The Green Bay Packers' 23-13 win over the Dallas Cowboys was by no means as close as that scoreline would indicate, as Matt LaFleur was one garbage-time touchdown concession and multiple dropped touchdown passes away from blowing the doors off Brian Schottenheimer.
Any Cowboys fans who expected Schottenheimer to come out guns blazing as they try to explain how things went so catastrophically wrong got no good answers from the Packers' latest pommel horse. Schottenheimer said that "the effort is right, the fight is right" after that bludgeoning, but said that "mistakes" are what sunk the team. Is Schottenheimer sure it wasn't the fact that he came with a game plan doomed to failure?
Considering how thorough the beatdown was in front of a nationwide audience that was looking to autopsy why a team that should be walking to a home playoff game continues to struggle, Schottenheimer sounds like a broken man. After losing to a Packers team that was leaking coolant, those answers will not satisfy hungry fans. Total word salad.
Brian Schottenheimer has no answers after Green Bay Packers crush Cowboys in Week 6
The Packers' performance against Dallas may have been their finest hour in the middle of what has been an absolutely rancid series of circumstances. Despite injuries on both sides of the ball and an offensive line that many doubted before the season somehow looking even worse than expected, this was a game where Green Bay was in complete control.
The Cowboys' mighty offense was held to just seven points against a Packers defense that still lacks elite pass rush talent and lost Edgerrin Cooper for the entire season before that final drive. Jordan Love was slicing and dicing this secondary, even with Matthew Golden and Christian Watson both dropping touchdowns in this contest.
The Cowboys went bargain hunting when they promoted Schottenheimer after letting Mike McCarthy go, and they appear to be getting what they pay for. While LaFleur is not exactly an elite head coach, the high floor he provides, especially on offense, separates him from the common rabble like Schottenheimer.
The Green Bay Packers look to be a better team than the Dallas Cowboys
The Cowboys had the opportunity to jump right to the front of a pitiful NFC East division which features a Jameis Winston/JJ McCarthy quarterback battle in New York, a Philadelphia squad ready for major bloodletting, and an injured Washington side. Instead, Schottenheimer wilted before LaFleur and DC Jonathan Gannon.
Even though the Packers are in such a tough division that every member of their four-team group would make the postseason if the season ended right now, their 4-2 record and lack of excuse-making at a time when many other teams have faltered show how wide the gap is.
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