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What the Cowboys should hate about this matchup with New York.
The Dallas Cowboys head back out on the road for their Week 5 matchup with the New York Jets, which hasn’t been a good place for the team this season. The Cowboys are 0-2 away from AT&T Stadium, which includes a debacle in Chicago.
Playing at MetLife Stadium is something most Cowboys are familiar with since the team does play the division rival New York Giants there each year, but it wasn’t a fun venue the last time these two teams tangled. In 2019, the Cowboys lost to a previously winless Jets team in an early October matchup in an eerily similar situation. That coincidence is one of the reasons to hate playing the Jets in Week 5.
Playing against a desperate team
Winning on the road in the NFL is hard; it’s even more difficult when the opposition is desperately trying to get their first win of the season, and the first for their new head coach. It didn’t work out for the Cowboys in the same situation a few weeks ago when the Chicago Bears smoked Brian Schottenheimer’s team, a lesson hopefully everyone learned from.
To make things even more coincidental, the Jets also hired a coach from the Detroit Lions, only it’s a defensive guy this time in former Cowboy Aaron Glenn. The Jets don’t have the same offensive pieces as the Bears, but they’ll still be frantically trying to get their first win, which is a dangerous proposition for the Cowboys. The Jets also played a poor game against the Miami Dolphins on Monday night, something they’ll hope to turn around.
Desperate teams do things out of the ordinary and can play with more energy to earn the win. Trick plays and being more aggressive are factors the Cowboys need to be aware of heading into the Week 5 matchup. If Schottenheimer’s team isn’t prepared, or isn’t ready to play, it could be a long, embarrassing game.
After all, it’s not too soon to think about the draft.
Is it too early to be looking ahead to the 2026 NFL Draft? Probably. Are we going to anyway? Definitely. With the Dallas Cowboys holding two first-round picks, it’s going to be a very important draft if they want to re-enter a championship window. The expectation is that the Cowboys will use both first-round picks on defense, but which defenders could they target?
One of the most commonly mocked players to Dallas is none other than Keldric Faulk, a defensive end from Auburn. 36 percent of user mock drafts on Pro Football Focus have the Cowboys landing Faulk in Round 1....
