Post by Matt Meyer | @Bluto51 on X

Absolutely embarrassing showing from the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday as the Detroit Lions hammered the Cowboys 47-9. Dallas is now 3-3 but it feels much worse than that as 2 of their 3 losses were blowouts and the score of their other loss was very deceiving. Cowboys have their bye week before a trip to San Francisco next Sunday.

Hard to come up with an adjective or adverb strong enough for what we saw on Sunday. First of all, Detroit has a darn good football team. There’s a reason why I picked them to win the NFC. The Lions are good or better than good just about everywhere. Best wishes to Aidan Hutchinson who suffered a fractured left tibia and fibula. If you haven’t seen it, it was one of those injuries you might not want to watch. It’s a big blow to the Lions to lose the NFL leader in sacks, pressures, and pass rush win rate. I still think Detroit is Super Bowl caliber, but they’ll miss having him.

So, the Lions are really good. They were coming off of their bye week, allowing them to rest up and focus on Dallas for two weeks. I’m certain they remembered the controversial loss in Arlington late last year. The Cowboys were missing four starters and other rotation players on defense. All factual. However, in a league that is built for parity, resulting in most games going down to the wire, that performance by Dallas was an insult to competitive athletics. The Cowboys’ offensive line is no longer a dependable strength of this team. Four sacks allowed and 51 rushing yards, and a lot of those yards came after the game was decided. Five turnovers. Prescott was terrible. Dallas looked lost defensively. I’m sick of watching Trevon Diggs avoid physicality like Deion Sanders. If he was as good as Sanders was, I might be able to tolerate it, but he’s nowhere close. That’s not really an insult, because not many are in the same category as Prime was. Watching him shy away from tackling is getting nauseating.

Equally as nauseating is listening to Jerry Jones talk. His appearance on a Dallas radio station Tuesday morning was cringeworthy. Message is bad so blame the messengers. Threatening to have a radio host replaced because you don’t like the question he asked is top shelf controlling, narcissistic behavior. News flash to the man who’s produced 5 playoff wins in 28 seasons…it isn’t pretty right now, and if you agree to go on a talk show, the questions you’re going to be asked will reflect that. If I was hosting the show, it would’ve taken every ounce of strength for me to not hang up on Jones and say that you’re never coming on a show that I’m on ever again. Jones wants all the credit (that’s why he fired Jimmy Johnson), but doesn’t want any blame. Weak.

I really don’t want to hear the injury excuse either. Of course the Cowboys are better with Micah Parsons, DeMarcus Lawrence, Eric Kendricks, DaRon Bland, and others on defense. Here’s the thing, and it has everything to do with Jones. There’s one thing we know about the NFL. We may not know who will win this week, who will lose, who will make it to the Super Bowl, or who will lose their job, but we know one thing…there will be injuries. It’s as certain as the sun setting in the west. The secret sauce in the NFL, a league with a hard salary cap, is being able to survive with injuries. How do you survive? By building a complete roster, 1-53. That’s what Jones has not been able to do for 28 years. Sure, he can pick out the superstars. Jones played football for a national title team at Arkansas. However, building a championship level team is something that he hasn’t been able to do after the team that Coach Johnson built faded into history. But please, get mad at a radio host for doing his job.

Interesting time for a bye week coming off of that debacle. Have to think that there’s a lot of folks in Frisco looking in the mirror this week. Hopefully they realize that what they’re seeing isn’t cutting it, and more importantly, finding the solutions to fix the problems. Fans like me can pick out what’s wrong. That’s easy. Finding the answers isn’t easy at all. The Cowboys better find the answers, because if they don’t, a lot of those folks in Frisco will be looking in a different mirror next season.