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Losing not an option for Cowboys

Fight for survival against crumbling Eagles means one season will be left in ruins

Updated: November 9, 2012, 9:28 AM ET
By Jean-Jacques Taylor | ESPNDallas.com

IRVING, Texas -- Dallas Cowboys coach Jason Garrett can't stand the word "desperation." You can add "worry," "frustration" and "pressure" to the list of words for which he has no regard.

Garrett detests the message those words convey. Worthless emotions, he says.

"I just don't like the word at all," Garrett said of the Cowboys being desperate. "We're desperate? That means you start doing some things that are out of character and random, and there's no method to your madness.

"'Urgency' ...

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