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The Cowboys fell down by 11 points twice against the Giants on Sunday night and they handed back the lead after finally grabbing it by allowing the Giants to go 93 yards for a touchdown that put them down 28-24 with three minutes to play.

With a game against the Eagles looming on Thursday, the ramifications of a loss would be immense for the Cowboys but neither that nor the prospect of leading a game-winning drive on the road in the fourth quarter was daunting for quarterback Tony Romo. Whether it was confidence in his teammates, the experience of having done it before or the fact that MetLife Stadium had a large contingent of Cowboys fans on hand, Romo said after he completed all six passes he attempted and threw a touchdown to Dez Bryant that there was no panic whatsoever.

“It’s a calming feeling. You’re almost just doing what you decided before the game, if that makes sense,” Romo said, via the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. “Once you get moving into the series, then obviously you’re going to call the plays and going to come up with the stuff that you feel best doing. But more than that, it’s just three minutes, you have two timeouts. That’s a different situation than one minute, no timeouts. You have to prepare for those situations. You just have to get yourself going. You have to get yourself started. Once you do that, it usually flows and you have to stay calm, stay in the moment and just play each play by itself.”

The book on Romo and the Cowboys in the past has featured whole chapters on their ability to find the crushing mistake late in games and seasons, but this year’s group has gone the other way in games against St. Louis, Seattle and now the Giants. They have five more weeks to finish showing that this season will have a happier ending than the last three, but the reasons to doubt that it will are getting harder and harder to find.