There weren’t many good takeaways from the Cowboys Week 18 loss to Washington. The coaching staff didn’t strategize, the players didn’t execute and general effort was mailed in. In Monday night’s wild-card matchup in Tampa, Dallas provided some mighty takeaways.
The Cowboys weren’t getting much love by the talking heads before the game. Dallas was being treated more like the No. 5 seed and less like the 12-win team which boasted four more victories on the season than their Monday Night Football hosts. That didn’t stop Dallas from putting on a clinic, 31-14, teaching the NFL this season’s Dallas Cowboys are different from years prior. Here’s what we learned.