Cowboys Strength of Schedule

[coult44]

It is a heady moment for the Dallas Cowboys and their fans. Barring a complete collapse down the stretch and either Philadelphia or Washington winning out with their shaky-to-horrible quarterback situations, Dallas is going to the playoffs as the NFC East champs. And they look to be dangerous with a five-game win streak, a defense that is often suffocating, and an offense that roared to life late in the latest victory over the Eagles.

But there is a potential problem. Outside of the stunning defeat of the New Orleans Saints, who have already clinched the NFC South and should soon lock up a first round bye, the Cowboys haven’t beaten any team with a winning record this year. None. As a matter of fact, of the teams they have played so far, only the Seattle Seahawks, Houston Texans, and Tennessee Titans have winning records at this stage of the season. And Dallas lost to all of them.

Read more: https://www.bloggingtheboys.com/201...d-flag-philadelphia-eagles-new-orleans-saints

Now go do the same googling for Saints Rams, Chiefs, Chargers, Pats, Bears, Vikes, And Hawks , let us know what you find

 

[adamknite]

We also beat the defending super bowl champs twice, two NFC playoff teams (Falcons and Saints) from the previous year, and the defending AFC runner ups... We've had 7 games against teams that made the playoffs last year.

This "they haven't beat many teams with a winning record" is always a giant fallacy, and that's just one of the many reasons why. Most if not all those teams were supposed to beat us according to the majority and most didn't.

We may lose in the playoffs, we may possibly win the super bowl... I don't know but I can tell you one thing for certain... The strength of schedule is going to have little impact as to why either way.

 

[ConstantReboot]

It is a heady moment for the Dallas Cowboys and their fans. Barring a complete collapse down the stretch and either Philadelphia or Washington winning out with their shaky-to-horrible quarterback situations, Dallas is going to the playoffs as the NFC East champs. And they look to be dangerous with a five-game win streak, a defense that is often suffocating, and an offense that roared to life late in the latest victory over the Eagles.

But there is a potential problem. Outside of the stunning defeat of the New Orleans Saints, who have already clinched the NFC South and should soon lock up a first round bye, the Cowboys haven’t beaten any team with a winning record this year. None. As a matter of fact, of the teams they have played so far, only the Seattle Seahawks, Houston Texans, and Tennessee Titans have winning records at this stage of the season. And Dallas lost to all of them.

Read more: https://www.bloggingtheboys.com/201...d-flag-philadelphia-eagles-new-orleans-saints

I wonder why no one ever writes about the Patriots playing in the easiest division in football? They are guaranteed 6 wins average each year. Except for the once in a great while fluke like last weeks game against the Dolphins.

You think the Cowboys have it easy? Just look at the Patriots schedule each year.

 

[Aviano90]

Saints only have a win against one team ( Baltimore) with a winning record. They beat the Ravens by 1 point.

And it took a missed extra point to save them from having to go to overtime.

 

[Aviano90]

I wonder why no one ever writes about the Patriots playing in the easiest division in football? They are guaranteed 6 wins average each year. Except for the once in a great while fluke like last weeks game against the Dolphins.

You think the Cowboys have it easy? Just look at the Patriots schedule each year.

Imagine how hard it is for Buffalo, Miami, and NYJ who ate guaranteed 2 losses per year having to play the Patriots.

But; Miami has won like 6 of of the last 7 (or 5 out of 6) in Miami. For some strange reason the Patriots ant seem to win there. Maybe NE is partying instead of taking care of business.

 

[LatinMind]

It is a heady moment for the Dallas Cowboys and their fans. Barring a complete collapse down the stretch and either Philadelphia or Washington winning out with their shaky-to-horrible quarterback situations, Dallas is going to the playoffs as the NFC East champs. And they look to be dangerous with a five-game win streak, a defense that is often suffocating, and an offense that roared to life late in the latest victory over the Eagles.

But there is a potential problem. Outside of the stunning defeat of the New Orleans Saints, who have already clinched the NFC South and should soon lock up a first round bye, the Cowboys haven’t beaten any team with a winning record this year. None. As a matter of fact, of the teams they have played so far, only the Seattle Seahawks, Houston Texans, and Tennessee Titans have winning records at this stage of the season. And Dallas lost to all of them.

Read more: https://www.bloggingtheboys.com/201...d-flag-philadelphia-eagles-new-orleans-saints

Yup and the Cowboys are in a completely different place than they were when they played these teams. And all of those teams struggled to beat a Cowboys team who didnt have capable WRs or TEs playing. Anbd were trying to find themselves on offense.

 

[beware_d-ware]

There's so much parity in the NFL that records aren't really a big deal. The Skins for example have a losing record, but the first time we played them, they were a legitimate playoff team. Other teams are a bad bounce or an iffy officiating call away from having 2 or 3 more wins. Some teams like us benefit from some of those bounces for another couple of wins - you've got to admit, we caught some lucky breaks in last week's Philly game. Even a bottom feeder team like the Raiders can pop up one week and knock off the Steelers.

Strength of schedule just really doesn't matter in the NFL. Just win the games on your slate and compete for the playoffs, cause from there on out, it's a whole new season.

 

[DFWJC]

Just play who is in front of you.
Dallas can’t help that 4 games vs teams many thought would be real tough this year (Philly twice, at Atlanta, Jacksonville) ended up being vs teams that are average or much worse than that.

 

[LovinItAll]

Parity, play who's in front of you, etc.

It's next year's schedule that looks like a tough row to hoe.

 

[robjay04]

Man I hate stuff like this.

If we lost to the Eagles twice, they would have a winning record.

Same thing with the Commanders.

So if we lost our last 5 games...4 of those teams would have winning records? But since we beat them..it doesn’t count?

This is why losing teams always complain about their SoS.

 

[CB61]

It is a heady moment for the Dallas Cowboys and their fans. Barring a complete collapse down the stretch and either Philadelphia or Washington winning out with their shaky-to-horrible quarterback situations, Dallas is going to the playoffs as the NFC East champs. And they look to be dangerous with a five-game win streak, a defense that is often suffocating, and an offense that roared to life late in the latest victory over the Eagles.

But there is a potential problem. Outside of the stunning defeat of the New Orleans Saints, who have already clinched the NFC South and should soon lock up a first round bye, the Cowboys haven’t beaten any team with a winning record this year. None. As a matter of fact, of the teams they have played so far, only the Seattle Seahawks, Houston Texans, and Tennessee Titans have winning records at this stage of the season. And Dallas lost to all of them.

Read more: https://www.bloggingtheboys.com/201...d-flag-philadelphia-eagles-new-orleans-saints

It's not like we make the schedule oh, the NFL does that per a formula based on last season's performance I believe they did that to bring about parity in the NFL, and all teams have to live with it, as long as we match up with the Saints well we will do good against other teams as long as we don't self collapse

 

[foofighters]

Some people will ALWAYS look for the negatives in any situation. The fact that you posted this proves you approve of that narrative.

And some people always put their rose colored glasses and dismiss fixable issues that can make the team better.

 

[CanadianCowboysFan]

It is a heady moment for the Dallas Cowboys and their fans. Barring a complete collapse down the stretch and either Philadelphia or Washington winning out with their shaky-to-horrible quarterback situations, Dallas is going to the playoffs as the NFC East champs. And they look to be dangerous with a five-game win streak, a defense that is often suffocating, and an offense that roared to life late in the latest victory over the Eagles.

But there is a potential problem. Outside of the stunning defeat of the New Orleans Saints, who have already clinched the NFC South and should soon lock up a first round bye, the Cowboys haven’t beaten any team with a winning record this year. None. As a matter of fact, of the teams they have played so far, only the Seattle Seahawks, Houston Texans, and Tennessee Titans have winning records at this stage of the season. And Dallas lost to all of them.

Read more: https://www.bloggingtheboys.com/201...d-flag-philadelphia-eagles-new-orleans-saints

problem with the argument is Eagles are under .500 because we beat them

 

[MRV52]

Bottom line is this team at the moment can compete with any team in the NFL. The schedule and who they played means nothing at this point. Let's do it!!!