Every week since the draft, since OTA's, since training camp the Dallas Cowboys have heard a the same question.

"With the expectations so high, how do you not get caught up in them?"

And the team will continue to be asked about expectations throughout the season and we can expect the same answers.

"The expectations here are very, very high," says cornerback Adam 'Pacman' Jones.

"We're more focused on us and handling our business," says defensive tackle Tank Johnson.

"There's a lot of work that has to be done," says defensive end Chris Canty, "lots of improvement that has to be made."

"You know we want to take each play, each day, each game one game at a time," says linebacker Bradie James.

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Cowboys rookie running back Felix Jones in the preseason game against the Houston Texans.

The high expectations are warranted, after all the Cowboys went 13-3 last year and then added even more talent in the off-season, like Jones, linebacker Zach Thomas and rookie running back Felix Jones.

Tank Johnson says he hasn't played on a team this good since he was a kid.

"My Pop Warner team, my little league team, we had some ballers man," Johnson says. "We were deep and I think half those guys are in the league now."

With so much talent Johnson could think of only one thing that might derail this team.

"Practice," he says. "I think practice, I think the main thing to it is we gotta stay into it in practice, we gotta stay into it during meetings and film study.

"I just want to make sure that me, myself take it very seriously, the prep part of it, because like I said, with so many good players, it would be easy to say we're just going to show up and win."

The high expectations will be here all season long, bit it's the Cowboys' job to ignore those and focus on each game, which this week means beating a Cleveland team that won 10 games last year.