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Giants vs Cowboys: On the Road

By William Watts

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Nov 24, 2013; East Rutherford, NJ, USA; Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo (9) is sacked by New York Giants defensive tackle Cullen Jenkins (99) during the second quarter of a game at MetLife Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Brad Penner-USA TODAY Sports

It’s funny in sports how rivalries shift and bend over time. Sometimes, one team has the advantage, inevitably after a couple years or losses, momentum shifts in the other teams favor. Dynasties are built while others crumble in a pool of fired coaches and unfilled hopes combined with the dashed dreams of kids who achieved NFL status, but fell just short of stardom.

When it comes to the New York Football Giants and Dallas Cowboys, there is a long past. It goes back 64 years and 104 games scattered across literal generations of NFL players, coaches, front offices members and even owners. Currently the all-time Giants vs Cowboys series is leaning in the favor of Dallas, 43-59-2. However, there was a point not too long ago you could say the Giants won 8 of the last of 11 games between 2008-12. Also, before the Giants won the Super Bowl after the 2007 season, they lost three straight to the Cowboys.

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    • Currently, the team is 0-2 against the Giants since that run that ended in 2012. Prior to 2007, it was in the mid ’90s the last time the G-men lost three straight to the Cowboys.

    This is the fourth time the G-Men have been blanked since 2012. I looked for patterns in the Super Bowl year, but that didn’t happen in either SB run. Last year the Giants shut down after it happened against the Carolina Panthers 38-0, and then it happened again against the Seattle Seahawks 23-0, but in the second instance the team bounced back the next week and beat the Detroit Lions 23-20.

    It’s hard to say if there’s any rhyme or reason to the patterns after a shutout, perhaps Vegas would have thoughts on the matter, who knows. Regardless of any of that, the Giants find themselves on the road against the Cowboys in a must-win situation this Sunday.

    They’re down on talent with all the injuries to people like Victor Cruz and Trumaine McBride heading to IR. They’re down on motivation after their trash talk was silenced by the regular season champion Eagles. They’re down on fan enthusiasm as a three game winning streak grows into a one game pity parade complete with sadness floats and marching things everyone hates, like costumed Eagles: 27 of them.

    For Giants Nation, it’s obscenely obvious that the team needs this win, but because it’s the Dallas and generally no one on the planet but team Jerry and the fanboys across the star’d Earth want to see that team win anything, ever. No matter the venom for star, they do have a lot of weapons that can defeat the Giants hateful households won’t effect too much. In order to win this game, NYG needs to create an aggressive game plan that can keep pace with Tony Romo, DeMarco Murray, Terrance Williams and Dez Bryant. It will be no easy task on the road at AT&T Stadium for Tom Coughlin, Eli Manning and the G-crew,  one that will see a fired up Cowboys team playing at their best in the regular season.

    Will team BLUE be up to the challenge? Stay with us all week as we break down the game at GMEN HQ.

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