Micah Parsons on Cowboys’ ‘mind-boggling’ road struggles: ‘Honestly, it’s unacceptable at this point’

The Dallas Cowboys continue to struggle away from the comforts of AT&T Stadium, getting their doors blown off, 31-10, in Buffalo on Sunday afternoon. The Cowboys fell to 3-4 on the road with a 7-0 mark at home.

Blame for the latest road loss can’t be placed on the weather, which was pretty tame for Buffalo in mid-December, or the turf. The dichotomy with how the Cowboys perform outside of Texas is baffling at this point.

“It’s a gap, and that’s part of my message,” coach Mike McCarthy said after the loss, via the team’s official website. “We play so well at home. There’s just too big of a gap on our road games. We’re conscious of it, and we’ve got a long flight home to think about it, and to talk about it. We’ve got to move on to Miami in the morning, and get this one corrected but, yes, we’ve gotta be better.”

Dallas has a -4 point differential on the road in 2023 (14th in the NFL) while leading the league with a +171 point differential at home in 2023.

The defense got run over by James Cook and the Bills, forcing just two punts on seven non-end-of-half drives and allowing Buffalo to churn out 28 first downs.

Early in the season, Dallas laid an egg in Arizona. They got blown out in San Francisco. They played close in Philadelphia in Week 9 but made just enough mistakes to lose on the road. Then came Sunday’s debacle.

“Honestly, it’s unacceptable at this point,” linebacker Micah Parsons said. “There’s no excuse for it. It’s mind-boggling and I don’t understand why we’re not playing well, and why we’re not coming together on the road. We’ve something we need to look at and get better at, because we’re back on the road next week.”