In maybe any other season, someone would have shown up to throw hands for Dallas Cowboys quarterback Andy Dalton.
He would have been flattened like he was on Sunday, by one of the dirtiest hits you’ll see in the NFL, and someone would have rolled up on Washington linebacker Jon Bostic to answer the bell.
Maybe it would have been left tackle Tyron Smith, who has been through too many superbly nasty seasons and has too much pride to let someone take his quarterback’s head off. If not Smith, it would have been right guard Zack Martin, who once took part in a memorable Dallas training camp fight when he squared off with teammate Tyrone Crawford.