Dear Dallas Cowboys: Please make it stop

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Why the Dallas Cowboys can no longer continue to play Matt Cassel at quarterback.

Dec 13, 2015; Green Bay, WI, USA; Dallas Cowboys quarterback Matt Cassel (16) scrambles for shorts yards in the second quarter during the game against the Green Bay Packers at Lambeau Field. Mandatory Credit: Benny Sieu-USA TODAY Sports

The chances are high that if you’re reading this article, you care about the Dallas Cowboys.

Because you care, this season has probably ran you through the gamut of emotions.

Elation. Pride. Despair.

Two months of torture, followed by a week and some change of hope, just to go right back to being tortured.

Hope again.

And now?

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Well, I guess that depends on the type of person you are.

For me, it’s anger and frustration, mixed with a little bit of shame.

I’m ashamed, of myself, for letting the Cowboys play Lucy to my Charlie Brown.

They moved the football on me yet again just when I started talking myself into the possibility of both winning the division and having a top ten pick.

I’m angry, publicly and privately, because a lot of the guys on the team deserve better than this.

This is not a team that should have just four wins right now.

The talent level, effort and fight that they have exhibited this year suggests that four wins seems wrong.

I’m frustrated because there isn’t a lot that can be done about it when the decision to fight with one hand tied behind your back is continually being made.

I have watched six games in which Matt Cassel has played throughout the entirety as the starting quarterback.

Anyone else who has done the same should be eligible for some sort of pain and suffering settlement.

Matt Cassel should not be the starting quarterback for any team.

Ever.

In my opinion, he doesn’t even belong in the league.

The numbers seem to back that up.

Cassel has the fewest yards per game (177), the second fewest yards per attempt (6.32) and the third worst rating (73.5) of any quarterback with the necessary amount of attempts to qualify for consideration.

In those six starts, the Cowboys have scored one touchdown or less, total, four times, averaging just over 15 points per game.

They have also failed to convert on a third down fifty times in seventy-four attempts, including two straight games where the offense converted just one third-down in each game.

But hey, maybe you’re not a numbers person?

Well then, I submit to you four examples from Sunday’s pathetic excuse for playing the position, just in case you are more of a visual learner.

Next: Cowboys Make It Stop: Exhibits A & B

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