The NFL Did The Cowboys SO DIRTY With Their 2025 Schedule...

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00:00So I gotta be honest with you, the Dallas Cowboys got ruthlessly screwed by the NFL with the schedule release.

00:10Hey what's up everyone, it's Mauricio Rodriguez here at ADZ Sports Dallas.

00:14Today we are talking about the Cowboys 2025 schedule.

00:17And listen, I don't want to do the whole reaction to the 18 weeks and go game by game with a win-loss prediction.

00:23Maybe we'll do that another time. But for now, I really want to zero in on the most important slate of games on the Cowboys schedule.

00:33Because listen, it is historically bad what the NFL did to the Cowboys.

00:39And let me show you what I mean. If you look at the Cowboys schedule, I think this streak of games would jump out to any fan.

00:46And I think that's what happened on Wednesday night. I'm talking about weeks 12 through week 17.

00:52You get the Eagles, you get the Chiefs, both of those games are at home.

00:56Then you go to Detroit and face the Lions. Then you host the Vikings, host the Chargers, and then you visit the Commanders.

01:04Now, it doesn't take a savvy football analyst to know that that is a rough stretch of games for Dallas.

01:12And them just being bundled together is far from ideal.

01:17However, the closer you look at it, the tougher it looks.

01:20And that's because, according to ESPN's research producer, Evan Kaplan and Elias Forsviro,

01:26the Cowboys will be the first team in NFL history to play six straight games against teams that all won 11-plus games the previous seasons.

01:37Now, that sounds bad, but it gets even worse.

01:40Out of those six games, three of them are consecutive matchups versus, not 11-win teams, 14-plus win teams.

01:49And I'm talking about that stretch of games versus the Eagles, Chiefs, and Lions.

01:53But that's not enough. Let me add some insult to injury here.

01:56Throughout that six-game span, the Cowboys play both the Chiefs and the Commanders on a short week.

02:01Now, granted, the Commanders and the Chiefs themselves are also going to be on a short week.

02:06But when you take into account the context of that six-game stretch for Dallas,

02:11this just looks like an absolute undeniable flaw on the NFL 2025 season schedule.

02:18Now, granted, many people will say, hey, they've got algorithms for this stuff.

02:23They spent hours upon hours and endless resources on getting a fair schedule or at least as close to fair as you can get.

02:33But I truly believe they got this one wrong.

02:36And I think the Cowboys are the victims of an NFL goal for 2025.

02:41And that is going big on windows that they didn't usually go big in.

02:46In fact, that is something that Mike North, the VP of broadcast planning for the NFL, has said in the Russ Tucker podcast.

02:54He talked about that being the theme of the NFL schedule this year.

02:58And I think the Cowboys got the wrong end of the stick on that one.

03:01And I'm talking about usually, if you think of the Thanksgiving matchup, you would get the Raiders maybe coming into town.

03:08You would get the Giants. You would get the Panthers.

03:11You would get a relatively easy game for Dallas on Thanksgiving.

03:14But now the NFL went big on Thanksgiving.

03:17And if you look at any of the three matchups for Turkey Day, they're pretty cool.

03:23But that includes the Cowboys hosting the chips.

03:26You look at Christmas Day and the goal is clearly the same.

03:29The NFL put together a strong lineup of games for Christmas.

03:33And that includes the Cowboys going to Washington.

03:36And then you add to that the fact that the NFL will usually save some big time matchups towards the end of the season

03:43between potentially playoff teams.

03:45And you get this six-game stretch, which is an absolute gauntlet for the Cowboys.

03:51And listen, we already knew that the Cowboys were going to have a difficult schedule in 2025.

03:57They ranked 22nd, with 32nd being the hardest schedule in the league, according to Vegas' win totals.

04:04But I look at the Bills, and they had the fifth easy schedule in the NFL this season.

04:07And they had games against the Bengals, the Chiefs, and the Ravens as their toughest matchups.

04:13And that makes up the four favorite teams in the AFC to win it all.

04:18And those are spread out for the Bills.

04:20They get the Ravens in Week 1, the Chiefs in Week 9, and the Bengals in Week 14.

04:25You know, spread out.

04:27Not all bundled together like the Cowboys.

04:29But hey, what can you do?

04:30I got the Cowboys going 2-4 in that six-game stretch.

04:33Let me know in the comments how you have the Cowboys going in the gauntlet that is going to be the 2025 season in November and December.

04:41For the Georgia game, let us know in the comments.

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