The Cowboys have looked horrendous in their last two outing against Jacksonville and Green Bay. The Cowboys lost both games by a combined score of 80 to 24. Phillips record in his previous three seasons with the Cowboys is 33-15 with a 1-2 record in the playoffs. At the end of the 2009 season, Phillips option for the 2010 season was accepted by the Cowboys and he was given a one year extension for the 2011 season.

This will not come as a shock to many considering the poor play on the field, the lack of effort demonstrated by the defense (Phillips specialty), and Phillips’s statements indicating that they were beat by similar plays the week prior. Essentially he indicted his defense as tuning him out.

With the Cowboys turning to Jason Garrett as head coach, it is questionable that the players will have success with a new figure head leading the team. While it has not been determined, I expect Paul Pasqualoni or Dave Campo to assume play calling duties for the defense.

It is likely this will be Phillips last opportunity as a head coach given his age and his lack of playoff success. At least he will have a Jerry Jones supplied golden parachute to ease his fall (approximately 3.5 million dollars). Fair thee well Wade, you deserved better.

The lowliest commentator on ESPN isn’t Mark Schlereth.

It’s not Jim Rome.

It isn’t Keyshawn Johnson, Ron Jaworski, Emmitt Smith or even Stephen A. Smith, though he tries to make my ears bleed everytime he takes the mic.

No. That ignoble title goes to ESPN newbie Trent Dilfer.

Dilfer, the former Buccaneer, Raven, Seahawk, Brown and 49er, retired this year after 14 lackluster seasons in the NFL.

Now, he’s ESPN’s go-to guy for NFL analysis.

And that analysis includes commenting on our beloved Dallas Cowboys, who are in control of their own destiny when it comes to making the playoffs and fresh off of their 20-8 win over the Giants.

Dilfer seems to think that the Cowboys, winners of four of their last five, have no chance at being a serious title contender because they lack a strong coaching staff and because Jerry Jones has a media circus on his hands.

Really? Come on now, Trent. Look at the Cowboys’ win in 1995. Was this year not under bumbling imbecile of a coach Barry Switzer, while the Cowboys employed Deion “Prime Time” Sanders?

Didn’t the Giants win it with a bum of a coach last year and controversy swirling around quarterback Eli Manning? Oh, that’s right, the Giants shrugged off the media pressure and came together as a team to secure a playoff berth when everyone had counted them out.

And in this, one of the oddest football seasons I can remember, isn’t it a little early to say that there’s no chance for anything?

I want to know what qualifies Trent Dilfer as an expert on what a team needs to win a Super Bowl.

I know that Dilfer won it all with the Ravens. But honestly, did Dilfer not do as little as any quarterback has ever done in the history of the NFL to win a Super Bowl?

In Dilfer’s Super Bowl winning season, he went 7-1 with the Ravens.

Not bad, right?

Wrong. Dilfer averaged 136.5 passing yards per game, tossed 12 touchdowns and 11 picks and had a quarterback rating of 76.6. He was 12 of 25 for 153 yards and one touchdown in the game.

Dilfer’s touchdown and a 3-yard run from Jamal Lewis were the only offensive touchdowns in a 34-7 win over the Giants.

The strengths of that Ravens team were their defense and their run game. Trent Dilfer is the man for whom the term “caretaker quarterback” was coined. All he had to do was go out and run Jamal Lewis right or left and when called on to pass, not throw a pick-six.

With the way that this season has gone, I’m only counting those mathematically eliminated from making the playoffs as teams that have no chance of winning the Super Bowl.

But I especially wouldn’t rule out the Cowboys because of our defense. The defense has been outstanding in the past two games, especially against the run and with the pass rush. Those two factors can severely limit what opposing offenses can do against us. There isn’t a team in the playoff picture that I would be worried about against our defense.

Of all ESPN’s analysts, Trent Dilfer should understand the value of a good defense.

But all he seems to care about are the off-field incidents for the Cowboys, which are now under scrutiny thanks to Terrell Owens’ disputation of Ed Werder’s reporting of an incident between the receiver and tight-end Jason Witten.

Dilfer is trying to grab ratings for ESPN right now. But instead, he sounds like an idiot. He was an awful quarterback, and he’s an even worse analyst.

ESPN’s Ed Werder, who has a hot daughter whom I’d love to, well, you know, reports that Cowboys owner Jerry Jones gave Jason Garrett $3 million a year to remain the offensive coordinator. That means the Falcons and Ravens lose.

But the amount of the offer is mindboggling. The whole situation with Jones and Garrett is odd. Usually, a head coach hires his coordinators. But Jerry Jones snagged Garrett out of Miami and hired him even before he hired a damn head coach. When Wade Phillips was hired, he already had one guy on his staff. This lead us all to believe a few things: first, we thought Garrett was going to be named head coach. Then we thought, once Phillips got the job, that he was a puppet, and that Garrett would take over the head coaching job after a year or two under his belt in Dallas.

And now this. So, here is to Jason Garrett, our new head coach. Go win us a damn record-breaking sixth Lombardi Trophy!