Skip Bayless: "The most gut-wrenching loss in the history of my fandom"

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Reality said:
This game barely impacted my views on the season where as the Broncos loss, while still not "gut-wrenching" was a lot worse than the loss yesterday because the Cowboys had Lamb and Cooper and were still dominated.

Other than another loss overall and further hurting chances for home field advantage, these AFC games just do not mean as much to me as NFC games.

I hate to see the Cowboys lose any games, but if they have to lose some I would rather it be to AFC teams.
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Exactly. A bad stretch in the middle of the season with half the team out. Keep everyone out until they are ready and then lets hit the gas down the stretch. We have already seen how dominant this team can be when healthy. And that was without Lawrence and Gallimore.

This was also the WORST time to have injuries also as we basically played 3 games in 11 days.
 
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Sure,I was worth than the catch game in 1981. Sure, it was worse than the dez catch game.... those were playoff losses. This loss will be forgotten in a few weeks.
 
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Hahahaha really.
Man, all my thoughts of having a good football team this season just got diminished by some moronic gum flapping talking head on a sports TV show...
 
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Are you serious?

Have you followed the Raiders at all? Like seriously I’m not going to lay all of their problems out for you.

Dallas had a better team than them yesterday and that’s with all of our injuries plus we were at home.

We had a better team on a neutral field and still lost.
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Man that’s all outside stuff with Ruggs and Gruden. I’m talking straight football not the outside drama.

Jackson did what Ruggs did for them. Gruden was an average coach.

Player for player they don’t compare to what Dallas was missing.
 
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Wow....that's a bold take. That doesn't even hit my top 20. I bet if I thought about it it wouldn't even make it that high.

My take on it was to shrug and eat my Thanksgiving dinner. I didn't even bother kicking anything.
 
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Yea Skip. Personally I rank yesterday’s loss a few steps below the Ice Bowl and Super Bowl V.
 
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Wow....that's a bold take. That doesn't even hit my top 20. I bet if I thought about it it wouldn't even make it that high.

My take on it was to shrug and eat my Thanksgiving dinner. I didn't even bother kicking anything.
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Every other year there is a most gut wrenching loss for skip. He’s a prisoner of the moment, he’ll admit later he overreacted.

A lot of responses here have mentioned he’s not a reason Cowboys fan if he thinks this, and I believe it’s the opposite. He’s a little too deep, where wins and losses are approaching life and death. He just needs to take a step back for a moment.
 
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CalPolyTechnique said:
Not even close.

I’m sure there are others but the Romo/Manning Cowboys/Bronco game comes to mind.
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Not to bring up old wounds, but I’ve never seen the kind of backlash 44-6 created. Despite who you were playing, that should have been at least competitive. The official board went to the moon on that one
 
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That's the dumbest statement he's made. Did Skip just start watching the team last year???
 
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CalPolyTechnique said:
Not even close.

I’m sure there are others but the Romo/Manning Cowboys/Bronco game comes to mind.
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The worst regular season Romo losses for me both came against the Lions. 2011 the Cowboys were up 27-3 in the 3rd quarter and Romo throws two pick sixes in the 3rd quarter. Then with 4 minutes left in the 4th and the Cowboys still up 30-27, the Cowboys decide to pass on 1st down and Romo throws another INT to lose the game. All they had to do was run the ball when it was 27-3.

Then there was the 329-yard Calvin Johnson game in 2013 that the Cowboys also should have won. Cowboys were up 27-24, Lions had no timeouts, and there was 1:14 left. Cowboys ran on 3rd down then could have let the clock tick down to about 27 seconds left before kicking a field goal. Instead we get a holding penalty to stop the clock then let the Lions go 80 yards in 48 seconds to lose 31-30.
 
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I see this division coming down to Dallas at Philly in January. I was hoping by now we'd be 10-1 or 9-2 but it didn't happen. We still control our own destiny however.
 
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I can think of many more losses that were a lot worse than losing to an AFC team during the middle of a season without your two top wide receivers or best defensive line pass rusher.
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Yep, 38-0 to the Cards on MNF and the Pickle Juice game against the Eagles come to mind and another loss to the Eagles, 44-6 to miss the playoffs.

Few teams can play well missing their top 2 WR's and DE's but the play calling in this game was questionable.
 
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