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JENNIFER FLOYD ENGELOh my how painfully mediocre did Minny and Peter King BFF Brett Favre seem Sunday while losing to Carolina with a backup QB and former Cowboys castoff? And New Orleans looked ...

JENNIFER FLOYD ENGEL

Oh my how painfully mediocre did Minny and Peter King BFF Brett Favre seem Sunday while losing to Carolina with a backup QB and former Cowboys castoff? And New Orleans looked infinitely fallible on Saturday.

So dial down all Saints-Vikes love a guaranteed NFC Championship Game talk until further notice. What we have brewing looks to be a crapshoot kind of whatever team doesn’t stumble as well badly into January has a opportunity at Miami. And look who seems to be positioning themselves well for just such a complete — Philadelphia (per usual) and Dallas (finally).

Or to use Keith Brooking’s phrasing a lot of teams want to avoid this Cowboys team come playoffs.

"As long as we play the type of football we understand we can play and we don’t shoot ourselves in the foot and we don’t dig ourselves in holes throughout the course of games I guarantee there are a lot of teams that don’t want to face us when the playoffs get here" the Cowboys linebacker said.

And he may very well be right. What has plagued Dallas in past seasons is not shortage of talent except rather lack of timing. They were good right up until they needed to be good and then they were inconsistent or worse. They were oftentimes reluctant to admit the problem and unable to fix it once admitted. This team in stark contrast seems to be structure toward its best ball.

"Like we said all along we have to peak at the right time and we need to be playing our best football at the end of the year" Brooking said.

He spoke Monday between lighting up faces and I am not exaggerating. A smile appeared wherever he walked at Cook Children’s Medical Center of Fort Worth as part of Cowboys players’ annual visits.

I have a confession. I have been going to Cowboys hospital visits for years now and am often a little jealous. What an incredible gift to be capable if only for a couple of moments to alleviate pain and fear and bring a smile to a sick child’s face — as well as his siblings and doctors and parents. And guys like Brooking and Martellus Bennett and Miles Austin had just that impact on so many little fans eager to forget needles and tubes and instead talk about Saturday’s large victory in The Big Easy.

"A couple of them showed me what I needed to do" Austin said with a smile "and I am always open for suggestions."

Best suggestion: Do not forget to defeat Washington. Philly too.

Apparently even little Cowboys fans experience deja vu. And we have seen a big victory like this before most recently a year ago when Dallas beat The NYG in December to save the season only to promptly unsave it by going belly-up against Baltimore and Philly and failing to do anything with that supposedly season-defining victory.

Coach Wade inexplicably saved his job afterward with promises of meaner tougher better only to find his team back in almost that exact same spot a year later.

I repeat: almost.

The differences are they beat the Saints on the road as opposed to the friendly confines of JerryWorld the personality of this team is a lot stronger and the idiot is no longer round mucking up the locker room. What they have instead are guys like Brooking who was not sugarcoating what has to occur now.

"We have to back it up with two more good games" Brooking admitted. "We’re not looking to our right to our left. We’re definitely not looking behind us. We definitely control our own destiny. We need to receive concern of our deal the next couple of weeks."

Because players know what’s what. They see how "Favre for MVP" talk has been relegated to his correct believers and see Green Bay’s defense and see New Orleans’ vulnerability. They see the best football in the conference is being played in the East with Philly and Dallas and probably NYG looking primed for a little run.

So what the truly smart guys see is an opportunity. What Cowboys players have to see is with a little consistency they have the potential to be dangerous come playoff time.

"And if my golf game had consistency I’d be a dangerous golfer" Austin countered.

Well played sir. Well played.

He’s right and consistency is frequently one of those things that falls under the purview of coaching. None of the coaches in the thick of the NFC has a seek record of real accomplishment save Andy Reid and he has his own demons.

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