Matt Cassel benched, Kellen Moore is Cowboys’ fourth QB this year

Nothing sums up the Dallas Cowboys’ season better than this: Matt Cassel got called for intentional grounding on a pass that was intercepted. You can watch football for many, many years and not see that happen again.

Cassel couldn’t even throw the ball away without making things worse, and finally the Cowboys had seen enough. Dallas yanked Cassel early in the second quarter and went to Kellen Moore, the former Boise State star. Moore is the fourth Cowboys quarterback this season. Tony Romo broke his collarbone twice. The Cowboys have been totally inept without him. Brandon Weeden didn’t work out. Neither did Cassel.

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Against the New York Jets on Saturday night, Cassel was 3 for 8 for 37 yards and that terrible interception. Cassel stumbled in the pocket, tried to throw it away and he couldn’t do that properly. He didn’t throw it far enough, allowing Jets cornerback Darrelle Revis to leap and intercept it. And still, the flag for intentional grounding had to be thrown because there wasn’t a Cowboys player anywhere near the pass. That’s a perfect snapshot of the Cowboys season. Dallas was 1-8 without Romo coming into Saturday night’s game.

The flip side of the switch is that Moore finally got his NFL shot. Fans of his from his great days at Boise State had been waiting a few years to see him get his chance. Saturday night was his first NFL action. But then on Moore’s second NFL pass, in his first series after replacing Cassel, he floated one over the middle and it was picked off. Sigh.

The Cowboys came into Saturday night’s game still mathematically alive for the NFL playoffs. But ask most Cowboys fans and they’d surely agree, the offseason can’t come soon enough.

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