Dallas Cowboys won't win a playoff game in 2022 due to these 5 reasons

#3 – Dallas Cowboys have a weak defense

Osa Odighizuwa has to improve on the interior against the run

As good as the Cowboys' offense is, there are glaring weaknesses on the other side of the ball. The team lacks any real quality or leadership through the inside of the defensive line.

Micah Parsons is outstanding from the outside, but the pass-rush on the inside can lack punch. This makes you susceptible to run-first offenses tearing you to pieces, as the Dallas Cowboys found in their dismal post-season defeat to San Francisco last season.

Efforts haven't been made to improve this area, and hope will once again be put on the shoulders of Neville Gallimore and Osa Odighizuwa, who need to improve hugely for the team to be a threat in the playoffs.

As soon as Jones' franchise comes up against an effective rushing offense, they will falter.

#4 – Dak Prescott panics in key moments

Dak Prescott felt the pressure and bottled it during the last seconds of the Cowboys' 2021 season

Dallas Cowboys fans need no reminders of the final seconds of their playoff defeat to the 49ers last season.

Depending on which side of the fence you sit on, that moment was either endlessly comical or harrowing.

Watching the franchise quarterback lose his head and run out the clock with an intended spike was a dagger in the hearts of Dallas fans.

They finally have a quarterback worthy of winning a Super Bowl on natural talent, and yet he showed he couldn't handle the pressure in big moments.

Tom Brady would never have made such a mistake. Game-changing quarterbacks live life on the field in slow motion. Nothing fazes them, yet Prescott collapsed under the weight of playoff football and immediately looked to blame the officials as a defense mechanism.

If your quarterback panics in key moments, you will never do anything in the post-season.

#5 – NFC competition is even stronger in 2022

Deebo Samuel has run through the Dallas Cowboys and will do it again.

Ahead of the 2022 NFL season, it's clear that teams around the Dallas Cowboys have gotten a lot stronger.

The 49ers will be there again with Trey Lance and a motivated Deebo Samuel, while the Bears, Rams, and Buccaneers will all be strong.

The Dallas Cowboys will have much stronger competition in 2022 and will not have life as easy as they did in 2021.

With the regular season games set to be tougher, the chances of getting 12 wins for the second successive year have come right down. This opens up harder potential meetings in the post-season, and if the team couldn't even win a playoff game last year, their chances of doing so in 2022 are seriously slim.

Justin Fields is set for a breakout year and will be a star with the Bears, while exceptional rushers like Christian McCaffrey and Alvin Kamara will cause that weak Cowboys interior to struggle… and struggle hard.