Cowboys Secure First Home Win in a Year with Victory Over Giants

Thanksgiving Day saw the Dallas Cowboys remind themselves of the sweet taste of victory at the AT&T Stadium after seeing off the New York Giants 27-20. Some of them might have forgotten how to do that since the last time the team won a home match or beat the Detroit Lions on Dec. 30, 2023, 334 days ago. “It was definitely overdue,” said coach Mike McCarthy.

Not only was it valuable to get the win on many levels, it was extremely wrapped to get the home win. Dallas was riding a second-longest home-winning streak in its history of 16-0 before its January defeat in the wild card against the Green Bay Packers. Prior to Thursday, the Cowboys had dropped six consecutive home games at AT&T Stadium and became the first NFL team to ever be down 20 points in each of them.

Thursday’s triumph allowed the Cowboys to avoid the third season in a row when they begin plays at home with a 0-6 record, although they are pleased to dance around the team that in 1960 went 0-11-1 in the first year in the franchise or dancing around the Cowboys of 1989 who lost 1-15 in Jerry Jones’ first year as an owner and general manager. Jones insisted: “I hate it so much for our fans to have this run of losses when we’ve been so proud of our home winning streak.” “That is why it is always good to get a win here at home.”

It has taken the Cowboys five days to garnish two victories in the NFC East games, following their 34-26 victory over the Washington Commanders on Sunday’s game played at the Northwest Stadium. It is the Cowboys’ second two-game winning streak of the season. Following the wins against the Giants and the Pittsburgh Steelers in Weeks 4 and 5, the team raised its record to 3-2 before entering a spell of five successive defeats. The Dallas Cowboys are 5-7 and out of playoff contention currently, but they play the 4-7 Cincinnati Bengals on Monday Night Football on ESPN on Dec. 9, and the 3-8 Carolina Panthers on Dec. 15.

That’s a far cry from how we felt on Saturday night as we went into Washington. That’s fair and accurate. ‘It’s a good feeling,’ McCarthy said. It is here that we should be, is one of the things that would be heard almost at the starting point and followed by regular affirmations throughout the tour. We’ve fought hard to get here. However, we are still in the valley of adversity. We have made some progress, although not much; we have two steps forward and many steps backward to go. We recognize that.”

To beat the Giants for the eighth time in a row, the Cowboys elected to run. Rico Dowdle was the first Cowboy to rush for more than 100 yards since Tony Pollard last season in week three against the ARI. It was also the longest in team history not to have a rusher go for a hundred yards or more in a game. On the defensive front, the Cowboys blanked a struggling New York offence that was beginning its third-string quarterback, Drew Lock. Dallas’ defense tied a season best with six sacks, and a second-quarter turnover by DeMarvion Overshown gave the Cowboys their first lead of the game, and they never trailed again.

‘I knew a play was coming and I’ve been told all week that play is coming,’ Overshown said. I realized it was inevitable but could not know when it was going to arrive. I was just playing football. [Said] the ball, tipped it, and I was just praying the whole time that it stayed up. I remember thinking, ‘Please let my speed for once be fast enough to get to the ball.’ Defense has gradually ascending the latter part of this season. Micah Parsons had 1.5 sacks Thursday and now has 6.5 on the year playing in only six games because of a high ankle sprain.

Burrow and Ja’Marr Chase are likely to be available next week against the Bengals—he knows it will be a different beast. “Now my focus is going to the Bengals, knowing how they are coming after us and who they have. “They got some dudes,” they pointed out Parsons. ‘I hope we have them coming up as D-Law [DeMarcus Lawrence] and maybe Trevon [Diggs] maybe so I know they’d be dressed up too, I guess.’ I’m looking forward to that.”