Morning After Wk 6: Rock Bottom Found?

With a fourth straight home humiliation, the Cowboys go into the bye week battered by a Detroit side that had no mercy.

We call this post-game piece that I have been writing for almost two decades "The Morning After" because I always thought it was best to sleep on the events of the game before writing about them. Often, the next dawn will offer a little perspective once the heart rate slows down and the mind clears of all the events.

Like making a big decision in life, your father might suggest you "sleep on it" to ensure you do something with wisdom, not affected by fatigue or emotion.

I am not sure sleeping on this one helped me feel any different.

The Dallas Cowboys lost to the Detroit Lions 47-9 on Sunday in such a one-sided and humiliating way that there is really no "cool-down” period that will save it. The absolute long and short conclusion should be that it, along with the three very similar performances before it at home in succession, should signify the end of the road for those responsible.

But, of course, that leads us back to the normal follow-up questions: Who is most responsible for this mess, and how would firing them do anything more than make people feel better for a moment, but then worse for the remaining three months of this season?

Let’s circle back to that question once we go through some of the rest of this mess.