Road playoff wins measure greatness

Two road playoff wins under Jimmy Johnson...because those teams were so dominant Dallas clinched homefield advantage more often than not.
 
Hadenough said:
Don’t forget about the playoff game where the defense held SF to 19 points and Dak led the team to a whopping 12 points. Dak and Romo were contributors in these losses.
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Don’t forget Gallup was a starting WR for that game and a washed up Zeke had 26 yards on 10 carries. Cee Dee had 2 catches. Horrible defense and an offense with serious holes (WR and RB). But blame Dak because that’s all you know how to do.
 
LouBrown said:
The 72 team played 0 road playoff games.
The 78 team played 0 road playoff games.
The 92 team played 1 road playoff game.
The 93 team played 0 road playoff games.
The 95 team played 0 road playoff games.

Yea, you want to be good on the road, but it's not a measure of anything.
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Here’s the corrected road playoff numbers in the 70s:
  • 1970 season - 1 road playoff win (@SF NFC championship)
  • 1971 season - 1 road playoff win (@Minn div round)
  • 1972- 1 road playoff win (@SF div round)
  • 1975- 2 road playoff wins (@Minn, @LARams in NFC championship)
  • 1978 - 1 road playoff win (@LARams in NFC championship)
Six road playoff wins from 70-78.
Check this link for exact ino.
https://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/dal/playoffs.htm
 
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Bobhaze said:
Here’s the corrected road playoff numbers in the 70s:
  • 1970 season - 1 road playoff win (@SF NFC championship)
  • 1971 season - 1 road playoff win (@Minn div round)
  • 1972- 1 road playoff win (@SF div round)
  • 1975- 2 road playoff wins (@Minn, @LARams in NFC championship)
  • 1978 - 1 road playoff win (@LARams in NFC championship)
Six road playoff wins from 70-78.
Check this link for exact ino.
https://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/dal/playoffs.htm
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I think he made it clear he had it wrong. I actually tried to correct to a point but was wrong myself and deleted it. I did this work recently and knew the total in history was six.

Point being needing three in one season just to get into the SB now if you don’t win your division. I mean the rules are way different and have been changed several times.

Bob….didnt they determine home field based on alternating year to year or something similar? Thats just crazy.

Bottom line is the Cowboys teams that were good enough to go far didn’t typically have to play road games.
 
Bobhaze said:
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.
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Best way is to wait and see if GB goes downhill or stays the same, or gets better.
Same for dallas if they move up then they are doing better WITHOUT parsons and his salary and his antics.
 
Rockport said:
Don’t forget Gallup was a starting WR for that game and a washed up Zeke had 26 yards on 10 carries. Cee Dee had 2 catches. Horrible defense and an offense with serious holes (WR and RB). But blame Dak because that’s all you know how to do.
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Oh so now that you can’t blame the defense you blame everyone on offense but your boy Dak!
 
CT Dal Fan said:
Two road playoff wins under Jimmy Johnson...because those teams were so dominant Dallas clinched homefield advantage more often than not.
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Yea, I’m not so sure road playoff wins define greatness as much as just winning playoff games generally. For if you have great regular seasons you’re at home for the playoffs.

For the record only one of those road playoff wins Jimmy had led to anything. The first one in Chicago was his first playoff game and we lost the next game in divisional round convincingly.

At SF was only big road playoff game we won with Jimmy cause the rest of his playoff wins were at home.
 
fivetwos said:
I think he made it clear he had it wrong. I actually tried to correct to a point but was wrong myself and deleted it. I did this work recently and knew the total in history was six.

Point being needing three in one season just to get into the SB now if you don’t win your division. I mean the rules are way different and have been changed several times.

Bob….didnt they determine home field based on alternating year to year or something similar? Thats just crazy.

Bottom line is the Cowboys teams that were good enough to go far didn’t typically have to play road games.
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Yep, and why this winning playoff games on the road is not a true testament. Cause most of the great teams are playing at home. Especially now with some road playoff teams with better records like when we won at Tampa.

Obviously if you’re playing enough playoff games your going to win some on the road. I think the bigger achievement is where does it lead.

Home field was always based on record in the playoffs. . Prior to 1967 there was no playoff games. 1 post season game each year which was NFL Championship game. In 1967 4 playoff teams were established.
 
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All you have to do is look at Dak Prescotts career horrible record against teams that finish the year with a top 10 defense.
 
Hadenough said:
All you have to do is look at Dak Prescotts career horrible record against teams that finish the year with a top 10 defense.
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Dak Derangement Syndrome.
 
Diehardblues said:
Yea, I’m not so sure road playoff wins define greatness as much as just winning playoff games generally. For if you have great regular seasons you’re at home for the playoffs.

For the record only one of those road playoff wins Jimmy had led to anything. The first one in Chicago was his first playoff game and we lost the next game in divisional round convincingly.

At SF was only big road playoff game we won with Jimmy cause the rest of his playoff wins were at home.
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Exactly. In 1992 the NFC was top heavy, San Fran was 14-2 and Dallas was 13-3.
 
daveferr33 said:
The 92 NFC championship game. What a way to kick off a dynasty.

For me it was the perfect bookend for fandom that began with a 7 year old crying over The Catch.
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Man. The "Remember When" That's rampant around here is so depressing.

Not that I blame anyone.

The distant, distant past...is all we have
 
CowboysLakerBamaFan said:
Man. The "Remember When" That's rampant around here is so depressing.

Not that I blame anyone.

The distant, distant past...is all we have
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The good news is they can never take our history away . We will always cherish it and so proud of what our franchise once represented.
 
It’s a different sport but it was amazing and thrilling to see. The Texas Rangers on the way to winning the 23 WS won every ROAD game spanning 4 different teams going 11-0 . That’s how you win championships you have to win in hostile territory too .

:starspin:
 
Not being able to win on the road cost the Cowboys at least 4 super bowl appearances. Especially in '80 and '81. Winning all home games and going .500 on the road. In '76 and '79, Dallas faced a Rams team that was very good on the road. But those were Div playoff games I think.
 
CowboysLakerBamaFan said:
Thanks for cheering me up. I'm all fired up now!
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I’m as down on this era as anyone else but for those of us who lived our glory eras , you can’t take those away.

Mancave is full of memorabilia and championship banners. What a run for most of 4 decades. Most fans didn’t get that. It can’t feel the same if were too young to experience.

The good news is you’re more likely to outlive this ownership. Hang in there. Some fans around the league have been waiting much longer for success.
 
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