{"id":489290,"date":"2026-01-03T11:15:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T11:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/489290\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T11:15:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T11:15:14","slug":"dallas-cowboys-one-win-for-cardinals-lions-in-losing-streak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/489290\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Cowboys one win for Cardinals, Lions in losing streak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Dallas Cowboys are the exception. Unfortunately for all of us in this context being the exception is not good. The Cowboys, who were mathematically eliminated from the playoffs several days before Christmas for the second year in a row, have had moments of extreme success this season, but they have also had some that made us want to bury our heads in the sand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The latter is more relevant with these two data points. Week 17 saw most of its action unfold on Sunday, and as it did, the Arizona Cardinals lost to the Cincinnati Bengals. The Detroit Lions lost to the Minnesota Vikings three days earlier on Christmas Day, just a few hours after Dallas won themselves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Why is this relevant? The Cowboys are the only team that both the Cardinals and Lions have beaten in some time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">If you subscribe to the notion that other teams \u201cget up\u201d to play the Cowboys and that they treat it as a bigger game than any other, then this evidence certainly leans into that idea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Lions have been one of the better teams in the NFL for quite some time so losing to them in the middle of a collapse is way less embarrassing. That the Cowboys are the one team the Cardinals have beaten in their last 14 tries\u2026 well\u2026 that is, um, different.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dallas Cowboys are the exception. Unfortunately for all of us in this context being the exception is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":489291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,7634,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-489290","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-dallas-cowboys-roster","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-tx","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115830883900396891","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}