Since their Super Bowl championship season, the Eagles have not won a game in Dallas. They smoked the Cowboys, 37-9, in 2017.

Since then, they have lost six games in a row and only two by a score of one score. The margin of defeat averages 16.5 points, with three losses by 20 points.

For players like Brandon Graham, this will likely be his last chance to earn a victory in Jerry Jones’ stadium that resembles the fictional, post-apocalyptic land of Panem from the Hunger Games trilogy. Graham is 4-8 in Dallas over his 15-year career.

“The ‘Boys always have a good line, they will always play hard against us, the defense flies everywhere and they always seem faster in Dallas,” Graham said. “We have to make sure we go out there and bring our intensity to the game and maintain it throughout the game.”

On the other side of the Eagles-Cowboys rivalry spectrum are the two rookie picks who helped transform a defense that is now ranked third overall in the NFL — Quinyon Mitchell and Cooper DeJean.

The two-peat got a little taste of the intensity of these NFC East rivalry games when they faced the New York Giants at Meadowlands on October 20.

“I definitely felt it in the atmosphere with the fans, a lot of yelling and heckling at us, which is good,” said DeJean, who had 16 tackles, a half-sack and defended three passes during his four starts in the slot. “Those games mean a lot more just because we play them twice a year and they’re in your division. I look forward to many more.

DeJean said his rivals at the University of Iowa were usually in-state against Iowa State or a border rival such as Nebraska.

Mitchell, who figures to be tested at various points in the game by one of the game’s best receivers, CeeDee Lamb, is taking the same approach he usually takes before a big game — rivalry or not.

“It will be exciting, but I look at everything like a regular game, I just keep the same energy, the same preparation, but we know it’s an important game,” said Mitchell, who said the biggest game in Toledo’s rivalry was that of Bowling Green. . “These (division) games count as two, so we’re going to prepare and lock in.”

The veteran Graham said he wasn’t trying to explain the intensity that reigns against division rivals that play twice a year. He just lets them experience it.

“It hits everyone differently,” he said. “Some people don’t have skin in the game like we had for years playing them, but after this game they’ll definitely want to play it again. I feel like if we play them twice, we have to play them and beat them to win the division. Next, you need to make sure you get a victory in Jerry’s World.

Graham’s last chance, unless he changes his mind and retires at the end of the season, is now.

“It’s always good to get a win there, so hopefully that’ll be the case this week, making sure we go out there, do the best job we can, and then when we get there, that will be about execution,” he said. “Really, I just want to win.”

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