The Dallas Cowboys got thoroughly outplayed by the Jacoby Brissett-led Arizona Cardinals in front of a national audience on Monday Night Football . It was the kind of prime-time embarrassment that you can picture noted Cowboys hater Stephen A. Smith reveling in.

And then, like a vision from a fever dream, the image of Smith sitting next to Jerry Jones in the owner’s suite at AT&T Stadium appeared. That pair sitting awkwardly side-by-side in silence while the Cowboys played their worst game of the season. In Dallas. On ESPN. That handshake. Smith’s sudden departure immediately following Jake Ferguson’s drive-killing fumble. It was all too jarring.

Veteran announcer Joe Buck simply had to call attention to this thing that just shouldn’t exist. “They say a picture is worth one billi

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