I do not think any of us would have liked the scenario that you unfold. Getting to the playoffs with a marginal team is not even a Pyrrhic victory when you are summarily defeated.
I disagree, if you go back to August and say the cowboys made the playoffs no matter how it happened I’m going to venture to say most would say great and they don’t care how we got in as long as we did....
Granted that doesn’t taken into account the team looks like garbage but my whole point is most of us want playoffs first and then expectations and views change as the season evolves.
just tell me if I told you dallas was going to make the playoffs in August that you wouldn’t have been happy no matter how it happened