The Cowboys certainly need talent on defense, but they made need something even deeper than that.
This defense needs leadership.
It needs culture changers.
The Cowboys are about three months removed from an embarrassing Dec. 8 loss to the Baltimore Ravens. And it wasn’t embarrassing solely because of poor gap discipline, the more than dozen missed tackles or an overall lack of physicality when allowing 285 rushing yards.
There was an inexcusable lack of effort.
Days later, coach Mike McCarthy had to address his defense’s underwhelming finish in a team meeting.