Dallas Cowboys head coach Brian Schottenheimer is trying to avoid something that happened in his predecessor’s first season of 2020. At the start of the Mike McCarthy era, it took until Weeks 14 at the Bengals and the next week versus the 49ers to win consecutive games for the first time in that 6-10 season that fell short of the playoffs. Schotty’s Cowboys are coming off an emotional Monday night win at the Raiders, earning yet another chance to win back-to-back games going into an all-important Week 12 rematch with the Eagles.

Schottenheimer’s head coaching debut was against the Eagles in this season’s kickoff game, a loss that felt like an early moral victory at the time of the year where such a thing still exists. As September turned to October, and now November into the dawn of Decem

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