{"id":119608,"date":"2026-01-12T04:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T04:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/119608\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T04:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T04:22:08","slug":"dallas-cowboys-alone-in-awful-nfl-playoff-history-after-patriots-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/119608\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Cowboys alone in awful NFL playoff history after Patriots win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Dallas Cowboys remain alone with horrible NFL playoff history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">You see, the New England Patriots defeated the Los Angeles Chargers on Sunday night. This is relevant to the Cowboys, one version of them, because New England was the #2 seed on the AFC side of the playoff picture.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">We have to go back even further to understand the point at hand here. The NFL expanded the playoff field to include 3 Wild Card teams per conference ahead of the 2020 season which means that we just wrapped up year number six of life as we currently know it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">There are 12 teams who have been the #2 seed since then and therefore 12 teams who have hosted the #7 seed in the Wild Card Round of the playoffs. As a result of the wins from Chicago and New England those #2 seeds are now 11-1 in those specific games\u2026 with the lone loss being the 2023 Dallas Cowboys.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It has felt in many ways like the Cowboys are still trying to recover from that loss, and another year has gone by to prove just how awful it was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dallas Cowboys remain alone with horrible NFL playoff history. You see, the New England Patriots defeated the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,35189,104,103],"class_list":["post-119608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-cowboys-playoffs","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}