The NFL regular season is officially over, and we now know the seedings for the playoffs.
The Cowboys, who are the 5th seed, could have either been the 1st or 3rd seed and won the division if things had gone their way, but they took a 26-6 loss to the Commanders in ugly fashion. Not the performance you want from your starters heading into the playoffs.
Owner Jerry Jones thinks they’ll be ready, though, and used an exciting way to say it.
While talking during his post-game presser, Jones spoke about the Cowboys’ Wild Card game against Tom Brady and the Bucs and said they’ll have to suck on the loss all week.
Dak Prescott insisted the Dallas Cowboys were worried solely about their game against Washington and had no idea what was going on in Philadelphia with the other result they would need to win the division.
“Zero awareness of what was going on over there,” he said. “Couldn’t get off on the right foot.”
That’s an understatement. Prescott completed just 14 of his 37 passes for 128 yards, threw another interception that was returned for a touchdown and the Cowboys laid an egg in their final regular-season game, losing 26-6 to the Washington Commanders on Sunday.
Despite playing their starters with coach Mike McCarthy pledging they were playing to win, the Cowboys limped into the playoffs and a wild-card showdown at Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers next Monday night with Prescott on a career-long seven-game interception streak.
“That wasn’t us,” guard Zack Martin said. “Do this again, we’ll be sitting at home next week.”
Beyond getting picked off by Kendall Fuller on the pick-6, Prescott was wildly inaccurate and the Dallas offense had just 169 total yards and went 4 of 17 on third down before he was replaced by Cooper Rush in garbage time.
“This is not about one guy,” McCarthy said. “You can’t look at our offensive performance and blame it on one guy. Plenty to go around.”
Social media had a field day with the clip of him saying that.
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