It can't be easy to maintain optimism following a 47-9 loss in the NFL, but that is exactly what Dallas Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy is doing as his

The Cowboys might not have had much postseason success over the last 25+ seasons, but they are a proud franchise with sky high expectations. Every year they set out with the expectation of competing, and to players, fans and ownership, anything short of a Super Bowl constitutes a failure to some degree.

The Cowboys stagger into the bye week with plenty of time to ruminate on what’s gone wrong and how they can go about fixing it. That’s not always a good thing. Another disorienting loss to a good team has this franchise reeling.