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Resilient Cowboys Continue to Prove They Can Win Any Way They Have to
- Updated: December 2, 2016
They can win big. They can win small. They can win ugly. They can win any damn way they have to.
The Dallas Cowboys played horrible football on Thursday night against Minnesota. The only things worse than the way the Cowboys played were those absolutely putrid commercials for the new Apprentice show.
Dak Prescott finally looked like a rookie. Ezekiel Elliott looked mortal. That historic offensive line looked beaten. That Dallas defense made the ultimate checkdown king, Sam Bradford, at times look like Joe Montana.
The Thursday night games can be great equalizers. They can turn a mess of a team like Minnesota into a more formidable one, and more formidable team like Dallas into a mess.
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This is all true but allow me to tell you a little secret.
The Cowboys winning a sloppy, at times unwatchable game like this, as they did 17-15, is good for the team. In fact, it’s the best thing that could have happened to Dallas as it traveled to 11-straight wins and a playoff push.
Hall of Famer Michael Irvin suggested something like this recently on the NFL Network, when he said that Dallas losing a game would be good for them, allowing the team to focus better down the stretch. Losing, to me, is never good, but struggle is.
Some of these games for Dallas were starting to get a little too easy. They were starting to smack …
