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The Cowboys once again found themselves doing some soul-searching after getting absolutely embarrassed by the Lions in front of a sizeable home crowd, and Detroit was not shy about calling out their opponents for obscuring one key part of the scoreboard in a photo Dallas harnessed to call attention to attendance numbers on Sunday.
It’s been close to three decades since the last time the Dallas Cowboys won a Super Bowl, and it’s very, very hard to imagine the franchise is going to bring a drought to an end this season based on how the team has looked so far.
Jerry Jones’ squad had the chance to improve to 4-2 when they hosted the Detroit Lions at AT&T Stadium on the owner’s 82nd birthday, but the visiting team absolutely throttled the opposition while coasting to a 47-9 win that marked the most lopsided loss the billionaire has witnessed on home turf since purchasing the team all the way back in 1989.
A grand total of 93,644 people flocked to AT&T Stadium to witness that beatdown in person, and the Cowboys made the somewhat questionable decision to brag about that number in a post on Twitter that prominently featured the 160-foot wide screen hanging over the field.
However, someone on the Cowboys’ social media team went out of their way to blur out the graphics listing the score of the contest before the post went live—an incredibly obvious edit that was highlighted by the Lions’ Twitter account.
🧐 is it us or is the scoreboard a little blurry? https://t.co/TIFeprUrGc
— Detroit Lions (@Lions) October 14, 2024
At this point, it seems safe to assume Mike McCarthy won’t be getting a new contract when his current deal expires at the end of the season, but a coaching change will only do so much to address glaring issues with the team’s running game and a defense that obviously has plenty of work to do based on the result of Sunday’s contest.