The Dallas Cowboys will come off their Week 10 bye and stare a trap game right in the face. Dallas travels to Las Vegas to take on the Raiders in the 11th week of the season.
Six days later they host the Philadelphia Eagles.
The danger for the Cowboys will be looking ahead to their division rivals. Four days later they host the Kansas City Chiefs on Thanksgiving Day.
If Dallas is thinking about back-to-back games against the two teams that played in the last Super Bowl, they will be in big trouble.
- Who: Las Vegas Raiders
- Where: at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, Nevada
- When: Nov. 17th, 7:15 p.m. (CST)
- How (to watch): ABC/ESPN
There are two very big reasons for the Cowboys to be nervous coming into this game.
The first is Raiders Head Coach Pete Carroll. Carroll has a way of getting the most out of his team, no matter how young they are.
The second is rookie running back Ashton Jeanty.
If the Cowboys’ run defense continues to struggle, Jeanty is going to make life miserable on Dallas.
All-Time Marks
This will be the first time the Cowboys have played the Raiders at Las Vegas. It’s only the second meeting between the two teams since the Raiders moved from Oakland.
Las Vegas, by virtue of a 36-33 overtime win on Thanksgiving Day in 2021, hold a 7-6 series edge over Dallas.
However, the Cowboys are 4-3 against the Raiders when the teams meet outside of Texas.
The last meeting in Oakland went to Dallas, 20-17, in 2017.
When it comes to Week 11 contests, the Cowboys are 34-27-2 overall. They are 17-16-1 when those games are on the road.
This will be the eighth straight year that the Cowboys will be on the road in the 11th week.
They are 5-2 in those games after losing to Houston last year.
The last home game for Dallas in Week 11 came in 2017. They lost to the Eagles that year.
This will also be the first time Dallas has faced off against the Raiders in the 1th week of the season.
Their most common opponents in Week 11 are the Cardinals (6-1) and Commanders (5-2).
The Prediction
This game just screams “IT’S A TRAP!” like Admiral Ackbar. And there’s your obligatory Star Wars reference for the 2025 season.
With that brutal six-game stretch that follows this one, the Cowboys are just begging to get caught looking ahead.
Prediction: Raiders 31, Cowboys 27 (Predicted record so far: 4-6)
a Dallas Cowboys fan, since the 70’s the only way this could be a trap game against the Las Vegas Raiders if the Cowboys listen to all the sports media groups telling the Cowboys how good they are they both are about even
Dude…. Shut up…. Just stop with the stupid comments!! There are no “sports media groups” talking about the Cowboys being good!! Not one of them!! Every sports media group is saying they DON’T think the Cowboys are that good!! And that’s a rare occasion because if they’re talking about the Cowboys then chances are they’re talking about contract talks between the Cowboys and Micah Parsons!! That’s the main thing they talk about!! They’re not sitting on TV talking about how good the Cowboys are gonna be!! That’s just not the way it goes!! So idk what media group you’ve been watching, but it sounds like your watching the wrong one!! Because they’re definitely not talking about the Dallas Cowboys, the NFL football team!!
And I’m not sure what type of drugs your on, but they have to be something strong if you think the Cowboys and the raiders are about even!! They’re not even close to being even!! The Cowboys don’t even have the best team in the NFL, but they’re still a better team than the Raiders!! The Cowboys are better at almost every position on the team!! The only thing the Raiders have that mite be better is the RB, and that’s it!! The Cowboys have a better QB, they have better receivers, even after the Raiders signed Amari Cooper, the Cowboys have a better offensive line, better edge rushers, better corners, better LBs, the Cowboys even have a better group of safeties!! The Cowboys are just better!! So like I said said a million times before, you just have no idea what your talking about!! There’s no way you’ve been a Cowboys fan since the 70s!! There’s no way somebody can be a fan since the 70s and not know anything about the team!! That’s just impossible!! I wasn’t even alive in the 70s and I know more than you!! Which it’s not really that hard to know more than you since you literally don’t know anything!! Try reading the replies to your comments and you mite learn something for a change!!
If your predictions so far are correct, they don’t break .500.
You can’t go by what this guy writes!! I don’t even know how he has a job writing for a Cowboys fan site, when for one, he’s not even a Cowboys fan, and 2, all he does is write bad stuff about the Cowboys!! But yeah, everything he writes is something negative about the Cowboys, so I wouldn’t pay attention to what he writes!! I didn’t realize this was his story until I read a few lines of it, and as soon as I realized it was him writing, I just skipped to the comment section and didn’t even finish reading the story!! His stuff isn’t worth wasting time on!! And that’s not just my opinion!! There’s been a lot of comments on here talking about how bad he is!! But everybody has their own opinion, and if you wanna keep reading his stuff then that’s your decision!! But I can’t do it!! I come here to read news and good stories about the Cowboys from Cowboys fans, not to read stories from some guy talking bad about the Cowboys all the time!! But that’s just me!! But anyways, I’ll stop now!! The season starts in just a few days!! I hope you enjoy it!! I know I will!!
Keep up the GREAT JOB you’re doing Mr.Paolinelli. More excellent work.