Cowboys Play Well in Pro Bowl But NFC Comes Up Short.

The Pro Bowl was a Dallas Cowboys affair with nine players and the Cowboys coaching staff calling the plays.

Tony Romo tried to tie the game on the last drive for Wade Phillips and the NFC but overthrew a pass intended for DeSean Jackson at the AFC 31-yard line and it was intercepted by the Steelers' James Harrison ending the NFC's chance to win.

Romo still had a pretty good game going 13-18 for 154 yards and led the NFC on two scoring drives.

Miles Austin caught six balls for 49 yards as his NFC East counterpart DeSean Jackson (six catches, 110 yards and two TDs) was the receiving star of the day. Jason Witten had three catches for 49 yards as Packers QB Aaron Rodgers targeted him early in the game.

On the defensive side of the ball things were different. Wade Phillips described the game as an all star game; no defense. The defensive line on both teams made no effort to get to the QB. With the AFC not pressuring, the NFC threw the ball on 48 of 59 plays.

“They decided the defense was going to put their hands behind their backs, so you are going to have a lot of scoring. But that is what we wanted to see.”

DeMarcus Ware still found a way to get to the QB as he had four tackles and a sack. Jay Ratliff recorded just two tackles but did have a pass defended.

Terence Newman and Mike Jenkins were first and second in tackles but you can attribute that more to the fact that they couldn't play press coverage making things to easy for the receivers.

Newman and Miles Austin both had a return on special teams and both went for 15 yards.

Now for the Cowboys the season is truly over. However they're just a few months away from off-season training activities and they better take it seriously because when they return in September they'll find themselves with the third hardest schedule in the NFL.