It was a desultory start to the preseason for the Dallas Cowboys as they dropped their opener to the San Francisco 49ers by a score of 17-9. But given the way they approached things, it is not reason to predict gloom and doom for the real games to come.
The Cowboys usually follow the vanilla plan during preseason, particularly in the first game. And that was evidently still the approach. There was almost none of the pre-snap motion that has characterized all the practices since the OTAs. Most first downs seemed to be runs.