The idea of seeing Earl Thomas in a Cowboys uniform was either a tantalizing possibility or a foolish pursuit, a variation of the test used for centuries to determine a person's point of view:
Is the glass half empty or half full?
Reality overtook perspective before free agency officially got underway. The Cowboys glass is empty when it comes to Thomas. The best free safety in the game will play in Baltimore and follow in Ed Reed's Hall of Fame footsteps.
The Cowboys now proceed along the same, fiscally responsible free agent path the club has traveled in recent years.