There is a natural tendency to view what happened yesterday to the Dallas Cowboys as some kind of truth serum. That the Cowboys have now been exposed as pretenders and that the five-game win streak was a mirage. Don’t buy into that. There are multiple reasons not to.
For instance, which provides more evidence of what a team actually is – a five-game win steak where a team proves over a decent amount of time that they can overcome any adversity, even that of their own making, and win football games; or a one-off game where everything goes wrong?