Everything about the Dallas Cowboys right now feels terrible in the worst possible way.
The Dallas Cowboys have had a 20-or-more-point deficit in six straight games at home. Read that again, take a second and really think about it.
Does that sound impossible? Doing anything for six consecutive games feels impossible. If you took out a parlay on any one event, even something like kicking a field goal, for six consecutive games you would probably have pretty interesting odds. Establishing a deficit of at least 20 points in six straight games all in your home building is a different kind of horror that only we are getting to experience. Seriously, it is only us. The Cowboys set the NFL record for this sorcery last week when they lost to the Philadelphia Eagles and extended it on Monday night when they lost to the Houston Texans.
At the moment the Cowboys are more than just a bad football team. They are a bad operation, a bad franchise and a bad culture.
Here is the state of how we view things one day after their latest bit of humiliation.
That there are still 7 more games of this mess feels impossible
You did not misread that. The Dallas Cowboys have played in 10 games to date and have a staggering seven to go.
Obviously we have said variations of this statement many times over this calendar year, but normally the time that we are in the middle of (Thanksgiving is next week!) is full of so much joy or at the very least hope (even if it is misplaced) regarding this team.
Right now there is only chaos, dysfunction, brokenness, annoyance and frustration in every single direction. That there are seven games left of this “ride” feels not only impossible, but cruel. How can anyone stomach having to watch this for almost two more months?!
We have all experienced lost seasons before with the Cowboys, but for the most part they each at least had elements that were clearly being used as building blocks for the future. With so much contaminant in the water right now it is hard to look at anything as something that we are excited about carrying into the future. Maybe that is because the future is and feels so unknown, but it is true nevertheless.
We may not have even seen the actual bottom of this thing yet
This team has set and grown an NFL record for most consecutive games at home that featured a 20-point deficit? The limit for dysfunction that they can reach does not exist.
Seriously though, recall that the score to this game was 17-10 at halftime. In a technical and literal sense, the Cowboys were in it. Heck, it sort of seemed like they had a modicum of a chance as the third quarter wore on.
They lost 34-10! It happened in the blink of an eye, seemingly. Not to take away from a team that just handled the Cowboys with ease, but Dallas just lost to a sort of average group and by 24 points. What happens when the Cowboys play the Commanders on Sunday? Or a Bengals team that stands taller than them? What about when they visit the Eagles? Can the Commanders end the regular season for Dallas with no home wins on the season?
It has been said that when the bough breaks the cradle will fall, but could it be that the bough is only bending at this point? This team is nowhere near done embarrassing us.
Name one thing this team does well, because I don’t think you can
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To be clear, I am seriously asking what is something that the Dallas Cowboys do well? If you were any other NFL team in this season and you could swap any one thing out with the way that the Cowboys do it, what would that thing be?
Brandon Aubrey? Is that the thing? Assuming this is the case, even Aubrey had a miss in this game! He also had a 64-yard field goal that the team (correctly in my opinion) took off of the board, but it’s a struggle to lengthen the list here.
For a team that features the highest-paid player in the game, one of the top-paid wide receivers, one of the most feared pass rushers alive and that collectively won 36 games over the last three seasons, is it not super shocking that we can’t really name one thing that they do that is envied by their contemporaries? Obviously injuries are a part of the problem and impact this, but that is quite the indictment on how far back everyone involved has regressed.
