Alec Medford

It's pretty interesting.

You've got some fun, uncommon opponents.

You've got some fun road matchups, including split up by a bye week.

You have week 13 and 15 both on the road against Seattle and Los Angeles.

So there's going to be some tough road matchups.

You do have an international game in the early part of the season in Rio on week three against Baltimore, which is going to be a fun one.

But overall, I think there's at least Vegas is telling you that there's a little bit more optimism this year for the Cowboys compared to last year, even with the little amount of money that they spent.

But a solid draft class and a new defensive coordinator seems like everybody's feeling a little bit more amped up going into this offseason.

Oh, absolutely.

With Caleb Downs, you expect him to be an impact player immediately, but Malachi Lawrence, the second first-round pick that they made, they're at number 23 overall.

I think a lot of people are going to be surprised at what he can do early on, especially in the run game.

With his athleticism, he is going to be asked to do a lot.

He might not be a week-one starter per se, but he will get a lot of playing time and he will do a lot of the snaps defensively.

So I think you're going to see some good contribution early on from some of these offenders.

Yeah, there were a couple options that would have been in play for them there.

They really did like Montsour Delane.

The corner that ended up going to Kansas City was a player for them.

And then really those conversations start earlier in the day when

They didn't exactly know who was going to be there.

They loved Arvel Reese.