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Are The Dallas Cowboys Dead?

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Turmoil is again in the air with the Dallas Cowboys, as they sit at 3-5 with their playoff hopes already on life support at the halfway point of the regular season. Whether Jerry Jones the owner should fire Jerry Jones the GM is a topic on sports talk shows, not just in Big D, but nationwide. The ‘Boys have a game with equally turmoil-ridden Philadelphia coming up Sunday. With the Cowboys-Eagles game in the prime Fox time slot at 4:25 PM EST, the discussion of where to go from here will get even more attention.

As for what Dallas should do in the future, we’ll leave that for another time. For now, TheSportsNotebook is interested in this question—what’s been the problem with the 2012 Cowboys and is there still time to fix it and make the playoffs?

NFL Week 4 Recap: How Long Can Philly Live On The Edge?

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The Philadelphia Eagles are the only NFC East team that hasn’t gotten a rush of positive publicity at some point in the first four weeks of the NFL season. The Redskins are riding the wave of RG3 hype. The Cowboys played their brilliant opening game in New York. And the Giants hammered Carolina with several second-stringers in the lineup. Philadelphia, meanwhile, turns the ball over, barely escapes games and its quarterback and head coach both are under the gun. But it’s Philadelphia that’s alone atop the NFC East with a 3-1 record, while their rivals are all 2-2.

NFL Team Previews: Dallas Cowboys

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Somewhere along the line the Dallas Cowboys morphed into the Minnesota Vikings—a team that was competitive every year, had seasons where they looked the part of a legitimate Super Bowl threat and were always a good bet to win on a week-to-week basis, but also a team that never translated that into sustained postseason success. The Cowboys have been .500 or better in seven of the last eight years and they’ve won two of the last five NFC East titles, but they’ve also never advanced past the second round of the playoffs since their last Super Bowl year in 1995. Will 2012 be different? TheSportsNotebook breaks down the Cowboys…