You need to win your games in the NFL. Everybody knows that. You also occasionally need some help, and the Dallas Cowboys got a whole lot of it through the season’s opening week.
It’s true that things got off to a less-than-ideal start when the Philadelphia Eagles won their first game last Thursday night as they began their title defense. The good news about the Eagles winning (there really never is any) was that it meant their opponent, the Atlanta Falcons, lost.
You see the Eagles and Falcons are a third of last season’s playoff teams in the NFC.