It’s not very often that you lose the top running back (at least statistically) in football only to improve without signing an equally talented player. But for the Dallas Cowboys, that’s their reality. At least according to owner Jerry Jones who says they’re a better football team and possess a better rushing attack without DeMarco Murray who signed with the Philadelphia Eagles.
Of course, Jones has been known to drink far too much Kool-Aid from time to time, but perhaps he’s right as he suggests the Dallas Cowboys are more balanced.
Given that, it wasn’t a shot at Murray or the Eagles, but rather a suggestion the Cowboys have more tools at their disposal.
“When you say the entire running game — and that would be including our tight ends, including fullbacks, the entire game — we’re better. We’re better,” Jones said Wednesday, per NFL.com. “Murray certainly is in that thought, but what we’ve got a chance to do with our depth, what we’ve got a chance to do with the talent, the competition that we have, and I’m assuming that we can protect (Tony) Romo, which standing here last year, the concerns about his surgeries were more so than today.
“So if Romo can have the kind of year that he had last year, then our running game will benefit from that.”
Jerry Jones might have a point, but, if he’s really still trying for an Adrian Peterson trade – does he believe it?
