When asked at Monday’s press conference about the team’s routine December decline, coach Wade Philips lost his cool a bit, of course blaming the perception on the media.

No, I don't think it's a mental block. I think it's something you made up.

Made up? Hmmmm. Since Tony Romo became the starting quarterback of the team, they are 5-9 (36%) in the last month of the season; They are 31-8 (79%) in the first three months of the season. Last season they just needed to go 2-3 in December to go to the playoffs; they didn't. Just take a look at their remaining schedule this season: San Diego (9-3), @ New Orleans (12-0), @ Washington (3-9), Philadelphia (8-4). The Cowboys will have to win at least two of those games to win the division and probably need to win two to go to the playoffs.

When asked at Monday’s press conference about the team’s routine December decline, coach Wade Philips lost his cool a bit, of course blaming the perception on the media.

No, I don't think it's a mental block. I think it's something you made up.

Made up? Hmmmm. Since Tony Romo became the starting quarterback of the team, they are 5-9 (36%) in the last month of the season; They are 31-8 (79%) in the first three months of the season. Last season they just needed to go 2-3 in December to go to the playoffs; they didn't. Just take a look at their remaining schedule this season: San Diego (9-3), @ New Orleans (12-0), @ Washington (3-9), Philadelphia (8-4). The Cowboys will have to win at least two of those games to win the division and probably need to win two to go to the playoffs.

A debate’s also erupted in Dallas about whether the Cowboys are “winners.”

Well, they've won eight games and they've lost four. That's where we are. I don't think we have a team of losers.

How do you define that term? Coach Phillips thinks they are "winners" because they've won more games this season than they've lost. I think they're a bunch of losers. Not a single player on the Cowboys has won a Super Bowl, and the only coach on the staff to have won a Super Bowl was back when the Cowboys were a very different team (with Aikman, Irvin and Smith). Only two players on the team ever won a BCS title, and I don't believe either of them was a starter when they did. I don't know how you call that track record the resume of "winners."

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