Over the next few weeks, the team here at CBSSports.com is taking a look at what some of the teams around the league can do to get themselves to LIV. You may have on the , , , and , for example. We're continuing that series here today with America's Team, the . Dallas finished last season with a 10-6 record and the NFC East Marian Hossa Jersey crown, vanquishing the Seahawks in the first round of the playoffs before losing to the eventual NFC champion in Los Angeles. That divisional round lo s exposed some of the flaws the Cowboys have, flaws which we'll advise they addre s in the space below. 1. Empower to make deep systemic changes to the offense We're starting here because honestly, if the Cowboys don't do this, the other suggestions we're making are largely irrelevant. If Dallas is going to have Moore -- who was a backup to Tony Romo and then before becoming the Cowboys' quarterbacks coach last season -- merely replace former offensive coordinator Scott Linehan as a play-caller without also allowing him to dramatically reinvent the team's offensive schemes, there was really no point to having made the switch from one to the other. Over the past few years, Linehan mixed some of his own schemes with the principles head coach Jason Garrett has had installed since he became the team's offensive coordinator back in 2007. Garrett himself said prior to last season that his offense borrows heavily from what Norv Turner ran when he was the Cowboys' offensive coordinator. To be clear, that last happened in 1993. It's safe to say the league has changed a whole lot in the ensuing 26 years. So too should the Cowboys' offense, which became increasingly stale and last year reached the point of being antiquated. Even Cowboys said so. Their lack of confidence in the scheme and play-calling presumably stemmed from the team's downturn in offensive production over the years. YEARQBYARDSPOINTSDVOA 2014* Romo 7th 5th 4th 2015 Romo/Moore 22nd 31st 31st 2016 Prescott 5th 5th 3rd 2017 Prescott 14th 14th 10th 2018 Prescott 22nd 22nd 24th Linehan Era Average 15.8 18 17 Far too many of the Cowboys' pa sing-down snaps last year involved them spreading the field with three receivers and a tight end, all of whom ran identical comeback routes to the sticks. It was predictable and incredibly easy for defenses to cover. Linehan's lack of creativity most often manifested itself in Prescott having to throw into tight coverage far too often. Last year, 17.7 percent of his pa ses were thrown into tight coverage, per .com's NextGen Stats, a figure that ranked 29th out of 38 qualified quarterbacks. Prescott also threw short of Glenn Hall Jersey the sticks by an average of 1.5 yards per pa s, which ranked 28th out of the same group of 38 players. The Cowboys also had Prescott throw just 11 pa ses on RPO (run-pa s option) plays last season, per Sports Info Solutions, a figure that is frankly embarra sing given Prescott's obvious strength with RPO schemes. He averaged 9.5 yards per pa s on those throws, which allow him to combine his skill at play-fakes, quickly reading defenses, and using his legs and athleticism to make plays on the perimeter if nece sary. The Cowboys don't need to do this on every snap, but a considerable increase is certainly called for. Prescott should also John Hayden Jersey just be throwing after a play-action fake more often in general. Given the strength of the Cowboys' run game and opposing defenses' obvious inclination to stop , it should not be surprising that Prescott has been a far more efficient pa ser on play-action plays (where he is one of the best in the league) than on straight drop backs (where he is merely average) throughout his three-year career. Consider the following figures, per Pro Football Focus. Prescott PANo PA Comp 238 737 Att 349 1,178 Comp % 68.2% 62.6% Yds 3,090 7,786 YPA 8.85 6.61 TD 19 48 INT 2 23 Rtg 111.6 87.2 % Pa ses 22.9% 77.1% Again, the Cowboys don't need to be calling a play-action pa s on every drop back, but 23 percent is far too low. They should be among the league leaders in play-action rate, up near teams like the Rams, who like the Cowboys base their entire offense around the versatile contributions of a star running back. The Cowboys would also benefit from Moore dre sing up the offense a bit more. They utilized pre-snap motion on only 31 percent of their offensive plays last season, per Sports Info Solutions, a rate that both ranked 24th out of the league's 32 teams and was well below the league average of 36.6 percent. Allowing a defense to know not only which routes were coming but also to maintain position for several seconds without having to shift into position to guard the correct receivers is making its job way too easy on it. Incorporating motion, particularly from players like their rookie fourth-rounder out of Memphis, (whom the Cowboys describe as a WEB back, short for "whatever back"), would go a long way toward making sure defenses have to worry about Bobby Orr Jersey defending more areas of the field than they have had to over the past few years. It would be nice if "making sure defenses have to worry about defending more areas of the field" extended to allowing Prescott to throw deep more often -- or perhaps pre suring him into doing so, if the reason he hasn't been so far is due to his own reluctance rather than just the scheme. Prescott has been one of the most efficient deep pa sers in the NFL since he entered the league, but he rarely ever tests defenses with those types of throws. Pa ses that traveled at least 20 yards in the air have accounted for only Patrick Sharp Jersey 9.4 percent of his attempts during his career, even though he has a 115.9 pa ser rating on such attempts, per Pro Football Focus. Prescott20+ Yds Comp 53 Att 143 Comp % 37.1% Yds 1,871 YPA 13.08 TD 18 INT 3 Rtg 115.9 % Pa ses 9.4% The Cowboys tried to have Prescott make things work with a skeleton crew of receivers during the early portion of last season, but that did not come close to working out. They made a move for around mid-season, and once they stopped rotating receivers in and out of the lineup and settled on Cooper, , and , things got quite a bit better. Beasley signed with the during the offseason but he's been replaced by , and both Pollard and have experience as slot men and running backs. This should be a far better situation for Prescott than the one he was in last season, but it will only be so if Moore changes things up significantly enough. Putting Prescott in better position to succeed w