The Dallas Cowboys season-opener had so much hype around this offense with new head coach Mike McCarthy at the helm, but it failed to live up to the proverbial hype. Team 40 Burger ending up falling to the Los Angeles Rams 20-17, failing to even score 20 points. One could say that the losses of center Travis Frederick and right tackle La’el Collins, and even tight end Blake Jawrin, may have led to this but there was a lot more to it than that.
The Cowboys once again spent most of their drives running on first down, which lead to more third and long situations for Dak Prescott.