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The Dallas Cowboys won on Sunday night and it is okay to be happy about that!
Sunday afternoon was interesting for the Dallas Cowboys. On one hand, the team was eliminated from playoff contention in a formal sense. While that was just about inevitable, it is still never fun for it to be finalized.
Across the spectrum, the Cincinnati Bengals, Indianapolis Colts and Miami Dolphins all won. These specific victories set the Cowboys up to improve their draft position by a handful of spots.
But then the Dallas Cowboys had the gall to go out and win their game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Let me say that I understand if you have folded up shop and want the Cowboys to tank and improve their draft position so that we do not have to endure seasons like this one ever again. There is logic to that idea.
But let me also say that the other side of the coin is equally fine if that is where someone wants to live. We can have different opinions!
Here are three specific opinions after a full sleep following Sunday night’s victory.
Imagine if you knew in July that the Dallas Cowboys would enter Christmas week having won four of their last five and that at that point the San Francisco 49ers would already be mathematically eliminated from playoff contention. We would have been levitating.
Obviously the Cowboys were eliminated at the same time that San Francisco was, and the recent winning has done nothing to hep that. The recent winning also hasn’t undone the bad that preceded it, conversations that we already had and will certainly continue to have, but the thing about the recent winning is that it is recent winning.
If someone wants the Cowboys to have a higher draft pick and feels as if these four wins have damaged that cause, it is understandable. But on the other side, we have learned so much about players like Marist Liufau and Brock Hoffman in this little run. We have even learned a whole heck of a lot about leaders/cornerstones like CeeDee Lamb and Micah Parsons. Winning has been the catalyst for all of that and the opinion here is it was totally worth the drop in draft position.
Everyone is entitled to their opinions. But the Cowboys have ensured that they have been winners 80% of the time through the winter holidays and in the process proven that they are not the exact frauds that we may have thought them to be. That is commendable and it is more than fine to be happy, or even proud of that.
In the interest of transparency, I have been extremely critical of the Mike Zimmer hire. It seemed lazy and like the team just called an old friend in lieu of actually doing their job and turning every stone...
