Cowboys beat Giants for first home win in nearly a year - ESPN

ARLINGTON, Texas — The Dallas Cowboys remembered what it felt like to win at AT&T Stadium again with their 27-20 Thanksgiving Day victory against the New York Giants.

You can forgive some of them if they had forgotten, since 334 days had passed since their most recent home win, against the Detroit Lions on Dec. 30, 2023.

«It was definitely overdue,» coach Mike McCarthy said. «It was important to get the win on a lot of fronts, but it was really important to get a home win.»

Before January's loss to the Green Bay Packers in the wild-card round, the Cowboys had won 16 straight home games, the second-longest streak in franchise history. Before Thursday, the Cowboys had lost six straight games at AT&T Stadium and set an NFL record by trailing by at least 20 points in all six.

With Thursday's win, the Cowboys avoided the third 0-6 home start, happily skipping away from the 1960 team that went 0-11-1 in the first year of the franchise and the 1989 Cowboys who went 1-15 in Jerry Jones' first year as owner and general manager.

«I hate it so much for our fans to have this run of losses when we've been so proud of our home winning streak,» Jones said. «So it's good to get this win here at home.»

In a span of five days, the Cowboys have won two NFC East games, having beaten the Washington Commanders 34-26 at Northwest Stadium on Sunday. It's the Cowboys' second two-game winning streak of the season. They beat the Giants and Pittsburgh Steelers in Weeks 4 and 5 to improve to 3-2 before losing their next five games.

At 5-7, the Cowboys are outside the playoff chase at the moment, but their next two games come against the 4-7 Cincinnati Bengals on ESPN's «Monday Night Football» on Dec. 9 and the 3-8 Carolina Panthers on Dec. 15.

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