{"id":217,"date":"2025-06-16T00:04:38","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T00:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dequiraparker.com\/?p=217"},"modified":"2026-05-01T00:31:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T00:31:44","slug":"the-cowboys-have-done-it-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dequiraparker.com\/?p=217","title":{"rendered":"The Cowboys Have Done It Again!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-breakout=\"normal\">\n<p id=\"viewer-7funl\" class=\"_04qQG jtShe _6XZJW UGHSE\" dir=\"auto\"><span class=\"mVzZr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/media1.giphy.com\/media\/wxMI3CBphTAPq5yhxk\/giphy.gif?cid=2450ec30rn2jmsmumb357skeu8ocz59loanj312pfs30ia3p&amp;ep=v1_gifs_search&amp;rid=giphy.gif&amp;ct=g\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"_04qQG jtShe _6XZJW UGHSE\" dir=\"auto\"><span class=\"mVzZr\">The Cowboys make yet another early playoff exit. Disappointed. But, Not Surprised.<\/span><\/p>\n<div data-breakout=\"normal\">\n<p id=\"viewer-fdcbz11959\" class=\"_04qQG jtShe _6XZJW UGHSE\" dir=\"auto\"><span class=\"mVzZr\">I have to admit, I thought this year would be different. But, once again, I was painfully wrong.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-breakout=\"normal\">\n<p id=\"viewer-wtpxy15348\" class=\"_04qQG jtShe _6XZJW UGHSE\" dir=\"auto\"><span class=\"mVzZr\">The Dallas Cowboys just suffered a blowout loss to the Green Bay Packers, eliminating them in the very first round of the playoffs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-breakout=\"normal\">\n<p id=\"viewer-0vz5o12075\" class=\"_04qQG jtShe _6XZJW UGHSE\" dir=\"auto\"><span class=\"mVzZr\">Dallas was the number 2 seed in the NFC, and the Packers were the 7th seed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-breakout=\"normal\">\n<p id=\"viewer-gmsi412078\" class=\"_04qQG jtShe _6XZJW UGHSE\" dir=\"auto\"><span class=\"mVzZr\">It has now been 29 years since the Dallas Cowboys have made it to an NFC Conference Championship. It\u2019s also current quarterback Dak Prescott\u2019s 5th loss out of his 7 playoff games played. Which makes his 2-5 record tied for worst by any QB in playoff history (min. 5 games).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-breakout=\"normal\">\n<p id=\"viewer-x3ogw12081\" class=\"_04qQG jtShe _6XZJW UGHSE\" dir=\"auto\"><span class=\"mVzZr\">Prescott gave a three word evaluation of his performance on Sunday saying, \u201cI sucked tonight.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-breakout=\"normal\">\n<p id=\"viewer-tpl9b12084\" class=\"_04qQG jtShe _6XZJW UGHSE\" dir=\"auto\"><span class=\"mVzZr\">Things were really looking up for the QB this year. He had what may have been his best season in his entire NFL career, with over 4500 passing yards, 36 TDs, with just 9 interceptions. He\u2019s even been a top 3 MVP candidate all season long.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-breakout=\"normal\">\n<p id=\"viewer-992b212088\" class=\"_04qQG jtShe _6XZJW UGHSE\" dir=\"auto\"><span class=\"mVzZr\">In his defense, he threw for an incredible 403 yards and 3 touchdowns Sunday night. He did have 2 interceptions with one of them being a pick-six. However, the real issue for the Cowboys last night was surprisingly the defense. A top 5 defense that only allowed 18 points per game in the NFL regular season, went on to give up 42 points in the game that mattered most.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-breakout=\"normal\">\n<p id=\"viewer-wtdso12091\" class=\"_04qQG jtShe _6XZJW UGHSE\" dir=\"auto\"><span class=\"mVzZr\">81 year-old Cowboys owner Jerry Jones was tight-lipped about if there was any future remaining in Dallas for head coach Mike McCarthy. \u201cI haven\u2019t thought one second about it,\u201d Jones said. But, I\u2019d honestly be surprised if the Cowboys didn\u2019t move on from McCarthy as he and the Cowboys have only disappointed in the playoffs so far.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-breakout=\"normal\">\n<p id=\"viewer-jc3wz12094\" class=\"_04qQG jtShe _6XZJW UGHSE\" dir=\"auto\"><span class=\"mVzZr\">Nevertheless, if you were optimistic like me, you\u2019re probably in disbelief that something like this could happen so, so many times.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-breakout=\"normal\">\n<p id=\"viewer-8a9jp12097\" class=\"_04qQG jtShe _6XZJW UGHSE\" dir=\"auto\"><span class=\"mVzZr\">And, if you trusted that history would repeat itself, you were most likely unfazed by such results.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-breakout=\"normal\">\n<p id=\"viewer-qdspl12100\" class=\"_04qQG jtShe _6XZJW UGHSE\" dir=\"auto\"><span class=\"mVzZr\">Now let\u2019s end this debriefing session with a line that would make the most notorious Cowboy-hater of all time proud. This is for you Stephen A. Smith:<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-breakout=\"normal\">\n<p id=\"viewer-arcys12103\" class=\"_04qQG jtShe _6XZJW UGHSE\" dir=\"auto\"><span class=\"mVzZr\"><em>\u201cHow \u2018Bout Them Cowboys!\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cowboys make yet another early playoff exit. Disappointed. But, Not Surprised. I have to admit, I thought this year would be different. But, once again, I was painfully wrong. The Dallas Cowboys just suffered a blowout loss to the Green Bay Packers, eliminating them in the very first round of the playoffs.\u00a0 Dallas was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dequiraparker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dequiraparker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dequiraparker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dequiraparker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dequiraparker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dequiraparker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270,"href":"https:\/\/dequiraparker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions\/270"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dequiraparker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dequiraparker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dequiraparker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dequiraparker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}