Dallas Cowboys latest defeat has us thinking New York Giants

The Dallas Cowboys lost their third consecutive game Thursday at the hands of the Chicago Bears, 31-24. Here’s why this defeat has us thinking Giants.

It seems almost at this point that it’s fair to start saying another week, another Dallas Cowboys loss on the board. Well, maybe it isn’t quite that drastic. But frankly, things aren’t that good either.

After an awful Thanksgiving showing, having to listen to boatloads of negative and derogatory comments about themselves, and with Jason Garrett all but plugging the center of his proverbial coaching job guillotine, you would think that the Cowboys would have made a better showing than the one they put on in a 31-24 loss to the Chicago Bears in yet another primetime game.

They didn’t and appropriately so, the naysayers will continue to grow louder than ever. While the Cowboys don’t look like a team capable of winning any game of any sort at the moment, they still somehow mostly control their own fate when it comes to the postseason.

Speaking of the postseason and by no means am I confident at the moment that they could be competitive providing they actually sneak in the playoffs, here is why this latest defeat should put the New York Giants at the forefront of Cowboys fans’ minds.

Most immediately, the New York Football Giants will face off against the Philadelphia Eagles in Monday night’s Monday Night Football matchup. While this looks like a scheduled win for the Philadelphia Eagles, their play of late would lend towards it at least being a 60/40 proposition, but these numbers are also based on something else.

The Giants’ rookie quarterback Daniel Jones will not play in this game due to a high ankle sprain, which you guessed it, puts Eli Manning back at the helm for the Giants.

With the Eagles fluttering, the zaniness of NFC East matchups and nevertheless in primetime, all combined with the nostalgia of Eli Manning making a surprise emergency spot start that could not only be his last in a Giants uniform but in the NFL entirely; this game is ripe for a Giants upset.

You have to hope for that if you’re a Cowboys fan. That isn’t the only reason why the Giants should be at the forefront of your minds though. With the way this Cowboys team has looked as of late and as mentioned earlier, the confidence meter is probably at an all-time season low at the moment, it is not fair for me to reasonably believe they are a Super Bowl-caliber team.

There is hope and a precedent here though, but you probably already guessed it again, it is the 2012 New York Giants. They are probably most known for being the Super Bowl Champions that year, which is true. But how they got there is forgotten about.

That particular Giants team lost five of their last eight regular-season games, before sneaking in the back door of the playoffs and going on what eventually amounted to a Super Bowl run.

While I am not saying this will happen with the Cowboys because heck, they need to worry about just trying to win their next game, it is a possibility and an example of what has happened in the past. With the Giants able to help the Cowboys stay in a position to control their own fate and with them providing an example of getting the impossible done, that is why New York should be at the forefront of Cowboys fans’ brains.