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David Helman
Dallas Cowboys Insider
When the shock wears off and the embarrassment fades into a dull ache, the Dallas Cowboys will still be faced with the same question.
It’s the question that’s lingered over this entire effort, and now that the effort has failed, it comes into a sharper focus.
If not now, then when?
Throughout a season of ups and downs, it’s been an existential question — a threat, almost. If this loaded Cowboys team, filled with so much talent and experience, couldn’t make a genuine run at a championship, what team could hope to?
In the aftermath of a 48-32 beating at the hands of Green Bay, it’s bleak to attempt an answer. This last, best shot didn’t come close — a full four wins short of the ultimate prize. Even a return to the NFC Championship Game looks like a laughable goal in retrospect, which is especially painful when you remember that the Cowboys were poised to play two home playoff games as the NFC’s No. 2 seed.
It’s irrelevant now, along with another 12 regular season wins, a plus-194 point differential and a now-snapped 16-game home winning streak.
What’s left is a franchise with a boatload of consequential decisions to make – and that’s before including the turmoil coming out of this loss.
Change is coming to this coaching staff. Every big-name insider in the NFL landscape is hinting that Mike McCarthy could be out of a job. And even if he’s not, something else will have to give. Defensive coordinator Dan Quinn has been expected to leave for a head coaching job for two years now, and the Cowboys may make their peace with his departure after the latest performance.
One way or another, the coaching continuity that has helped the Cowboys to 36 regular-season wins these last three years is threatened.
That’s just one more block on top of what already looks like a shaky Jenga tower.
Let’s start in the obvious place. It’s cruelly fitting that the best season of Dak Prescott’s career would…
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Publish date : 2024-01-17 13:29:40
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