2006 Review: The 2006 football betting season was a true rollercoaster for the Dallas Cowboys.  The Cowboys had to deal with the Terrell Owens continuing soap opera but they rallied around quarterback Tony Romo to make the playoffs.  The rollercoaster ended on the downward slope as Romo unbelievably dropped the hold on a winning field goal attempt against Seattle and the Cowboys’ season was over. 

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Head coach Bill Parcells retired in the off-season. On defense Dallas was thirteenth in total yards allowed (322.8 a game), but their biggest weakness was the pass defense, where they were ranked twenty-fourth allowing 219.1 yards a game. This lack of defense helped football betting players that bet the over as they cashed to a 9-4-3 record.  The Cowboys were about a break-even proposition for football betting players going 8-7-1 against the spread. DeMarcus Ware led the team with 11.5 sacks, and Roy Williams led the team with 5 interceptions.

DALLAS COWBOYS 2006 SEASON REVIEW

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The 2006 NFL betting season was full of all kinds of roller coaster ups and down in the NFC East.  Depending on the football betting week you never knew who was up and who was down.  There were huge expectations for all of the teams in this division in the football betting preseason and very few lived up to the hype.  Or perhaps they were all so evening matched, as their head to head records would suggest, that they simply destroyed each other in division play and had nothing left to offer the rest of league.  What ever the cause, there certainly many theories as to why the NFC East, with such great promise seemed to under last football betting season.

The Cowboys were a team that would fit that bill, though many football betting pundits were not that sold on the Cowboys to begin with.  They entered the NFL betting season with one of the biggest attention getting stories of the season.  The Cowboys acquired the very talented Terrel Owens in the off-season and were hoping to use him as the go to guy and give Terry Glenn, a deep threat target, and some protection underneath to keep the secondaries honest.  It worked well for most of the football betting season although injuries and off field circus stuff limited the impact slightly.

The NFL betting season started off a bit mixed and actually the Cowboys got into trouble early and plummeted to the bottom of divisional rankings after getting man handled on nation al TV at home on a Monday night against the hated Giants.  It was after that debacle that head coach Bill Parcells and football betting fans had seen enough.  The grizzled and decorated veteran QB Drew Bledsoe was benched.  He was too slow on his feet and he was sack waiting to happen.  He kept holding the ball too long and costing the team in lost sack yardage.  In came Tony Romo, an athletic kid from nowhere Michigan that no one had every heard of.  In his mop up efforts in the Giants game he stunk and inspired little confidence in the Cowboy faithful.  But after that game he went on a tear doing all the things that Bledsoe couldn’t, and most importantly the Cowboys were winning and football betting fans where happy.

But the good football betting times didn’t last and Dallas hit some rough patches at the end of the season and Romo’s play dropped off and stars like TO were dogged by injuries.  And so the tam struggled to a 9-7 record, second best in the division and only one behind the division champs, the Eagles, but it wasn’t enough to get into the post season.  But the season wasn’t a total failure.  There were two main things that came out of the 2006 football betting campaign: the discovery of Tony Romo, and the solid play of TO.

Romo put up very solid numbers for football betting followers in his limited starts.  He threw for 2900 yards, completed 65% of his passes, threw 19 TDs, only 13 INTs and had a QB rating of 95, very well for a first year player from a place nobody had ever heard of.  He and TO clicked immediately, as the selfish wide out became his favorite target.  TO, although severely hampered by a broken hand for much of the football betting season, had a a lot of key drops, in fact more than nay other starting receiver, but still managed to rack up 85 catches for 1100 yards and 13 TDs, which is pretty good even for someone with two good hands.  Terry Glenn was some what minimized when Romo took over, but still caught 70 passes for 1000 yards and six TDs.  The running game also got going as Julius Jones and Marion Barber formed a two headed monster that ran for 1700 yards and 18 TDs. 

But as good as the offense was, the D was mediocre at best.  It ranked 20th in points allowed per football betting game, which basically tells the whole story.  It simply gave up too many yards, especially in the air and ranked 24th in allowing 219 yards per football betting game passing to opponents.  Roy Williams had a strong season with 5 INTs and 58 tackles and DeMarcus Ware had a good second season with 11.5 sacks.  But their effort wasn’t enough and the Cowboys simply couldn’t stop their opponents when the game was on the line.