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The Dallas Cowboys deserve the best leftovers in the world after their Thanksgiving Day win against the Kansas City Chiefs. Hopefully yours are tasting delicious as the victory celebration rolls on.
Things feel as great as they have in a long time with the Cowboys with the Chiefs win serving as the team’s third in a row. Talk of playoffs is no longer met with rolled eyes. Smiles are all around. Welcome to the holiday season!
Even though the Cowboys just played on a Thursday, they will not have any sort of mini-bye as they visit the Detroit Lions next Thursday night. If they are able to win that game then optimism is going to reach an insane level, but we will have those conversations when the time is right.
For now we are still basking in the win that was and one of the ways we do that is through the lens of the past. Thanks to Pro Football Reference and Stathead we can assess what the current Cowboys are doing with respect to both franchise and NFL history at large.
Welcome to this week’s Historical Notes. Let’s begin.
The Cowboys have won three games in a row and have done so for the first time since late in the 2023 season, so it has been a bit. That span also included a Thanksgiving Day win and ultimately got to as large as five games as the team moved into December.
This may sound like an arbitrary number, but a hat trick is something that every Cowboys team from 2016 through 2023 had accomplished. At one point or another literally every one of those eight teams won three games in a row.
The 2024 team did not (they did win four out of five late in the season though, just for context, that Bengals game ruined the potential for this specific occurrence) and at long last the 2025 team has.
Through the first 12 games of the season the Cowboys have seen Dak Prescott throw 25 touchdown passes. That is obviously a ton.
This is only the fifth instance since 1970 of a Cowboys quarterback doing this. Dak himself did it two years ago during the season he finished runner-up for MVP and the color analyst from the Thanksgiving Day in Tony Romo did it three times.
Of the previous four seasons where this happened, three are pretty all-time as far as Cowboys years throughout The Drought™. 2007 was arguably the best team to fail to reach the NFC Championship Game and 2014 may have provided the biggest heartbreak in not doing so. That 2023 group was quite talented as well, but we all know what happened.
It will forever sting that the 2008 team didn’t even make the playoffs. But let’s stay positive!
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