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FRISCO, Texas — The Dallas Cowboys have won at a rate in the past three regular seasons not seen since the 1990s Super Bowl dynasty years.
Dallas now has at least 12 wins for three seasons in a row under head coach Mike McCarthy after going 12-5 every year since 2021. This stretch marks the second time in franchise history for that to occur, joining the Cowboys’ 1990s dynasty run from 1992-1995 in which they won three Super Bowls in four seasons.
McCarthy is the first Cowboys head coach to accomplish this feat. Hall of Famer Jimmy Johnson was Dallas’ head coach for the first two of those seasons in the 1990s from 1992-1993, but Barry Switzer was the Cowboys coach for the 1994 and 1995 seasons.
Entering the upcoming postseason as the NFC East division champion and the NFC’s No. 2 seed, Dallas is set to host at least the first two round of the playoffs at home in AT&T Stadium, a venue in which they have 16 games in a row, including all eight this season.
On the opposite sideline of their wild card round playoff game on Sunday is one of the Cowboys’ recent bogeymen, the seventh-seeded Green Bay Packers. Green Bay has won nine of the last 10 matchups with Dallas since 2009, when AT&T Stadium opened. Two of those victories came in the divisional round of the postseason in memorable fashion: a 26-21 win at Lambeau Field in the “Dez [Bryant] Caught It” game and a 34-31 buzzer-beating victory at AT&T Stadium involving Aaron Rodgers throwing a frozen rope down the left sideline to tight end Jared Cook, whose toe-drag catch set up Mason Crosby’s 51-yard game-winning field goal as time expired. McCarthy was the head coach of the Packers for both of those postseason matchups, something he is already tired of talking about. The second of the two postseason matchups was Dak Prescott’s first playoff experience his rookie year.
“I am not reflecting,” McCarthy said Monday. “A great game. Dak…
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Author : Garrett Podell
Publish date : 2024-01-11 00:51:38
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