Dallas sucks, pass it on! Eagles’ fans (and rest of NFL) revel in Cowboys’ playoff humiliation
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Barring a Super Bowl victory, there probably is nothing that will make an Eagles fan feel better than watching the Dallas Cowboys get their butts kicked. At home. In the playoffs. By a heavy underdog.
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Jerry’s World became Jordan’s World, as quarterback Jordan Love and a bunch of no-name wide receivers (who included former Rutgers star Bo Melton) — the No. 7 seed — likely got a bunch of guys fired in an upset on Sunday night in an NFC wild-card game.
The Packers — after giving up a couple of meaningless fourth-quarter TDs — won, 48-32. Love (16 for 20, 272 yards, three TDs, zero interceptions, perfect 158.3 passer rating) was yanked from the game and backups inserted.
Good bye, Mike McCarthy.
Clean out your desk, Dan Quinn.
See you later, Dak Prescott.
Hello, Bill Belichick or Jim Harbaugh or Pete Carroll. The Cowboys, if they fire McCarthy, can’t promote Quinn, the defensive coordinator, after this loss. Neither can the Seahawks. And what is Prescott’s future?
The loss marks the 13th consecutive postseason appearance in which the Cowboys failed to reach the conference championship game, extending their own record. According to ESPN, the Cowboys are the first team in NFL history to win 12 games in three straight seasons and fail to make the conference championship in any of them.
So, while Philly fans aren’t really sure what to expect from the reeling Eagles when they face the Buccaneers in a wild card playoff game on Monday night, they’ll sleep soundly Sunday night knowing that their guys will do no worse than the Cowboys, who, after a 12-win season and a 16-game winning streak at home, handed a fistful of pink slips to owner Jerry Jones.
And if the Cowboys didn’t humiliate themselves enough, former coach Jimmy Johnson piled on with his own embarrassment — a silly pep talk from the Fox studios at halftime.
“Well, first of all, I can’t say what I would say now on television, but I’ll just say this: Every single one of you, you know how hard we’ve worked,” Johnson said, angrily shouting into the camera. “I don’t need to have people pointing the fingers. … You get your rear end in there and you play the way you know how to play. We can win the game. We’re going to open it up. We’re gonna go fast tempo. Defense, get after Jordan Love, you can’t give him that much time. You do what you’re supposed to do. We’ll win this game!”
And Eagles fans were celebrating their hated rival’s embarrassment — an impending chaos.