Bryant is correct with his assessment, and judging by the Cowboys record, everyone involved agreed as well.
The past three seasons, Dallas finished 8-8 with a chance to reach the postseason in a win-or-go home scenario in the season finale is time as well.
Bryant, the Cowboys star playmaker, told ESPN.com that “the Cowboys simply didn’t work hard enough.”
“I’m going to give you my honest opinion. The years that we did go 8-8, I think – me, because this is just how I am — I don’t think we worked hard enough,” Bryant said after Cowboys’ practice on Thursday. “I’m not saying we didn’t work, like, I mean the offseason, during the OTAs — not the coaches. That’s on us. The first thing that I did right after the game, we lost to Philadelphia (2013), my brother will tell you — I was working out the next day. Just because I felt like ‘Damn, we didn’t do enough.’ Obviously we didn’t do enough, they was the better team. It feels different, it’s a lot different — it’s a lot different from last year. We’re more together, we want it more, we’ve got the same vision, and that’s kind of hard when you’ve got a team like that.”
The Cowboys sit at 7-3, and would need a historic collapse to repeat the 8-8 years of old. Dallas is tied atop the NFC East with the Eagles, and the two teams meet next Thursday on Thanksgiving Day at AT&T Stadium