It wasn’t too long ago that things were looking up for the Cowboys. Inspired by Mike McCarthy’s destruction of some watermelons, they beat the Vikings in Week 11 to improve to 3–7. It would have been a disaster in any other year, except every other team in the NFC East also had just three wins. Just take care of business in the division and a playoff berth was well within reach.
So much for that.
Dallas got wrecked by Washington in its game on Thanksgiving and then on Tuesday night got run over by the Ravens, 34–17.