Blogging The Boys
Nothing about the Dallas Cowboys recent history against the Denver Broncos suggests the road team for this upcoming week eight test will be able to win consecutive games for the first time in 2025, and first time under HC Brian Schottenheimer. However, both teams are coming off emotional, momentum-building home wins, and something has to give in a Cowboys versus Broncos clash that will feature an amazing classic uniform matchup.
The Cowboys will be wearing their classic whites with silver helmets, and are coming off a throttling of the Washington Commanders 44-22. The Broncos will be wearing their orange crush throwbacks with the royal blue helmets, and are also coming off an impressive 33-32 come from behind win versus the New York Giants.
All 33 points in this win were scored in the fourth quarter by Denver. The win put the Broncos a game ahead of the Chargers and Chiefs in the AFC West, while the Cowboys win saw them surpass the Commanders for second in the NFC East.
The Cowboys actually have the Broncos to thank for hanging one of two losses on the Philadelphia Eagles’ record on the road earlier this season, but now to gain ground, or at least hold serve against the Eagles, the Cowboys will need to do what the Eagles and also the Giants couldn’t and beat the Broncos. These teams share one more common opponent in the Jets, who the Broncos dominated on the stat sheet but only won 13-11 in London. The Cowboys’ complete game against the Jets manifested in a bigger way on the scoreboard with a 37-22 win, and now they are coming off their most complete game of the year in all three phases against the Commanders. The eye test says this game is right there for the taking for a Cowboys team with visions of building something special under Schottenheimer, mainly because of their offense being a runaway train of yards and points.
To keep the good vibes going and actually win on Sunday though, Schottenheimer will have to become the first Dallas head coach since Barry Switzer to beat Denver. That win for Switzer came in week two of 1995, as part of an 8-1 start to a year that saw the Cowboys hoist the Lombardi trophy at the end of it. The last time the Cowboys won on the road at the Broncos goes back even further to Jimmy Johnson’s tenure in 1992, and was also a part of a championship season.
The Cowboys only have two other regular season wins in their history against the Broncos, and remarkably one more of them also came in a Super Bowl season. They beat the Broncos 14-6 in the last week of the regular season in 1977 under Tom Landry, to end the season on a four-game winning streak. They went on to beat the Bears and Vikings in the playoffs to set up another date with the Broncos in Super Bowl XII, prevailing again 27-10. The other...
