Dallas Cowboys: Why “America’s Team” Will Win Super Bowl XLV

November 13, 2010   ·   Carl Ragsdale   ·   Jump to comments

August 2010—Arlington, Texas
Heading into the 2010 NFL season, the Dallas Cowboys look like the NFL's team to beat.
Personally, I have to give Jerry Jones and Wade Phillips all the credit in the world for how this roster is assembled.
On offense, the Cowboys have gone with the notion that less is more on the offensive line. As we all know, teams with excellent offensive lines have a long history of losing. The 2007 Patriots were the perfect example of a team that had three Pro Bowl offensive linemen but somehow struggled to score points. The Jimmy Johnson era Cowboys had one of the best offensive lines of all time but the team struggled to stay competitive in the early '90s.
The Cowboys have learned from the mistakes of their own past, and they have now invested nearly all of their offensive draft picks into skill position players instead of drafting a tackle or guard. This is the same strategy that Matt Millen used with the Lions from 2001 until 2008, and the...

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