Sunday was a beautifully wild day for the Dallas Cowboys and how they beat a division rival.
The Dallas Cowboys were victorious on Sunday and therefore have sent us into Thanksgiving week feeling less upset about our favorite football team. General conversation with your aunt, uncle or whomever it is that you haven’t seen in a while will have a more fun tenor than if the losing streak had continued.
Obviously it had been a while since the Cowboys won a game so maybe you forgot exactly what it felt like. Winning is indeed The Best so tasting it once more felt very nice.
Something we do every week around these parts is offer some thoughts on the day after the game so that we have let everything properly marinate and settle. This is a quick week with the Thanksgiving Day game obviously and potentially some level of travel or hosting that you are doing in preparation of the holiday.
With that said we’ll get right to our three thoughts.
It is okay to root for the team or the tank, there is no wrong answer
Let me say before I offer anything else that there is no wrong way to be a fan. You are completely entitled and allowed to do, root and support however you would like in my opinion.
That being said, there has been some discourse over the Cowboys winning this game because the season is clearly (although not mathematically, a point sure to pick up some steam if Dallas wins on Thanksgiving) lost. Losing games means a better draft pick and therefore a better opportunity to improve the team in the future. All of this, just to be clear and technical, is theoretical.
It goes without saying that I understand the logic of this from people and do not even disagree with it. But I have got to tell you, I felt a different kind of alive during the win and the madness of it all against Washington.
We spend so much time watching the months flip by and counting down the days until football season. I love so many other sports, but I would think hard about teleporting out of the Sunday round at The Masters for a competitive football game because that is the sport we all (generally speaking) care about the most.
Ultimately, once again, I don’t think there is any wrong way to go about this. If you are enjoying yourself or doing what you feel accomplishes the goal that you deem to be the most important, that is all that matters.
There is something especially impressive about standing tall when everyone has counted you out like this
As we noted in the immediate aftermath of the game, the Cowboys won at Washington despite the game closing with them as double-digit point underdogs. That is so much fun.
This is true for just about anything in life. If someone tells you that you can’t skip a rock across a pond and you do it, you are satisfied. Proving people wrong is an amazing feeling.
That the Cowboys went on the road to face their former defensive coordinator, who was quite popular among fans, who is now the head coach of a division rival and one that has been feeling themselves as of late, so much so that they were such heavy favorites – to get a win – THAT win – wow that feels sweet.
Washington has been an interesting “rival” of sorts for Dallas as of late in that the rivalry hasn’t exactly been even for a long time. Consider that the Cowboys are now riding a three-game winning streak against the Washington franchise. It is the 12th winning streak of at least three games that Dallas has had against Washington, a favor their franchise has returned only twice all-time.
Victory tastes good.
KaVontae Turpin is somehow not getting enough love
Honestly I feel like the hype around KaVontae Turpin was higher after his preseason outing a few years ago than it is in this moment. Maybe we have become a bit calloused to his abilities, but the touchdown that he returned was incredibly special.
And you know what? It was his first touchdown on a kickoff return! That is sort of lost in the madness of how it happened!
Turpin is currently, it is worth noting that there are six games left, averaging more yards per kickoff return than Devin Hester ever did in an entire season. That is the space we are talking about.
Turpin has become a tried and true weapon for this team. He should be a First-Team All-Pro player on top of a Pro Bowler, if you still put stock in the latter.
What a find.
