Cowboys Super Bowl Excuse Watch: Choke, Distraction & Taylor Swift: FISH PODCAST

FRISCO - Now that the dust has settled on the AFC and NFC Championship Games, some basic questions about the San Francisco 49ers over the Detroit Lions and the Kansas City Chiefs over the Baltimore Ravens ...

Questions about "choke jobs.'' And "distractions.'' And "discipline.'' And "cheating refs fixing games.'' And "bad clock/asset management.'' And "Next Year's Champion'' Syndrome ...

1 - If the Cowboys "choked'' (Deion Sanders' opinion) because they lost in the playoffs to the underdog Packers, why aren't the Lions' failures (the "tough guys'' lost a game in which they were up 24-7) and the Ravens' failures (they were favored at home but utilized the MVP QB Lamar Jackson to score only one TD) being characterized as "chokes''?

2 - If the Cowboys are "too distracted'' by "Hollywood-level marketing stuff'' (our words but a Troy Aikman suggestion), why aren't the Chiefs distracted by the omnipresence of Taylor Swift?

3 - If "the refs cheated!'' (the position of some Micah Parsons defenders and Micah himself) or "the game's are fixed!'' why did we notice blatantly bad calls that favored the losing Lions and the losing Ravens?

Indeed, why do conspiracy-theorist fans/media only think "the fix'' is in when their team (or their wager) loses?

4 - If Dallas coach Mike McCarthy is especially bad at "clock/asset management'' and "discipline,'' why did Chiefs coach Andy Reid waste a timeout? Why did Detroit coach Dan Campbell insist stubbornly on "going for it!'' no matter what? And what in the world happened to Ravens coach John Harbaugh's team as it experienced a fumble-and-penalty-prone nervous breakdown?

5 - "Next Year's Champions''? The Lions and the Ravens have both vowed to "be back.'' And gullible observers? In the case of the Lions, they assume that Detroit's steady built to competitiveness means they'll be even better next year.

If it worked that way, why weren't the Cowboys - after 12-5, 12-5 and 12-5 - even better this year? And doesn't it mean the Cowboys will be even better next year?

All these myths and memes. All this presumptive nonsense.

If the NFL world wants to apply this junk to the Ravens and the Lions and the Chiefs and the Niners? Fine.

Then the Fish Report and the Fish Podcast will insist the same goofy favors be done to the Dallas Cowboys. Or not. Listen, watch and join in, Cowboys Nation!