Losing seasons in the NFL tend to create a sense that things will surely get better. We are certainly experiencing that for the Dallas Cowboys. The high impact injuries, especially on offense, make the expectation that they will have more success reasonable. They just need to regress to the mean for things to get better, and the number of such injuries just makes that regression more likely. Overall, the NFL is an 8-8 league as well. Things like how the draft awards higher picks to poor teams and the way the schedule is created enable that. These things, along with the much belabored circumstances caused by the COVID protocols all year argue for the Cowboys to see a less futile performance in 2021.
Evaluating Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy could still be difficult in 2021
