The scoreboard at Lincoln Financial Field said the Philadelphia Eagles won Sunday night’s game.
But the Cowboys came away from the 27-16 loss blaming the team wearing silver and blue.
“I just really feel like we beat ourselves,” a visibly subdued Micah Parsons told reporters after the game.
“You play it back on the mistakes that I made and other guys might have made, we could have played much cleaner football. That’s the frustrating part.”
The Dallas defense hadn’t allowed an opponent to score over 19 points all season,
but gave up 20 unanswered to Philadelphia in the second quarter alone. While the entire team made some obvious adjustments over the break
and came back in the second half to close the gap, it proved to be too little, too late… especially when the rally was repeatedly hampered by an old nemesis.
“The biggest thing we’ve got to be better at: we’ve got to eliminate these discipline penalties,”
The scoreboard at Lincoln Financial Field said the Philadelphia Eagles won Sunday night’s game.
head coach Mike McCarthy said in his postgame press conference. “We had way too many discipline penalties, especially in the fourth quarter. That’s where my focus is.”