Since 2014, Cowboy fans, and football fans in general, discussed a realistic window for the Dallas Cowboys. In 2014, Tony Romo was coming off his best season of his career, DeMarco Murray looked like the next Adrian Peterson, and Dez Bryant, Terrance Williams, and Cole Beasley were in the prime of their careers. It didn’t take long for that “winning window” to close rapidly.
But with that window closing, a new one had cracked open as Dak Prescott, Ezekiel Elliott, and Amari Cooper were just one game short of reaching the NFC Championship game in 2018.