Blogging The Boys
The Dallas Cowboys lost to the New York Giants on Sunday and this is a sentence that has not been said out loud in quite some time.
Dallas entered the game riding a nine-game winning streak against the Giants which was the longest active streak of such kind in the NFL. The last time that Dallas had won nine straight games against an opponent prior to this was against the Carolina Panthers from 1998-2012.
Many Cowboys fans are aware of how there was a different streak at play that required some goalpost moving. While Dallas held a nine-game streak against the Giants as a team, quarterback Dak Prescott had won 14 straight games against the Giants in games where he was the starting quarterback. He had missed games if that was not clear which is why there was a disparity.
Prescott started this game and is therefore credited with the loss which means he has now lost to the Giants for the first time since his rookie season when Dallas was swept by New York. To be clear, the streak involved a 2018 win for Dallas against New York in the final game of the regular season that was meaningless for both teams like this one (although then Dallas was locked into their playoff position, not out of the postseason like now) so there was some wonkiness involved here in a lot of ways.
Whatever the case it is all over now. That feels appropriate given, uh, everything.
