Cowboys make ridiculous mistake before game even starts

The Dallas Cowboys need a win over the Los Angeles Rams Sunday afternoon to move to .500 on the season and maintain their status as the first-place squad in a horrible NFC East.

Things did not start out swimmingly for the Cowboys in Big D. Even before the same started, Dak Prescott and Co. made an absolutely absurd error.

Prescott did not use the word “defer” during the coin toss, meaning that Dallas had to kick off to start the game and will kick off once again once the third quarter comes calling.

This is not a drill.

Cowboys won the toss, opted to "kick" and not "defer," and now will kick off both halves

—  Fᴏᴏᴛʙᴀʟʟ Zᴇʙʀᴀs🇺🇦 (@footballzebras) December 15, 2019

Way to start what should be considered a mist-win game for Dallas. Needless to say, the team was put on blast for this egregious error.

Dysfunctional teams do dysfunctional things: Cowboys somehow screwed up the choice to defer and will kick to start each half of this game.

— ProFootballTalk (@ProFootballTalk) December 15, 2019

lol the Rams get the ball both halves because the Cowboys captains didn't know the word defer.

And the HC is still here.

— Jeff Cavanaugh (@timeforjeffrey) December 15, 2019

The Cowboys could not properly handle telling the referees they wanted to "defer" to start the game and as a result the Rams will get the ball to start the first half AND the second half.

Jason Garrett, everyone…

— Will Brinson (@WillBrinson) December 15, 2019

With a loss on Sunday, Dallas would move to 6-8 on the season and fall into second place behind the Philadelphia Eagles.

Jason Garrett and Co. have lost eight of 11 since a 3-0 start to the season.