Excitement in Cowboys Nation

I'm excited. Very excited. This is the best I've felt about the Cowboys since our incredibly upsetting loss to the Giants in the playoffs two years ago. I salivate for Sunday, and not just because of church.

I have a feeling about these Cowboys, a feeling that I did not even have during that 13-3 season. This team is more than talented, it is a team. Guys are actually looking out for one another. When the media is looking for reasons to pull this team apart, like reporting that Roy Williams is being a nuisance to his quarterback, this team just pulls closer together. For the last couple of years, when a certain other #1 receiver was with the team, the players and coaches would claim that the media was blowing the situation between T.O., Romo, and Witten way out of proportion. I don't buy it. T.O., while being a good receiver, was a huge detriment to the team by being in the spotlight all the time for the wrong reasons. Addition by subtraction this year, though. (As an aside, I thought the same thing was true of Randy Moss in Minnesota five years ago, but he was able to turn it around in New England and be a decent, respectable person...for now.)

This Cowboys team is a team. We're not overly reliant on Romo to play out of his mind. We don't need one receiver to catch every ball of every game. Our players don't get frustrated when they don't touch the ball enough. And defense. Wow, are they playing well. For once I feel as if the secondary isn't going to get burned every time an opposing receiver runs a go route. I don't know what happened to the safety Roy Williams, but that guy went soft. Once again, addition by subtraction. And if Sensabaugh were completely healthy, we'd be looking at another 2 or 3 interceptions at least. It is pretty difficult to catch a ball when you are playing with a club for an arm.

I admit, at the end of the Philly game on Sunday night I was a little nervous when the 'boys were only up by four with four minutes to play. But they did what they are supposed to do. Marion the Barbarian and Witten put it away. I think we could only be so fortunate to be up with four minutes to play in the rest of the games this season.

I've circled the upcoming game against the Saints as the battle for home field advantage throughout the playoffs. Believe me when I say the Saints will lose at least one by then, and the Cowboys may not lose again the rest of the season. It will be a difficult second half to the season, but here at the halfway point, my excitement is definitely getting ramped up.

And I can safely assume the same about the rest of Cowboys Nation.