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    <title>Bleacher Report - Articles by Billy Franzese</title>
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      <title>Lets Be Realistic, Cowboys Are a Lock To Win NFC!</title>
      <author>Billy Franzese</author>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Come on now, does anybody truly believe they have a shot at losing? They have hands down the best wide  receiver in the NFC in &lt;a href="/terrell-owens"&gt;Terrell Owens&lt;/a&gt;. Say what you want about his attitude or his drops but no one comes close to dominating a game like he does. And you  don't have to look much further for the best quarterback.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="/tony-romo"&gt;Tony Romo&lt;/a&gt; is a flat out  play maker. People say he  hasn't won a playoff game...but come on the guy only started ONE full season and went 13-3. He's only going to get better. Not to mention Marion the barbarian pounding defenses and Felix Jones cleaning up.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The only question mark coming into this season was the defense.  That's not even a question anymore. Zach Thomas is still top three &lt;a href="/nfl"&gt;NFL&lt;/a&gt; linebackers, next to the best (THE BEST) pass rusher in the league...DeMarcus Ware.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Now here is where  I'm going to get a lot of  criticism...Adam Jones. Top five corner in the NFC hands down. The guy is a flat out athlete. Once he gets back into football shape the guy is going to lock down everyone. I mean come on you really think any  receivers on the EAGLES got a shot on beating Jones or Newman? No.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href="/washington-redskins"&gt;Redskins&lt;/a&gt;  don't have a  receiver over six feet tall. Its hard to say anything about the &lt;a href="/new-york-giants"&gt;Giants&lt;/a&gt; because they won the  Superbowl (I HATE to admit it), but their defense won't be the same without Strahan. Sam  Madison isn't getting younger and Gibril  Wilson/Kiwanuka were big losses, and lets face it, the defense was the reason they got to the playoffs.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you look outside the  division, the competition just falls off. Am i really supposed to even consider anyone besides the saints? No. The saints still have no defense and every other team just  doesn't have any talent.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I would love to here anyone  Else's opinion but make it good...because I am about to buy my tickets to the Super Bowl now and have my T.O. jersey ready.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:23:33 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://bleacherreport.com/articles/49881-lets-be-realistic-cowboys-are-a-lock-to-win-nfc</link>
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      <category>Football</category>
      <category>NFL</category>
      <category>NFC East</category>
      <category>Dallas Cowboys</category>
      <category>Preview/Prediction</category>
      <category>Austin</category>
      <category>Dallas</category>
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