The Cowboys will face the Buccaneers in Dallas on Sunday night, with both teams looking very different from the last time they met. That game came in the Wild Card round of the playoffs following the 2022 season, and the Cowboys won it 31-14 in what turned out to be Tom Brady’s final game ever.
A few months afterward, Tampa Bay set out to find a new quarterback after Brady had taken them to the Super Bowl not long ago. Reports suggested that head coach Todd Bowles and general manager Jason Licht felt confident in Kyle Trask, a third-round pick in 2021 who had been sitting behind Brady, but the Buccaneers still wanted to find a more experienced option to compete with Trask.