfold of brilliance, an eye-popping stat line or a dynamic series of performs, organising a flashy win right here and there and resulting in what was, finally, false hope.

Simply because a crew can generally play at a excessive degree doesn't suggest they'll when it issues. All too usually, ever because the final Tremendous Bowl triumph within the 1995 season, the silver-and-blue have flattered to deceive. Gaudy, unsustainable bursts with no sufficiently small of mediocrity tossed in.

Not now. Dallas is not excellent, however it's ready a minimum of as buoyant as another crew within the NFC and excess of most. The NFC East just isn't past attain, because it seems, with the Philadelphia Eagles all of a sudden trying extra fallible and simply two video games forward. By beating the beforehand 8-1 Vikings, conquerors of the Buffalo Payments within the season's greatest recreation, Dallas confirmed that happening the street throughout the postseason shouldn't be one thing to concern.

As for the skeptics, I hear you. Don't be concerned, I actually do. I do know all that is coming only a week after a letdown in opposition to the Inexperienced Bay Packers. And that previous expertise does not let you go all in, identical to that.

Prescott went down in an unsightly season-opening loss. Cooper Rush got here in and the crew surged. Prescott returned, and so they've reached new heights. The Cowboys have generally misplaced however by no means seemed like they had been toppling over, or inflicting defeat upon themselves.

It's like there's a backbone to the Cowboys season, a resolve that comes from being well-rounded and well-positioned to win.

"I believe we have had adversity," Jones informed reporters. "We very simply may have extra adversity. If we use the expertise of what we're having within the season, then we will be playoff-ready. However I certain do assume that what I see out right here proper now could be a crew you may go get a Tremendous Bowl with."

Prescott seemed as composed as he ever has on the weekend. He was 22-of-25 with 276 passing yards and a pair of touchdowns. It felt like much more, so full was the dominance over a crew that hadn't misplaced at dwelling since December.

The Cowboys protection is beginning to look really intimidating, too (and no, it isn't simply Micah Parsons making performs) and it's all including as much as a brand new phenomenon, the scary Dallas Cowboys, which has been lacking for years as a result of inconsistent and scary do not mesh.

There's a fast turnaround earlier than Thursday's conflict with the New York Giants (4:30 p.m. ET on FOX) and this season makes no concession for kind and fame when choosing its winners. Sure, the Cowboys had been magnificent in Minnesota and sure, the Giants laid an egg in Detroit. Make no mistake, Thursday's tussle can be an arm-wrestle worthy of consideration, and either side will know what's on the road.

However it is usually okay for Dallas followers to only get pleasure from how this feels for some time. To get pleasure from phrases like "dependable" and "composed" and really feel that their crew is comfy sporting them.

To permit ideas of a Tremendous Bowl cost to drift into their thoughts, and to see the standing as a contender as one thing that would not require a series of flukes, some unseen happenstance or a sudden shift within the crew's character.

It is a shoe that matches now, a actuality that does not appear foolish to say.

The Cowboys; within the combine, bringing it, a part of the dialogue of the season and the place it would lead. Solidly. Impressively.

And sure, Jerry, we did not overlook. Unequivocally.

 Martin Rogers is a columnist for FOX Sports activities and the creator of the FOX Sports activities Insider publication. Observe him on Twitter @MRogersFOX and subscribe to the each day publication.


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