That's the opinion of Sports Illustrated's Peter King, who ranked the 32 teams in this morning's edition of Monday Morning Quarterback.

He has the Cowboys ninth -- third in the NFC East, but good enough to get a wild card berth.

Maybe this is the year the Cowboys start putting the round peg in round hole. They have 25-, 24- and 22-year-old running backs -- Marion Barber, Tashard Choice and Felix Jones, respectively -- who last year rushed the ball 360 times for 1,623 yards (4.5-yard average) and 12 touchdowns. Meanwhile, their quarterbacks dropped back to pass 578 times. When your backs are that good, they shouldn't be handed the ball on 37 percent of the offense snaps. I'm counting on Jason Garrett to make the run game much more of a presence this year. If he does, it's not a very distant limb to walk out on and say the Cowboys should win their first playoff game since 1996. But I've got to see it to believe it.Wade Phillips has made it clear that he's counting on the running game to be a bigger factor for the Cowboys this season, too.

How can Garrett best utiltize the three backs? We've had that discussion (hereand here) already this off-season, but feel free to go at it again.

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