It’s hard to imagine a more encouraging start to the 2023 regular season than the biggest shutout victory in franchise history. The Cowboys’ 40-0 shellacking of the Giants should put to bed any questions about whether Dan Quinn’s defense would be able to remain in the league’s top tier (spoiler alert: they actually seem to have gotten better) and also should have shown enough of a peek of Mike McCarthy’s streamlined offense to calm any fears about that experiment being an abject failure.
Several Cowboys players stood out from the pack during Sunday night’s fireworks show at a soggy MetLife Stadium. And while it’s nitpicking to label anyone an underachiever after an overwhelming team performance like that, there were a few individuals who will want to clean things up before next week’s date with the Jets.
Here’s a look at your studs and duds, relatively speaking, from Week 1’s Big Apple blowout.
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