Of all the annoying and meaningless rituals associated with the NFL preseason, this one's my favorite: The annual parade of players proclaiming with 100 percent certainty, and for all the world to hear, that they are, without a doubt, in the Best Shape of their Lives.
If you're also a connoisseur of football clichés, of exaggerated, unfounded and ultimately hollow declarations of elite fitness and impending greatness, it will come as no surprise that the biggest training camp BSer (Best Shape) of 2016 was none other than the Dallas Cowboys -- a team that prints money and is everyone's "surprise" playoff pick for the 20th year in a row despite the fact that no one in Jerry's World has sniffed a Super Bowl in two decades.