WoodysGirl
04-21-2011, 01:33 PM
Most important games on this year's schedule will take place away from home
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IRVING, Texas -- So what are the five biggest games of the season for the Dallas Cowboys (http://espn.go.com/nfl/team/_/name/dal/dallas-cowboys)?
They all come on the road because the home schedule is not too sexy when you take away the NFC East foes.
Here goes:
Sept. 18 at San Francisco
How in the world can the second game of the season be against a team that finished 6-10 in 2010 and has a new coach in 2011 be considered one of the biggest? Because of the Sept. 11 opener at the New York Jets (http://espn.go.com/nfl/team/_/name/nyj/new-york-jets), that's why. It will be extremely difficult for the Cowboys to win the opener against a team that has been to the AFC Championship Game in the past two seasons. If you pencil that in as a loss, then the Cowboys must leave San Francisco with a win to avoid a second straight 0-2 start. The only time the Cowboys started a season 0-2 and made the playoffs in Jerry Jones' tenure as owner and general manager came in 1993. That's not a good omen.
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IRVING, Texas -- So what are the five biggest games of the season for the Dallas Cowboys (http://espn.go.com/nfl/team/_/name/dal/dallas-cowboys)?
They all come on the road because the home schedule is not too sexy when you take away the NFC East foes.
Here goes:
Sept. 18 at San Francisco
How in the world can the second game of the season be against a team that finished 6-10 in 2010 and has a new coach in 2011 be considered one of the biggest? Because of the Sept. 11 opener at the New York Jets (http://espn.go.com/nfl/team/_/name/nyj/new-york-jets), that's why. It will be extremely difficult for the Cowboys to win the opener against a team that has been to the AFC Championship Game in the past two seasons. If you pencil that in as a loss, then the Cowboys must leave San Francisco with a win to avoid a second straight 0-2 start. The only time the Cowboys started a season 0-2 and made the playoffs in Jerry Jones' tenure as owner and general manager came in 1993. That's not a good omen.
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