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00:00 The Dallas Cowboys are streaking 12 straight wins at AT&T Stadium and this Thursday, Thanksgiving,
00:08 in come the Washington Commanders.
00:10 How can the Cowboys keep that streak alive and beat their divisional foe?
00:14 Part of it is that Washington is in disarray.
00:17 I believe that the Commanders might have fired Ron Rivera after the debacle, the loss against
00:25 the Giants last weekend, had it not been for the fact that it's a short week.
00:29 To fire, to play on Sunday and play so poorly, to fire Ron Rivera, who's done some terrific
00:34 things for the organization, they just don't win enough, and it's not all his fault, to
00:40 fire him on Monday and then tell the interim coach, the enemy, Del Rio, whoever, "Hey,
00:44 you got about 48 hours and we're doing it again."
00:47 That wouldn't have helped the team win.
00:50 Maybe Ron Rivera gets fired on Friday because then Washington has a bigger window to try
00:56 to get ready for its next game.
00:57 So part of the Cowboys' advantage here is the opponents and the timing of the opponent.
01:04 11-point Cowboy favorite in this game.
01:08 The other part is, and I think you're alluding to this, there is something about what the
01:12 Cowboys are doing, offense, defense, and special teams, where they're on a roll.
01:17 The role is so impressive now that they can go win 30-17 or whatever and people are disturbed
01:25 by it.
01:26 I tend to want to, after covering the NFL for 40 years and covering the Cowboys for
01:31 34 years, I tend to want to remind us that there are other alternatives to winning 40-0
01:38 or 30-17 against a bad team.
01:41 Number one, you could lose to them.
01:43 Kind of like the Cowboys lost to the Cardinals?
01:46 Right.
01:47 Or, number two, you could be one of them.
01:49 The Cowboys, we're going to find out here in a few weeks, are the Cowboys really on
01:53 a parallel with the Philadelphia Eagles?
01:55 What the Eagles did against Kansas City, and I know that there's a lot of Cowboy fans
01:58 that said, "Well, it was sure lucky that this happened and this happened."
02:03 But that's part of being 9-1.
02:06 When you go 9-1, you do get good fortune to follow your way.
02:09 It's not like the Cowboys haven't had some good fortune, and Washington coming to town
02:13 at this time and this place on this holiday is an opportunity for there to be more good
02:19 Dallas fortune.
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