News: ESPN: Close games keep Cowboys from playoffs

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IRVING, Texas -- For the fourth straight year the NFL playoffs will begin with the Dallas Cowboys as spectators. The reason is simple. The Cowboys weren't good enough. Stop the presses, I know, although I'm not sure that has the same effect with the internet these days. The Cowboys played seven games against the 12 playoff teams in 2013. They won one, a 17-3 win over the Philadelphia Eagles at Lincoln Financial Field. But this is the dilemma when it comes to the Cowboys: The six losses were decided by one, one, two, three, nine and 32 points.

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