Dallas Cowboys’ season ends in disappointment

Same old Romo. Same old Dallas Cowboys. In a crucial December game, Romo and the Cowboys badly choked away their playoff chances, not showing up in a 28-18 beatdown that was worse than the score let on. The Redskins had their way with the Cowboys n this game, much like on Thanksgiving, rushing for a total of 274 yards, as the patchwork Cowboys defense couldn’t stop the run. What’s worse is that the Redskins kept doing the same thing over and over, and every time the Cowboys bit. NBC relentlessly showed how DeMarcus Ware was unblocked, he’d slide over on the option fake, and RG3 would run it around the newly opened hole. It is images like this that makes this loss even more disappointing. The Cowboys didn’t have the mental toughness or capacity to figure out that the Redskins were going to keep doing this until it could be stopped. Let’s not take away from the talent that is RG3 – and even Alfred Morris – but to do the same things over and over again defensively by the Cowboys means ...