They say you learn more from adversity than you do from success. Based on that, you’d think there would be a ton of lessons learned from the Dallas Cowboys’ simply miserable showing against the Seattle Seahawks.
But sometimes, the problems are so big, so widespread, and so intertwined that it is just daunting to try and come up with discrete and easily digested things to take in. So let’s take two things. One is on offense, where just about everything that could go wrong seemingly did. The other, an attmept to add a small ray of optimism to a week of sackcloth and ashes, is about an offseason decision that is turning out much better than we might have imagined at the time.