ARLINGTON, Texas – In reflecting on his Dallas Cowboys having won just three of their first nine games, first-year coach Brian Schottenheimer recently told a brutal truth.

“We did it to ourselves,” he said. “We dug ourselves into a hole.”

But suddenly, over the course of just 12 days, Dallas has won back-to-back-to-back games, an accomplishment capped by Thanksgiving Thursday’s 31-28 upset of the visiting Kansas City Chiefs here at AT&T Stadium.

Dallas is now 6-5-1 but remains an NFC playoff long shot. So the “hole” still exists.

As Dak Prescott said after the win, “We’re not gonna just sit on some high because of (this win.) We know we’ve got a big one coming again next week (at Detroit), and all this really does for us is give us more confidence.”

Fine. But that “hole’’? H

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