As the Dallas Cowboys prepare for the last game of the season, the blowout loss to the Eagles on Sunday was one that many probably did not think would happen, but rather a game that they could have played a little better in.

The Cowboys lost the game the way they did so many earlier this season. Big. Sunday’s 41-7 loss to Philadelphia in and of itself won’t determine Mike McCarthy’s fate. Five years of results as the Cowboys head coach tilts the scales more than anything that happens in the final eight days of the regular season.

Dallas got crushed, 41-7, by the Eagles on the road in Week 17. Parsons believes the game was closer than it seemed.