The Cowboys and Jerry Jones in particular were broadly painted as laughingstocks after they could not find a way forward with Micah Parsons and dealt him to the Packers during the offseason. Nothing they did through the first nine games of this regular season did much to change that, even fighting to a 40–40 tie with Green Bay, clearly one of the best teams in the NFC. Yet over the course of the past 10 days, the entire narrative around America’s Team has evolved at a blistering pace.
A Monday Night Football thumping of the hapless Raiders, a shocking comeback against the Eagles and a Thanksgiving win over the Chiefs have combined to bend the arc so much that Jones’s team is being discussed as a potential Super Bowl contender.
