No regular season game can ever rank in importance with playoff contests, but the Dallas Cowboys certainly have a huge game coming up on the horizon. Over the last two seasons, Dallas has managed to accrue 12 wins in each campaign, but failed to reach the NFC Championship game. The team in their way, both times, has been Kyle Shanahan’s San Francisco 49ers.
Dallas, coming off a 38-3 win over the New England Patriots, have found their mojo at home. The victory was the Cowboys’ 10th straight at AT&T Stadium, the fourth time in franchise history a club has been that dominant at home. Getting home-field advantage isn’t an automatic ticket to the Super Bowl, but it certainly does help. In order to gain that, though, Dallas will need to earn the tiebreaker by beating the 49ers on the road.