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Ralph Vacchiano
NFC East Reporter
This is why it’s so hard for people to believe in the Dallas Cowboys.
It’s easy to want to believe. They really are loaded with talent. And the way they’ve played the last five weeks it was hard to not see them as one of the best teams in the NFL. Even the most reluctant bandwagon jumpers had to admit they were starting to look like a Super Bowl contender.
But what happened next is what always seems to happen with the Cowboys:
Just when you thought you were in, they push you back out.
They did that on Sunday with a stinker of a performance up in Buffalo, where they were manhandled by the Bills in a very ugly 31-10 loss. The Bills beat them handily on both sides of the ball. They started running right through the Dallas defense from the beginning and didn’t stop until they had a ridiculous 266 yards on the ground. Their defense made Dak Prescott look ordinary. The Cowboys self-destructed with penalties, too.
In other words, as Cowboys coach Mike McCarthy said, “We did not play well.”
It was much more than that, though. It was also that they didn’t play well on the road. Again. In fact, they were completely out-classed, reminiscent of their disastrous, 42-10 loss in San Francisco way back on Oct. 8. But they can’t shrug off these games as anomalies anymore.
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The Cowboys are 3-4 on the road this season, with their wins coming against the lowly Giants (5-9), Panthers (2-12), and Chargers (5-9). Their losses include that early-season nightmare against the woeful Arizona Cardinals, which was bad enough. But now it includes losses to three Super Bowl contenders — at San Francisco, at Philadelphia and at Buffalo by an average score of 34-14.
That’s pretty significant, considering the Cowboys (10-4) are very unlikely to win the NFC East, thanks to the Eagles’ soft remaining schedule. That means their road to the…
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Publish date : 2023-12-18 01:49:38
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