Why do you play the game? You play to try and tie. Those are not the immortal words of Herm Edwards. Herm wanted to win. But Jeff McNei Jersey maybe they could be the words of Jason Garrett, who for the second time in three weeks decided to play for a tie and received just punishment from the Football Gods, a group of deities often lacking in benevolence.The punishment for Garrett this time came in the form of a doinked field goal from , who'd made his last 16 kicks in a row. Maher didn't have to be kicking when or where he was -- the had stormed back thanks to executing in crunch time, but then Garrett yanked his foot off the gas with Dallas down 20-17 and speeding toward the red zone for a potential game-winning touchdown.After getting in Maher's field goal range on a completion to in the middle of the field, the Cowboys had about five real time minutes to plan things out as the officials reviewed whether Beasley caught the ball (he did). The offense came out and ran a draw to for a couple of yards and then let the clock wind down for a field goal attempt as they called their final timeout.It was stunningly conservative. With 12 seconds left on the clock, the Cowboys could have spiked the ball immediately to stop the clock at 11 seconds. Then they could have run a quick play depending on the coverage, as explained on the CBS broadcast. "See if you spike it, there's 11 seconds, you throw a slant, take a shot down the field if they get in there. If they drop everybody way deep you just hand it off and do the same thing. If it's cover 1, man, you take a shot to the end zone."At that point Jim Nantz (correctly) pointed out the math felt like you could run two plays instead of a draw."Yeah if you spike it and you have a timeout," Romo continued. "You come out and say quarterback gets two plays. We're handing it off if they drop way deep otherwise we're throwing it down the sideline to our Wilmer Flores Jersey big guy. The irony of Romo, Garrett's former quarterback, explaining the problem with the conservative coaching here shouldn't be lost on anyone. Garrett chose a "safe" 47-yard field goal by running the draw over the po sibility of a. improving field position, or b. taking a shot to the end zone for an outright win. The latter also gives you the po sibility of a defensive pa s interference penalty, which would increase the Cowboys' win probability just as much as a completion down the field.Two weeks ago against the , , punting from Houston's side of the field, .Playing for the tie is just his style at this point. He's , even though his team converts at the highest rate in the NFL (75 percent) since he took over in 2011, so it's no surprise he would be conservative in these spots as well. Garrett went for it on fourth early in this game and failed. You could almost guarantee Garrett was going to shrivel up a good bit throughout the rest of the game after seeing that. When he did late in the field goal situation, it left Dallas with a 47-yard look. Following a false start by the offense, it was a 52-yard attempt Michael Conforto Jersey that bricked off the upright. Any closer and it probably goes in.The lost early Sunday afternoon, the stink and play in Atlanta on Monday -- Dallas was left for dead a few weeks ago and would have been leading the division with a win over Washington. Instead the Cowboys are 3-4 and in a precarious position. Push the envelope a little bit and maybe the Cowboys are 4-3 or 5-2. They better hope they're not asking themselves what two more wins would do for their final record once the playoffs come around.Cam Is clutch, deal with itOne major hallmark from the 2018 NFL season is the ability of any team to storm back from a deficit in pretty quick fashion, but the storming back from 17-0 against the Eagles to win the game 21-17 is the kind of comeback you don't expect to see, because the Panthers aren't an offensive juggernaut and the Eagles are the defending Super Bowl champs with a dominant defense. And yet it was , who spent the first three quarters struggling, suddenly turning on the afterburners and getting white hot in the fourth quarter to lead the Panthers to what could ultimately be a surprising springboard game for Carolina. Newton was a dreadful 8 of 16 for 59 yards with no scores or interceptions with the Panthers trailing 17-0 and the third quarter winding down. The Eagles had just scored to ice the game, in theory. From the 33-second point of the third quarter to the end of the game, Newton went 17 of 23 for 210 yards and two touchdowns, with rushing in from 14 yards out for the other score.Carolina blitzkrieged the Eagles defense; it was a perfect microcosm of Newton's game. There are people -- both Panthers fans and casual observers of Keith Hernandez Jersey profe sional football -- who don't care for Newton. Fine, whatever. He has an outlandish personality, wears silly hats and is very often misunderstood.But here is one reality no one can ignore anymore: Newton is clutch as hell. He's been that way for a while, dating back to his college days, when he lead Auburn and Gene Chizik to a national title in Gus Malzhan's offense. Newton has produced since the second he arrived in the NFL, but people legitimately don't want to see him succeed and spend time tearing him down when he goes cold. That's part of the Cam Newton Experience, though. Sometimes he's cold and mi sing receivers high, sometimes he's scorching hot. The hots outweigh the colds, because that is how it works for a player who once went 15-1 and won MVP, coming up just short in the Super Bowl against a historically good defense. His response to that lo s only furthered the polarization of Newton, but people get far too caught up in the window dre sing with football players.Newton is a stud, a gamer who steps up in big spots. With this victory, Newton has 15 comeback wins in his career. That's more than Aaron Rodgers (13) and Andrew Luck (13) and tied with Terry Bradshaw, Joe Namath and Troy Aikman. Newton now has 17 game-winning drives, putting him just two behind Rodgers (drafted in 2005).The Panthers' defense elevated its game at the right time on Sunday as well, and the combo gave the Panthers another win. They moved to 4-2, staying well within striking distance of the division-leading (5-1) Jeurys Familia Jersey . Newton will never lead the league in pa sing yards, but he remains the most dangerous and versatile red-zone threat in the NFL. He's also completing 65.6 percent of his pa ses, by the highest percentage of his career. Carolina hasn't played that well this year, but they're stacking wins. If the defense figures things out and the offense finds a groove, watch out.You don't want a Hall of Fame-caliber QB with an MVP on his resume catching fire and stalking you down. are implodingThe Jaguars are a relatively new franchise, but they spent a large portion of the club's history being terrible, so it's impre sive, in a bad way, for the Jags to set a record for futility in 2018. Specifically, Jacksonville managed to go scorele s in the first ha