Over the course of the 3.5 years that Amari Cooper was in Dallas, he was easily Prescott's most productive receiver, racking up 292 catches for 3893 yards and 27 TDs. 2) The wide receivers are no longer a strength Either way, it's hard to be super excited about Dallas' current leadership, or what it might cost to land Payton.

Maybe Dallas will cough up a couple of first-round draft picks (and more?) to the Saints to hire Sean Payton? Can they afford that? It's not like the roster is really all that great. If not, McCarthy is likely a goner, and while Cowboys fans will be happy about that, their NFC Championship Game drought will continue.

Getting back on topic, McCarthy stinks and if Dallas wins a playoff game in 2022, he'll probably stay. They're the chokiest bunch of chokers who ever choked. Each of the 13 other teams in the NFC have all made it to the NFC Championship Game at least twice since the Cowboys last have. Only two NFC teams - the Washington Commanders and the Detroit Lions - have gone longer without appearing in the Conference Championship round. You know how I know the Cowboys wouldn't have advanced further in the playoffs if they successfully clocked the football? Because they never do! They haven't participated in the NFC Championship Game in over a quarter century. Or in football terms, Philly fans pretend like the Eagles would have repeated as Super Bowl winners if Alshon Jeffery didn't have a pass slip through his hands and into the hands of Marshon Lattimore. Philly fans act like the Sixers would have (a) beaten the Raptors in OT and then the Bucks in the ECF, and then the Warriors in the finals if Kawhi Leonard hadn't quadruple-doinked home the elimination game winner. When your head coach is a whiny loser who blames officials after a loss, your players will follow suit.īut also, even if the Cowboys had successfully stopped the clock, what's the likelihood that they score on the next play? Like three percent? Every fan base does this, by the way. I also loved the general fan reaction to that play. As players and officials left the field, bottles and assorted trash rained down onto the field.įull response to fans throwing bottles at refs. At least the owner and half of America would buy that.

I mean, if you don't want to take responsibility, just say that Antifa made you call that play. Actually the bitching was probably more dumb than pathetic, because even the most casual fans could easily identify how absurd that call was. It's hard to decide what was more ridiculous - the play call itself, or the Cowboys' pathetic bitching about the officiating of that play in the aftermath. Had they gotten the snap/spike off in time, the Niners would have had a legitimate reason to be furious about the incorrectly spotted ball. The official moved it back a couple feet, but not so much that the entire offense had to move back a few yards and get re-set before the snap. Instead, the Cowboys spotted it themselves at the 23. That's where the ball should have been spotted. If you go back and watch the play again, the official actually did the Cowboys a HUGE favor.

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