Many have noted that had the Dallas Cowboys beaten the Seattle Seahawks on Christmas Eve that they wouldn’t have made the playoffs anyway.
This is true because one week later the Atlanta Falcons, who the Cowboys would have needed to lose, defeated the Carolina Panthers in a win-and-in game.
As true as that is, the Cowboys were still one win away from the playoffs, it just wasn’t the Seattle game. Had Dallas defeated Atlanta back on November 12th, the first game without Ezekiel Elliott, it could have been them in that slot over the Falcons.
Atlanta, fresh off of a 26-13 wildcard win in Los Angeles over the Rams, deserves to be where they are.
Watching Atlanta succeed in playoffs reminds Cowboys fans of what could have been
