The Dallas Cowboys hope they can do something that hasn’t been accomplished in almost 20 years; defend the NFC East crown. Not since the 2003-2004 Philadelphia Eagles has a division champion been able to ward off the pack, which means for all of the times over the last two decades the Cowboys have thought they were building something, they haven’t.
Will this year be different? The front office decided that less is more and chose to create cap space for the future stars by letting some of the current ones walk. Will it be a net gain, or a step backwards? If backwards have the other teams in the division taken enough step forwards to unseat them? The answer will be known in due time, and that time will be spent walking the 17-game gauntlet. Here’s our before-the-season begins, hoping-for-awesome-health, game-by-game prediction of how things will go.