Not much to cheer about in Dallas lately. Except, of course, the cheerleaders.

Joe is encouraged by the whimpering coming from the Cowboys’ camp. Without Tony Romo, the team resembles a bratty 4-year-old girl who misses her mommy and is pouting because grandpa’s in charge.

They imploded against the Rams last week, and they sure don’t seem to be rallying around 40-year-old Brad Johnson at starting QB.

“Dead Coach Coaching,” is how a Fort Worth Star-Telegram columnist is referring to Dallass coach Wade Phillips.

Dallas Morning News columnist Tim Cowlishaw writes:

So really the Cowboys are back in the same boat that they sunk in a week ago. They hoped for a medical miracle from Romo in St. Louis, and they didn’t get it.

Now they’re hoping for a passing miracle from Brad Johnson either Sunday against Tampa Bay or a week later in Giants Stadium.

I think they had a better chance of seeing one delivered a week ago.

In the link above, the Dallas newspaper serves up a video interview with Brad Johnson, in which he calls the Bucs defense “lethal right now.”

Last week against St. Louis, Johnson did his best Brian Griese impression. He completed 17 of 34 passes for 234 yards and a touchdown but was intercepted three times and sacked three more. Johnson will make his first start against the Bucs since leading them to the beloved 2003 Super Bowl victory.