Name: Dallas Cowboys' Playoff Hopes Fade After Loss to Vikings
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Um, but we didn't do any Sunday Night Football. Dallas and Minnesota. The Cowboys' season pretty much ended. The Eagles just have to win their next game against the Commanders. Listen, I understand that's, uh, easier said than done, but, you know, I mean, the thing is Dallas would still have to win out. I, I just, I, I think Dallas. has shown that with a great offense, hey, we could beat anybody. But also, we're an incredibly vulnerable team. And I don't think Dak was all that great in that game yesterday. I understand he threw for a ton of yards. I don't think he was all that great. And this is a group who's gonna have to really, You know, rearrange a couple of things in the offseason. I don't think Matt Eberflus is likely to be brought back on the defensive side of the ball, and. I, I just, I, I don't know, I don't know where you were at going into that game, but for, for me, I, to see them lose, I actually wasn't all that surprised. No, I wasn't either. I, I mean, I thought if, if JJ McCarthy was competent, right, like he was the previous game against, uh, the Commanders, they, they would be in the game right now. They didn't still feed, uh, uh, Justin Jefferson, but we saw Jalen Naylor. With two big plays we saw, you know, Aaron Jones and Jordan Mason run the football enough. And, and again, when you get pressure on Dak Prescott, uh, you could sack him, right? He's not as mobile as he was earlier in his career, and the defense is a sieve in the back end. I mean, there's multiple teams that abuse this team over the top this year, you know, it wasn't just JJ McCarthy. So yeah, I, I, I. Here's the thing about Dallas. I never thought that this was an elite football team. I thought this was a middle of the road football team that made some nice moves. I did believe, and maybe I was in the, in the minority, that, uh, Jerry Jones did the right thing with the Micah Parsons situation. If he's checked out, I'm not gonna give him money. Obviously, if he doesn't want to play in Dallas, and, and again, we'll see if those moves that they made with Quinnin Williams and some of the others will pay off long term, but I, I think they got the most out of this team. Like, he took it right down to the end. If I would have told you. Which I didn't believe. Hey, Dallas's playoff hopes will be alive entering week 15. Would you have, would you have bought in? If you would have said before, uh. First-year head coach major question marks. Defense not good. Yeah, I think my problem is nothing about their season is in its totality surprising. Offense has big games. Defense is bad. They lose, they lose big games. Like they just, you have, you have a mismash, but you have a, a 500 football team, and that's what I thought they were. Yeah, I think that that, I think that that's fair. Look, I do think what you are seeing though is JJ McCarthy guarantee he's the Vikings starter next year. And I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing for him personally. I think that's a great thing, but I don't know for Minnesota. I don't know. I don't. It's a huge risk. I'll, I'll just, I that I don't think they have a choice. No, they don't. But again, if he's gonna start to light up now Washington and then Dallas, he plays Detroit, Joe. He plays Detroit. They, they stink, yeah, but, so that's it, so, it's his 4th game with 3 total touchdowns. No, I know he's played a game. Like, no, I know, but ask Jordan Addison other games though, he's atrocious. My, my point is, and I know Addison had, had yards, but ask Addison and, uh, Justin Jefferson if they want McCarthy as a quarterback next year.

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