Take out your team's veteran, Pro Bowl starting quarterback (Tony Romo), but not before you take out his backup (Kellen Moore), both before the beginnig of the season. Now take out your starting RB, a thousand yard rusher the season before.
Just to make it a little tougher, suspend both of your starting DE's one for 4 games, the other for 14 games. Let's top that off with a lifetime suspension of your designated starting middle linebacker.
Not good enough? Okay, knock off your former First team All Pro and Pro Bowl WR for 5 games. Can't forget that emerging elite shutdown CB, get him out of there! Here, take a rookie 6th round pick instead.
The icing will be a complete resurgence of your entire division which will have a strong likelihood of including three teams in the playoffs. Sadistically, we'll also add in a schedule that includes the toughest division in the AFC, famous for the ferocity of their defenses.
Take your "project" QB, 4th round pick and stick him in the starting lineup. Tweak the schedule just a little more by arranging a "murderer's row" of savage defenses like the Vikings, Steelers, Ravens, and Giants, all top 10 against scoring.
Handicap this poor Head Coach with the most intrusive, volatile, unpredictable and impulsive owner in professional sports.
Now....Beat every opponent except one in the first 15 games of the season. Be sure to clinch homefield advantage throughout the playoffs after 14 games. Oh, lets make your rookie RB the leading rusher in the league and your rookie quarteback only gets to throw 4 INT's for the first 15 games.
.....And we might, mind you, MIGHT decide to make you the Coach of the Year.
