Underdogs Again: Cowboys Odds Predict Christmas Eve Loss at Miami

Underdogs Again: Dallas Cowboys Odds Predict Christmas Eve Loss at Miami Dolphins

FRISCO - It was about a year ago when Dallas Cowboys coach Mike McCarthy was informed in a media scrum here inside The Star that his team, according to oddsmakers, was a betting underdog in its upcoming game at Green Bay.

“We’re nobody’s underdogs!” McCarthy declared boldly … and wrongly. Oh, and his team lost that road game, as this Cowboys bunch all too often does.

It happened again Sunday in a 31-10 loss at Buffalo, leaving Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott to declare that the team needs to embrace the concept of being an underdog and of going into enemy territory.

Hey, that’s progress. The Cowboys have advanced from being in denial about not being favored on the road to admitting they’d better embrace it …

Or else. And what is the “or else” this Sunday? 

A Christmas Eve road game at Miami against the Dolphins, at 10-4 maybe the AFC’s most explosive - and best - team.

The Cowboys (also 10-4 and also playoff-bound) have been road underdogs three times this year: at the Niners, at the Eagles and at the Bills … and have three losses to show for it.

And now the Cowboys open as 1.5-point underdogs for Christmas Eve’s game in Miami. … and they will pack in their luggage the Bermuda shorts and some suntan lotion and the knowledge that over the course of the last two seasons, they are 7-8 away from home.

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“Mind-boggling!” said Dallas’ Micah Parsons of his team’s maddeningly consistent road failures.

“We’re nobody’s underdogs”? Yes, Cowboys you are. When you are scheduled to play a good opponent on the road, you are quite often the team the oddsmakers predict is going to lose.

And you are quite often the road team the oddsmakers are right about.