Cowboys now equipped to end Panthers’ win streak

But Hardy says he sees no significance in going against the Panthers.

Cam Newton’s team rallied from 3-8-1 to win four straight and qualify for the postseason.

Carolina is 14-0 overall and 10-3-1 against the spread in its last 14 regular-season games and is 4-0 ATS on the road this season. This is a huge game for the Panthers as they are given the center stage to play against one of the most popular teams in sports. Finishing the game with a final score of 24-14, the Dez Bryant squad appears to be turning things around now that their leader has finally come back.

“I think Carolina may run the table but I do not expect them to get to the Super Bowl”.

Newton’s performance put his name in the record book, tying Steve Beuerlein with the Panthers’ single-game passing touchdowns record, a feat that hadn’t been accomplished in 15 years. He’s the only quarterback in National Football League history with multiple wins against teams that were 9-0 or better – Indianapolis (9-0) in 2006 and New Orleans (13-0) in 2009.

If they are able to keep Carolina’s three-headed rushing attack off the field by running the football, they’ll help their defense and have a good shot at the upset.

Powered by the “Tony Romo Effect” last Sunday in Miami, the Dallas Cowboys played better in every phase of the game while – in keeping with a season-long theme – the NFC East, as a whole, certainly did not.

“As far as going into this week, it’s such a short week you just forget about last week and you have to move right on”.

Well here we go with Lions fans believing this team can make a run at an absolute miracle playoff berth.

The Dallas Cowboys, a mainstay on the NFL’s Thanksgiving Day broadcasts, typically fetch the highest ticket prices among the holiday’s home teams.

And yet Carolina was merely a pick-em on the betting line Wednesday.

Chalk it up to the power of Romo’s return. “It really is irrelevant”.

“He has always been a pro”, quarterback Tony Romo said. They continuously lose important pieces, such as running back DeAngelo Williams and defensive end Greg Hardy, and the team still has no star quality wide receiver.

With Dallas, Hardy has a teamleading 4.5 sacks after a four-game suspension for his domestic violence incident to start the season.

That’s more yards in a ten game period than he had in five of his seven seasons with the Oakland Raiders.

“So of course we went and spoke up for him trying to get him back”.

The mystery of the Panthers’ 10-game winning streak begins to unravel when you review their opponents in 2015.

However, Panthers quarterback Cam Newton has established himself as a bonafide MVP candidate.

Both Philadelphia and Washington lost by 28 points last week while the wildly-inconsistent NY Giants drew a late-season bye, all of which leaves the Cowboys just two games off the pace with six remaining.

LONDON GAMES: Washington could become the first team to play two games in London in a season. To even add to the dominance, the Panthers just activated defensive end Charles Johnson for this week’s game. Dallas has won five in a row in this series since losing to Carolina 29-10 in the 2003 playoffs… Newton’s favorite target, Greg Olsen, is on track for a career-year as well.