Dallas had just completed a 21-point comeback. The stadium was shaking. Brandon Aubrey drilled a 42-yard winner. Yet Michael Irvin couldn’t stop yelling not about the kick, not about the comeback, but about the moment the Cowboys almost threw it all away. To Irvin, Brian Schottenheimer’s fourth-down gamble wasn’t gutsy. It was reckless. And he wasted zero time calling it exactly what he thought it was.

“The defense bailed coach out of a bad decision,” Irvin said bluntly on his podcast. “I don’t want to forget the bad decision because it was a pi** poor bad decision.”

Irvin replayed the sequence that still had him heated. Fourth-and-one at the Philadelphia Eagles’ one-yard line, with the game tied 21-21. Instead of kicking an easy field goal to go up 3 points and forcing Philly to d

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