Tag: 2019 Week 17

2 Little, 2 Late, 8 Wins, 8 Losses: Cowboys 2019, likely Garrett tenure comes to fitting end

The Dallas Cowboys season is over after their Week 17 home win over the Washington Redskins.

It took a while for them to get untracked, but the Dallas Cowboys absolutely walloped the Washington Redskins in the 2019 regular season finale. Once Dallas quarterback Dak Prescott got his bad shoulder loose, the offense loosened up and the team poured gasoline on the flaming pile of misery for the team from DC. The final was a massacre-like score differential, 47-16 as Dallas had another blowout win on the season.

It was too little, too late however. Elsewhere in the division, the Philadelphia Eagles handled their own business, pulling away from the New York Giants in the fourth quarter to earn their ninth win of the season and lock up the NFC East race and a home date for the wild-card round next weekend. Dallas finished 8-8, after losing to the Eagles in Week 16 in a game they could have clinched the division and now they are going to be at home in a different capacity, and for the entire offseason.

The loss likely signifies the end of the Jason Garrett regime in one of the most disappointing campaigns of the Jerry Jones era. He’ll go out the same way he came in, starting his career with three straight 8-8 finishes in which the club had a chance to make the playoffs in Week 17 but failed to do so.

Time is a flat circle, apparently.

Dallas failed to become the first NFC East team to repeat as division champions since the 2003-2004 Philadelphia teams did so 15 years ago.

The Cowboys have dominated their opponents in their wins and looked lost in their defeats. Every one of their eight wins came in games when they scored over 31 points. Every one of their eight losses came in games when they scored 24 or fewer points.

The 31-point margin of victory moved them to a scoring differential of 113 on the season. They are the first team since 1989 to finish with a differential of 100 or more and finish with less than nine wins.

Now, the Cowboys will move on to the business season, with a coaching change likely to be announced in the near future and a search to be executed under the bright January lights that only Dallas can exist under for a team that did not accomplish their goals on the season whatsoever.

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Final Injury Report: Prescott to play, Cowboys’ Smith, Jones in question

The QB on one side is out, the other is hobbled. Check out the final injury report and game statuses for the final game of the year.

The Dallas Cowboys take on the Washington Redskins for the final game of the 2019 regular season.  For the first time all season, the club doesn’t control their own destiny after falling behind the Philadelphia Eagles in Week 16.  The Cowboys now need to not only defeat the Redskins but also need for the New York Giants to knock off Philadelphia for the Cowboys to repeat as NFC East Champions.

The outcome of the Eagles-Giants contest is moot if the Cowboys don’t win on Sunday, and it looks as if they could be short-handed as they release what is possibly their longest injury report of the season.

Quarterback Dak Prescott will play Sunday after virtually not practicing all week for the second consecutive game.  It remains to be seen how the shoulder injury Prescott has been dealing with affects his throwing mechanics.  Prescott missed a few crucial throws last week against the Eagles however, he did not attribute those to his injury.

More concerning for the Cowboys is whether or not Tyron Smith or Byron Jones will play as both are listed as questionable.  Smith has been dealing with back issues and Jones was seen walking in a protective boot Friday.

The only other player listed as questionable for the Cowboys is defensive tackle, Antwaun Woods.  Woods has been dealing with hip/ankle issues although he did play last week.

The Redskins will be without three starters Sunday as safety Landon Collins, quarterback Dwayne Haskins, and wide receiver Terry McLaurin have all been ruled out.

Case Keenum, returning to the starting role, played fairly well in Week 2, completing 70% of his passes for 221 yards and two touchdowns in a 31-21 Cowboys’ victory.  McLaurin leads all rookie receivers with 58 catches and is tied for second in touchdowns with seven.