Another Sunday night, another ugly evening for the Cowboys.
Dallas had 10 days to get ready for Green Bay, and it never looked like it. The offense and defense were out of sync from the jump, and by halftime the Packers were sitting on a 17-0 lead.
The Cowboys made a little noise after the break, but it wasn’t nearly enough. Green Bay walked away with a 23-13 win, dropping Dallas to 2-4.
For a team that believed it could lean on the run game, the ground attack never really showed up. Javonte Williams did find the end zone in the third quarter, but that was about the only highlight.
He finished with 41 yards on 11 carries, a 3.7-yard average that matched his season mark. In a night full of offensive issues, Williams remained part of the problem outside of the goal line.
There was at least one defensive spark. Before Week 6, Dallas had gone without an interception since Quinnen Williams picked one off in Week 15 of the 2025 season.
That drought finally ended when Dee Winters stepped in front of a Jordan Love throw intended for Matthew Golden. Winters initially brought it back for a touchdown, but replay showed he was down by contact.
The Cowboys then gave the turnover right back when Dak Prescott threw an interception of his own, but Winters still gave Dallas the opening it desperately needed.
Prescott, meanwhile, did not back up the bold talk he’s had about this offense. He called the unit GOTI, short for the "Greatest Offense There Is," and said he likes it when teams blitz because it creates one-on-one opportunities.
Against Green Bay, though, the blitz gave him problems. One glaring miss came early in the fourth quarter when CeeDee Lamb was wide open and Prescott threw short off his back foot.
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That was the kind of throw a $60 million quarterback has to make if he wants the words to mean something.
Jake Ferguson also had a rough night. He lost his starting job to Brevyn Spann-Ford and didn’t do much with the snaps he got, finishing with just 13 yards on two catches. Ferguson is stuck in a bad slump, and the question now is what Dallas plans to do with him next.
On the other side, Joey Porter Jr. turned in one of the better performances of the night despite coming in with an ankle injury. He not only played, he looked like one of the best defenders on the field.
Porter blanketed receivers, broke up two passes and added a tackle for loss. The only blemish was a questionable pass interference call, and outside of that, he was clean.
The biggest questions, though, keep circling back to Brian Schottenheimer. The defense has been terrible, and first-year defensive coordinator Christian Parker deserves his share of the blame. But the Cowboys were bad in 2025 and are bad again in 2026, and Schottenheimer is the constant in that equation.
His decisions in this one only made things worse. He chose to take the ball after winning the toss, which meant Green Bay got the ball to start the third quarter after scoring to end the second.
He also called a pass after Prescott had taken a brutal hit on the previous play, and that sequence ended with an interception. Later, on a fourth-down situation, Schottenheimer called timeout and actually wiped away a chance for the Packers to be flagged for delay of game.
Those moments stood out, but the broader issue was even uglier. After 10 days to prepare, Dallas produced a scoreless first half and turned it over twice on offense.
Defensively, the Cowboys allowed nine third-down conversions, and hardly any came on manageable distances. That’s on Schottenheimer, and after this kind of showing, the conversation about his seat is only going to get louder.
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