Welcome to the 2019 NFL regular season.



In five days’ time, the real bullets begin to fly, triggering opinions, conclusions and knee-jerking Mondays.



We love it, and yet it doesn’t always help us understand what just occurred in its proper context.



That is why I started offering Tuesday morning analysis a long time ago. In fact, if you work your way through my personal blog archives, you can see that the first record of this is from September of 2008, when I tried to start tracking information about the Cowboys’ offensive strategies. We tackled their personnel groupings, tendencies and philosophies — all in the name of learning about their intentions and how close they were to converting dreams into reality.



We have come a long way since then. 12 seasons later, I like the evolution of this system better, but just know that every Tuesday this fall we will be running the numbers in our Season 1 of “Decoding Kellen...