There are usually several things mentioned in this weekly post on what we learned about the Dallas Cowboys during their last game, but against the San Francisco 49ers, one overriding lesson was very clear. The 2016 edition of the Cowboys is almost the complete opposite of the team that fell to 4-12 last year in all the really important aspects.
We all chalked up the failures in 2015 to key injuries, led by Tony Romo, Dez Bryant, and Orlando Scandrick. There were also the four-game suspensions of Greg Hardy and Rolando McClain to start the season, the early season struggles to establish a running game with Joseph Randle, and it also was evident that the coaching staff was just not coming up with answers while the trio of Brandon Weeden, Matt Cassel, and Kellen Moore tried to replace Romo, with essentially no success.