On the morning of November 7, the Dallas Cowboys were perfect against the point spread and won every game since a narrow opening day loss to the defending Super Bowl Champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Florida.
The had just completed winning both sides of their bye week and were hosting a struggling Denver Broncos team. The Cowboys were favored at home, by ten points, and most figured they would have an easy home victory.
Seems the Dallas players and coaches thought that too, because on their first two series of downs they skipped field goal attempts to go for the first down on fourth and inches. Both times they failed to pick up the first down, and the underdog Broncos had scored 30 points before the Cowboys cracked the scoreboard late in the game.
Denver won easily.
Whenever a team reaches the point to where they are so confident they are going to win they often make stupid deicisons. The Kansas City Chiefs were victims of the same mindset last week that grounded the Cowboys in November. In their home loss to the Cincinnati Bengals in the American Football Conference Championship Game, the Chiefs made more stupid decisions than Paris Hilton in a spelling bee.
The Bengals had sliced through the Bengals defense all through the first half, and the only two scores Cincinnati tallied were a first quarter field goal and a 41-yard touchdown pass from Joe Burrow and scamper by Samage Perine with just over a minute remaining in the first half.