ARLINGTON, Texas — As has become the annual ritual that often marks the end of a disappointing season for the Dallas Cowboys, Jerry Jones pulled out his thesaurus. If only to channel a singular message to his fan base one more time, a repetitive plea along the lines of: Hey, I’m just like you. I can’t believe it, either.
There he stood, reaching deep into his bag of words following the Cowboys’ stunning, 48-32 home loss to a significantly less talented and monumentally less experienced Green Bay Packers team. Cloaked in arguably the most inexplicable failure in the history of Dallas playoff teams — and having squandered a roster as talented as some of his 1990s Super Bowl winners — Jones channeled seemingly every emotion except the one that matters to the team's fans right now.