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Even with the entirety of the offseason behind us and the 2025 NFL season opener against the Philadelphia Eagles kicking off Thursday night, concerns surrounding the Dallas Cowboys have been slackened much, if any. There’s still quite a bit of mystery surrounding this year’s team throughout the roster, and unfortunately things won’t start to get answered until things actually matter. Typically, that’s what preseason is for.
For whatever reason, the Cowboys decided to sit the majority of their starters in preseason in favor of evaluating depth players instead. While that’s their prerogative, it may prove to be the wrong move considering their kicking off the season against the defending Super Bowl champions. This decision also prevented us from learning more about this team, which has created some concerns that still need to be answered which are listed below.
Schottenheimer is somewhat of a mystery as a play-caller right now. While it’s true he held the title of offensive coordinator the past few seasons in Dallas, Mike McCarthy was still the one calling the plays. Schottenheimer has past experience as an OC, but that was a few years ago with the Seattle Seahawks (2018-2020). Fortunately for him he has some of the best weapons at his disposal that Dallas had in quite some time, but can he get the best out of them? After keeping things vanilla in the preseason, it’s going to be interesting how he does in Week 1.
On paper the Cowboys running back room doesn’t look all that inspiring, and nothing that has happened throughout the offseason, especially in preseason, inspires hope this group can be any better than they were last season. Javonte Williams didn’t play a single snap in preseason and both Miles Sanders and Jaydon Blue only played a handful. Sadly, none of the three have really stood out so far. As a result, there’s been a lot of talk about Dallas trading for RB help. That won’t help in Week 1 though. That means someone needs to step up.
Part of the compensation the Cowboys received by trading Micah Parsons away to the Green Bay Packers was DT Kenny Clark. He is expected to immediately upgrade Dallas’ run defense, despite only being with the organization for a short amount of time. He is a proven commodity and a former Pro Bowl player, but he alone can’t improve what was one of the worst run defense is in the league a season ago. Kicking off the 2025 NFL season against a run-heavy team like the Eagles will be a good test for them. Hopefully, things will look much improved.
In trading away Micah Parsons to the Green Bay Packers, the Cowboys not only lost one of the best defensive players in the entire league, but also one of their few difference-makers on that side of the ball....
