Dallas Cowboys historical notes from win over Washington Commanders

Sunday’s Dallas Cowboys win was full of all sorts of impressive points of history.

The Dallas Cowboys took care of business on Sunday against the Washington Commanders and it is still hard to believe. With the Cowboys back in action so soon on Thanksgiving Day there is not a ton of dwelling on the game, even if it yielded positive results, but before we fully bury it we should take note of things that were impressive in certain respects.

This is where our the handy tools at Stathead and Pro Football Reference come into play. Every week we use their offerings to look through both Dallas Cowboys franchise history and NFL history at large to see how certain things that just happened stack up relative to the record books.

Here are this week’s historical notes. Thankfully they are finally of the positive variety!

The Dallas Cowboys have their 12th hat trick against the Washington franchise

In case you did not realize, the Cowboys beat the Washington franchise for the third time in a row on Sunday. That it is the 12th win streak of at least three games that Dallas has had against Washington throughout all of time.

• The Dallas Cowboys have won three games in a row against the Washington franchise.
• It is the 12th winning streak of at least three games that Dallas has had against Washington all-time.
• Washington has only had a winning streak of at least three games against Dallas twice.

You will note that the Washington franchise has only achieved such a streak on two occasions.

Little brothers stay little brothers.

A Cowboys running back hit 19 carries which has not been a common thing

Here lately the Cowboys have said that they are committing to Rico Dowdle as their lead back. It only took them until mid-November to realize that this was in the best interest of the team, but at least they landed on the proper conclusion.

As a result of this Dowdle had 19 carries during Sunday’s win. It was only the second time all season that a Cowboys runner was given the ball at least 19 teams as Dowdle also had 20 carries in the team’s previous win on the road against the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Over the last three seasons (this one obviously isn’t finished) there have only been 10 instances now of a running back on the team getting at least 19 carries. This isn’t to say “if you run the ball 19 times you will automatically win!” but it is interesting to note how infrequently the Cowboys have devoted so much work to one player.

A win despite allowing 412 yards with a backup quarterback is sort of a Mike McCarthy special

Much of the overall statistics of this game are/were inflated by the chaotic ending, particularly the massive touchdown that Washington had. But the numbers are the numbers and all told the Commanders finished the game with 412 total yards against...