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New York Jets Schedule:
Sunday, Dec 2 at Miami 1:00 pm Buy Tickets CBS
Sunday, Dec 9 Cleveland 4:15 pm Buy Tickets CBS
Sunday, Dec 16 at New England 1:00 pm Buy Tickets CBS
Sunday, Dec 23 at Tennessee 4:15 pm Buy Tickets CBS
Sunday, Dec 30 Kansas City 8:15 pm Buy Tickets NBC
The Dallas Cowboys will get a chance to go 10-1 Thursday when they take on the New York Jets in the Cowboys' traditional Thanksgiving Day game.
Dallas (9-1) should not llook ahead to its looming matchup with fellow NFC heavyweight Green Bay next week, it got it on Sunday as the Jets (2-8) upset previously 7-2 Pittsburgh.
"For us, each game is its own big game, its own deal," Tony Romo said. "We don't look past any opponent."
The Cowboys started 9-1 in 1976 with Roger Staubach at quarterback and in 1983 with Danny White under center and Tony Dorsett at tailback, but each of those teams lost their next game. With the chance to do something no other Dallas team has done, the current Cowboys are ready for the challenge.
Dallas will also be trying to put together two 5 game winning streaks in a season for just the third time.
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The 4th victory in its most recent streak, 28-23 over the Redskins on Sunday, was a closer than most of the contests Dallas had been used to winning. In their eight victories before Sunday, the Cowboys had won by an average of 15.2 points.
The Redskins, though, held the lead for much of the first half and trailed just 14-13 at the end of the third quarter at Texas Stadium.
Romo and Terrell Owens took over and that lead stood up.
After connecting on 2 touchdown passes in the first three quarters, Owens caught 2 more from Romo in the fourth to tie Bob Hayes' 37-year-old team record of 4 touchdowns in a game.
T.O finished with 8 catches for 173 yards and has 4 straight games with at least 100 receiving yards, catching eight TDs in that stretch.
"I'm just playing out of my mind right now," he said. "This is one of the greatest games, really, that I feel like I've played in, just me coming through in the clutch. I pride myself in trying to make plays for the team. When my number's called and opportunities are there for us to make plays, I know that's my job."
T.O. even lined up at defensive back on the final play of the game and smacked away Jason Campbell's Hail Mary attempt - it was Owens' first career pass breakup - to preserve the win.
Winning is something the Jets had gotten used to last year as they surprisingly made the playoffs in coach Eric Mangini's first season. But except for a Week 3 win over winless Miami, nothing had gone right for the jets in 2007 - at least before ***-slappin Pittsburgh 19-16 in overtime last week.
NY Jets tailback Thomas Jones became the first player in 35 games to rush for 100 yards against the Steelers, finishing with 117, and New York won its second game of the season.
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Just like the 31-28 win over Miami, it wasn't easy. The Steelers had appeared to take control of the game in the fourth quarter, going up 16-13 with 8:41 to play. But Clemens led a drive that produced a 28-yard Mike Nugent field goal that tied the game in the waning seconds, and Nugent connected in overtime for his fourth field goal of the day, helping the Jets end a six-game losing streak.
The NY Jets didn't get a whole lot going offensively. New QB Clemens, who has taken over for Chad Pennington, was 14-of-31 for 162 yards with a touchdown and an interception. Laveranues Coles was lost with a sprained ankle early after Coles made a 56-yard catch that set up New York's first score, and Jerrico Cotchery, the team's leading receiver with 687 yards, was held to one catch for 5 yards.
"We still haven't played our best game of the season," Shaun Ellis said. "We want to put together a good effort and put it all together."
The NY Jets held the Pittsburgh Steelers offense in check, sacking Ben Roethlisberger seven times after having recorded only 9 sacks in their first 9 games. They also held Willie Parker to 52 yards on 21 carries, surprising for a group that was ranked 30th overall and last against the run.
The Jets will get a big test against Dallas, which owns the second-rated offense in the league, averaging 32.4 points and 393.0 yards per game. Dem Cowboys could be without wide receiver Patrick Crayton, who missed both practices this week with a sprained left ankle.
The Dallas Cowboys are 25-14 on Thanksgiving. The Jets are making their first Thanksgiving appearance since 1985, when they lost at Detroit.
The Dallas Cowboys are 6-2 against the New York Jets, who will be visiting Dallas for just the third time.
New York Jets Schedule:
Sunday, Dec 2 at Miami 1:00 pm Buy Tickets CBS
Sunday, Dec 9 Cleveland 4:15 pm Buy Tickets CBS
Sunday, Dec 16 at New England 1:00 pm Buy Tickets CBS
Sunday, Dec 23 at Tennessee 4:15 pm Buy Tickets CBS
Sunday, Dec 30 Kansas City 8:15 pm Buy Tickets NBC
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