For the Dallas Cowboys, as for any team that ‘hits rock bottom’, the only way is up, and with that principle in mind, the Lone Star team will face the next season, based on the restructuring of their coaching staff and hopefully with a good selection in the next Draft like Ashton Jeanty and some impact signings, without neglecting what they have.
Strengthen the ground game
The idea of Brian Schottenheimer and his new offensive coordinator Klayton Adams is to strengthen the team’s ground attack and to do this they are looking to make big changes in order to run the ball more and give Dak Prescott an alternative that in the past was not as strong as it should have been.
The yardstick for the Cowboys next season is the Playoffs and Jerry Jones’ management will not accept anything less, so it is facilitating all these changes with plenty of time to avoid surprises, turbulence… and much less, excuses.
On the contrary, among fans expectations remain low, as the disappointment was enormous in the season that just ended, and above all, because the great and historic rival of their division, the NFC East, the Philadelphia Eagles ended up being Super Bowl champions.
“They will make the Playoffs”
With all these elements, SI.com analyst Connor Orr is convinced that Dallas will surprise everyone in 2025, as he guarantees them a place in the postseason, and relegates the Washington Commanders to a sad fate. He said: “The Cowboys will make the playoffs in the first year of the Brian Schottenheimer regime. Because that’s how it happens, right? We spend all offseason talking about how terrible the process was while forgetting that Dallas has star power at almost every critical position.
“The victim here, in my opinion, is a Commanders team that crashes into a wall like the Texans did in the second year, when everyone expects some kind of spectacular rise,” Orr said.
The Dallas Cowboys can only go up, but it is with the aforementioned changes that they can do so. If Jerry Jones overlooks his options in the draft or if he lets the exodus begin with the undesirable departure of Micah Parsons, their fate in 2025 will be the same or worse than in this nightmare 2024
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