'Texas' Team'? Dallas Cowboys 'All In' Strategy Plummets Super Bowl Odds

You think Dallas Cowboys fans are deflated by Jerry Jones' "all in!" battle cry fizzling essentially into stagnation this offseason? Wait until you get a load of what the Las Vegas wise guys think.

Bottom line: Forever "America's Team," the Cowboys - at least according to sports oddsmakers at Bet MGM - are no longer even "Texas' Team." In the latest odds posted for Super Bowl LIX, the Houston Texans are now a better team more likely to win this season's championship than Dallas.

Not only those bragging rights have dissolved and flipped because of the Cowboys' inactivity, so too has the NFC East.

Before free agency commenced March 14, the Cowboys had the seventh-best odds (+1600) in the NFL and best in the division. Now? They have dipped to +1800 and dropped to only ninth-best, passed by the Philadelphia Eagles (+1600) and Texans (+1400).

The Eagles signed former Giants running back Saquon Barkley and edge-rusher Bryce Huff. Houston, meanwhile, saw its Super Bowl odds rocket from +2500 to +1400 because of the acquistions of pass-rushers with 10+ sacks (Danielle Hunter and Denico Autry), a 100-catch receiver (Stefon Diggs) and a 1,000-yard rusher (Joe Mixon).'

Vegas believes in quarterback C.J. Stroud and the Texans. But it is now fading the Cowboys, who this offseason have signed only linebacker Eric Kendricks while Leighton Vander Esch, Michael Gallup, Tyler Biadasz, Tyron Smith, Tony Pollard, Dorance Armstrong, Dante Fowler and Jonathan Hankins have all signed with other teams.

The Cowboys also lost defensive coordinator Dan Quinn, and replaced him with Mike Zimmer.

Some analysts, in fact, are becoming convinced the Cowboys - who apparently will not extend quarterback Dak Prescott's contract before next season - are essentially "tanking" the 2024 season and looking ahead to a complete rebuild in 2025.

In the NFC, Dallas' Super Bowl LIX odds are now worse than the San Francisco 49ers, Detroit Lions and Eagles.