Week 5’s Sunday night game was supposed to be a 15-round battle between NFC heavyweights. It didn’t take long, though, to figure out which boxer looked like a champ and which boxer would playing the chump.
The 49ers’ 42-10 beatdown of the Cowboys was one of the most lopsided finals in the storied history between the two franchises and the worst loss of the Mike McCarthy era in Dallas.
There are plenty of plays that Cowboys fans will point to as the moment they knew it was over. Some would pick the very first play from scrimmage, when a face mask call against Jayron Kearse was just the first time on the night Dallas would shoot themselves in the foot. Others will undoubtedly look at Dak Prescott’s three interceptions and think here we go again.
They’re not wrong. There were a multitude of moments that contributed to an absolutely embarrassing performance by the Cowboys, the kind that will have a significant portion of even the staunchest fanbase wondering just how wrong we all were about this team’s outlook.
But in the final analysis, here are our choices for the four plays that most accurately summed up the smackdown in San Fran.
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