An NFL season is often like swimming. You take a deep breath before plunging underwater and moving for a bit, but eventually you need to come up for air to breathe again before you submerge yourself once more.
With the Dallas Cowboys on their annual bye this week, it is their first real chance to come up for some much-needed air. They will have another little reprieve after Thanksgiving Day since unlike normal years they are not playing on the Thursday after and they will have yet another when they play on Thursday Night Football at Tennessee in the penultimate week of the regular season.