Mike McCarthy and the Cowboys got a cold reality check in Green Bay, JarrettBell writes.
It’s no wonder that when someone asked McCarthy to reflect on the experience of facing his former team in his old stomping grounds, he squashed the theme ASAP.
The Cowboys lost on a day when Aaron Rodgers threw the fewest passes that he has in any game this season and the run defense was shredded for 207 yards. They lost to a team that had dropped five consecutive games and seemed ripe to be buried ... but instead scored the last 17 points of the game. The Cowboys stung themselves with penalties and missed assignments in crunch time. Just bad football.
Although McCarthy did a phenomenal job in keeping the Cowboys on track after Dak Prescott missed several weeks after suffering a fractured thumb in Week 1, I wondered whether the meltdown on Sunday would change Jones’ impression of his coach. Rodgers, meanwhile, tried to downplay the significance of beating McCarthy – who has a street named after him near the stadium and has won the second-most games in Packers history after Curly Lambeau, including 113 with A-Rod as his quarterback.Rodgers, who threw three interceptions in the loss at Detroit a week earlier and said that it hit “rock bottom” in the days leading to McCarthy’s return, deserved to lighten up as he viewed a bigger picture.
“We exorcised a lot of demons,” Rodgers said. “A lot of things that we turned around. Just a coincidence that Dallas was in town, although myself and the other Aaron had some pretty good performances over the years against Dallas.” Then Rodgers found a way to win the competition when the Packers needed a win to snap out of a serious funk. Of course, McCarthy was out to put a dagger in the Packers season, too.
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