The Dallas Cowboys quickly went from Super Bowl candidate to one of the NFL’s laughing stocks this season, and Dak Prescott’s gruesome season-ending injury didn’t do much to help their chances to compete.
Dallas’ defense has been terrible throughout the year and Ezekiel Elliott just can’t seem to take care of the football, piling up 5 fumbles already this season. However, the worst part of the Cowboys’ season has been the coaching, and it’s not even close.
That was at full display during their humiliating 41-16 home loss to the Washington Football Team for Thanksgiving, as Mike McCarthy and Kellen Moore continued to find ways to shoot themselves in the foot over and over.
Dallas tried a fake punt in the 4th Qtr.
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It did not work.
(via @thecheckdown) pic.twitter.com/DoiPCV08cp
— FOX Sports: NFL (@NFLonFOX) November 27, 2020
Their incompetence reached an all-time high last night, as they attempted not one but two fake punts on their own half of the field and didn’t convert either of them. Moreover, the second was in the fourth quarter, in 4&10, with the game 20-16, on their own 24-yard line. It was hilariously bad.
Needless to say, the internet had a lot to say when the Washington Football Team put up three straight scores after that infamous and historically terrible fake punt. Check out the funniest memes and reactions right here.
Funniest Memes And Reactions From The Dallas Cowboys’ Terrible Fake Punt
Cowboys fans after that fake punt @brgridiron pic.twitter.com/46VKbHy8qI
— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) November 27, 2020
Cowboys drawing up that fake puntpic.twitter.com/36CDwaxdqD
— PFF (@PFF) November 27, 2020
THAT WAS THE SINGLE DUMBEST FAKE PUNT PLAY I HAVE SEEN IN ALL MY YEARS OF WATCHING AND COVERING THE NFL. THAT PLAY LOOKED LIKE IT WAS DESIGNED TO LOSE 20 YARDS. I AM EMBARRASSED FOR MY TEAM.
— Skip Bayless (@RealSkipBayless) November 27, 2020
The Cowboys tried the Philly special on a fake punt ���� pic.twitter.com/MXi98Uzdgs
— Stephen A. Smith Burner (@SASBurnerAcct) November 27, 2020
Cowboys fans after the fake punt and score �� pic.twitter.com/bJ8KjAqqtC
— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) November 27, 2020
Dallas bettors after that fake punt playcall pic.twitter.com/0WQ6Wg3Atw
— br_betting (@br_betting) November 27, 2020
McCarthy explaining the fake punt to jerry and cowboys nation pic.twitter.com/hCbjiuuTZB
— Cheif Redskin (@B00GER69) November 27, 2020
Washingtons defense during that cowboys fake punt pic.twitter.com/kfb6SVk7jP
— THE CASINO SHARK (@tuckerforthewin) November 27, 2020
cowboys fans after seeing that fake punt play call pic.twitter.com/1Vnsyll0yx
— Sean �� (@sean_sobey) November 27, 2020
Cowboy fans watching Mike McCarthy going for a fake punt on 4th & 10 #WASvsDAL pic.twitter.com/88xzAMGswf
— AlCapxne(Packers 7-3����) (@AICapxne) November 27, 2020
“This was everyone’s response to the Cowboys’ fake punt on 4th and 10” #WASvsDAL pic.twitter.com/06LrEa8c2v
— Jeopardy! Sports (@JeopardySports) November 27, 2020
Out of all of the stadiums, in all of the world, in all of the universes, that was the dumbest fake punt of them all!
— Ryan Clark (@Realrclark25) November 27, 2020
On the fake punt, if he had thrown it… pic.twitter.com/8zVuUwY72r
— Computer Cowboy (@benbbaldwin) November 27, 2020
The Cowboys now hold a 3-8 record and pretty much kissed the playoffs goodbye with this embarrassing loss, even considering just how terrible the NFC East has been throughout the season.
Mike McCarthy and Kellen Moore could have the benefit of the doubt after losing his starting quarterback so early in the season, but there’s just no excuse for these kinds of calls when the game is on the line, and they’re likely to be out of their jobs by the end of the year.
