One thing that Tony Romo said today that really stuck out ... here's the quote:

"If you're lucky enough to win one or two Super Bowls as a quarterback and you're -- hopefully let's say you play 10 years in the league, well you've had a pretty successful career I'm guessing. So you're going to be disappointed for eight or nine of those years then, each year that happens. So to live and die all the time on strictly winning the Super Bowl is just going to make people go nuts. And so I feel that each season, you're out to get better, and you hope to one day be able to be good enough as a team to win a Super Bowl, but the only thing we can take care of right now is today. The only thing we can do right now is have a good practice today. Hopefully that will make us be a better team tomorrow, be a better team on Sunday, and over the course of 17, 20 weeks or whatever it is, we hope to be that much better then. And hopefully you'll be a good enough football team to have a chance."

My ears perked up once I heard this, and our photographer Arnold Payne knew he heard a little gold too, because he flipped a switch to show color bars on the tape after Romo finished that comment (which indicates to us when looking through the tape that something good just happened).

Here's the thing: there are no guarantees in sports. I hate typing that, because everyone already knows that; it's an old, tired, played-out cliche. But when people - whether it's fans, the media, or talk radio hosts - call this season a "Super Bowl or Bust" year, they are looking for guarantees.

I like to compare it to poker. If I have pocket aces, and I get my opponent to put all his money in before the flop, then I've done everything right because I have the best hand. But that doesn't mean I'm guaranteed to win. As a sports franchise, and as a team, all you can do is put yourself in the best position to win - like the Cowboys did last year by earning a bye and home field advantage. After that, no matter how good a team is, or how good a poker hand is, you are subject to chance.

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