Tony Romo kept his team hot in the beginning of the cold season. Past records show that he can get it done in November where he has a career record now of 19-2, but critics look at his career record of 7-10 in December missing all of it last year due to injury.
This year however, may be different because The Cowboys may have found their future star running back in the rookie out of Oklahoma, DeMarco Murray. When the pressure of winning games based only on his ability to throw the ball Romo has struggled and carried all the blame on the games the Boys have lost. Now he can hand the ball off to a talented and promising future star of the league, and perhaps the biggest steal of the 2011 NFL draft.
Murray was taken in the 3rd round in the draft and is the leading rookie rusher with 834 yards on the season and averaging a solid 5.7 yards a carry. When The Cowboys put the ball into Murrays hands he changes the game and takes pressure of Romo, the result is usually a W. This season when Murrray has 20 or more touches The Boys are perfect at 5-0. Now that Felix Jones is back Murray kept his starting role and should keep it withstanding an injury or setback.
Injury to star players on explosive offensive teams usually means teams struggle. That has not been the case this year with the emergence of Murray and leaves you scratching your head on what teams saw in other running backs taken in the two rounds of the draft before Murray. Miles Austin has been on the injury list what seems like all season which opened up the depth chart for another wide receiver to step up on make a case for a starting job on America’s Team. The emergence of Laurent Robinson came when they picked him back up in the season the first time Austin went down. Robinson has made the most of his opportunities, catching a TD pass in his past 5 games. The only other wide out to do that this season, you got it, The Mega Tron aka Calvin Johnson for The Detroit Lions.
The Cowboys have also found their MVP of the season. Dan Bailey, yes that’s right a kicker. The rookie kicker out of Oklahoma State, has only missed one field goal all the way back in the second game of the season against The San Francisco 49ers and has went on the make every kick in response to the chip shot miss.
So the difference this year is if Romo comes up short he can hand the ball off or trust his kicker for the almost automatic 3 points.