Cowboys vs. Washington Football Team: Dallas blows up Washington after winning the NFC East crown

That voice you hear is a body collision on the floor after the Dallas Cowboys stole the entire soul of the Washington Football Team from rivals 56-14 to crush Season 11-4 (and it was actually much worse than the final score suggested). Those who wondered if the Cowboys would lift their legs from the accelerator on Sunday night after getting the NFC East before the start were mistaken, and largely because head coach Mike McCarthy made sure his team understood there were bigger goals at hand. and the bulk of his appearance in the Super Bowl would be greatly aided by getting NFC number one.

With the dismantling of the WFT, the Cowboys will remain second in the conference and only one game behind the No. 1 Green Bay Packers – which does not allow a margin of error for either of their last two regular season races. In Washington, the picture is quite different as they lick their wounds and try to figure out how this season would end in a positive one, if possible.

The Cowboys removed the intestines of Washington with surgical precision, and all of Ron Rivera and her happy husband the day after Christmas could begin building their wish list for 2022 because Santa gave them a piece of coal in 2021.

If this is a playoff version of Cowboys, beware.

Why the Cowboys won

They turned the rematch with a divisional competitor into something that can only be described as a snuff film. This was euthanasia at all three stages of football, and Washington’s hopes for the playoffs were spectacularly buried in the hands of the Cowboys. Prescott set the stadium on fire with 320 assists, four touchdowns, no breaks, 142.6 assists and 21 plunge yards in four attempts in the first half alone, and one of his touchdowns went to Terence Steel, his starting left tackle. Absence of All-Pro Tyron Smith. Add this to two abductions, three sacks, and DeMarcus Lawrence’s defensive touchdown in the first half, and it all led to a 42-7 shellacking before the third quarter ever began.

Things weren’t very different in the second half, as even though the Cowboys attack cooled a bit, the special teams unit got hot. Late in the third quarter, one of Washington’s many stalled times, runner Corey Clement broke through punt protection to get the third blocked point of the Dallas season, and rookie defending lineman Chauncey Golston grabbed it in the second touchdown of the Cowboys. scored from one of the blocked points in 2021.

It was undoubtedly not the most complete game of the season played by a team that has seen their normally lucrative attack fight fiercely for nearly two months before he climbed from the grave to grab the WFT by the neck and throw them into the grave. they climbed out.

Why Washington lost

They found out that the Cowboys did not release the accelerator pedal in week 16, even though they had already received the NFC East crown before starting. After an uneven start with the Cowboys attack on the first run from scrimmage, Taylor Heinicke dropped back with her first pass, and Trevon Diggs breathed a deep throw – to capture the 11th of the historic season. Dak Prescott used a mulligan to drive down the field and find Ezekiel Elliott in the 5-yard touchdown catch, and the situation in Washington only got worse from there.

After a second failed run by Heinicken and Co., Prescott and CeeDee Lamb and Amari Cooper’s major plays were directed by Ron Rivera’s defense down the field before finding the tight-fitting Dalton Schultz in the second touch of the Cowboys tonight. Apparently, however, Lawrence remembered a friendly bet with Prescott and decided that the defense also had to find its way into the goal area. So Lawrence mimicked what Randy Gregory did to Washington in week 14, but added points by pouring Heinicki’s feed up, snatching it, and running it to the finish line to make it a three-touch lead for the Cowboys in the first set. quarter.

When substitute defender Cooper Rush stepped on the field before the fourth quarter, head coach Mike McCarthy could do nothing to keep him from reading memorial speeches on the field. The good news for Rivera is that the big bad Cowboys can no longer hurt his team in 2021.

Turning point

Diggs set the tone early with his capture, but Lawrence made sure the WFT understood this would be a demolition.

Game play

Nothing beats a fat man – nothing.

No celebration is the same as a TD celebration

“You get a touchdown …[and] you get a touchdown … “- Jane Slater from the NFL Network

What next

The Cowboys are trying to keep the wins in a key NFC match against the declining Arizona Cardinals, while Washington crawls east, hoping to avoid a sweep of the Philadelphia Eagles.