The Cowboys’ win over Washington came at a cost as Dallas dropped from 9th to 11th in the 2025 NFL Draft order following the upset. Some fans want the Cowboys to tank so they can get a better draft pick, while others prefer them to win no matter their record. Was winning yesterday as bad for the Cowboys as we think it might be?
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00:00At what point did you just get caught up in being a cowboy fan and being like, yes, awesome
00:21play.
00:22And then you're weighing and measuring that against team tank and say, no, as the number
00:26one line from many not happy with this is the Cowboys, of course, even screw up a way
00:32to tank and get the draft pick as the New York Giants are absolutely stinking it up
00:37with their situation.
00:39Daniel Jones granted his release.
00:41Just your range of emotions as a cowboy fan of, OK, like this is pretty cool.
00:45I'm fine with this W. I mean, look, from play to play, just objectively, as someone who's
00:52covering the team, it's the best possible storyline.
00:56I want him to lose.
00:57I want I want to have fun like I mean, at this point, they're not going anywhere in
01:02the playoffs.
01:03So do I love this?
01:04They were in the same position in twenty twenty.
01:06Don't tell Micah that they were three and seven at the at the 10 game mark in twenty
01:11twenty.
01:12And then they close the year.
01:13They go five hundred.
01:14They go three and three down the stretch.
01:15They go six and ten and they play themselves out of maybe the third or fourth pick and
01:19they end up with the 10th.
01:21And right now they played themselves out of the top ten with this victory yesterday.
01:25I get it, though.
01:26It's eleven.
01:27It's really at the same time when you go into that locker room and you see a bunch of really
01:32young players who, you know, a Josh Butler who's got an insane story for his career.
01:41When you look at different guys like Chauncey Golston having success, Luke Schoonmaker,
01:45who has been ridiculed his entire career, like standing up there and getting talked
01:50to about his contributions to winning an effort.
01:52You do start to feel for those guys as people and competitors and say, you know what?
01:57I can't complain too much watching those guys have success because this is clearly something
02:00that's that's good for their football character as they continue to grow.
02:04You know, the fortunate thing is they really got lucky here.
02:07They only dropped two spots.
02:10It theoretically, you know, if they were if they were, say, in a situation where they
02:14were higher on the board because they had some they didn't have the tiebreakers and
02:18they dropped six spots.
02:20Much bigger state.
02:21But the problem is you lose pace with a Jacksonville.
02:23Oh, yeah.
02:24You're distanced now from the New York Giants.
02:27That stings even more.
02:29You you you lose ground on the Raiders, New England, all these teams that are right ahead
02:35of you.
02:36What really staying what really staying.
02:37I mean, really, what we're talking about is like the Travis Hunter sweepstakes.
02:42That's kind of what we're like referring to with all that stuff out of the how how realistic
02:46that was.
02:47A lot of people thinking they would not win a game the rest of the way would be decided
02:50upon New York Giants Thanksgiving.
02:52But that's the one that stinks because you're going to win wind up winning two in a row
02:56now that that's the part that really stings with this one is that, you know, you're going
03:01to beat the Giants.
03:02You didn't fall too much, but you had a chance to go up.
03:05Right.
03:06If they if they lose this game yesterday, they they're the sixth.