For the sake of my family, I want the Cowboys to do well. However, the message every Cowboys fan should take from the NFC Championship game and the Super Bowl is: we're screwed. They aren't even in the same universe as the Seahawks, 49ers, Saints, Panthers, or the Eagles.
The Arizona Cardinals and St. Louis Rams are on the upswing, too.
I could see the last place team in the NFC West next season, having at least 10 wins.
My hypothetical is, what if you have a Division, where no team loses a game outside of the Division, and each one splits their divisional games, so they wind up with identical 13-3 records. One of those teams is going to get left out of the playoffs.
I don’t think it will ever happen, but if it did, it could be in the NFC West.
And there was a time when most of those teams were not even close to the Cowboys. My, how the tide has turned!
But, hey, the Death Star is beautiful!