The Dallas Cowboys were absolutely embarrassed on Sunday, out-toughed by the Buffalo Bills. But it was their own mistakes that knocked the road team out of contention in an ugly first half, not the opponent’s punching them in the mouth. Penalties that extended drives and stalled their own, and not being aware of their surroundings led to a 21-3 halftime deficit, their worst of the season.
And when the Cowboys weren’t able to score to close out the first half or start the second, it was pretty much all she wrote. The Cowboys entered the game with a five-game winning streak overall and 21 in a row on artificial turf, but none of that translated to a competent performance in Week 15. Instead the club that had been red hot has the same questions that have haunted them resurface. Can Dallas win on the road against good teams? It doesn’t seem like they know how, as they fell to the Bills 31-10.
Dallas’ clinched a playoff berth before they took the field Sunday, thanks to other results. However they have many more doubts now then they did before now that they are 10-4 and likely out of the rae for the NFC East title and the No. 1 seed in the conference.