The Play Sheet [VIDEO]: Breaking Down the Latest Cowboys Playoff Collapse
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🗓️ 17 January 2024
⏱️ 20 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Howdy? I'm Ben Solak. This is the play sheet. Weekly video pod we do here, so you've got to click |
| 0:08.9 | into the Spotify app, you got to watch the video. We're breaking down some Cowboys film. You better |
| 0:12.8 | enjoy. The opening script. What to do about Dallas. The most surprising result of Wild Card |
| 0:19.3 | Weekend was the seven-seat Packers beating the second-seat Dallas Cowboys 48 to 32. |
| 0:24.7 | This was a good old-fashioned wallopin, right? |
| 0:27.3 | This was a bigger win than even the final score margin would indicate. |
| 0:31.4 | Packers were initially up 27 and nothing. |
| 0:33.4 | They led by 25 at the end of the third quarter. |
| 0:35.5 | They beat the brakes off Dallas. |
| 0:36.5 | This now marks the 13th consecutive Cowboys postseason appearance that has ended before the conference championship round. |
| 0:45.3 | The last time they made the conference championship, you might remember this, the 1995-96 season. |
| 0:50.3 | They won the Super Bowl that year. |
| 0:51.3 | And I say you might remember this because I don't, |
| 0:54.4 | because I wasn't alive yet. It's tough. This loss is particularly vexing because the Cowboys |
| 1:00.4 | were so good this year. They were so good this year. Dak Prescott was an MVP candidate |
| 1:06.8 | for much of the season. They finished the year 12 and 5, which means it's the third consecutive |
| 1:10.9 | season they've been 12 and 5, which means they're the first team in league history to win 12 |
| 1:14.9 | games in three consecutive seasons and not make the conference championship in a single one. |
| 1:18.9 | They were fourth in DVOA. They were second EPA per drive margin, which is your offensive |
| 1:23.2 | per drive, like minus your defensive EPP per drive. They were really good, really good team. And this was the year for them. With the Eagles, like minus your defense of your paper. They were really good, really good team. |
| 1:28.7 | And this was the year for them. With Eagles exploding in the division, they won the division, |
| 1:34.2 | got the two seed. Obviously, the Niners, one seed, very terrible, very hard to beat, they haven't |
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