• 2 years ago
The Dallas Cowboys came up short in a match against their division rival, the Philadelphia Eagles. As the season progresses beyond its midway point, have the Cowboys proven to be legitimate Super Bowl contenders? SI hosts Robin Lundberg and Claudette Montana share their thoughts on "America's Team."
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00:00 Kind of seems like the Cowboys are always falling short in these big games against big-time opponents.
00:05 What is holding them back?
00:07 Yeah, the answer is I don't know, which I guess is a problem for the Cowboys.
00:11 Let me put it this way first.
00:13 Dallas is very good, right?
00:15 And the way they get covered and talked about is to the extreme.
00:19 So anytime they mess up, it's "Heh heh, Cowboys."
00:22 You know, Dak Prescott is a bum.
00:24 Mike McCarthy is a failure in the league.
00:27 And none of those things are true.
00:29 But it's hard to win in the National Football League.
00:33 And what I think is that the Cowboys are very good at a lot of spots, but not great at most of them.
00:39 Mike McCarthy is a very good coach.
00:42 Would I consider him a great coach?
00:44 Probably not.
00:45 Dak Prescott is a very good quarterback.
00:47 He's been playing very good football of late.
00:50 Is he a great quarterback?
00:51 Nah, he's a notch below Patrick Mahomes, Joe Burrow, Jalen Hurts, you know, Lamar Jackson.
00:57 Those type of guys.
00:59 And when you have the game on the line and you need to punch it in, sometimes you're going to need that greatness.
01:05 So I think that the Cowboys are solid across the board.
01:08 Micah Parsons is a beast.
01:10 But they're just a little bit below elite.
01:13 And ultimately, that's the difference between being very good and being great.
01:17 Yeah, Micah Parsons is a beast.
01:20 They have a lot of good pieces, right?
01:21 Their defense is great.
01:22 Dak Prescott played well yesterday.
01:25 They just got to finish in those games.
01:26 And in this league where you're playing a good team, the defending NFC champs like the Philadelphia Eagles,
01:32 you got to be able to limit your mistakes and make the most of your opportunities.
01:35 And they didn't do that in the final stretch yesterday.

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