The Cowboys ended the 2024 season on a bit of a high note, with the defense looking legitimately special and several young pieces of the offense taking important steps forward. However, the biggest story of this year that doomed the Cowboys was the offense regressing even before Dak Prescott was knocked out for the year.
Some of it was due to Prescott playing poorly - he set career worsts in completion rate, EPA/dropback, CPOE, yards per attempt, and turnover worthy play rate - but there were more factors at play. CeeDee Lamb was slow out of the gate after missing nearly all of the offseason program due to his contract holdout.