I will put an asterisk on it. It was not a 12-4 team in the truest sense. We had a lot of things break our way that made it possible.
If you think that was not a "perfect storm" season, get a grip.
We can build on it. But it was certainly not a foundation season any more than the last time we had a playoff run into the second round.
There was absolutely nothing flukey about last season, except for perhaps the fact that we were very healthy, but that isn't something I'd call "flukey".
We lost 4 games, basically all of which were due to Romo being injured. He clearly wasn't 100% against the 49ers to start the year, he got injured half way through the Skins game, he missed the Arizona game and again he was clearly not 100% against the Eagles on short rest.
Sure, we won some close games that we could've easily lost but so does literally every other team in the league, literally every single year. How about the fact that we won 8 of our 12 games by double digits, along with straight up dominating the Seahawks despite the score. We were completely dominant down the stretch with 4 straight double digit victories to end the season, a few of which were by 20-30 points.
There were several occasions where we were down double digits and fought back to win in impressive fashion, against the Rams, Giants and in the playoffs against Detroit.
That isn't a fluke, that is a damn impressive season, probably the most impressive since 1995. Sure, things came together for us where we found our identity with the running game, the defense played with great energy, masking their deficiencies, and everybody bought in, but that's not a fluke, that's what happens every year on very good to great teams.
They have to go out and rebuild that identity, play with that focus and a chip on their shoulder again, but that doesn't mean last year was a fluke if they don't. And if the team struggles because the running game struggles, that doesn't make last year a fluke either, it just means we made a horrible personnel decision in doing literally nothing to replace Murray.