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One Cowboys Parkway * Irving, Texas 75063 NEWS RELEASE (972) 556-9959 * (972) 556-9918 (fax) www.dallascowboys.com REGULAR SEASON GAME #5 SUNDAy , O CTOBER 16, 2011 DALLAS COWBOyS AT NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS GILLETTE STADIUM -- 3:15 P.M. CDT PUBLIC RELATIONS CONTACTS: COWBOYS MEDIA CENTER Rich Dalrymple ......972-556-9953 [email protected] To download the Dallas Cowboys 2011 Media Guide in PDF form, cur - Scott Agulnek ........972-556-9956 [email protected] rent and previous game notes, stat packs and game information, go Jancy Briles ..........972-556-9329 [email protected] to the Cowboys media FTP site: www.dallascowboys.com/media. Joe Trahan ............214-647-4552 [email protected] Enter the username: media and password: Qd7Tc4VDNe Emily Robbins ......972-556-9359 [email protected] Whitney Brandon ..972-556-9955 [email protected] COWBOYS & PATRIOTS Season Series: The Cowboys and Patriots have met 10 times, QUICK FACTS: with Dallas winning seven of those contests. DALLAS COWBOyS (2-2) Series Notables: AT * Dallas won the first seven games the two teams played. NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS (4-1) * Six of the nine games have been decided by a touchdown- Series Record: or-less. * The first-ever game played at Texas Stadium was against Dallas leads the series 7-3. the Patriots 10/24/71, with Dallas winning 44-21. Last Meeting: A Cowboys Win Would: New England 48, @ Dallas 27, Oct. 14, 2007 * Improve Dallas’ record coming off the bye to 17-6. Last Meeting in New England: * Snap a three-game losing streak to the Patriots and a two- New England 12, Dallas 0, Nov. 16, 2003 game losing streak in New England. * Up the Cowboys record to 4-2 in games played at the Last Cowboys Win: Patriots. @ Dallas 12, New England 6, Dec. 15, 1996 * Give Dallas its 85th all-time win over an AFC team to tie Series Streak : San Francisco for the most wins by an NFC team over New England won the last three meetings. an AFC foe. RADIO & TELEVISION THIS WEEK’S SCHEDULE RADIO KRLD-FM - 105.3 The Fan Tuesday, Oct. 11: Play-by-Play: Brad Sham Analyst: Babe Laufenberg Players day off - no access Sideline Reporter: Kristi Scales Tune into 105.3 The Fan for pregame and postgame coverage Wednesday, Oct. 12: before and after every Dallas Cowboys game. 10:10 a.m. Coach Belichick conference call 10:30 a.m. Wes Welker conference call KMVK-FM 107.5 Mega (Spanish) 11:15 a.m. Practice - first 25 minutes open Play-by-Play : Victor Villalba Analyst: Luis Perez 1:20 p.m. Coach Garrett press conference Compass Media Network (National) 1:35 p.m. Locker room open Play-by-Play : Kevin Burkhardt Analyst: Danny White Thursday, Oct. 13: TELEVISION 11:15 a.m. Practice - first 25 minutes open Fox Sports, KDFW Fox 4 in Dallas/Fort Worth 1:20 p.m. Coach Garrett press conference Play-by-Play: Thom Brennaman Analyst: Troy Aikman 1:35 p.m. Locker room open Sideline Reporter: Pam Oliver Cowboys Special Edition with Jerry Jones Friday, Oct. 14: KTVT CBS11 in Dallas/Ft. Worth 10:15 a.m. Coach Garrett press conference 10:30 p.m. Saturday night 10:45 a.m. Practice - first 25 minutes open 12:20 p.m. Locker room open The Jason Garrett Show KTVT CBS11 in Dallas/Ft. Worth Saturday, Oct. 15 Sundays at 10:00 a.m. 1:00 p.m. Team departs for New England Dallas Cowboys Postgame Show KTVT CBS11 in Dallas/Ft. Worth Sunday, Oct. 16 11:00 p.m. following every Cowboys game 3:15 p.m. CDT Kickoff at New England www.dallascowboys.com For breaking news, press releases, historical information, statistics and rosters, visit the official website of the Dallas Cowboys, www.dallas - cowboys.com. Updated daily, www.dallascowboys.com has the most extensive information on upcoming games, including video of weekly press conferences and audio of weekly conference calls. The Cowboys website is also a great place to find information on the players and coaches, order tickets for upcoming games and order merchandise from the Cowboys Pro Shop. HEAD COACHES JASON GARRETT (7-5, 1 st Year ) BILL BELICHICK ( 181-101, 17th Year, NE - 140-55, 12th Year) Jason Garrett was named the eighth head coach in Dallas Bill Belichick is in his 37th season as an NFL coach and is the Cowboys history on January 5, 2011. Garrett became the first for - only head coach in NFL history to win three Super Bowl champi - mer Dallas Cowboys player to become the team’s head coach. As onships in a four-year span. He has won more regular season a backup quarterback during his playing career in Dallas, he start - games (121) and more overall games (135) during a 10-year ed nine-of-23 games played and was a member of teams that won stretch (2001-10) than any other head coach in NFL history. six division titles and three Super Bowl championships. Garrett Belichick is currently ranked 10th on the NFL’s all-time list with 181 was elevated to the Cowboys top job after taking over as the wins. He was named the Patriots head coach on Jan. 27, 2000. team’s interim head coach at the midpoint of the 2010 season. He Through 11 seasons in New England, Belichick has claimed three went on to guide a Dallas team that had started the season with a Super Bowl titles, four conference titles, eight division crowns and 1-7 record to a 5-3 mark down the stretch. In the season’s second 14 playoff wins. He directed the Patriots to wins in Super Bowls half, three of the Cowboys five victories were against teams that XXXVI, XXXVIII and XXXIX, and in 2007, he became the first NFL posted 10 regular season wins, while the three Dallas defeats coach to lead a team to a 16-0 regular season record. Only one were decided by a combined total of seven points. Since the 2007 NFL coach won more Super Bowl titles than Belichick (Chuck Noll, season, Garrett had been the Cowboys offensive coordinator 4), and he is tied with Washington’s Joe Gibbs and San Francisco’s under head coach Wade Phillips, and in 2008, he was assigned Bill Walsh for second all-time. Belichick has claimed a winning the additional duties of being the club’s assistant head coach. record in each of his 10 seasons with New England, making the Under Garrett, the Dallas offense has reached high levels of pro - Patriots the only NFL franchise to accomplish the feat in that span. ductivity in several categories, and the unit has finished among Only one other NFL team with 10 consecutive winning seasons the NFL’s top-10 in total offense in three of his four years at the since the 1970 merger was Tom Landry, who led Dallas to 16 helm: 2010 (10th), 2009 (2nd), and 2007 (2nd). From the start of straight winning seasons. With his 14-2 finish in 2010, Belichick is the 2007 season, the club has averaged 24.6 points-per-game the first coach with at least 14 regular season wins in four different and 368.5 total yards-per-outing. The team has set single-season seasons. His team also owns records for consecutive games won records in a handful of categories, and from 2007 to 2009 the (21) and consecutive playoff wins (10). Belichick started his coach - cumulative numbers for total net yards (17,753), gross yards ing career as a special assistant with the Baltimore Colts (1975). (12,761) and passing yards (12,181) represented the best totals He then was the assistant special teams coach in Detroit (1976- over a three-year span in the history of the organization. Garrett 77), followed by stops in Denver (1978) and with the N.y. Giants returned to Dallas in 2007 as the offensive coordinator He entered (1979-1990). He was Cleveland’s head coach in 1991 then joined the coaching profession as the quarterbacks coach for two sea - New England in 1996. He then coached the Jets (1997-99) before sons (2005-06) for Nick Saban’s first Miami Dolphins club. returning to the Patriots in 2000. ALL-TIME WINNING TRADITION A WINNING TREND The Dallas Cowboys have the league’s second-highest all-time The Dallas Cowboys entered the 2011 season as one-of-13 regular season winning percentage by current NFL teams: teams in the league with at least 440 regular season wins. Among current NFL teams, Dallas’ 442 wins is the 13th-most: Team WLTPct. Chicago 706 515 42 .578 Chicago 706 Philadelphia 510 Dallas 442 326 6 .575 Green Bay 669 Detroit 501 Miami 394 294 4 .570 N.y. Giants 639 Arizona 489 Oakland 421 345 11 .549 Washington 550 Indianapolis 451 San Francisco 513 421 15 .548 Pittsburgh 544 Cleveland 451 N.y. Giants 639 526 33 .547 San Francisco 513 Dallas 442 St. Louis 511 * Since 1972, ties have been calculated as half-win and half loss. Prior to 1972 tie games were ignored in calculating a team’s win - ning percentage. Ties since 1972: Dallas (0), Miami (1) Chicago DALLAS vs. AFC (1), Green Bay (6), Minnesota (2). This week’s game at New NFC vs. AFC England is Dallas’ second inter - Team Record Pct. COASTING EAST conference game of the sea - Dallas ..............84-65-0 .564 By virtue of the NFL schedule, the Dallas Cowboys will be fac - son. Dallas is 0-1 against the Philadelphia ....81-67-2 .547 ing the AFC East this season.