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Are the Cowboys finally mak­ing the turn from NFL’s most dys­func­tional into an actual com­pet­i­tive foot­ball team? Do things really turn that quickly in the NFL? Does this team actu­ally have a heart and a desire to be the best? It cer­tainly looks that way after what was undoubt­edly the best game this team has played since the 20 to 8 vic­tory against the Giants last December.

These are tough ques­tions that frankly we just can­not answer right now. I want so badly like most of you to believe the answer to all of those ques­tions are an emphatic YES, but I just can­not help from hav­ing those thoughts of “they will revert back to what they have been this week” and it’s those thoughts that I want erased from my head.

We all want to believe in this team. We all want to believe in Romo. What we all want are the feel­ings we had in the 90’s (you know the ones). Are we being unfair? This is where things get touchy.

Thanks to Troy Aikman last week dur­ing the tele­cast, he said some­thing that I know I have heard before, but it just had never clicked before. Troy said “This Dallas team has had a lot of high expec­ta­tions placed upon it with­out reason.”

Since before Troy departed as the Quarterback of the Cowboys this team has had 1 good sea­son. All of the rest have been aver­age at best, yet every year we say things like “this is our year”. Why have we done that? And I am as guilty as any­body for doing it.

I know your all won­der­ing “where in the hell is this guy going with all of this?” and well where I am going is here. This foot­ball team has been rebuilt at least 3 times since Aikman’s depar­ture. New coaches, new play­ers, and so on and so on and dur­ing all of that never not one time has any­one said “give them time”.

Now I know you may think I have lost my mind (and while that may be true) but I really feel like some of our dis­plea­sure with where this team is or has been, is of our own doing. Notice I did not say all (Jerry receives the credit for most of it) but some.

Is it pos­si­ble that this team is begin­ning to make the turn? Sure it is, I think we are see­ing the lead­ing edge of this team mak­ing the turn. We all got to see some won­der­ful signs last week that things may be changing.

My son Miller, who is 5 is begin­ning to really enjoy foot­ball and ask­ing ques­tions about it, and even watch­ing some of the games with me. For the first time last week I was actu­ally able to say this “son did you see how he made that tackle” and be show­ing him a tackle made by a Cowboy player (thanks Mike Jenkins).

The guys on this team are actu­ally becom­ing a TEAM they are own­ing up to there mis­takes and work­ing to cor­rect them. Many of us have taken shots at Roy Williams for his lack of pro­duc­tion, but peo­ple, he was the first man to say he sucked, does that not count for something?

Did you all hap­pen to see Romo’s post game con­fer­ence? Well if you did not Here it is and it is a must see.

Folks he is get­ting it, he is under­stand­ing what he can do and what he can­not do, and bet­ter yet how to deter­mine when he can take a chance. He is a gun slinger that is what we love about him, we can­not ask him to turn that por­tion of him off. What we need is for him to know when to turn it up and when to turn it down.

I am not ready to anoint this team here to stay, but I sure do like what I am seeing.