Dallas Cowboys crew proprietor Jerry Jones and his entourage somberly walked again to the crew’s locker room after they have been shellacked, 48-32, of their playoff recreation towards the Inexperienced Bay Packers on Sunday.
It’s one other season that has resulted in bitter disappointment after they fought to win the NFC East, wrangling it from the Philadelphia Eagles and internet hosting the sport at AT&T Stadium the place they have been undefeated all season. The Packers put all of the hype apart and shocked Dallas.
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“I say this to our followers, how a lot you deserve us to not have this ending,” Jones instructed reporters instantly after the loss. “By no means have I spent any of my time during the last three hours asking how and why. And what I’m zeroed in on is the truth that I believed we have been positioned, everyone on this room thought [we] have been ready, to advance this factor within the playoffs and perhaps get so far as our desires may take us. We didn’t do it.”
The criticism of the crew’s efficiency was loud.
“I’m undecided how you can describe what we simply noticed. There aren’t adjectives robust sufficient for the way badly the #Cowboys performed,” ESPN’s Mike Greenberg wrote on X. “Exhausting to think about it doesn’t result in main adjustments.”
“This was a no-show for the ages, genuinely one of many worst big-game performances in #NFL historical past.”
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ESPN NFL reporter Todd Archer urged followers and followers to not be “fooled” by the rating. Dak Prescott threw two landing passes within the fourth quarter, however Inexperienced Bay was already enjoying backups.
“Don’t be fooled by the 48-32 last rating. It wasn’t this shut,” Archer wrote. “That is the Cowboys’ eighth one-and-done playoff efficiency for the Cowboys since their final look within the NFC title recreation in 1995.”
Shannon Sharpe wrote that Prescott pulled a David Copperfield and disappeared whereas the protection by no means confirmed up.
“That is probably the most pathetic, disappointing, humiliating loss in Cowboys historical past. EMBARRASSING,” he added on X.
ESPN’s Kevin Clark added, “The Cowboys failing on a late Sunday afternoon in January is one in every of very, only a few issues that may nonetheless convey this nation collectively.”
Your complete NFL world is anticipating adjustments to the Cowboys after the loss.
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