The Dallas Cowboys have struggled when playing on the road throughout the season and that was true once again during this week’s loss to the Dolphins in Miami. But it sounds like the team understands they need to improve on the road if they’re going to make a run at the Super Bowl.
After Sunday’s loss to the Miami Dolphins, Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy made it clear that he hopes the loss will be a learning experience for the team.
“It was a hard-fought game,” McCarthy on Sunday according to the team’s official website. “It gives you a taste of if we have to go on the road to get this done, and there’s a lot that we can draw from this. We’re disappointed because we had some miscues. I had a [expletive] backed up plan, and we were backed up twice and didn’t move the field position, so we didn’t help our defense out there.
“We didn’t have a takeaway, but we had a giveaway. It’s those big mistakes you can’t make in these games, but I think the resilience, battle and grit that we’re looking for — we clearly have that.”
If the team is going to win a championship this season, they’ll have to win three consecutive games on the road before even making it to the Super Bowl. So McCarthy understands that they’ll have to be better on the road when it comes playoff time.
“We have to play better than we did today,” McCarthy said. “We have to play above it on the road. Road warriors we will be.”
