Blogging The Boys
The Dallas Cowboys are on their bye week, with a lot of work to do entering the bye off their first back-to-back losses in 2025. The 3-5-1 team will look quite a bit different on defense when they’re back in action off the bye for another Monday night game at the Las Vegas Raiders. The Cowboys made trade deadline deals for linebacker Logan Wilson from the Cincinnati Bengals and defensive tackle Quinnen Williams from the New York Jets.
One of the essential tasks of any NFL team’s bye week is the opportunity to self scout. The Cowboys will still be preparing for Pete Carroll and the Raiders as well, but this time off is an extended amount of time for Brian Schottenheimer’s team to look inward and focus on just what they’ve done through nine games.
Here at BTB, we are also going to do some of our own self-scouting during this bye. Before every Cowboys kickoff we have a breakdown of what needs to happen for Dallas to win, and what is most likely to cause a loss. It is time to see how we did on these evaluations, and better understand how Dallas can get back in the win column post-bye, by looking at what went right in their three wins so far.
Dallas Cowboys 40 New York Giants 37 (OT)
Here is the initial reasoning why we felt the Cowboys would come out on top against the Giants:
The Dallas Cowboys will win their home opener against the New York Giants if…
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Dak Prescott is himself, and the offense finds balance
Since his rookie season, the Cowboys’ franchise quarterback simply does not know how to lose to the Giants.
The Cowboys left themselves plenty of room to open up the playbook even further, and doing so in the home opener against a rival would be a great place to start. If the ball continues to come out of Prescott’s hand on time, and the Cowboys get a push with their interior run game, this could be another very long road game for the Giants.
The opportunity for the Cowboys to dictate the terms of this game with their best players on the field will be there, right within reach. All they need is Prescott to stay within the offense and play another efficient game, while avoiding turnovers as always and finishing in the red zone, to put pressure on the Giants that could prove insurmountable like it already did in week one.
Dak Prescott’s 52 attempts compared to 28 rushes did not allow the Cowboys to stay balanced in their first home game of the season. The Giants were pushing the ball downfield with ease, forcing Prescott to keep up. This has remained a theme all season, and more times than not...
