Maurice Jones-Drew is a local hero in my neighborhood. He attended De La Salle High School before going on to star at UCLA and with the Jacksonville Jaguars in the National Football League. He is not only a great player, but he is also a great guy in every sense of the word.
And this great guy said one of the dumbest things I have heard this football season on Sunday night after the Dallas Cowboys battled to a 40 to 40 tie against the highly regarded Green Bay Packers.
“Who is to say these Cowboys couldn’t contend for the Super Bowl?” Jones-Drew said to his broadcast partner Chris Rose on the NFL Network. “I mean, they just got edged by the Philadelphia Eagles in their opener and now have almost beaten the Packers. I like their chances,” MJD added.
This is a perfect example of an overreaction to a bad football team catching a couple good teams looking past them. Note, Dallas didn’t actually win either the game against Philadelphia or Green Bay and in their other two games got blown out by the Chicago Bears and needed overtime to edge the New York Giants on their home field.
The closeness of the Cowboys games against the Eagles and Packers is not an indicator that Dallas is good, but rather two superior teams looking past Dallas while anticipating an easy win.
The Cowboys are not going to get close to vying for a Super Bowl berth this season … will be eliminated before the playoffs begin and still have not assured me that my preseason bet of them winning more than seven games is secure. Dallas is not a good football team.