Dallas City News

The Dallas Cowboys have one game left before heading to the bye and giving us an opportunity to catch a breath. That they were able to steal last week’s contest against the Pittsburgh Steelers feels like it alleviated the pressure to win this one a little bit, but obviously you want to win each and every game that you play.

Sunday’s matchup against the Detroit Lions does not project to be a good one for the Cowboys as they are legitimate underdogs. That this is the case at home suggests that Detroit could win rather easily. But that is why we play the games.

As far as predicting what could happen, we need to play a different type of game for that to be the case. Every week we run a simulation of the upcoming Cowboys game in Madden to see what it is envisioning. You can watch this week’s simulation below.

Dallas lost 38-31 and it was a rather high-scoring affair for the Cowboys and Lions which doesn’t feel impossible by any stretch. Detroit boasts one of the best and most consistent offenses in the league so the Cowboys stopping it is going to be a tall task.

It was a close game into the third quarter until the Cowboys settled for a field goal to make things 28-24. At that point things broke open and the Lions were able to shift into a higher gear that Dallas was chasing, which again feels like it could be representative of what we wind up seeing.

Madden has made it a rather large habit to predict the Cowboys to lose. It predicted, correctly, Dallas to win at Pittsburgh last week, but other than that it has been nothing but projected losses.

• Week 1 Madden Prediction: Dallas Cowboys lose to Cleveland Browns, 18-17
  Week 1 In Actuality: Dallas Cowboys beat Cleveland Browns, 33-17
• Week 2 Madden Prediction: Dallas Cowboys lose to New Orleans Saints, 36-29
  Week 2 in Actuality: Dallas Cowboys lose to New Orleans Saints, 44-10
• Week 3 Madden Prediction: Dallas Cowboys lose to Baltimore Ravens, 21-14
  Week 3 in Actuality: Dallas Cowboys lose to Baltimore Ravens, 28-25
• Week 4 Madden Prediction: Dallas Cowboys lose to New York Giants, 28-21
  Week 4 in Actuality: Dallas Cowboys beat New York Giants, 20-15
• Week 5 Madden Prediction: Dallas Cowboys beat Pittsburgh Steelers, 28-14
  Week 5 in Actuality: Dallas Cowboys beat Pittsburgh Steelers, 20-17

Obviously Madden was incorrect in predicting the Cowboys to lose to both the Cleveland Browns and New York Giants. Hopefully it winds up being wrong here as well.