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It appears as if the New York Giants win was a mirage. That was definitely a worry after the contest, but the offense looked so good in that game. It stood to reason that that could be a proper formula week in and week out. Maybe not a sustainable formula, but it could have been one nonetheless.
That was definitely not the case on Sunday in Chicago. The Cowboys were out-witted, out-played, and out-lasted by the Bears in a performance that Jeff Probst would have been proud of had the game been on CBS instead of FOX. It was embarrassment of the highest order, and that it is all leading to Micah Parsons’ return to AT&T Stadium with a Green Bay Packers team ready to prove they are the proper fit for him feels just wonderful.
Before we can look to next week (through our hands as we try to shield from it all) we have to put Sunday in the Windy City in perspective. So begins the autopsy. Here is this week’s Stock Report.
Personally I did not put a lot of stock into the narrative of Flus returning to Chicago to see a Bears organization that fired him in the middle of last season. The NFL sees people fired midseason all of the time. But as one user on Twitter put it so eloquently, it is a tough scene for Flus to get destroyed by a quarterback who looked largely dysfunctional under his watch. To be clear, Flus is a defensive mind and that context matters, but the point at large is difficult to ignore.
Forgetting that entire discussion point, the Cowboys defense made Caleb Williams look incredible. He posted arguably the best day of his career, he literally tied his career high in terms of touchdown passes, and he was not sacked a single time.
The day was made worse for Flus when the New York Giants looked moribund once more on Sunday night, emphasizing that Dallas was the antidote to their offensive woes.
We should acknowledge that he appears to be playing hurt. That matters, but he is playing nonetheless.
Trevon Diggs was once a great cornerback for this team and but it looks like those days are behind us. He was among the weakest points on the defense on Sunday in Chicago and was being targeted with regularity. Who could blame the Bears when they were doing what was working.
The Cowboys appeared ready to acknowledge that this is Diggs’ last season with the team with how Jerry Jones publicly lamented him at the beginning of training camp. Everything involved here feels left-footed and the play on the field is representative of that.
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