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Cowboys and Giants renew NFC East rivalry on Monday night
The Associated Press
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — The Dallas Cowboys and New York Giants are going to renew their NFC East rivalry on Monday night, —and this one might be an indication of whether the times are changing.
The Cowboys, the defending division champions, have owned the Giants the last five years. The teams have played 10 times and Dallas has won nine.
This season has gotten off to an interesting start, though. Dallas has split two games and saw quarterback Dak Prescott undergo thumb surgery after the season opener. How long the star quarterback will be sidelined is uncertain, but Cooper Rush will be running the offense against the surprising Giants.
New York, which won four games last year, is halfway to that total after knocking off Tennessee and Carolina in Brian Daboll's first two games as coach. Beating Dallas in a nationally televised game would be another step toward respectability after five straight losing seasons.
“This is a divisional opponent and the quickest way to get into the postseason is to win divisional games,” said receiver Sterling Shepard, the Giants' current longest tenured player. “They are always huge games no matter what start you have.”
Cowboys coach Mike McCarthy said past results won't influence the present.
“Obviously, we’re not the same as we were last year. They’re not the same as they were last year,” McCarthy said. “We’re both going to play a little differently. They’re going to play a lot different with a new staff.”
McCarthy said he talked with his players about the last five years, but his focus was to remind them about the importance of winning in the division.
“This is an important game,” he said. “It’s a division game. It’s our first division game. It’s ‘Monday Night Football.’ They’re 2-0. You look at all of those things, at the end of the day, this is going to come down to us playing to our playstyle, play to our discipline and we feel like we’ll do what we need to do to win the game.”