Admittedly, Week 11 of Monday Night Football does not make for the most compelling television. It’s the 2-7 Las Vegas Raiders hosting the 3-5-1 Dallas Cowboys. The game will still draw huge numbers because at some point in time the football world was told that the Cowboys were “America’s team.” Whatever your thoughts are on that, it’s true that fans who only pay half attention to the NFL usually do so through the lens of the overrated club run by whack-a-mole extraordinaire Jerry Jones.

Why such schadenfreude? To be quite clear: writing about this Cowboys franchise is tiresome, even if quarterback Dak Prescott is a pretty great dude. It’s not Prescott’s fault, but even he can’t save the eye-roll that is watching Dallas try to play defensive football in 2025.

As for the Raiders… well, the

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