Perhaps the single worst performance in NFL history by a team

[MapleLeaf]

...when the team was one injury away from me starting at Left Tackle

You know I might actually pay to see an NFL team field someone off the street for one series. It would be an eye opener to fans who constantly harp on unrealistic expectations and claim they could do better.

I think they should have a show where a "ff the street nobody" is suited up at a different position each week for one series to show fans what NFL standard of play is all about.

 

[RS12]

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/197011160dal.htm

We were on the receiving end of this first season of MNF beat down.

 

[Plankton]

 

[CowboysFaninHouston]

That was just a statistical butt whooping on the Giants

@XXLMike

 

[Hagman]

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/197011160dal.htm

We were on the receiving end of this first season of MNF beat down.

Do remember that one. It was slow, painful torture. We also lost to Minnesota earlier that year 54-13. I was one of the walking dead while my relatives were hootin' and hollerin' like crazy.

After the St. Louis disaster, I remember reading that Tom Landry didn't know that he'd have a job the next year and that in the first practice afterwards he shocked the players by have a game of touch football instead of a hard nosed practice.

So of course, the Cowboys go undefeated the rest of the year and make it to their first Super Bowl (which is another tragic story of loss)

 

[beware_d-ware]

That game was Dan Quinn's masterpiece.

 

[Mk2_Cowboys]

That is exactly what the original post said.

Lol

But I would say it’s not how bad they were. It was how good the Cowboys were.

My post was not in this thread mods put it in here lol that’s why

 

[VaqueroTD]

Honestly…. That game reminded me of the 92-93 Super Bowl. Massive pile-on and turnover fest and bleeding never stopped. All it was missing was Don Beebe running down one of our players.

 

[lukemartin79]

the only flaw in that he doesn't coach special teams in offense either.. This was a team win.... And by the way you wanna talk about the defense let's talk about how they were getting rained over on that first drive and the special teams bailed them out.. They still have problems with a mobile quarterback who will run tough and they have a running back that's willing to run.. If that was the bills and Josh Allen we would have had a much much tougher day because they would not have stopped trying it... So yes they played great but there's some coachable moments about the run game and the mobile quarterback they're gonna need to work on because that's exactly been the issue the last three years.. I bet you don't like it that I brought up some actual facts that defense did not play perfectly..

Yes, very true. The Giants did move the ball on their first drive. Just like last year, their QB was running for first downs. I was thinking nothing was different - can't stop the run and running QBs gallop all over the field. That FG block flipped all the momentum over to the Cowboys and then it reminded me of those 90s Jimmy Johnson teams where they could just flat out whoop you in every way that you possibly can on a football field. The Giants just crumbled and literally did nothing positive after that. That was so much fun to watch. WOW

 

[T-RO]

The league is over 100 years old, so the worst loss ever is stretching things.

In the NFL Championship game in 1940 Chicago beat the Washington team 73-0.
11 touchdowns, 8 ints, including 3 pick 6s.

Last night was a beatdown, though.

This.

 

[plasticman]

The Cowboys defense did all that in one game.

I know they know they have to go out and do it again. That should take a lot of criticism away from the Giants.

I mean, if the Cowboys beat the Jets 37-6, was last nights game a poor performance by the Giants offense or a legendary performance by an historic Cowboys defense?

 

[NeathBlue]

Sorry to put a damper on things, but exactly 34 years ago to the day, Sunday, September 10, 1989, the Cleveland Browns went into Pittsburgh and blasted the Steelers 51-0. The Browns only gave up 53 (yes - fifty three) total yards, scored three defensive TDs, and amassed 357 total yards.

All of those numbers are more impressive than what we saw last night in the Meadowlands.

The Browns were though an expansion team that year, so they do have a bit of an excuse.

 

[NeathBlue]

1985 --- Bears 44, Cowboys 0
Sacked 6 times (CHI 4)
5 turnovers (CHI 1)
1 fumble lost, 4 interceptions \ 2 pick-sixes

That performance by the Bears defence was for me the greatest of all time.
I might be wrong, but I don’t think we made it into the red zone… may not have even crossed their 30 yard line??

 

[noshame]

1985 --- Bears 44, Cowboys 0
Sacked 6 times (CHI 4)
5 turnovers (CHI 1)
1 fumble lost, 4 interceptions \ 2 pick-sixes

It was bad but the difference?. I expected us to have a bad game against the 85 bears defense. I did not expect what happened last night..

 

[Flamma]

That was just a statistical butt whooping on the Giants

I know how the stats read, but that wasn't a pick 6. C'mon. Barkley caught a pass and got it knocked out by the hit. I guess they didn't consider it long enough for a reception, but he did catch the ball. That was a catch/fumble by all optics. It didn't bounce off Barkley and get picked. He actually had that ball for a second.

 

[Pass2Run]

Where is our pal Packers Nation?

 

[glimmerman]

I know how the stats read, but that wasn't a pick 6. C'mon. Barkley caught a pass and got it knocked out by the hit. I guess they didn't consider it long enough for a reception, but he did catch the ball. That was a catch/fumble by all optics. It didn't bounce off Barkley and get picked. He actually had that ball for a second.

Wasn’t that Diggs who knocked it out. Glad to see he took the comments about the playoff game last year to heart. Now that he is paid.

 

[Kellsbells]

Worst loss, or best win?

 

[blueblood70]

I know how the stats read, but that wasn't a pick 6. C'mon. Barkley caught a pass and got it knocked out by the hit. I guess they didn't consider it long enough for a reception, but he did catch the ball. That was a catch/fumble by all optics. It didn't bounce off Barkley and get picked. He actually had that ball for a second.

actually, it's not the optics its the rule, he didnt make a football move, it's an interception. Case in point if that ball would have hit the ground it would have been an incomplete pass not a fumble... So, by rule and all optics it's an interception

I mean Prescott got all those ones blamed on him last year.. But now what we making excuses for Daniel Jones and Saquon Barkley?? Yes it was a great defensive play but it's still an interception by rule....

 

[Flamma]

Wasn’t that Diggs who knocked it out. Glad to see he took the comments about the playoff game last year to heart. Now that he is paid.

He's always been good. Last year he made a business decision. I hate when players do that. It's a message to the ownership, I want to be paid.