Cowboys owner Jones floored by painful Packers mauling

MIAMI – Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said he was "floored" by his team's 48-32 NFL playoff exit to the Green Bay Packers on Sunday (Monday Manila time), labelling it the most painful playoff he had experienced.

The result eliminated "America's team" in the first round of the playoffs as they extend their 28-year wait for a return to the Super Bowl.

Dallas, who were 8-0 at home in the regular season and strong favorites against the youthful seventh-seeded Packers, found themselves 27-0 down in the second quarter after a dreadful display.

Jones, who bought the team in 1989, declined to discuss the future of coach Mike McCarthy after the defeat.

"I don't have any thoughts about the reasons why or anything to do with the coaching, anything to do about the players," Jones told reporters.

"What I'm zeroed in on is the fact that I thought we were in a position, everybody in this room thought we were in a position, to advance this thing in the playoffs and maybe get as far as our dreams might take us. We didn't do it," he said.

Jones was asked to rank the defeat among the many playoff disappointments for his team since their fifth Super Bowl win in 1995.

"This seems like the most painful because we all had such great expectation and we had hope for this team and I thought that we were aligned in a great shape and it didn't happen for us," Jones said.

"And it's as fresh on me right now as it is on anybody else, but I don't want to get into the addressing of any aspects of it, any part of it, from the coaching to the players to what's around the corner."

"On a personal basis, I'm floored, not that there's any world's smallest violin from me being floored, I get that. I understand that and I know where the responsibility starts and ends, I've got that real clear but that's not the point.

"The point is that I'm disappointed for everybody," he said.

Quarterback Dak Prescott, who had enjoyed an excellent regular season throwing for 4,516 yards and 36 touchdowns, said he was shocked and frustrated with his own display after throwing two crucial interceptions in the first half.

"The way that we came out here and we started this game, it just shocked, honestly," said the