It’s hard to believe, but with a win on Sunday the Dallas Cowboys would have their first win streak for season-openers under Mike McCarthy. For a coach that had to speak up himself about the apparent numbness towards rattling off 12 regular season wins three years in a row, last year’s 40-0 beatdown at the Giants was the first time McCarthy’s team started 1-0 in the process of doing so. Opening against an NFC East opponent they’ve dominated for a while now may have been the key in reversing this Week 1 fortune, and though they won’t have the same advantage on Sunday, there are some ties back to recent NFC East matchups that should be telling about how Dallas starts the season.
What we might learn: Browns not a common opponent, but plenty of familiarity between season opening opponents
