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Report: Cowboys' Mike McCarthy Used Sledgehammer on Watermelons During Meeting

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The head coach, in a desperate attempt to motivate his team ahead of Sunday's 31-28 win over the , pulled out a sledgehammer and some watermelons and went full Gallagher in a Saturday team meeting, per the NFL Network's Tom Pelissero:

You know things are bad when you have to resort to prop comedy. But hey, the 3-7 Cowboys apparently responded to the motivational tactics and are still, somehow, just a half-game out of first place in the hapless NFC East.

And that might be the biggest joke of all.