For some around the NFL, not much changes in a year. This time 365 days ago, the Kansas City Chiefs were getting ready to represent the AFC in the Super Bowl. Today, the defending Super Bowl champion Chiefs are getting ready to represent the AFC in the Super Bowl.
However, a lot has changed for the Dallas Cowboys in the last 365 days. A year ago at the Senior Bowl in Mobile, Alabama, owner and general manager Jerry Jones said he thinks “longer term” and is “real hesitant to bet it all for a year” when asked about the recent NFC Super Bowl representatives, the Los Angeles Rams and Philadelphia Eagles.
On Tuesday at the Senior Bowl, Jones did a 180 after what happened to his Cowboys in 2023.
Dallas entered the postseason with a 12-5 record. They were the NFC’s No. 2 seed, boasting the NFL’s highest-scoring offense (29.9 points per game). Dak Prescott led the NFL in touchdown passes (36), CeeDee Lamb led the league in receptions (135) and they possessed the NFL’s only perfect record at home (8-0) that was part of a 16-game winning streak at AT&T Stadium. Micah Parsons led the NFL in quarterback pressures (103), quarterback pressure rate (21.8%) and pass rush win rate (35.3%). None of those things showed up in their 48-32 wild-card round loss to the seventh-seeded Green Bay Packers.
Dallas had at least 12 wins for three seasons in a row under head coach Mike McCarthy. However, McCarthy’s Cowboys also became the first team to win 12 games in three straight seasons and fail to make the conference championship in any of them after losing three of their four postseason games in this stretch. Now, Jones is willing to go all in in 2024 after bringing back McCarthy for the final year of his contract without long-term security.
“I would anticipate, with looking ahead at our key contracts that we’d like to address, we will be all in,” Jones said at this year’s Senior Bowl in Mobile, Alabama…
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Author : Garrett Podell
Publish date : 2024-01-31 21:10:30
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