GREEN BAY -- Sneeze and you miss a Felix Jones run. Jones is so fast he makes Deion Sanders look like Dionne Warwick.

The next time there's a loud roar in Dallas, it won't be a jet heading to DFW. That'll be Jones walking down his driveway to pick up the newspaper.

In an otherwise snooze-fest of a game in which field goals and trash talking substituted for elegant play and a big stage, Jones rattled Lambeau Field with a 60-yard touchdown burst that would make Usain Bolt pee his track shorts. His play against the Green Bay Packers changed the complexion of the contest and again showed Jones' awesome speed.

There's quick. Then there's fast. Then there's NFL fast. Jones demonstrated he was a shade above all of them, his speed measured in warp factor. It was the beginning of an offensive floodgate for the Cowboys that ended with them beating the Packers 27-16.

"We have a good football team, I know that," quarterback Tony Romo said when asked if Dallas was the best in the NFC, "but it doesn't matter if you are the favorite now or the least favorite. You have to keep playing football games. You aren't trying to be the favorite in Week 3. You are trying to be there at the end of the year."

When asked if Dallas was the best team in football, Packers guard Jason Spitz replied, "Well, certainly tonight they were better than us. I mean, I'm not going to speculate on if they're the best team in the NFL."

Well, allow me. Please.

The Packers are a solid team but they are clearly not in the same class with the Cowboys. Indeed, few teams are -- and if you don't think the NFC is headed toward the inevitable conference rematch between the New York Giants and Cowboys, then you haven't been watching much football.

Felix Jones might have TOO much speed. T.O., who is supposed to be blocking for him, struggles to catch up. (US Presswire)

Owens never truly caught all the way up to Jones, and neither did any Packer. In fact, neither did Jones' shadow.

Jones wasn't the only young Dallas player to break the Packers' back. Miles Austin, who bears a striking resemblance to Alexander Rodriguez -- minus the stripper bimbos and Madonna rumors -- caught two big passes, one for a TD, in what is proving to be an embarrassment of Cowboys riches. Austin is listed as the third receiver on the depth chart behind Owens and Sam Hurd.

Dallas threw talent after talent, every sub-4.4 40-yard dash, long-legged, self-esteem wrecking Pro Bowler or future Pro Bowler at the Packers and all the Packers could do was duck and run for their lives.

After a while, Romo would complete a pass to someone and you thought: who in the hell is that?

That's how deep they are.

The Cowboys' backups could win the NFC South.

"We know if we stop the run and don't give up plays we have a chance to be really good," Cowboys linebacker Bradie James said of the defense. "It's not about who we play. It's about us playing well together."

The problem is they're so deep even when Dallas makes numerous mistakes they still destroy people. Dallas had seven penalties, Romo threw an interception, Barber fumbled and Owens was mostly MIA. Still, Dallas had 453 yards of offense and the game was truly never in doubt.

The Cowboys aren't perfect and they definitely have holes. Their defense gives up large chunks of yards and points. Romo makes at least two bonehead plays a game. He's still stunningly careless with the football in the pocket, flailing it about like a toddler showing off his favorite new toy. He was twice called for intentional grounding.

Still, this game showed why Dallas is the best team in football. It starts with its mental toughness. Romo might look like a soap opera star but he's as cutthroat as Michael Jordan.

"Tony never ceases to amaze me," Dallas coach Wade Phillips said. "He has a will to play. If things don't go his way early, he fights through it and plays well."

Overall, Dallas' diversity is what doomed Green Bay and has the Cowboys at 3-0. If you stop Owens, there's Barber. If you stop Barber, there's tight end Jason Witten. If you stop Witten, there's Felix the Scat.

In the third quarter, the Cowboys threw Austin at the Packers. Miles Freaking Austin. He caught a 63-yard bomb that set up a Dallas touchdown and made the score 20-9. Austin struck again in the fourth quarter when he caught a 52-yard touchdown pass to increase Dallas' lead to 27-9.

No team except the New York Giants can compete with the Cowboys' depth across their entire roster. It says a great deal when Dallas can go from Barber to Jones with very little dropoff. It's like going from Julia Roberts to Halle Berry.

Jones is a fascinating case. The Cowboys have a tradition of great running backs but Jones is really the first one since Herschel Walker to have the sort of speed that frightens defenses. There were some in the media who made an absolutely reasonable statement that the Cowboys should draft Illinois running back Rashard Mendenhall instead of Jones.

Cowboys players won't let people forget this fact. When Jones was talking quietly at his locker to a small group of reporters after the game, a teammate couldn't help himself. "He's better than Mendenhall," the player said, smiling.

And faster.