Dallas Cowboys Report: Super Bowl this Year?

The 2010 Final Four odds are in, but the fans of the Dallas Cowboys have other things on their minds. Even the best online sportsbook makers had a difficult time keeping the Cowboys out of the Super Bowl contender bracket. The Cowboys even got that December monkey off their backs in 2009 by only losing two games that month as opposed to the four or five they normally lose in December.

But a Dallas Cowboys report for the 2010 season must talk about the Super Bowl. The sports betting community believes that the Cowboys are already 10 to 1 favorites to win the Super Bowl this year, but odds on favorites are the Indianapolis Colts at 6 to 1. To win the Super Bowl the Cowboys need to win a playoff spot in the NFC while building a team that can beat Peyton Manning in February of 2011. The Cowboys may have done that.

The first move the Cowboys will make is to put Felix Jones in as the starting running back over Marion Barber. Why is this important? The New Orleans Saints are an NFC team unlike any other NFC team because they primarily throw the ball. Peyton Manning and the Colts also primarily throw the ball. Felix Jones is very good at pounding the ball for yards, and he also has break-away speed. The longer the Cowboys have the ball on offense, the less guys like Drew Brees and Peyton Manning have the ball.

Only in the land of the Cowboys can the job for place kicker be a primary concern. The Cowboys lost too many games last season due to bad field goal kicking, and now long kicker David Buehler is being given every chance to win both the kick-off and place kicking jobs from Connor Hughes. The Cowboys would prefer to not take up a roster spot for an extra kicker, but they are also not going to make the mistake of putting someone on the field that cannot win the game for them.

Staying with special teams, the Cowboys made sure that restricted free agent and kick return ace Sam Hurd will be on the team this season. Hurd will make an estimated $1.8 million for the season, and he will be a powerful weapon in getting the team field position.

The NBA betting in Dallas is centered around the playoff-bound Mavericks. But in Cowboys’ camp the central focus is that offensive line. This is the area of greatest weakness for the Cowboys right now, and it is also the area that the team has yet to address.

Rumors are beginning to fly about Flozell Adams being let go and someone being brought in from free agency or a trade. The Cowboys have a lot of depth on offense, but they are not likely to give up anything in a trade right now. Free agency offers almost nothing in the way of a good offensive lineman. That leaves the draft. The more the Cowboys wait to solve their offensive line problem, the more obvious it becomes that their first round draft pick will be a lineman that they believe will be a starter. Jerry Jones knows that his team is not winning a Super Bowl if Tony Romo cannot stay standing.