*Editor's note: This is the second in a three-part series examining whether Cowboys players are trending up, down or holding steady at the end of the 2018 season. Read Part 1 here. Part 3 publishes Saturday.
Now that another season has come and gone, enthralled and infuriated, it's time to look back.
A Cowboys team that had no business making the playoffs after a 3-5 start made the required course corrections -- goodbye offensive line coach Paul Alexander, hello wide receiver Amari Cooper -- to finish strong. Dallas swept the World Champion Philadelphia Eagles, won the division and won a wild-card game before falling to the LA Rams.