After a disappointing loss to the Packers in the playoffs, the Cowboys are a heavy favorite to hire Bill Belichick.
The Patriots have lost a lot of games in the playoffs, but their 48–32 loss to the Green Bay Packers on Sunday may have been the worst.
Even though they had a lot of good things going for them, they were never really in the game. The Packers got out to a 27-0 lead and then pretty much cruised to victory.
The Cowboys were the No. 2 seed in the NFC and were more than a touchdown favorite. They were also playing at AT&T Stadium, where they hadn’t dropped a game since Week 1 of the 2022 season.
The Cowboys also lost to the Packers, a team that has consistently been bad for them, beating them 10 times in a row, including three times in the playoffs.
Following their most recent final loss, the Cowboys have now become a permanent part of a very bad NFL past. For the first time, a team has won 12 games in three straight seasons without making it to the league championship game even once.
People who don’t like the Cowboys often point out that they haven’t been to the NFC Championship Games since their previous Super Bowl win in 1995. This adds to that fact.
There is no doubt that the Cowboys are one of the best teams in the NFL. They also have a history of winning normal seasons.
Multiple teaching staffs have failed to make the playoffs, though, and this latest one may have lost coach Mike McCarthy his job.
The Dallas Cowboys had a great start to the season thanks to Dak Prescott’s “Yeah, here we go!” but they tripped and fell and looked bad in a 48-32 loss to the Green Bay Packers the fact that felt more like a 48-0 loss at AT&T Stadium.
It’s the most points the Cowboys have ever given up in a playoff game, and it’s also one of the worst ways for the team to end a season in its history. But after Sunday’s game, it’s even harder to explain why Dallas hasn’t done well in the playoffs.
“This is the most painful because everyone had such high hopes and expectations for this team,” said owner Jerry Jones. Prescott also said, “Really shocked.
I didn’t play well. Asked what the Cowboys could do to get past this and finally make the playoffs. “I wish I knew the answer.”
Last year, the Fairfield High School boy’s bowlers team learned this the hard way. To beat the Trojans by 15 pins in the fifth and final baker game on their last visit to Flamingo Lanes, the Grayhounds used 12 strikes. This helped them earn a 2,572-2,509 Southeast Conference won in January.
Burlington was getting ready for another comeback against Fairfield on Thursday. After just two of their five baker games, they had cut a 217-pin lead to 145 pins.
A year ago, Ethan Cass remembered how it was like to see the Grayhounds run away with a win over the Trojans.
“Everyone was sad.” We weren’t changing extra parts. “They were getting more and more pins while everyone else had their heads down,” Cass said.”At that point, I went up to the crew and told them that we needed to get our energy back up.”
In the third Baker game, the Trojans answered right away. Fairfield’s Dayson Workman started the game with the first of three straight strikes, which led to a 201-baker game that helped turn the tide against the Grayhounds and helped Fairfield secure a 168-pin prevail with a team score of 2,562.
This was one of the few prep sports events to happen this week in between two strong winter storms that hit Iowa and dumped nearly two feet of snow in some places over the past five days.
“It’s been hard. “Since last Saturday, just a few of us have bowled, and not all of us bowl on Saturdays, so we haven’t even been able to spend time together in a while,” Cass said. Some of us had a hard time with that.
We were supposed to bowl against Davis County in Ottumwa on Monday, but that didn’t happen. That was rough since everyone was ready for it. We were thrown right back into things at this meet. “That was cool.”
For Fairfield, Workman didn’t show any signs of rust. The junior Trojan bowler had his best game to the first game in the dual against the Grayhounds, scoring 226.
He ended the match with a 203 average, which was the best of his career and the best in the meet.
“I was just able to hit my mark and pick up my spares,” he said. “I hope this gives us a big spark.” We ought to be able to prevail in more games and try to win the conference title if we bowl like this.
Cass, a repeat state qualifier for the Trojan boys, set a new personal best of 213 in his second game, adding to his team’s score of 1,753 going into the baker rounds.
After beating the Trojans by three pins to the first baker game, Burlington pulled away at the second game as Fairfield had trouble scoring 122 points, which gave the Grayhounds a chance to cut 72 pins off the Trojan lead and keep their perfect dual record.
As Workman bowled first for the Trojans, he thought back to the Grayhounds’ comeback from the previous year. That memory gave Workman the drive to throw the first ball in the third cake game.
“We didn’t want the same thing to happen to us again,” he said. “I was just looking to spark a flame that would carry us through the baking games.”
In the first few frames of the third game, Dylan Adam as well as Kenneth Houston added strikes to help the Trojans. This led to Fairfield’s 201, which gave them a lead of 31 pins again.
In the fourth baker game, the Grayhounds beat Fairfield by 19 pins, cutting Fairfield’s lead back to 157.
In the final baker game, Fairfield won by 193 pins, assaulting the Grayhounds by 11 pins in an identical game that Burlington and beating the Trojans by 78 pins to complete a comeback win last year.