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Jerry Jones, the eternal, free-spending optimist who owns the Dallas Cowboys, ate crow outside the visiting lockerroom in the swamps of Jersey Sunday. For New York Giants fans it just doesn't get any better for them than Cowboys owner Jerry Jones standing in the visiting locker room of their stadium conceding defeat in the NFC East with half the season to go.

Noted New York Daily News columnist Gary Myers: Just 10 months ago, Jones was handing out tickets to the NFC Championship Game to his players before the Cowboys played the Giants in the divisional round. Those tickets went to waste, of course, just as Jones' team is doing this season. The Giants wanted to Bury The Boys, kick them while they are down. That's what they did with their easy 35-14 victory yesterday that put them at 7-1 and Dallas all the way back in last place in the division at 5-4.

Jones admitted, "You'd have to be quite the optimist" to think the Cowboys, the preseason Super Bowl favorite, can catch the Giants, before adding, "I don't know that I am that much of an optimist."

Now that the Giants have disposed of the Cowboys, who were inept in their third game without Tony Romo, they can start to focus on the much bigger issue: repeating in Tampa. The Cowboys must get on a run to make it as a wild card, then hope they can duplicate what the Giants did and become road warriors in the playoffs.

The Giants have demonstrated they have not fallen into the Super Bowl championship trap of coming back the next season with a lack of fire. The best they've done in the season after their three previous Super Bowl seasons was 8-8.

Source: New York Daily News