The Cowboys and Buccaneers couldn’t be in more different situations heading into their season opener on Thursday night.
Last year, the Cowboys suffered through a 6-10 season that featured decimating injuries to their entire offense, Dak Prescott being the most significant of them, while also getting to watch their historically awful defense invent new ways of losing each week. Now they’ve swapped out Mike Nolan for Dan Quinn, undergone a massive infusion of youth on defense, and returned their injured stars on offense. Nobody in Dallas is interested in repeating last year.
The Buccaneers, on the other hand, would be ecstatic for a complete repeat of 2020.