Once weighed down with aging and overpaid veterans, the Cowboys look to ride the youth movement into 2015.
The NFL is a young man's game. The average career length is a matter of some dispute, with the NFLPA claiming it is only 3.3 years, while the league itself uses a figure of six years for players who make the opening day roster their first year. Whichever source you believe, it is clear that any NFL team is going to have to depend on players in their early to mid-twenties for the bulk of their team.
One of the problems that Jason Garrett faced when he became the full time head coach of the Dallas Cowboys was a roster that was built in denial of this, with too many aging players on contracts that were rewards for past contributions, not realistic projections of what the could bring to the field in the future.