Dallas Cowboys opponents for 2020 set; A soft schedule?
The Dallas Cowboys season is over. The focus shifts to 2020, and we now know the team’s set of opponents for next season. But is it a soft schedule?
The 8-8 Dallas Cowboys ended their season on Sunday afternoon, blowing out the 3-13 Washington Redskins, 47-16. The Cowboys fell one victory short of securing the NFC East division for the second-straight season, losing in Week 16 to the now 9-7 Philadelphia Eagles.
So while the Eagles advance to the playoffs, the Cowboys’ focus now shifts to the offseason. While the future of head coach Jason Garrett is still in limbo, the end of the regular season did cement a part of the team’s future in 2020. And that the team’s schedule of opponents.
According to the franchise’s official website, DallasCowboys.com, the team will play home games next season against the Washington Redskins, the New York Giants, the Philadelphia Eagles, the Arizona Cardinals, the San Francisco 49ers, the Cleveland Browns, the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Atlanta Falcons. Out of that group, only the 9-7 Eagles and the 13-3 Niners have records over .500.
The Cowboys’ road games will come against their normal divisional rivals, the Giants, Redskins, and Eagles. Dallas will also travel to play the Seattle Seahawks, the Los Angeles Rams, the Minnesota Vikings, the Cincinnati Bengals and the Baltimore Ravens. This is a much tougher schedule of opponents with the 11-5 Seahawks, the 9-7 Rams, the 10-6 Minnesota Vikings, and the 14-2 Ravens all posting impressive, winning records in 2019.
This past season, the Cowboys struggled against teams with .500 records or better, beating only the Eagles and the Rams with winning records. Their six other victories came against struggling franchises in the 3-12-1 Detroit Lions, the 3-13 Redskins twice, the 4-12 Giants twice, and the 5-11 Miami Dolphins.
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Based on last season’s results, the Dallas Cowboys seemed to have a much softer schedule of home games than on the road next year. The Cowboys went 5-3 at AT&T Stadium and an inverse 3-5 everywhere else in 2019.