Road playoff wins measure greatness

[fivetwos]

In their storied 66 year history, the Dallas Cowboys have won 36 playoff games, ranked 4th all time after the pats, niners, and packers. For nearly 2 and a half decades, the Cowboys had the most playoff wins.

In this great team timeline there have been a ton of really good teams. And certainly a few elite, great teams. If you want to measure the great teams, they are usually marked by their ability to win playoff games on the road. Something the Cowboys were certainly known for at one time - winning tough playoff games on the road.

To illustrate this point, in its history the Cowboys have won 10 ROAD playoff games. If you look at when they happened, you can see how difficult it is to win playoff games on the road.

COWBOYS ROAD PLAYOFF WINS

• 1970-82: 7 Road playoff wins (all under Tom Landry and 2 were NFC championship games!)
• 1991-95: 2 Road playoff wins (both under Jimmy Johnson; 1 was the 92 NFC championship game)
• 2022: 1 Road playoff win (under Mike McCarthy)

We all know all about the infamous 30 year drought without even one conference championship game appearance. Within this same era - in fact over the last 33 years, the Cowboys have won ONE road playoff game, the 2022 wild card win at Tampa to end Tom Brady’s career.

The reason this is so telling is unless you are the top seed in your conference (which we have only done 6 times in our entire history) you are going to have to win road playoff games!

The ability to win games on the road measures good teams. The ability to win playoff games on the road measures great teams.

The word drought should be in quotes because it presumably does not exist. ‘Look over there….’

Didn’t mention that the Brady team they beat had a losing record.

I could be wrong but I think they’ve only won multiple road playoff games once in their history, even before Jerry stole the fun. In fairness, a good part of that was having home field in certain seasons.

Thing is, these days, if you don’t win your division you’re not getting INTO the SB, major upsets aside, without winning THREE road playoff games in a row.

Dallas almost has to be miles better than others in order to win. Every opposing team and fan brings their A game for Dallas. Most fans of every team in the league hate the teams in their own division….AND Dallas. I don’t think the Jones antics help that but even if he is aware somehow, he would like it more than not.

 

[Diehardblues]

Yeah that loss to Montana and the niners in SF in Jan ‘82 was second only the SB losses to Pitts in ‘75 and ‘78 for me. The “Catch” game was just gut wrenching.

We haven’t even experienced as many of the gut wrenching playoff losses in so long because we only seem to lose in the first round, lol.

We had the gut wrenching Divisional Round loss in Green Bay with the Dez catch that wasn’t in 2014.

That would have to rank up there with those from glory eras. 2006 gut wrenching playoff loss at Seattle with the fumbling bumbling of Romo. 2007 was pretty gut wrenching with interception in endzone to end the game.

And in Dak era 2016 gut wrenching loss in Divisional Round at home against Green Bay when we gave up the 3rd and 20 to Rodgers. And both the playoff losses to SF in 2021 and 2022 especially one where Dak slides without enough time for a final play.

I’d argue we’ve had ample gut wrenching playoff losses this era. 2007, 14,16 Divisional Round losses all prevented us from making Championship game which doesn’t even count 2018 while not as gut wrenching but still very disappointing.

2007 and 16 we were #1 seed so very gut wrenching. 2014 Dez catch was as heartbreaking as some of those from previous eras. For me anyway.

 

[Reverend Conehead]

In their storied 66 year history, the Dallas Cowboys have won 36 playoff games, ranked 4th all time after the pats, niners, and packers. For nearly 2 and a half decades, the Cowboys had the most playoff wins.

In this great team timeline there have been a ton of really good teams. And certainly a few elite, great teams. If you want to measure the great teams, they are usually marked by their ability to win playoff games on the road. Something the Cowboys were certainly known for at one time - winning tough playoff games on the road.

To illustrate this point, in its history the Cowboys have won 10 ROAD playoff games. If you look at when they happened, you can see how difficult it is to win playoff games on the road.

COWBOYS ROAD PLAYOFF WINS

• 1970-82: 7 Road playoff wins (all under Tom Landry and 2 were NFC championship games!)
• 1991-95: 2 Road playoff wins (both under Jimmy Johnson; 1 was the 92 NFC championship game)
• 2022: 1 Road playoff win (under Mike McCarthy)

We all know all about the infamous 30 year drought without even one conference championship game appearance. Within this same era - in fact over the last 33 years, the Cowboys have won ONE road playoff game, the 2022 wild card win at Tampa to end Tom Brady’s career.

The reason this is so telling is unless you are the top seed in your conference (which we have only done 6 times in our entire history) you are going to have to win road playoff games!

The ability to win games on the road measures good teams. The ability to win playoff games on the road measures great teams.

Do they count Super Bowl victories as road playoff wins? They should. The Big Game is the final playoff game every year, and every team that pays in it plays on the road, regardless of whether they're designated the home or the visitor.

 

[RS12]

Are we counting the win over the below 500 Bucs? Asking for a friend. Otherwise you are pushing 40 to remember a great road playoff win.

 

[Blackrain]

In their storied 66 year history, the Dallas Cowboys have won 36 playoff games, ranked 4th all time after the pats, niners, and packers. For nearly 2 and a half decades, the Cowboys had the most playoff wins.

In this great team timeline there have been a ton of really good teams. And certainly a few elite, great teams. If you want to measure the great teams, they are usually marked by their ability to win playoff games on the road. Something the Cowboys were certainly known for at one time - winning tough playoff games on the road.

To illustrate this point, in its history the Cowboys have won 10 ROAD playoff games. If you look at when they happened, you can see how difficult it is to win playoff games on the road.

COWBOYS ROAD PLAYOFF WINS

• 1970-82: 7 Road playoff wins (all under Tom Landry and 2 were NFC championship games!)
• 1991-95: 2 Road playoff wins (both under Jimmy Johnson; 1 was the 92 NFC championship game)
• 2022: 1 Road playoff win (under Mike McCarthy)

We all know all about the infamous 30 year drought without even one conference championship game appearance. Within this same era - in fact over the last 33 years, the Cowboys have won ONE road playoff game, the 2022 wild card win at Tampa to end Tom Brady’s career.

The reason this is so telling is unless you are the top seed in your conference (which we have only done 6 times in our entire history) you are going to have to win road playoff games!

The ability to win games on the road measures good teams. The ability to win playoff games on the road measures great teams.

The willingness to pay for the best coach gives you the ability to win playoff games on the road and playoff games in general.

You can assemble a lot of really good talented players but if they are poorly coached as we have seen lately in the Jones era winning playoff games whether home or away become an impossibility.

If you look back at those statistics the road wins came from good coaches that were capable of coaching teams to a Super bowl and winning.

We are never winning road playoff games or a Super bowl with the coaching that Jerry is willing to pay for.

 

[Blackrain]

Certainly great to be able to win playoff games on the road but what I believe is even more important is the ability to make all your games important and have a coach that can win your division and get you seated high enough where you have home field advantage.

Take Vince Lombardi for example considered one of the greatest coaches of all time never won a road playoff game.

So good in fact they put his name on the trophy.
Home field advantage at lambeau Field was an incredibly powerful advantage and you have to believe it helped his team greatly.

Lombardi lost his only playoff game on the road to the Philadelphia eagles at Franklin Field.

 

[Cumart21]

"Toughness travels" - Kelvin Sampson

 

[blueblood70]

This teams recent inability to win regular season non-division games on the road against good teams is simply HORRIBLE.

I'd just be happy winning a few of those and actually getting into the playoffs.

This is true but I wouldn't call it against good teams, they just need to get galvanized and focused and win more games on the road..

the old rules also stand, you want try to win 100 percent of your games at home, Mccarthy was here and Quinn didn't even like 17 games in a row Or maybe it was 14?


I don't remember they did that they were supposed to split on the road get you in the playoffs.

You should NOT have to play road games in the playoffs, if you're good enough in the regular season but most teams struggle against the better teams with the better records playing on their home turf, they're home, that means that literally is like saying that those teams are great but the supposed lose at home?

there's a fine line between a lot of things we discussed here and people having a general understanding of how this works, Those teams are good for a reason, those teams are good for a reason ,and you are not going to roll in there and beat them out on their home turf too often, you hope to split those games...

So we're supposed to expect our team to go on the road and be better teams in their house you know their fans expect them to win all their games at home Let me know when that sinks in yes you have to try to do that more often when the road especially against the team we seem to have Achilles heel problem with the Denver Broncos the Cardinals etc..

Nice I believe they will eventually buck those trends But that doesn't make you all of a sudden going back to the stroll because you broke through those are different teams different coaches and players the last decade somehow we struggle with them and I don't know why it isn't because of the logo or their jerseys just weird sometimes how that works.

I Mean figure this out how bad does it feel for Washington /Giants to keep losing this bad Cowboys team /apparently our fans say we suck but yet they can't beat us not very often Like we threw a bone last year in the end game, they think they broke through that now we're not going to be able to beat Jaxson Dart, lmao ie hes yet To lose to the Cowboys..hmmm

So they are having the same struggle we have against Cardinals orgs the Broncos but it works because it's in the vision cowboy hardly ever still in their division split the Eagles and usually beat everyone else that's what you're supposed to do you know steer home games hope to split on the road yes as a man you hope they breakthrough by other teams go through the same thing...


For me when you become home in the playoffs those are the ones you better in you have to win you're expected to win the ones on the roads are a whole other story..

They'll never forget that Green Bay lost to come out unprepared especially on defense I mean literally has got punched in the face and then once they were on the ground they got stomped on the face all game that's not everyone goes that game and wants blame that on the offense, really?

The defense at home could not play better than that they gave seven points like was practice right from the first sack didn't stop a single thing was doing. So, let's win names we're supposed to win before we talk about all the other ones...

I mean this is insane this is why I'm saying hey Bob would appreciate you and I would worry about the loss on the road that you typically going to lose that you hope to win but our home team is there for a reason look at our home record that's the one that doesn't get into the NFC championship game and we have regular team teams that should have done it....

Over the last 20 seasons, the Dallas Cowboys have a home playoff record of 1 win and 4 losses (\(1-4\))
Their home playoff results over this span include:

• January 14, 2024: L 32-48 vs. Green Bay Packers (NFC Wild Card)
• January 16, 2022: L 17-23 vs. San Francisco 49ers (NFC Wild Card)
• January 5, 2019: W 24-22 vs. Seattle Seahawks (NFC Wild Card)
• January 15, 2017: L 31-34 vs. Green Bay Packers (NFC Divisional)
• January 13, 2008: L 17-21 vs. New York Giants (NFC Division

 

[Rockport]

Are we counting the win over the below 500 Bucs? Asking for a friend. Otherwise you are pushing 40 to remember a great road playoff win.

Cowboys took care of business. You think it’s their fault they played the Bucs? SMDH.

 

[blueblood70]

The ability to win games AT HOME measures good teams. The ability to win playoff games AT HOME measures great teams.

fixed it.. You should be winning more games at home if you played well enough to earn those games and then lose them I think that's more serious issue when you finally had those opportunities to finally get with the hump and can do it at home that's a bigger problem the road games that the other homes are supposed to win in the first place you get home games for a reason supposed to be the easier path..

Over the last 20 seasons, the Dallas Cowboys have a home playoff record of 1 win and 4 losses (\(1-4\))
Their home playoff results over this span include:

• January 14, 2024: L 32-48 vs. Green Bay Packers (NFC Wild Card)
• January 16, 2022: L 17-23 vs. San Francisco 49ers (NFC Wild Card)
• January 5, 2019: W 24-22 vs. Seattle Seahawks (NFC Wild Card)
• January 15, 2017: L 31-34 vs. Green Bay Packers (NFC Divisional)
• January 13, 2008: L 17-21 vs. New York Giants (NFC Division

 

[blueblood70]

Are we counting the win over the below 500 Bucs? Asking for a friend. Otherwise you are pushing 40 to remember a great road playoff win.

It's supposed to be a trick question are you too much festivities over the holiday weekend did you hit your head, Did you have to ask a question, I think you are your friend and you have two problems you and your alternate personality doesn't understand fall and sports yes it's real game it counts it absolutely counted you wouldn't count it that's really dumb so **** here's a just pass up on the game, maybe they should have waved the big flag and told the league, They didnt deserve be there.. forfeit, did they forfeit? It's right they showed up to play at home in front of their home crowd on their home turf.

Well unless you want to go back 100 years and breakdown every teams WEAK wins on the road, that they were supposed to win, then you have to count it because let me check ,

OH, it's not pretty easy, the games absolutely counts on the road against Buccaneers team that Tom Brady who just won the SB ther year before,

Yes, they embarrassed the bucs on their turf, it all counts.

 

[RS12]

Cowboys took care of business. You think it’s their fault they played the Bucs? SMDH.

What I think is beating a below 500 playoff team on the road is a win.....not a great win, which clearly you missed in the thread title. Much like you miss a lot things. They werent great that year and Tampa did not belong in the playoffs.

 

[blueblood70]

What I think is beating a below 500 playoff team on the road is a win.....not a great win, which clearly you missed in the thread title. Much like you miss a lot things. They werent great that year and Tampa did not belong in the playoffs.

Wrong They dominated They just win they destroy them they get bored what they were supposed too.. You don't get to grade with and losses that's not what it says I mean these are like W-ABCD, and and L-ABCD,

In sports there's no one that matters winning. In the NFL its one and done.. So ridiculous you're sitting on here trying to pick a win and then put a greed by it there's nobody said don't you you went over the road and beat these Super Bowl champions from the year before you hit it right away you embarrass him on her home field you're trying to discount it somehow no it's not how it works your comments are absolute F,

You like them great you can win anything You just plain old F..

Back like we're getting grade in school and there's a curve that way everyone graduated that's how it works you both Sweden games and they did that they'd have lost it you would have heard about how horrible it was to lose to that team But Yahweh that you study here ridiculously clueless delusional man playing up wasn't great, yet they only to move on is Win..

You can try to explain the way that the when you come in the more look that look horrible If you're not great wins losses it is W or L they're out quality wins or quality losses but if you wanna load a game that you dominated on the road and Come in try tell us how it won a great win should count that's what you said earlier, IT counted Why come because NFL counted it..

And by the way there was a lot of time before game might lose that because we don't play on the road outdoors, on grass, against Tom Brady and go do that and you want to discount it...lmao

 

[Rockport]

What I think is beating a below 500 playoff team on the road is a win.....not a great win, which clearly you missed in the thread title. Much like you miss a lot things. They werent great that year and Tampa did not belong in the playoffs.

What’s your point?

 

[zrinkill]

Are we counting the win over the below 500 Bucs?

We would have too...... Dak cannot do it against a winning team

 

[blueblood70]

We would have too...... Dak cannot do it against a winning team

First of all, that's so ridiculous and wrong, Win in Seattle, that's the other win.. GB Playoffs as a rookie he played great!! came back from behind over and over as the defense once again failed this team,

the Defense needs to be better, the offensive line ,run game the coaches, they lose games together, it's as a team and then come in here so they must have to you because it must be DAK!!

 

[zrinkill]

First of all, that's so ridiculous and wrong

Sure it is.

 

[Hadenough]

Their home playoff results over this span include:

• January 14, 2024: L 32-48 vs. Green Bay Packers (NFC Wild Card)
• January 16, 2022: L 17-23 vs. San Francisco 49ers (NFC Wild Card)
• January 5, 2019: W 24-22 vs. Seattle Seahawks (NFC Wild Card)
• January 15, 2017: L 31-34 vs. Green Bay Packers (NFC Divisional)

Thanks Dak! Expect more of the same even when the defense is fixed.

 

[ArtClink]

The defense is the root cause of why we can’t advance to the NFC Championship game. Name a playoff loss in last 30 years and I’ll show you why the defense cost us those games including the Dez catch w 4:58 left in game. Jerry can’t build a championship defense and that’s not Romo or Daks fault.

 

[GMO415]

BULLET!!!!
Living in the shadows of Cowboys historical greatness can only take the franchise so far. There's probably two generations that haven't seen the Boys accomplish shhhhh.

Reality is coming fast to the Joneses and the well will eventually run dry.