And I think we all know how great cowbell is.

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Nice, most of us have already come to these conclusions but it’s nice to here an actual decent analyst (as opposed to corporate analysts e.g. "T.O. frowned in a team meeting, how much longer can the team put up with his behavior?") confirm what most fans suspected.

I hope that Jenkins maintains his spot and continues to improve as we move towards the playoffs (hopefully). Rookies need time and Jenkins is playing as well as Henry (if not better) right now and he has much room for improvement where as Henry is what he is, old, injury prone and getting slower. Jenkins getting comfortable at the end of the year is more valuable than Henry right now.

Yeah, that makes sense a bit in terms of their move away from fact-based articles— now that they’re writing for ESPN and getting larger exposure, they do a bit of the sensational stuff to drive hits.

I read the “Five Downs” they do with DMN every week, and I generally find KC’s opinions on our team (especially our secondary) much more grounded in fact, and FO’s stuff increasingly grounded in solely opinion.

I will say that I still much prefer them to ESPN, and that the “Audibles at the Line” feature they do every week where they have a running e-mail dialogue going while watching the games is always entertaining and gives me a good take on the games I can’t watch.

Our culture values splash much more then it does in-depth analysis. We consume sound bites and headlines while we skim any thing over a page. As a whole, we hate to contemplate for more then a moment. The overriding message is don’t confuse me with facts. Just tell me what it all means, and I’ll tell you if I am buying. Even when the purpose of the analysis is to help executives make multi-million dollar decisions that impact the future of their organizations most want 300 pages of facts and analysis boiled down to a 120 word power point presentation or a two page executive summary with a glossy cover sheet.

Most sports fans want the same thing and the mass media complies. KC Joyner’s USA Today work does not going to resemble the hard core stuff found in his books. If it did, they would not publish it. Even here we get complaints when someone writes a piece that is mostly facts without clearly spelling out the ramifications in a nice summary paragraph.

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Rafael,

Thanks for getting the interview and for having a great set of questions. Since Dallas needs to score often to win consistently, we need a healthy offensive line. Do we know if Flozell is healthy at this point?