CFZ Tough Cowboys schedule

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First of all playing a 1st place schedule we have 5 division winners opening with Tampa and Cinn who was our 17th game draw from AFC. Another tough draw albeit at home .The possibility of starting 0-2 and at home is startling .

Then we have NY and Wash to get well on wrapping up 3 of our first 4 games at home . Something we rarely do to begin the season. Traditionally we play more on the road to begin the year.

We follow with two tough road games at LA and Philly then two at home against Det and Chi before the bye.

That’s 4 playoff teams from last year including both of the Super Bowl teams to open the season with. A reasonable expectation is 4-4.Maybe we can beat one of them but then we’d have to handle all of the others to increase the win total.

Then after the bye we travel to GB and Minn probably lucky to split those before returning home for our back to back Thursday games against two winnable opponents in NY and Indy. 7-5 maybe.

Then we close out the season with more winnable games against Hou and JAX before closing out with Tenn, Phil and Wash. Two potential cold weather games in Nashville and Maryland . I see 3-2.

That tallys up to 10-7 which could still win the division and at least a Wild Card. Which would be first time in 21st Century we won division or made playoffs with a 1st place schedule .

That’s all dependent of course on minimal injuries to any of our key personnel especially on offense. That’s as optimistic as I can be. I certainly wouldn’t be surprised if we only had 8 or 9 wins. Some of these opponents especially in our division look to be improved.

In order to surpass the 10 win total we’d probably need to sweep our division again and hold serve to everyone who didn’t make playoffs last year and or possibly upset a couple of playoff teams from last year.

How do you see this tough schedule?
 

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First of all playing a 1st place schedule we have 5 division winners opening with Tampa and Cinn who was our 17th game draw from AFC. Another tough draw albeit at home .The possibility of starting 0-2 and at home is startling .

Then we have NY and Wash to get well on wrapping up 3 of our first 4 games at home . Something we rarely do to begin the season. Traditionally we play more on the road to begin the year.

We follow with two tough road games at LA and Philly then two at home against Det and Chi before the bye.

That’s 4 playoff teams from last year including both of the Super Bowl teams to open the season with. A reasonable expectation is 4-4.Maybe we can beat one of them but then we’d have to handle all of the others to increase the win total.

Then after the bye we travel to GB and Minn probably lucky to split those before returning home for our back to back Thursday games against two winnable opponents in NY and Indy. 7-5 maybe.

Then we close out the season with more winnable games against Hou and JAX before closing out with Tenn, Phil and Wash. Two potential cold weather games in Nashville and Maryland . I see 3-2.

That tally’s up to 10-7 which could still win the division and at least a Wild Card. Which would be first time in 21st Century we won division or made playoffs with a 1st place schedule .

That’s all dependent of course on minimal injuries to any of our key personnel especially on offense. That’s as optimistic as I can be. I certainly wouldn’t be surprised if we only had 8 or 9 wins. Some of these opponents especially in our division look to be improved.

In order to surpass the 10 win total we’d probably need to sweep our division again and hold serve to everyone who didn’t make playoffs last year and or possibly upset a couple of playoff teams from last year.

How do you see this tough schedule?
No matter how negative the fan base is on the Cowboys I don’t see them losing two straight games at home. The Cowboys can go 3-1 vs the AFC South 2-2 vs Green Bay, Tampa, Rams and Bengals. 4-2 vs the NFC East and 3-0 against the NFC North without the Packers. I see 12-5 again.
 

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No matter how negative the fan base is on the Cowboys I don’t see them losing two straight games at home. The Cowboys can go 3-1 vs the AFC South 2-2 vs Green Bay, Tampa, Rams and Bengals. 4-2 vs the NFC East and 3-0 against the NFC North without the Packers. I see 12-5 again.
Pretty close to my predictions:flagwave:
 

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Truth be told, this is a favorable schedule. We get three of the toughest teams (Tampa, Cincy and Indy) @ home. We play Minnesota away (We beat them in their place last year with a backup quarterback). We play Green Bay before it gets super cold in Wisconsin. We play four patsies in Detroit, Houston, Jacksonville and Chicago (should be four wins). We get our regular division fodder in Washington and the NY Giants (@ home for Thanksgiving). Philly's likely a split. Our toughest games may be against the Super Bowl champions @ SoCal and the Titans.
If we can't make the playoffs with this schedule, it was nice knowing ya, Big Mike.

At best, I say 11-6 (losses to Tampa, Cincy, Green Bay, LA, Tennessee, Philadelphia). More realistic, I say a loss to Washington gets us 10-7.

But, we'll see.
 
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First of all playing a 1st place schedule we have 5 division winners opening with Tampa and Cinn who was our 17th game draw from AFC. Another tough draw albeit at home .The possibility of starting 0-2 and at home is startling .

Then we have NY and Wash to get well on wrapping up 3 of our first 4 games at home . Something we rarely do to begin the season. Traditionally we play more on the road to begin the year.

We follow with two tough road games at LA and Philly then two at home against Det and Chi before the bye. It does look like we have 3-4 truly tough games out of 17, but it could be worse.

That’s 4 playoff teams from last year including both of the Super Bowl teams to open the season with. A reasonable expectation is 4-4.Maybe we can beat one of them but then we’d have to handle all of the others to increase the win total.

Then after the bye we travel to GB and Minn probably lucky to split those before returning home for our back to back Thursday games against two winnable opponents in NY and Indy. 7-5 maybe.

Then we close out the season with more winnable games against Hou and JAX before closing out with Tenn, Phil and Wash. Two potential cold weather games in Nashville and Maryland . I see 3-2.

That tallys up to 10-7 which could still win the division and at least a Wild Card. Which would be first time in 21st Century we won division or made playoffs with a 1st place schedule .

That’s all dependent of course on minimal injuries to any of our key personnel especially on offense. That’s as optimistic as I can be. I certainly wouldn’t be surprised if we only had 8 or 9 wins. Some of these opponents especially in our division look to be improved.

In order to surpass the 10 win total we’d probably need to sweep our division again and hold serve to everyone who didn’t make playoffs last year and or possibly upset a couple of playoff teams from last year.

How do you see this tough schedule?
Tough schedule as rated by who?

The irony of this thread is that Dallas' schedule is listed as one the easiest in the entire league.

I mean, literally the 2 easiest out of 32 teams. Cant get much easier...on paper according to Sports Illustrated.

https://www.si.com/extra-mustard/20...schedule-based-on-2021-regular-season-records

Not that it means a ton preseason, as so many changes occur between one year and the next.
 

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First of all playing a 1st place schedule we have 5 division winners opening with Tampa and Cinn who was our 17th game draw from AFC. Another tough draw albeit at home .The possibility of starting 0-2 and at home is startling .

Then we have NY and Wash to get well on wrapping up 3 of our first 4 games at home . Something we rarely do to begin the season. Traditionally we play more on the road to begin the year.

We follow with two tough road games at LA and Philly then two at home against Det and Chi before the bye.

That’s 4 playoff teams from last year including both of the Super Bowl teams to open the season with. A reasonable expectation is 4-4.Maybe we can beat one of them but then we’d have to handle all of the others to increase the win total.

Then after the bye we travel to GB and Minn probably lucky to split those before returning home for our back to back Thursday games against two winnable opponents in NY and Indy. 7-5 maybe.

Then we close out the season with more winnable games against Hou and JAX before closing out with Tenn, Phil and Wash. Two potential cold weather games in Nashville and Maryland . I see 3-2.

That tallys up to 10-7 which could still win the division and at least a Wild Card. Which would be first time in 21st Century we won division or made playoffs with a 1st place schedule .

That’s all dependent of course on minimal injuries to any of our key personnel especially on offense. That’s as optimistic as I can be. I certainly wouldn’t be surprised if we only had 8 or 9 wins. Some of these opponents especially in our division look to be improved.

In order to surpass the 10 win total we’d probably need to sweep our division again and hold serve to everyone who didn’t make playoffs last year and or possibly upset a couple of playoff teams from last year.

How do you see this tough schedule?
8-9

I had them 9-8 all offseason, but I just can't see 9 wins.

If my prediction is correct then we need to be in the QB market.
 

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Tough schedule as rated by who?

The irony of this thread is that Dallas' schedule is listed as one the easiest in the entire league.

I mean, literally the 2 easiest out of 32 teams. Cant get much easier...on paper according to Sports Illustrated.

https://www.si.com/extra-mustard/20...schedule-based-on-2021-regular-season-records

Not that it means a ton preseason, as so many changes occur between one year and the next.
Tough schedule as compared to last year IMO.

The fact we have a first place schedule which we’ve never made the playoffs with in 21st Century is quite a hurdle to overcome .

This could be the year but it’s going to be tough. Unless the 5 division winners we face from last year are down and our divisional foes havent improved more than we have.

Most closer to our situation would argue we have down graded our talent so based on that alone even if we had same schedule wouldn’t be picked to fare as well. We shall see.
 

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With the schedule, I will go with 11-6.
Since we won 12 games last season, and improvement should be expected. But I don't see 13-4. So normally I base it off 12 wins, or the previous seasons wins (though it is a year to year league now). But with the roster unknown as on paper we lost experience, so a 10-7 prediction is fine.

So I will split it to 11-6 and win the NFCE.
Beyond that in the playoffs, I will not predict anything. Need to see how all the other teams look when it gets that time.
 

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Starting the season against two top 5 teams is a great way to set the tone early and quickly build confidence. If it doesn't work out, you can always listen to Jerry talk about the 1993 Cowboys and hope they get it going.
 

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I like our schedule, and yes, we will not be favored in either of the first 2 games, despite playing at home. But I prefer a tough start over a tough ending. Maybe we get blown out in both games, or maybe we win one, or maybe we at least compete well in both. If we compete well, losing those two games in not an ominous sign.

I don’t want us to beat some bums and get an inflated idea of who we are (I talking about the player perspective). Playing top teams in the first two games creates focus, creates urgency and a dose of reality.it shows players what they need to defeat top teams. It shows the front office and coaches if there are any serious flaws in the roster or game plans. Then there’s plenty of season left to win the division and go into the playoffs knowing what’s needed.

I like that.
 

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These predictions based on schedules before the season starts never pan out. Teams expected to be good wind up being mediocre. Teams expected to stink improve greatly. Then there are injuries that every team deals with. Some worse than others. Right now it is just a schedule. If Brady gets hurt or Burrow, in the preseason, the outlook on those games changes significantly.
 

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Tough schedule as rated by who?

The irony of this thread is that Dallas' schedule is listed as one the easiest in the entire league.

I mean, literally the 2 easiest out of 32 teams. Cant get much easier...on paper according to Sports Illustrated.

https://www.si.com/extra-mustard/20...schedule-based-on-2021-regular-season-records

Not that it means a ton preseason, as so many changes occur between one year and the next.

Its all a prediction before training camp so obviously there is no “correct” way to do it…but that article is using winning % from last season and with as much player movement as there is in the off-season nowadays I’m not sure that’s the best way to go about it.

If you go by Vegas projected win totals for this current season the Cowboys actually have the 10th hardest schedule.

 

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The Bucs game should be a good initiation for Tyler Smith.
 

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Tough schedule as rated by who?

The irony of this thread is that Dallas' schedule is listed as one the easiest in the entire league.

I mean, literally the 2 easiest out of 32 teams. Cant get much easier...on paper according to Sports Illustrated.

https://www.si.com/extra-mustard/20...schedule-based-on-2021-regular-season-records

Not that it means a ton preseason, as so many changes occur between one year and the next.
First of all playing a 1st place schedule we have 5 division winners opening with Tampa and Cinn who was our 17th game draw from AFC. Another tough draw albeit at home .The possibility of starting 0-2 and at home is startling .

Then we have NY and Wash to get well on wrapping up 3 of our first 4 games at home . Something we rarely do to begin the season. Traditionally we play more on the road to begin the year.

We follow with two tough road games at LA and Philly then two at home against Det and Chi before the bye.

That’s 4 playoff teams from last year including both of the Super Bowl teams to open the season with. A reasonable expectation is 4-4.Maybe we can beat one of them but then we’d have to handle all of the others to increase the win total.

Then after the bye we travel to GB and Minn probably lucky to split those before returning home for our back to back Thursday games against two winnable opponents in NY and Indy. 7-5 maybe.

Then we close out the season with more winnable games against Hou and JAX before closing out with Tenn, Phil and Wash. Two potential cold weather games in Nashville and Maryland . I see 3-2.

That tallys up to 10-7 which could still win the division and at least a Wild Card. Which would be first time in 21st Century we won division or made playoffs with a 1st place schedule .

That’s all dependent of course on minimal injuries to any of our key personnel especially on offense. That’s as optimistic as I can be. I certainly wouldn’t be surprised if we only had 8 or 9 wins. Some of these opponents especially in our division look to be improved.

In order to surpass the 10 win total we’d probably need to sweep our division again and hold serve to everyone who didn’t make playoffs last year and or possibly upset a couple of playoff teams from last year.

How do you see this tough schedule?

Safe to say you have come close to the Vegas odds on win total for the Boys- 10.5 is the over/under this year. And as somone pointed out, the 'insiders' are calling this the easiest or second easiest schedule??? If that was the case our win total over/under would be a little higher no? And if not than really what they are saying is we are a win + a half worse this year compared to last year's record. I'll take the under like you and hope everyone stays healthy.
 

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First of all playing a 1st place schedule we have 5 division winners opening with Tampa and Cinn who was our 17th game draw from AFC. Another tough draw albeit at home .The possibility of starting 0-2 and at home is startling .

Then we have NY and Wash to get well on wrapping up 3 of our first 4 games at home . Something we rarely do to begin the season. Traditionally we play more on the road to begin the year.

We follow with two tough road games at LA and Philly then two at home against Det and Chi before the bye.

That’s 4 playoff teams from last year including both of the Super Bowl teams to open the season with. A reasonable expectation is 4-4.Maybe we can beat one of them but then we’d have to handle all of the others to increase the win total.

Then after the bye we travel to GB and Minn probably lucky to split those before returning home for our back to back Thursday games against two winnable opponents in NY and Indy. 7-5 maybe.

Then we close out the season with more winnable games against Hou and JAX before closing out with Tenn, Phil and Wash. Two potential cold weather games in Nashville and Maryland . I see 3-2.

That tallys up to 10-7 which could still win the division and at least a Wild Card. Which would be first time in 21st Century we won division or made playoffs with a 1st place schedule .

That’s all dependent of course on minimal injuries to any of our key personnel especially on offense. That’s as optimistic as I can be. I certainly wouldn’t be surprised if we only had 8 or 9 wins. Some of these opponents especially in our division look to be improved.

In order to surpass the 10 win total we’d probably need to sweep our division again and hold serve to everyone who didn’t make playoffs last year and or possibly upset a couple of playoff teams from last year.

How do you see this tough schedule?
Pretty good preview, I think you are spot on.
 

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Philly's schedule is totally laughable. While our schedule isn't particularly "hard", the Eagles clearly have a leg up scheduling wise in terms of a run for the division.
 
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