With their Week 4 win over the Giants, the Dallas Cowboys preserved a far more palatable 2-2 record for the first quarter of their season. But while that record superficially says they’re an average team, the truth of how we got here says otherwise. This doesn’t feel like a .500 team and the next few games could make that clear on every level.
Apologies to Bill Parcells, but in this case the record doesn’t really tell the story about who the Cowboys are. Even in Thursday night’s victory we saw Dallas make poor game-management decisions, fail to execute consistently on offense, and get worked by New York’s passing.