The Green Bay Packers didn’t just beat the Dallas Cowboys in Week 6. They made the final score look polite.
A 23-13 result barely captures how one-sided this game was, with Matt LaFleur’s team one garbage-time touchdown concession and a couple of dropped touchdown passes away from turning it into something even uglier. Green Bay had control from start to finish, and Dallas never really found a way to challenge it.
That left Brian Schottenheimer with the kind of postgame questions that usually demand something sharper than what he delivered. Instead, he offered the line that “the effort is right, the fight is right,” while blaming “mistakes” for the collapse. For Cowboys fans hoping for a real explanation after a nationally televised thumping, it was a thin answer to a bad night.
The Cowboys’ offense, the unit supposed to carry them, managed just seven points against a Packers defense that does not have elite pass rush talent and had already lost Edgerrin Cooper for the entire season before the final drive. Even with injuries on both sides of the ball and an offensive line that had its doubters before the year, Green Bay looked like the cleaner, sharper team.
Jordan Love was slicing and dicing the Cowboys’ secondary, and the Packers still had room to leave points out there. Matthew Golden and Christian Watson both dropped touchdowns in the game, which only makes the gap feel larger.
Dallas, meanwhile, looks like a team that went bargain hunting when it elevated Schottenheimer after moving on from Mike McCarthy, and the results have matched the price tag. LaFleur isn’t being framed here as some untouchable coaching giant, but his steadier hand and offensive baseline were obvious in this matchup.
The Cowboys had a chance to seize control of a weak NFC East, one that includes a Jameis Winston/JJ McCarthy quarterback battle in New York, a Philadelphia team headed for major bloodletting, and an injured Washington club. Instead, they folded.
Green Bay’s situation has been messy too, with a tough division and plenty of roster issues to navigate. Still, the Packers are 4-2, and they keep showing up without the excuse-making that has surrounded plenty of other teams. Against Dallas, that difference was impossible to miss.
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