The Dallas Cowboys were handled with relative ease by the Detroit Lions on Thursday night. It was frustrating.

Prior to the game fans had begun to believe and give this team their heart once more. They deserved this as they had won three games in a row, the second and third of which were particularly impressive, and sometimes you just lose a game. That is life in professional sports.

It’s not an excuse for what Dallas did on Thursday night, though. They made a ton of mistakes and dug themselves way too deep of a hole to climb out of (kind of a microcosm for their season). You can’t do that in general in the NFL, but you certainly can’t play with that kind of fire against a proper team like the Lions.

It was a sobering night and one that the Cowboys will have to think about for a while a

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