NFL History Shows Cowboys Defense Can Spark 2026 Turnaround

The Dallas Cowboys don’t need to hire a detective to figure out what went wrong last season. We all know the defense sunk the team. That’s basically the whole story. Dallas has shown it can score with anyone. The problem is the Cowboys spent too much of last season asking the offense to win games twice—once against the opponent and once against its own defense. That’s a hard way to survive in the NFL, but history says it is not a death sentence. Since the 1970 AFL-NFL merger, only eight teams ha