The Dallas Cowboys were one of the NFL’s most talented teams in the NFL in 2023, rostering 10 Pro Bowl players. That talent led to a third 12-win season in a row, but they once again couldn’t make it to the league’s final four, the conference championship round.
Despite being the only team since the 1970 AFL/NFL merger to accomplish that feat — winning 12 or more games three years in a row without advancing to third round of the postseason — Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is right in saying Dallas is “around the rim” by consistently making the playoffs.
The team naturally would like to maintain continuity in its push for that elusive deep playoff run and a Super Bowl, and it already feels like it has a young offensive lineman who mirrors one of its key contributors from its last Super Bowl title team in 1995 with current Pro Bowl left guard Tyler Smith.
The 2022 first-round pick out of Tulsa was a collegiate left tackle, but because of the presence of Tyron Smith, their 2010s All-Decade Team left tackle, the younger Smith began his career at left guard. He earned his first Pro…
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Author : Garrett Podell
Publish date : 2024-02-28 21:39:01
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