The best things about pictures is that they tell their own story. “A picture is worth a thousand words,” didn’t stand the test of time for no reason. The worst thing about pictures is that they never tell the complete story. Instead they are a moment frozen in time and often can misrepresent the totality of a situation. Maybe that can be a positive, too, though.
When it comes to the Dallas Cowboys trip to Denver to take on the Broncos in a joint practice and then the preseason opener on Saturday night, things did not go well. Reacting to it as an indicator of things to come in the regular season is a fool’s errand. Dallas’ regular season performance hasn’t matched the preseason one in almost a decade. The starters took part in the joint practice, and then were held out en masse from Saturday’s game. But just because there’s no correlation to the games that count doesn’t mean one can’t enjoy the frozen moments in time.
Here’s a look at some of the best captures from Dallas’ weekend trip to Denver. They’ll return to Oxnard, California to pack up their things before heading to take on the Chargers ahead of their return to Texas now, but fans can scroll through the work of the Associated Press and USA Today Images in the meantime.