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4 games the Cowboys should have won but instead ruined their 2025 season

It's really not the healthiest thing in the world to play the "what if" game with—well, anything—but with the Dallas Cowboys now officially set to miss the NFL Playoffs for the second straight season, we're going to go ahead and play anyway.

Obviously, we could get into the whole "what might have been" thing had Jerry Jones been able to come to terms on a new contract with Micah Parsons instead of trading him to the Green Bay Packers. But we'll refrain from pulling at that thread, although it's no secret that the defense is the biggest reason America's Team is just 6-7-1 at this point, with Matt Eberflus' unit surrendering the fourth-most total yards per game (374.