Only injury reports are of interest to me from camp and during the preseason. It's not just the Cowboys but all of the teams are spinning out of camp. Think the owners want them anything but positive and selling the team to the ticket buying public?
When I think of this time of year, another year comes to mind when the Giants went 5-0 in preseason and their stock was rising weekly until it got real, then they opened 0-4. Nothing is real until it gets real.
I bet if you took an honest poll with all of the coaching staffs, you would find few that would want preseason games. They evolved out of what were once called exhibition games and a lot of them were played outside NFL markets to push the brand and the starters would participate more to sell the product and the coaches were also playing a lot of the players into shape. I saw the Boys in exhibitions in Memphis and Shreveport and that was more exciting than TS because most of those fans didn't go to the regular season games, it was a special night.
If pretend season games were necessary, we would not be seeing colleges open up ready to play and the first couple of weeks of the NFL pretty sloppy. But the owners are not giving up the two most lucrative home games of the season unless they make the playoffs. And they're not willing to jump the salaries by 12.5% to go to 18 when they pay a fraction of that now and the players aren't adding 2 games without compensation.
The only parts of a pretend game that is close to real are the kamikazes on ST coverage units trying to make the cut in the final 2 games. Not enough reasons to pay attention and then to top that off, we get that lame CH 11 crew with Spagnola. Bad football and bad TV. However, I think the Cowboys get 3 of the 4 games on a national basis, at least I think I read that somewhere but hell, could have been another time as well.