Cowboys Making Playoffs? ‘One & Done,’ NFL Execs Ranking Survey Predicts

FRISCO – Courting all the best way again to the Tom Landry period, there’s an nearly institutional thought that the Dallas Cowboys are certain to be playoff contenders.

Does the survey of  5 “NFL front-office veterans” launched this week by The Athletic concur with that notion relating to 2022?

Form of.

The Los Angeles Rams took the highest slot within the survey, with the outlet noting, “They return most key gamers from their Tremendous Bowl-winning staff final season. Many of the execs slotted them into the highest spot with out a lot dialogue.”

The Inexperienced Bay Packers and the Tampa Bay Bucs (the Cowboys’ Week 1 foe) sit at Nos. 2 and 6.

Dallas is certainly a playoff staff within the eyes of these surveyed, with the Cowboys at No. 6

However … 

The execs put Dallas’ NFC East rival, the Philadelphia Eagles, forward of the Cowboys at No. 5.

The logic on Philly? “That is six spots greater than the place execs had the Eagles getting into final season, when it was much less clear how the staff may fare with Jalen Hurts within the lineup at quarterback,” says the outlet. “What Hurts confirmed final season was sufficient for execs to improve the Eagles, however solely to some extent, though some now see Philly as having one of many NFL’s prime rosters.”

The logic on Dallas, led by QB Dak Prescott and his need to “win back-to-back NFC East” titles whereas guiding critics out of their “fog”? The Athletic writes, “Roster attrition … didn’t cease Dallas from faring decently on this train. Not that voters have been enthusiastic about them.

“The difficulty with them is the division,” an exec stated. “They might conceivably win three of 4, possibly 4 of 4, in opposition to the Giants and Commanders. They may even cut up with the Eagles. They might stumble their technique to 9 wins.

“But when they make the playoffs, they’re one and accomplished.”

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