Star Power

So what you're telling me is that Terrell Owens and Tony Romo are like Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie? Am I following you correctly? Are TO and Romo gonna start adopting little runts and taking them to the zoo? Like Pitt vowed, are TO and Romo out to adopt enough kids for a soccer team? Once I got past your analogy, and got down to the football talk, I guess I could see what you meant. But you're wrong. So, so wrong.

First off, we've got a QB who is heading into his first year as THE starter, THE man. And for "America's Team," no less. Lots of pressure, especially coming off that botched hold. This was a gaff of such epic proportions that a sexual position has actually been named after it. Basically, you have your lady run and jump into your arms, only you let her slip and fall to the ground, all before you writhe around like a fish out of water, and then proceed to screw an entire city. Now, to combat this pressure, Romo spends the offseason golfing in Tahoe, and running around with the likes of Carrie Underwood and Jessica Simpson. I, myself, am not a QB in my first full season at the helm, and I could be wrong, but wouldn't that time be better spent, I don't know, learning the new offense? Jason Garrett, Troy Aikman's backup in the Super Bowl years, is taking over as offensive coordinator. Seems like a normal move: bring in a young guy who has spent time with the organization and see if he can keep the ball rolling with an already talented offense. The thing that bothers me about Garrett, though, is his experience. He's never been a coordinator, and he's only been coaching for 2 years, as a quarterbacks' coach in Miami. Think about Miami's quarterbacks over the past two years. Is there a team with a more widely publicized quarterback problem in that span than the Miami Dolphins? Yeah, I didn't think so. Good luck, Romo. You're on your own.
TO will be TO. And that's what worries me with him. He caused just a few, minor problems in his second year in Philadelphia. He's either going to put up another 12 tuddies this year, or he's going to explode the first time he doesn't get the ball when he feels he should, and the season will be over for the Cowboys. You never know if you're getting "get your popcorn ready" or "I LOVE ME SOME ME", a phrase, which I must admit, is hilarious and gets me fired up every time I see the clip of him screaming it.
You've put a lot of eggs into this one basket. You're playing your high risk/high reward card, and I think you're really going to come up busted.