Really really hard to go into Denver's house and show them up.
High altitude. Incredible home crowd presence. Elite defense. The Cowboys were sucking wind out there and it showed in the defensive performance, especially in the second half.
However, the Cowboys looked just plain bad. You can excuse some of the bad play because they were without three of their top four corners for the game, but the performance on both sides of the ball was inexcusable, especially on offense. The most frustrating part was that, instead of leaning on the run, which has been the Cowboys' M.O. and has led to success, they acquiesced to Denver's plan of stacking the box and tried to pass. Good luck passing on Chris Harris and Aqib Talib. Aaron Rodgers and Tom Brady have been made to look foolish against that secondary, and Dak Prescott, while darn good, is no Aaron Rodgers. I can understand getting behind and needing to pass, but they abandoned the run even while the game was still within reach. I don't understand that. You don't invest $50 million in your offensive line and double down on the 4th overall draft pick at RB so you can chuck the ball.
Getting back to the defense, I don't remember the last time I saw such poor tackling. Plays that could have gone for three or four yards ended up busting out for twenty. It was horrible. No idea what happened there. Maybe the team was coasting on their win against the Giants, maybe they just didn't gameplan, I don't know.