Back in September, shortly after DeMarcus Lawrence was limping off a practice field with a broken foot, he tapped out a hopeful-but-entirely-predictable social media post to raise the spirits of the Dallas Cowboys faithful. It was the kind of thing that is widely shared but scarcely believed when it comes to this franchise, a team that has seen for decades its best-laid plans break down.
“Will be back and ready for war,” Lawrence tweeted. “Believe it.”
What Lawrence and the Cowboys didn’t know at the time was that it was only the first moment of adversity on the horizon.