The Dallas Cowboys play a football game this weekend! It may just be a preseason opener against the Jacksonville Jaguars, with many starters in street clothes on the sidelines of AT&T Stadium, but this is still an exciting point of progress in building to the first meaningful game in September against the Giants.
NFL teams are more deliberate than ever with how they manage the preseason now, and this is especially true for a team like Dallas that’s aiming to be playing their best football in February of 2024 - not this August. The team-vs-team matchups are even less relevant with players focused on translating their training camp work onto the field in live reps, but there’s still some intrigue in the Cowboys starting real competition against an AFC contender that beat them in overtime last season.