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Dallas can’t get caught looking past the Bears

Originally posted on Inside The Star
By Richard Paolinelli | Last updated Sep 21, 2025 9:16 AM ET

The Dallas Cowboys, fresh off of a thrilling overtime win over the Giants, will look to get back over the .500 mark today when they travel north to face the Chicago Bears.

Everything about this game screams “trap game” though. The Cowboys were very fortunate to walk off the field with a win over New York.

The Giants made just enough blunders, and their defensive backfield was porous enough, to let Dak Prescott drive the Cowboys up and down the field in the fourth quarter.

Chicago’s defense didn’t look all that much better in its blowout loss to the Lions on Sunday.

Prescott should be able to move the ball almost as well as he did last Sunday.

But the Cowboys’ defense has to play much better. Dallas’ offense cannot score 40 points every week.

Who: Chicago Bears
Where: at Soldier Field in Chicago, IL
When: Today, 3:25 p.m. (CDT)
How (to watch): FOX

The last time the two teams met, back in 2022, the Cowboys were facing a second-year quarterback in Justin Fields. They very nearly let him pull out the win.

This year they are facing a second-year quarterback in Caleb Williams.

The Cowboys have a history of letting young phenom quarterbacks have career games against them.

For Dallas it will be a homecoming of sorts for two members of the team. Defensive coordinator Matt Eberflus was the Bears’ Head Coach until the 13^th week of the 2024 season.

Linebacker Jack Sanborn was on the Bears’ roster for his first three years before joining the Cowboys during this offseason.

All-Time Marks

Dallas is 35-25 all-time in the third week of play. They’ve had two games lost to strikes/lockouts (1982, 1987).

Three bye weeks — 1999, 2003, and 2006 – fell on Week 3 of the schedule.

The Cowboys are 18-14 on the road during this week, but they have beaten Chicago all three times that the teams have met in the third game of the year.

Dallas won at home in 1979, won in Chicago in 2007, and completed the trifecta with a home win in 2016.

Overall, the Cowboys are 16-12 against the Bears with the two teams evenly splitting the 14 games played at Chicago. While Dallas won the last meeting in 2022 at home, 49-29, the Bears defeated the Cowboys 31-24 in Chicago on a Thursday night in December of 2019.

The Cowboys last win in Chicago came on a Thursday night in December of 2014 when Tony Romo outdueled Jay Cutler 41-28.