Dallas City News

It’s Eagles Week. Usually that is a time of raucous fan debates and anticipation of the upcoming matchup between the Dallas Cowboys and the Philadelphia Eagles. More often than not, this clash has big implications in the NFC East and in the NFC playoff picture. Not this year. While the Eagles have held up their part, the Cowboys are suffering a lost season and now will be without quarterback Dak Prescott for some time.

This has all snowballed from way back in the early offseason when Jerry Jones and the front office had a quieter than usual free agency, followed by not drafting a running back, to a poor effort at re-stocking the roster at any point up to the seasons start. Then the injuries hit and the dam broke.

Cowboys fans have no faith in the franchise

Cowboys fan anger and disbelief started to build until we’ve reached the point we are at today. A point where only 4% of the fanbase feels like the franchise is headed in the right direction.

Mike McCarthy takes the blame

The fall guy for this curiously slow offseason and injury explosion is none other than head coach Mike McCarthy. Sure, fans have issue with some of his personnel decisions and curious lay-calling, but the general feeling is he was handicapped with an inferior roster. Still, his performance has not thrilled the fanbase. So much so that the majority (58%) would rather go ahead and fire McCarthy during the season rather than wait for his contract to run out in the 2025 offseason.

The Cowboys are 7-point underdogs to the Eagles this week according to Fan Duel. It feels unlikely they will be winning many games going forward, so it just becomes a case of how long Jerry Jones will wait until he cuts ties with McCarthy.