It was bad. The Cowboys lost 16-8 in an ugly game that saw their offense rendered useless for long stretches of the 60-minute contest. As fans, we wait eight months for our favorite team to return to meaningful action, and they lay an egg. It’s frustrating; it makes us angry. So there’s only one thing to do - wallow in someone else’s misery.
Here are five teams that also had it bad in Week 1, some maybe even worse than the Cowboys. After all, Dallas lost on the road, to a playoff team from last year that posted an 11-5 record, and sports a really good defense.