If there's one thing you can set your watch by, it's the fact the Cowboys Nation will somehow, some way find fault in any given performance. It's the nature of the beast and what makes for such soap opera theatrics and talk radio fodder. No one is ever happy, and this week it had everything to do with "style" points. Dan Bailey's Monday night performance for the majority of the football world was "boring." Come on, who in the world wants to see all the team's points come from the leg and foot of one man? Right?
The answer to that one, ladies and gentlemen, is everyone affiliated with the Cowboys, management, employees and fans, should have found great joy and fulfillment in that type of reliability. Play the song, and listen to the lyrics. It's definitely a "classic," and Adam Sandler hits the proverbial head of the nail with the lyrical tribute/compilation. Anyway you slice it, the place kicker is always a punch line or the brunt of all jokes and non-athletic references. They can't win for "winning." What Dan Bailey did Monday night was "step up" when this football club needed him most.
By simple math alone, no one can dismiss the importance of a NFL field goal kicker. 
Name another player on any given NFL team who accounts for a 1/4 to a 1/3 of the total points scored in a given year. That's right, the most productive kickers in the League, year in and year out, are accounting for 115-130 points per season. How can that contribution be dismissed so readily and easily?
Dan Bailey certainly did enough drilling needed field goals and exercising a strong leg on kick-offs to solidify the right to carry both duties moving forward, or did he? In a very confusing and mind-boggling statement, Owner/President/General Manager Jerry Jones was emphatic that PK David Buehler is going nowhere. 
Why, Jerry, why?
Carrying two kickers on a roster that is absolutely riddled with bumps, bruises, breaks, pulls, strains and punctures is hard to fathom. The Cowboys badly need to add as many healthy and productive bodies as possible as Detroit embarks on Cowboys Stadium and the Cowboys "limp" to their "bye" week. It's head-scratching to say the very least. What more did the brass want or need to see from Bailey?
Bailey's collegiate work was impressive, and while the NFL is a completely-different animal all together, it appears the Rookie jitters and introduction to "the bigs" are slowly fading for the former Oklahoma State product. There is absolutely no reason "that" Cowboy can't now become "this" Cowboy. Yes, kickers are a quirky bunch by nature, but Bailey's confidence level has to be at its highest level since joining the club. He was called on to bail out a fighting tooth and nail M.A.S.H unit, and he was true to form and center-cut. If the Cowboys are waiting for a repeat performance for reassurance, then may Dan Bailey boot Detroit back to the Motor City, and the team can get on with the business of finding CB or WR help.
Boom, Danny, Boom.......
