The Dallas Cowboys couldn’t have looked worse after their Week 1 loss last season at home to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Unfortunately, there’s always another shoe that gets dropped. Starting quarterback Dak Prescott suffered a broken thumb and would require surgery, missing time.
It felt like the season was over for the Cowboys before it began. There was all of the momentum building from the offseason, and for it to be over in a blink of an eye sounded imaginable. Then Cooper Rush happened — the journeyman backup quarterback who returned to Dallas after starting his career in silver and blue.