Optimism certainly abounds for the 2021 season and Year 2 of the Mike McCarthy era at the Dallas Cowboys world headquarters at The Star in Frisco.
A team that has made the playoffs since 2018 and finished 6-10 in 2020 believes they have already won the offseason.
The biggest goals of securing Dak Prescott as their franchise quarterback and seeing him progress from a fractured ankle that sidelined him for the final 11 games of 2021 have been achieved.
Prescott became the richest player in franchise history with a four-year, $160 million contract in March.