Stephen A. Smith and Skip Bayless managed to rub salt on the Dallas Cowboys' fresh wounds after their Week 1 loss against Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Despite an impressive comeback performance from Cowboys star QB Dak Prescott, Dallas fell short as the defending champions escaped with a 31-29 win.

Fox Sports' Bayless called it like it was. The 69-year-old ‘Undisputed' host took to Twitter to tell the Cowboys that they should not have their heads down after losing to the defending champions. Although I'm pretty sure he meant well, Bayless' take would still be tough to read if you're a Cowboys fan especially with him ending it with ‘the Cowboys goat goated'.

On the other side of the fence, ESPN's ‘First Take' host took a more brutal route. Stephen A. Smith, who's been very vocal about how he isn't a fan of the franchise, didn't need to use a lot of words. Unlike Bayless, Smith just laughed his butt off on Twitter to savagely troll the Cowboys after the loss:

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It was a tough night for the Cowboys and these hot takes from both Skip Bayless and Stephen A. Smitb definitely did not help. Prescott and his squad gave it their all and managed to put up a fight against the reigning Super Bowl champs. The comebacking Prescott held his own against the defending Super Bowl MVP in Tom Brady and threw a whopping 403 yards including three TDs in his first game since October 2020.

The Cowboys had a huge defensive stop in crunch time and converted on a key FG which gave them a one-point lead with less than two minutes to go. Unfortunately for them, those ninety-plus seconds were all Brady needed to put his team in a position to convert a last-second FG to grab their first win of the season.