FRISCO — Cowboys players were not at The Star in Frisco on Monday — a logical decision after arriving early Monday morning after the 23-13 loss to the Green Bay Packers. Schottenheimer didn’t have to see his players to know how they were feeling, however. 

Schottenheimer said his Cowboys players are matching his demeanor the day after the team fell to 2-4. 

“I’m pissed off,” Schottenheimer said. 

“I think they’re pissed off, too.”

It’s a little different than the demeanor the Cowboys showed in Green Bay after the loss Sunday. The Cowboys were quiet when they walked to the locker room after the game. Inside, there wasn’t a lot of noise, either. Multiple players expressed the frustration of how Sunday’s game went. Cornerback DaRon Bland even said they were surprised at being 2-4 through six weeks. 

“Right now, it sucks,” Cowboys outside linebacker Rashan Gary said after the game. “We’ll take that and we’re going to go to the next weekend and get better.”

Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott also said the feeling of back-to-back losses for the first time this season isn’t necessarily easy to shake. 

“But it should make you hungry to get back to work and that is the most important part of it. Whether you can flush it or not, maybe we shouldn’t flush it,” Prescott said after the game. “Maybe we should bring this into each and every day. Maybe we just bring the last two weeks of each and every day of our preparation and intensify our focus in everything that we are trying to accomplish.”

And maybe they should be a little angry, too. Schottenheimer said Monday that he prefers an angry team in this situation compared to a measured one.

A day after the loss, it seems like there’s still anger in the team facility, even if the players weren’t there Monday. The demeanor of the team apparently reflects the head coach.

“I’ll never not take accountability for the fact that we’re two and four,” Schottenheimer said. “It’s not what we planned on being. That’s not where the standard of what we’re trying to do is. But again, I think at the end of the day, these guys are focused on the right things and that’s it. We got to play better. We got to coach better and it needs to start this week against Philadelphia.”