Twitter reacts to Mike McCarthy's catastrophic 4th down decision during Cowboys' Thanksgiving …

Nov 1, 2020; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; Dallas Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy during the first quarter against the Philadelphia Eagles at Lincoln Financial Field. Mandatory Credit: Eric Hartline-USA TODAY Sports Dallas Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy isn’t winning any popularity contests among fans, and his failed fourth down decisions on Thanksgiving Day against NFC East rival Washington set Twitter ablaze with harsh criticism. Social media is already a cold place in arctic reality for anyone under the microscope as a public figure, and McCarthy wasn’t spared when he and offensive coordinator Kellen Moore decided to dial up a pass play in which Andy Dalton threw incomplete to CeeDee Lamb in the second quarter. A simple run with Ezekiel Elliott probably would’ve done the job. Spoiler alert: the fourth-down McCarthyisms got worse later on as the Cowboys wound up routed by a score of 41-16 to fall to 3-8, one game behind Washington (4-7) for the NFC East lead. Twitter reacts to 1st Mike McCarthy blunder Worse yet, the first turnover on downs came at Dallas’ own 34 yard-line, and tight end Dalton Schultz exacerbated the situation by drawing a 15-yard unnecessary roughness penalty. Predictably, this sequence of unfortunate events led…
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