For the first time in 209 days, the Dallas Cowboys took the field again. That means that last year’s team had 5,016 hours to improve on a 12-5 season and fix up the areas that led to a first-round exit. But it took three hours for the Cowboys to remind fans what that all-to-familiar emotion of disappointment feels like.
This is still the preseason. That loss will not show up on the final record, the seven total points scored will not be used as a tiebreaker, and the seventeen penalties will not be calculated in the season-long total.