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Dallas Cowboys season a success regardless of Saturday’s outcome

By Matt Holleran

ARLINGTON, TEXAS - JANUARY 05: Ezekiel Elliott #21 of the Dallas Cowboys gets a hug from Dak Prescott #4 of the Dallas Cowboys after a fourth quarter touchdown against the Seattle Seahawks during the Wild Card Round at AT&T Stadium on January 05, 2019 in Arlington, Texas. (Photo by Tom Pennington/Getty Images)
ARLINGTON, TEXAS - JANUARY 05: Ezekiel Elliott #21 of the Dallas Cowboys gets a hug from Dak Prescott #4 of the Dallas Cowboys after a fourth quarter touchdown against the Seattle Seahawks during the Wild Card Round at AT&T Stadium on January 05, 2019 in Arlington, Texas. (Photo by Tom Pennington/Getty Images) /
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As the Dallas Cowboys prepare to take on the Rams, we take a step back and look at how this season was a success regardless of Saturday’s outcome.

On November 5, 2018, after a 28-14 beatdown by the Tennessee Titans, the Dallas Cowboys season was all but dead. The team trailed the Washington Redskins in the division by two games, and their offense was on pace to be one of the worst in the league.

The week prior to the Tennessee game, Dallas traded for star wideout Amari Cooper, hoping it would cure their offensive woes. After the first two drives in the Titans game, the old Cowboys offense came back around, and the team’s offensive performance looked just too bad for them to really contend for the postseason.

The Cowboys were in turmoil. Head coach Jason Garrett was under maybe more scrutiny than he ever had been during his eighth full season as the teams head man, and to many on the outside, it seemed like a foregone conclusion he would be fired at season’s end. The Cowboys were staring being eliminated from playoff contention before Week 15 for the first time since Garrett took over full-time in 2011.

After reading all that, it is pretty hard to believe that we sit here just four days from the Dallas Cowboys and Los Angeles Rams playoff game and Dallas is just one win away from going to the N.F.C. Championship Game for the first time since 1995.

This Cowboys team never quit, and never gave up on their coach who was already pushed out the door by many, continued to fight and are just one game away from their deepest playoff run in a decade. Now it is easy to be a prisoner of the moment, everyone is guilty of it at times. If Dallas comes out on Saturday and loses to the Rams, at the moment the season will feel like a failure.

The world will seem like its falling and on Monday morning all sports talk shows will be talking about how the Cowboys “blew” the season, but take a step back. Regardless of what happens on Saturday, this Dallas season has been a huge success, and here is why.

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