Cowboys Pregame Three Thoughts: Week 6

Dallas will need a lot to go right to get their first home win since Detroit last visited.

They lost at home on Opening Night 2022 to Tom Brady and the Buccaneers in a very poor performance. Then, they won the rest of their home games that year. They also won all their regular-season home games in 2023. The last game in that streak of 16 straight wins was against the Detroit Lions on December 30, 2023.

It was a bit of a slugfest and certainly a hard-fought game. But in the end, partly because Dan Campbell refused to kick an extra point and instead went for the win with three straight attempts at a 2-point conversion, Dallas hung on to win a controversial 20-19 game.

That game was the last time the Cowboys won a home game.

Now, they have lost three straight and they have all been absolutely brutal losses.

• Down 27-7 to Green Bay in the playoffs at the half.

• Down 35-16 to the Saints in Week 2 at the half.

• Down 21-6 to the Ravens in Week 3 at the half.

• Combined, down 83-29 at halftime of the three home losses.

So, you are a team that is built to play with the lead and you have been outscored by an average of 28-10 by the intermission.

That is definitely not going to work.

I know that I promise three thoughts in these pieces, but here is a very clear bonus one:

This football team needs to be awake at opening kickoff ready to take the game to the Lions right off the bat if they want to prove they can get a home win before November. Because this Detroit team can absolutely hammer teams that aren’t ready to fight for 60 minutes.