What Mike McCarthy said Dallas Cowboys should learn from World Series Champion Rangers

There was a time when the Dallas Cowboys were the envy of every pro sports franchise in North Texas.

With five Super Bowl titles, the Cowboys have the most tradition and remain the most celebrated.

But times are changing.

Not only have the Cowboys had titles since the 1995 season, but they have not made a trip to the Super Bowl in 28 years either.

Meanwhile, among the major sports teams, the Dallas Stars won the Stanley Cup in 1999, the Dallas Mavericks won the NBA title and Texas Rangers are the newly-crowned World Series Champions.

As as the Cowboys are seeing their hopes for title in 2023 being compromised by their struggles on the road, which was exacerbated by recent 31-10 loss at the Buffalo Bills, coach Mike McCarthy is looking for his team to take a page out of the Rangers book for success.

The Cowboys (10-4) have clinched a playoff berth but are decidedly better at home than they are on road, where they have suffered all four of the losses.

Any hopes the Cowboys have a secure a home game in the playoffs will be based on their ability to solve their road woes over the final three games of the season. They play at the Miami Dolphins and at the Washington Redskins with a home game against Detroit sandwiched in between.

And even still, the Cowboys most likely will have to win on the road in playoffs to reach the Super Bowl.

McCarthy and the Cowboys don’t have any concrete answers to why they have so differently at home and on the road but they focus now is try to emulate the Rangers, who set a new Major League Baseball playoff record by reeling off 11 consecutive road wins en route to the World Series title.

“Yeah, we got to do what the Rangers do,” McCarthy said.

How about that for a role reversal in 2023?

The Rangers won their first World Series title in their 63-year history and they now have the five-time Super Bowl champion Cowboys trying to copy their road to success.