Game balls are sure more fun to give out when the team wins. You might have noticed, the Cowboys didn’t win. In fact, Dallas got clobbered by the Denver Broncos 30-16, with only a couple of truly garbage-time touchdowns making the final optics look a slight bit better. It was a thorough beating, the kind that will bring a team that was flying in rarefied air right back to the ground. It’s a reality-check.
The Cowboys coaches will be challenged this week. They will be tasked with not letting the negative waves multiply. They must do whatever they can to make sure this game is remembered as a strange blip, an anomaly, in an otherwise sublime season.