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The speculation has been there for a couple of months now, but it was finally proven Thursday night.
The Cowboys are the best football in the NFC - right now.
Certainly, the Cowboys are hoping they will be able to claim that time come late January, but as things stand now, they are the top dogs in the conference after Thursday night's 37-27 win over the Packers in a showdown of 10-1 teams.
The Cowboys moved to 11-1 and clinched a playoff berth in the process. They can clinch the NFC East on Sunday if the Giants lose in Chicago or wrap up their first division title since 1998 by simply winning one more game.
But by beating the Packers in front of a raucous Texas Stadium crowd, the Cowboys now have the inside track on claiming home-field advantage throughout the playoffs.
"It's great to be 11-1," head coach Wade Phillips said. "This put us in the playoffs, which was our first goal. Our second goal was to win our division - which we are closer. Obviously, there are some implications towards home-field advantage, but we knew that going in. But this was a big win for our football team. We really came out and played well."
And it wasn't easy.
Despite quarterback Brett Favre leaving the game in the second quarter with an elbow injury and Green Bay playing without key defensive starters Charles Woodson and Kabeer Gbaja-Biamila, the Packers showed why they had won 10 games as well this season.
After rolling to a 27-10 second-quarter lead, the Cowboys saw Green Bay trim its deficit to three in the fourth quarter. But the Cowboys did what they have done all year - they survived.
Quarterback Tony Romo, a Wisconsin native who grew up watching Favre and the Packers, out-dueled the legendary quarterback and even his backup Aaron Rodgers, who replaced Favre in the second quarter.
But if Romo truly is ready to carry the torch as one of the NFL's top young quarterbacks, he played the part perfectly Thursday night.
Romo completed 19 of 30 passes for 309 yards and four touchdowns with one interception. Romo passed Danny White (29) for the Cowboys' single-season touchdown record with 33 scoring tosses this year - and four games still left to play.
But the biggest was certainly his last touchdown throw, when hit Patrick Crayton over the middle for a score to push the Cowboys' lead to 34-24 with 7:51 to play. That not only gave the Cowboys a two-score lead, but swung the momentum back in their favor after the Packers had rallied themselves back into the game.
Both teams would add a field goal, but the damage had been done. The Cowboys had prevailed and once again, they did it behind Romo.
"I don't know if he's the next American Idol, but he played really well and answered the bell," Phillips said. "When people said he might not have concentration on this, or his contract, or he might have a letdown because his hero was playing, and all of those things . . . he hadn't done that a bit. I just can't say enough about our quarterback."
While some critics will question the significance of Thursday's win with Favre missing the entire second half, the Cowboys can at least take solace knowing the Packers quarterback struggled when he was in the game.
The Cowboys picked him off twice - the second by Terence Newman on what turned out to be Favre's last play of the game. Blitzing cornerback Nate Jones' hit not only caused Favre's injury but forced the ball up in the air for the interception.
"I don't know how I feel about knocking a guy - hopefully he's OK," Jones said. "Obviously, he's a Hall-of-Fame quarterback. But it's a big play in the game."
Favre's night ended with just 5 of 14 completions for 56 yards and two interceptions for an 8.9 quarterback rating.
The only blemish on Romo's stat line was the interception, which actually should've been a touchdown pass to Terrell Owens. But Owens bobbled the ball and it landed in the hands of Packers cornerback Al Harris.
That play was about the only negative part of Owens' night. The star receiver, who went head-to-head with Harris for most of the game, caught seven passes for 156 yards and a score, extending his touchdown streak to a club-record-tying seven straight games.
And like the rest of the offense, Owens got off to a big start Thursday night, surpassing 100 yards receiving early in the second quarter.
After the Cowboys took a 6-3 lead, Romo started finding the end zone, firing touchdown passes to Crayton, tight end Anthony Fasano and Owens, whose 10-yard score gave the Cowboys a 27-10 lead.
Owens' touchdown tied the club's single-season record, pulling even with Frank Clarke (1962) with 14 this season.
But the record that means the most from this win is 11-1, somewhere no Cowboys team has ever been. And it's also a record that is pulling away from the rest of the NFC.
However, Romo said the Cowboys have to keep this win in perspective.
Important? Definitely. But crucial? Not exactly.
"This win doesn't put us in the Super Bowl, and a loss here wouldn't have knocked us out of it," Romo said. "Obviously it helps our chances. If we had a 50 percent chance of going to the Super Bowl, maybe it's 52 percent because maybe we get to play a home game against this team again, if we seem them."
So what does this win tell Romo?
"It says we're a pretty good football team and we're playing pretty good football right now," he said. "We're going to truck along and hopefully (put) some more wins together, go into the playoffs with a winning streak and see what we can do."
They proved they could beat the Packers, regardless of whether Favre finished the game. And even the Packers quarterback can admit the Cowboys are now the team to beat in the conference.
"They are the best team in the NFC," said Favre, who is now 0-9 as a starter at Texas Stadium. "They proved that today. I'm not concerned about the fact that we lost to Dallas again. There's still lots of football to play. We may meet them again, maybe here. Who knows?"
While it's hard to know anything in late November, the Cowboys at least know they've clinched a playoff berth. And they took a giant step toward playing those postseason games here at Texas Stadium.
