Pregame Wk6 - Can They Keep On Winning?

Dallas has stiffer challenge this week, but consecutive road wins would be immense.

Here is a trivia question that probably has a very niche audience. But you are probably inside of it if you are reading this:

Since the Cowboys last Super Bowl win, what non NFC-East opponent have the Cowboys visited the most in those 30 seasons?

There is a three-way tie for second place between Green Bay, San Francisco, and Minnesota, nine times. But, for the 11th time during this span, the Dallas Cowboys will travel to Charlotte to play the Carolina Panthers.

The wild part is that Dallas almost never loses in this scenario and they have won seven of those ten visits.

But, of the three they have lost? Well, those have been painful because two were January playoff defeats to end the famous 1996 season and the memorable Bill Parcells debut year in 2003 (in a game that featured Quincy Carter in his lone playoff performance). The third one was the 2018 opener when the Cowboys famously forgot to have any wide receivers on their entire roster besides Cole Beasley.

Ahh, the memories.

So, that means that the all-time series between these two teams is 12-5, Cowboys with the 7-3 record in Charlotte and 7-1 in the regular season in Charlotte. No matter how bad the Cowboys are, the Panthers are usually a bit worse.

I know I am not selling you on this being the league’s marquee game this weekend – mostly because its not. They have it buried at noon for a reason and while this might be the last Dallas noon game until Christmas, it will be one that will require the Cowboys to put in the win column or they will be feeling awful again.

But, you have to know, I have plenty of thoughts which I demand to offer whether it is a rough matchup or not. Here they are – My Pregame Three Thoughts for Week 6 - At the Panthers.

When Dallas has the ball:

– The Cowboys are playing with a confidence and swagger that is appropriate for a team that is finding success everywhere they look on offense. They are getting great efforts from everyone, they are pushing the ball down the field, and they are believing in the design. Honestly, from an offensive standpoint, the object of this particular game is to put one more top performance out there without CeeDee Lamb and potentially save the season.

Carolina is a defense that, like Dallas, is short a couple of dudes that will need to be acquired to ever step further up the ladder. They have three players that I think are wonderful defenders, but overall, they have no real pass rush and that leads to conceding a lot of big plays.