A year in the making: It’s time for the Dallas Cowboys to ‘seize everything’

A year in the making: It’s time for the Dallas Cowboys to ‘seize everything’

It’s been just shy of one year since the Dallas Cowboys season ended at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara,

California. For the Cowboys and their supporters,

the conclusion of another season with grief and more questions than answers is all too familiar.

But without progress, what good is pain?

If you are going to lose, you might as well take something positive away from it.

While you wait for your next opportunity,

you might as well take that anguish and convert it into inspiration by using it as fuel to ignite the fire within of you.

For the 2023 Dallas Cowboys, that’s exactly what they did.

Lessons Discovered by Adversity

What a relief it is to reach a stage where making the playoffs is expected rather than a wish.

While we are currently enjoying our third straight 12-win season and our third straight postseason trip,

not too far in the past lie dormant memories of striving for a postseason

spot every year and only managing to be successful roughly half the time.

The bar has been raised and the standard established.

You’re correct if you think it shouldn’t have started out this low.

Now, nevertheless, is the moment to profit.

It was evident that a change was required when a bright squad lost to

the same organisation for the second year in a row,

leaving them with their heads hung low and questions about “how” racing through their minds.

And those in authority realised that and put it into action.

After statistically successful seasons, Mike McCarthy fired Kellen Moore,

placed him in the firing line, demanded the play sheet and effectively told him that if he was going to leave,

he was going to leave on his own.

Consequently, Dak Prescott and the Cowboys offence have never been more effective,

and Dak has had the finest season of his career, putting him in the running for MVP.

While giving guys like Jalen Tolbert and KaVontae Turpin a chance, they added Brandin Cooks.

They parted ways with Ezekiel Elliott, a revered leader of the locker room,

to give Rico Dowdle and Tony Pollard more chances.

They gave new and young talent an opportunity to prove themselves

while letting Dalton Schultz depart to make Jake Ferguson the guy.

This year and this instant were the driving forces behind all of these decisions.

To put the greatest pure football players on the field at once,

Dan Quinn and company made clever personnel group additions,

kept Jonathan Hankins, and added Stephon Gilmore to their defence.

All of these choices were made with the intention of accomplishing something that

they haven’t been able to do for more than 25 years, in case it isn’t obvious already.

They’re sick of always ending up in the same place,

and even if winning in the regular season is enjoyable,

the playoffs are what really count, and now is the time to reap the rewards.

Carpe Omnia

From the beginning, the rule was to seize everything.

The Cowboys made it obvious that they intended to record the moment rather than just be in it.

Now as the team is about to play the Green Bay Packers in the Wild Card Round,

it’s time to find out if those were simply empty words or something they truly believed.

An opportunity to make amends for everything they have done wrong, silence the doubters,

and demonstrate to the world that they are who they claim they are.

You’ll hear from athletes like Micah Parsons that these are the times they live for.

While all of that sounds fine, it’s time to demonstrate it. DeMarcus Lawrence will set the tone,

and Prescott will tell you he has bigger fish to fry and has no interest in donning an NFC East champion hat.

Now that they have the ability and the direction, all they need to do is demonstrate it.

The bricks poured today will build their legacy of tomorrow.

The Cowboys must “Carpe Omnia” immediately since they have been waiting nearly a full year to do so,

and they have no tomorrow to speak for unless they secure it themselves.

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