CHARLOTTE, N.C. – If you play with fire too many times, eventually you get burned.

Well, the Cowboys, thanks to a regulation walk-off-into-overtime field goal and then the overtime walk-off field goal to beat the New York Giants, 40-37, as well as then hanging on for dear life against the Green Bay Packers in an overtime cliffhanger, unfortunately giving up the tying field goal with only one second left to avoid losing, escaping with a 40-40 tie, have survived these close shaves.

But on this Sunday afternoon here at Bank of America Stadium, with a porous defense once again needing the Cowboys offense to bail them out – certainly requiring touchdowns on drives inside the Carolina Panthers' 10-yard line but instead having to settle for two field goals –the defense once again crumbled when

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