Barring injury, trade, or holdout, Dak Prescott is set to become only the third Dallas Cowboys player to start at quarterback for nine seasons. Last season, he tied Roger Staubach for third with eight seasons. Staubach was the starter in … Read more
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With training camp set to open on Wednesday, the Dallas Cowboys officially begin their run on a new NFL season. We rarely mix sports and politics around here, but the fact is that we’re also in the run-up to a presidential election too. So let us dare to … Read more
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The Dallas Cowboys and Tampa Bay Buccaneers have met 22 times since Tampa Bay joined the NFL in 1976. Dallas has won 16 of those 22 games. The Cowboys are 12-2 at home but just 4-4 against the Bucs in Florida. The original orange creamsicle uniforms are no … Read more
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When the Carolina Panthers entered the league in 1995 nobody expected them to succeed early. The Dallas Cowboys certainly would have preferred not to have seen them the first three seasons the Panthers played in the NFL. The first two times the teams met the Panthers walked off … Read more
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The 15th all-time meeting between the Dallas Cowboys and the Cincinnati Bengals will have more than one storyline. Dallas is 10-4 all-time against Cincinnati – 7-1 at home but just 3-3 in Ohio. The Cowboys haven’t lost to the Bengals in 20 years. It has been 36 years … Read more
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It isn’t as if the rivalry between the Dallas Cowboys and Washington Commanders needed any extra spice. For what will be a 65th season, the teams have slugged it out. Many times with the divisional title, playoffs and even a trip to the Super Bowl at stake. Back … Read more
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The Houston Texans arrive at AT&T Stadium in Week 11. It will be the seventh meeting between the two franchises since Houston joined the NFL in 2002. The Cowboys hold a 4-2 advantage in the win column for the series. But the Texans are an up and coming … Read more
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The Dallas Cowboys will not encounter the Philadelphia Eagles in 2024 until the 10th week. They will meet again in Week 17. Last year they played in Week 9 and again in Week 14 and somehow the Cowboys overcame an early division lead by the Eagles. This year … Read more
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When the Cowboys travel to Atlanta for their Week 9 showdown, they might want to leave some baggage behind. Namely, they aren’t that good when they play the Falcons in Georgia – at least in the regular season. Dallas is 2-0 in the postseason when they play in … Read more
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The rivalry between the Dallas Cowboys and the San Francisco 49ers is one of the most iconic in the NFL. In addition to 31 regular season meetings – dating back to 1960 – the teams have clashed nine times in the playoffs. Six of those games were for … Read more
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The Dallas Cowboys could be sitting anywhere in between 5-1 and 1-5 when they reach the seventh week of the 2024 NFL schedule. Whether they are sitting atop the standings (5-1), or wondering what happened (1-5), the week off is timely. They start a crucial stretch of the … Read more
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You have to figure that the Detroit Lions immediately circled their Week 6 game when the schedule was released on May 15th. They return to what they consider the scene of an unforgivable crime. And they’ll be looking for payback. The Lions feel they scored the game-winning two-point … Read more
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The history between the Dallas Cowboys and Pittsburgh Steelers is one of the most documented in the NFL. The two teams have met three times in the Super Bowl. With Dallas winning the last meeting nearly 30 years ago after the Steelers narrowly won the first two. Pittsburgh’s … Read more
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The Dallas Cowboys and New York Giants will meet for the 125th and 126th time this season. In the last seven season – 14 games – the Giants have only recorded one victory in the series. That was a four-point win on Jan. 3, 2021, in New York. … Read more
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The Dallas Cowboys and Baltimore Ravens will meet for only the seventh time since 2000. That was the first year of the new Baltimore franchise’s existence. Given the Ravens 5-1 record in the previous six meetings, Dallas would likely prefer to see the team fly off somewhere else. … Read more
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When the New Orleans Saints arrive at AT&T Stadium in the second week of the season they will do so at a disadvantage historically. The Saints haven’t beaten the Cowboys in Dallas since Dec. 23, 2012. And they had to go into overtime after blowing a late 14-point … Read more
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When the Dallas Cowboys open the 2024 season – their 65th in the NFL — in Cleveland on Sept. 8th, they will have two streaks in play. First, they will look to win their second straight season-opening game after dropping three in a row from 2020-23. Second, they … Read more
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The reactions to the New York Giants’ new alternate jersey for 2024 have been – mostly – brutal. And with good reason. They might just be one of the ugliest uniforms in NFL history. And given the way some of the older uniforms looked, that’s saying something. Judge … Read more
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It’s the morning of August 7, 1983. The place is Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. Thunderstorms are passing through the area – including one that lingers over the airport at 9 a.m. Less than 12 hours earlier, the Dallas Cowboys had rallied to beat the Miami Dolphins in a … Read more
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Over the weekend news broke of the passing of former Cowboys receiver Golden Richards at the age of 73. The cause of his death — at his home in Murray, Utah – was given as congestive heart failure. Richards’ nephew, Lance Richards, broke the news in a Facebook … Read more
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Between the inaugural season of 1960 and the 1995 season, the Dallas Cowboys played in 16 NFC Championship games. The first two came in 1966 and 1967, when it was still the NFL Championship game and the winner moved on to play the AFL Champions. Those two losses … Read more
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