What went wrong in Cowboys' wild card loss to the Packers

Stop me if you’ve heard this before, the Dallas Cowboys came up short in the playoffs. And not just a little short either, this wasn’t losing by a few inches, this was all the way short.

As good as Mike McCarthy’s team was in 2023, and as much fun as the regular season was, it all went wrong in their wild card loss to the Green Bay Packers. If you’re counting – who are we kidding, everyone is – that’s 28 straight years without an NFC championship appearance for a franchise that prides itself on Super Bowl success. That’s where the Cowboys are now, the bar has been lowered from 28 years removed from the Super Bowl to 28 years since making an NFC title game.

Oh, how the mighty have fallen. For the third consecutive season, the Cowboys got embarrassed in the postseason, leaving questions to where Jerry Jones goes from here. At 81-years old, time isn’t on Jones’ side to win another Super Bowl, which means he needs to make some quick decisions.

First, Jones needs answers. He needs to find out what went wrong with his Cowboys in the wild card loss to the Packers.