Where Does This Rate On Your Playoff Choke Job List*?

[rnr_honeybadger]

I'd say right behind Atlanta's SB choke.

 

[morat1959]

This was not a choke job. It was a typical JJ country club team doing what they do.

 

[Gator88]

Easily number 1, only thing that is relatively close was 2016.

 

[SpaceCowboy99]

*In the last 28 years

It's really high for me.

I think 2007 is my #1, but this might be my #2.

The football gods did their best to align the stars for Dallas to take advantage....and they massively failed. When the NFC East crown was looking out of reach, Philly decided to have a massive season collapse and hand over the conference. We win the NFC East. We beat Detroit to make it to the #2 seed. We get paired up with the #7 seed at home, a 9-8 Green Bay team (that was 3-6 halfway through the season). And of course, we all knew Tampa was going to beat Philly and would have come to Dallas. Two very winnable games IMO. The NFC Championship trip was there for the taking. Their answer to all this? Not only lose, but get absolutely rolled.

1) this game Sunday.




Way further down....

2) Mavs fall to golden state in 1st round 07? 08? After having a league best record and I think the best record ever for a mavericks team.

3) Rangers collapse in 2011 up 3-2 on St Louis.

 

[Swagger]

2007 was not a choke job. We lost to the team that beat the 19-0 Patriots who had steam rolled the league. Not only that but a couple dropped passes from beating them. The team did not fold up tent like Sunday.

Exactly this.

It's in the top 3 along with the playoff game against the Packers in 2016 and the 49ers the past two seasons particularly last season. All proper bottle jobs with the same useless dear in the headlights QB.

 

[TequilaCowboy]

*In the last 28 years

It's really high for me.

I think 2007 is my #1, but this might be my #2.

The football gods did their best to align the stars for Dallas to take advantage....and they massively failed. When the NFC East crown was looking out of reach, Philly decided to have a massive season collapse and hand over the conference. We win the NFC East. We beat Detroit to make it to the #2 seed. We get paired up with the #7 seed at home, a 9-8 Green Bay team (that was 3-6 halfway through the season). And of course, we all knew Tampa was going to beat Philly and would have come to Dallas. Two very winnable games IMO. The NFC Championship trip was there for the taking. Their answer to all this? Not only lose, but get absolutely rolled.

I think 2007 was the worst cuz it could have contended for the SB championship....this one I feel would have had their season ended where it ended last year...in Santa Clara. But this hurts bad due to how poorly they played and humiliated at home. And don't get me started on the coaching ...piss poor job both sides of the ball. Still #2 though.

 

[TheCoolFan]

This is easily the worst.They lost as #1 seeds in the 2007 and 2016 seasons but both QBs were still inexperienced (Romo in year 2 as a starter and Dak in year 1).

There are no excuses for a team with an 8-year year veteran QB and coaches with Super Bowl experience to look so bad at home vs. a young and inexperienced 7th seed. I don't care how "hot" these Packers were - they still had bad losses to Tommy Devito and to Tampa last month so the tape was there to show how to beat them.

 

[TheFinisher]

Sunday was a giant middle finger to the fan base. There has never been a lower point in 28 years where Cowboy fans have felt as disgusted with this franchise as they do right now. A culture that is rotten to the core with self entitled brand building personalities, spineless cowards who don’t believe they owe the fans anything in terms of effort or grit.

Yeah, this is the breaking point for a lot of Cowboy fans. People can tolerate heartbreak, they won’t tolerate whatever the hell Sunday was.

If Jerry Jones doesn’t axe McCarthy, it will be the final nail for many of us.

 

[BigD5]

*In the last 28 years

It's really high for me.

I think 2007 is my #1, but this might be my #2.

The football gods did their best to align the stars for Dallas to take advantage....and they massively failed. When the NFC East crown was looking out of reach, Philly decided to have a massive season collapse and hand over the conference. We win the NFC East. We beat Detroit to make it to the #2 seed. We get paired up with the #7 seed at home, a 9-8 Green Bay team (that was 3-6 halfway through the season). And of course, we all knew Tampa was going to beat Philly and would have come to Dallas. Two very winnable games IMO. The NFC Championship trip was there for the taking. Their answer to all this? Not only lose, but get absolutely rolled.

This is the most embarrassing loss in Dallas Cowboys history

 

[WillieBeamen]

this is by far the worst

-first team to lose to a 7-seed

-had won 16 home games in a row

-the “field” of QBs we had to compete against in the NFC to get to the Super Bowl. Purdy, Hurts, Mayfield, Goff, Love, & Stafford. Dak arguably is a better regular season QB than all of them.

-We were healthy

-9 All-Pros

The 07 team Needed to only win one game but:

-Romo was in his first full season as starter
-TO wasnt 100%
-that same Giants team beat the undefeated Patriots and Brett Favre in Lambeau

 

[JustChip]

There have been a lot of games over the years that hurt. The 2 early NFLCGs against the Packers, the ‘69 loss to the Browns, the SB losses to the Colts and Steelers, the ‘81 NFCCG, the 2k7 Giants game and the 2016 Division game are probably the most painful.

But there have not been any as disgusting as this game. The ‘98 Cardinals loss is a distant, distant second.

The team was competitive in all of those painful loss. They were unprepared and non-competitive from the 4th play on in this game. What makes this one so much worse is that I paid good $ and braved the potential of driving on icy roads 70 miles after the game to witness that crap-fest.

The coaches and players took their fans for granted and betrayed them. But more so than that, Jerry and Stephen did that to their money paying customers.

 

[JW82]

*In the last 28 years

It's really high for me.

I think 2007 is my #1, but this might be my #2.

The football gods did their best to align the stars for Dallas to take advantage....and they massively failed. When the NFC East crown was looking out of reach, Philly decided to have a massive season collapse and hand over the conference. We win the NFC East. We beat Detroit to make it to the #2 seed. We get paired up with the #7 seed at home, a 9-8 Green Bay team (that was 3-6 halfway through the season). And of course, we all knew Tampa was going to beat Philly and would have come to Dallas. Two very winnable games IMO. The NFC Championship trip was there for the taking. Their answer to all this? Not only lose, but get absolutely rolled.

07 was more devastating. This was more humiliating.

 

[wssaustin]

This is No.1 choke so far. 2007 we were dominating but we got beat by the SB-winning team, the game was close and winnable, not like this one -- GG at halftime.

 

[ryanbabs]

Sunday was a giant middle finger to the fan base. There has never been a lower point in 28 years where Cowboy fans have felt as disgusted with this franchise as they do right now. A culture that is rotten to the core with self entitled brand building personalities, spineless cowards who don’t believe they owe the fans anything in terms of effort or grit.

Yeah, this is the breaking point for a lot of Cowboy fans. People can tolerate heartbreak, they won’t tolerate whatever the hell Sunday was.

If Jerry Jones doesn’t axe McCarthy, it will be the final nail for many of us.

Agree 100%

 

[SacredStar]

Sundays loss is #1 in my opinion. Not because we lost, which I figured would happen, but because of the way we lost.

 

[1942willys]

Most devastating loss was the 94 one to SF in the NFCCG
a chance to threepeat which had never been done

next comes this one because as bad as 2007 was we were in it and scratching and clawing right to the end
This one we did not show up
NOBODY DID

 

[JoeyBoy718]

This loss was far more embarrassing than 2007. In 2007 we barely lost to a red hot Giants team that ended up winning the Super Bowl, beating an 18-0 Patriots team.

In 2023, we lost to a young Packers team who barely made the playoffs as a 7 seed. We also lost at home after having gone 16-0 in the past two years at home. We were also embarrassed, being down 32 points after they pulled their starters early in the 4th quarter. It’ll be even more embarrassing if the 49ers dominate the Packers next week.

 

[cowboys5xsbs]

Most devastating loss was the 94 one to SF in the NFCCG
a chance to threepeat which had never been done

next comes this one because as bad as 2007 was we were in it and scratching and clawing right to the end
This one we did not show up
NOBODY DID

The Jackie Smith drop. That was a super bowl losing moment.

 

[nobody]

2007 was bad, but it wasn't near the complete choke job this year was. 2007 wasn't a domination. The Cowboys were in it all game. Against the 7th seed Packers? That was utter garbage by the Cowboys and the Packers showed mercy throwing second stringers in.

 

[maryquality]

There isn't any other Cowboys playoff game that was worse than the one on Sunday......hands down!!