What transpired in the Week 5 "Sunday Night Football" showdown against the , a 42-10 49ers victory, was an absolute debacle. They lost the turnover battle (four to one), only mustered eight first downs to the 49ers' 25, were outgained 421 to 197 in total yards and lost the time of po se sion battle by just under 15 minutes, an entire quarter, 37:05-22:55. It was in the words of Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy "a kick in the a s.""It's a punch in the gut, it's a kick in the a s, whatever phrase you want to put on it," McCarthy after the lo s to the 49ers. "I think it's clearly  you look at how the season has gone. We've been knocked down They beat us in all three phases. We will clearly acknowledge it. I'm not a burn the tape guy, I think that is a crock of shit. We're going to go through it and make sure we are clear on what the expectations are and giving the players what they need to be succe sful. They played extremely well and we did not I thought we had taken Erik Karlsson Kids Jersey  a step as a team. Clearly, I didn't see this coming. I thought the prep was good this week. I thought we had one of our better Friday and Saturdays of the year. But it's like we talked about before, sometimes you have a great week of preparation and it doesn't go so well. We did not hit the mark at all today."However, one of the Cowboys best players and locker room leaders, two-time First Team All-Pro linebacker doesn't see it the same way."I don't think they're really a higher level than us," Parsons . "I think we're the same caliber playoff  Erik Karlsson Women Jersey team, if not the same talent standard as them. I just feel like we really need to really reconsider some things, get together and fix some things. I feel like the score don't really shape what really happened out there.  I just feel like there was nothing that they did besides us beating ourselves. If you look at the third downs, I jumped offsides and then they get seven points five plays later. ... That's the thing with good teams like this: if you beat yourself it will show to this magnitude. Today, we were the four-turnover team and the team that couldn't get off the field on third down. I don't think we're off the same caliber at all."  It's a curious statement given the defense allowed 42 points as 49ers quarterbacktotaled four pa sing touchdowns and 252 yards on 17 of 24 pa sing. Even worse, Parsons and the pa s rush couldn't do much of anything. Dallas entered Week 5 leading the with 55.6% quarterback pre sure rate, the best in the NFL by over 10 percentage points. On Sunday, they pre sured Purdy on 23.1% of his dropbacks, ranked as the fifth-lowest of Week 5 entering "Monday Night Football". Safety accounted for the only sack of the night. The combined record of the Cowboys' first four 2023 foes was 5-15, and they outscored them by nearly 100 points, 124-41. That is the mark of what looked to be dominant team. San Francisco has now improved to 5-0, and they outscored Dallas 42-10. The Cowboys allowed more points in Week 5 than they had all season, calling into question if they have what it takes to hang in the playoffs this season. That makes Dallas the first team since the 1990to surrender more points in their fifth game of a season than they allowed in their first four games combined, according to. Those reached the AFC Championship Game, but they were destroyed by Jim Kelly's and Marv Levy's, 51-3. Dallas has lost both of their last two playoff games against the 49ers by one po se sion, but at this point, a similar multi-score defeat feels likely if these two teams meet again in January, calling into question the caliber of the Cowboys.WEEKS 1-4WEEK 5 AT 49ERSW-L3-1L, 42-10Points scored12410Points Allowed4142Opponent W-L5-15*5-0"You have to learn how to take a punch," Parsons said.  Melker Karlsson Jersey "We got punched in the face tonight. That's just the reality of it. I'm not shying from it. We got beat up in all phases. The psyche  it can't really drop off because I think I understand it. No champion hasn't been battle tested. Sometimes you get knocked down. Sometimes you lose a couple rounds. It's about how you return after. How do you face adversity? How do you get better? How do you not let this control you? That's the thing, I get tomorrow. Today's what it is. I get tomorrow." Even after the defeat on a night in which there wasn't much to brag about, Parsons still remains one of the NFL's best at getting after the quarterback. His 29 quarterback pre sures are the second-most in the NFL as is his 22.3% quarterback pre sure percentage among the 92 players with 100 or more pa s rushes this season. He will, however, readily admit their run defense needs work as everything the 49ers offense does comes off of what they do with Pro Bowler ."I thought they played at a high level," McCarthy said. "It starts with the run and the things that come off of that. I think they do an excellent job with the motions, the double shifts and motions. I thought he Purdy played extremely well and made some big-time throws tonight."San Francisco racked up 170 rushing yards for a robust 4.1 yards per carry. Against a team like the 49ers that utilizes motion at a 71.4% rate, the second-highest in the NFL, Parsons knows the team has to be more disciplined in slowing down the run if they want to be able to hang in there and not get ripped apart against the pa s."I don't know, that's something that there's only so  Rourke Chartier Men Jersey much I can do from where I'm standing at," Parsons said when asked about the team's run defense. "Like, I don't know what's going on inside. I just set the edge, bro. Like, I don't know things that the interior or whatever needs to get addre sed. It's just something the coaches need to look at."After two stunning lo ses, a 28-16 upset defeat in Week 3 against the Arizona Cardinals in which they ran for 222 yards, and the faceplant against the 49ers, the Cowboys know some things have to be adjusted. As for what, that's what this week leading up their "Monday Night Football" matchup with the and former offensive coordinator will be all about."I don't think there's a person not frustrated in this locker room," Parsons said. "I feel like we need to change some things. When we're on, we're on, but I feel like I have never seen a champion not be battle-tested We're just getting tested early. First it was Trevon Diggs going out with a season-ending ACL tear , and we have in some games where we should have won and games where we beat ourselves with the penalties and things like that. We are just getting tested right now.... It's still early in the season. I need to help bring these guys together. We just need to get better. There is no such thing as losing if you learn. Tonight we learned a le son tonight wasn't us. Sometimes we have to look at these lo ses as a ble sing and say thank you."Given that the Cowboys learned many valuable le sons about how much farther they have to go on both  and defense, quarterback , six years Parsons senior, made sure that Dallas was also giving the team that just embarra sed them in primetime the proper amount of respect."You have to give them credit, a team like that," Prescott . "Powerful, powerful offense. Disciplined defense. When you start out with two three-and-out drives and a  Patrick Marleau Men Jersey turnover on the first three po se sions and just give them, opportunity after opportunity, it's always going to be tough. To speak on what Micah is saying, yeah, there's a lot of self-inflicted things but we can't do that in a game like this, against a team like this. So, that's part of being far off and that's part of closing the gap and getting better."