In the aftermath of Sunday’s Dallas Cowboys loss to the Minnesota Vikings, many people are wondering just what the team was thinking on their penultimate offensive possession. You know what happened. You’ve watched it several times by now. The Cowboys, trailing by four, ran the ball on both second and third down, ultimately lost three yards through both plays, and failed to score a touchdown. It was unbelievable.
When the game initially ended we started to get a bit of an explanation from the Cowboys. The team stuck to the company line that they were trying to run some clock down as the sequence essentially began right out of the two-minute warning.