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season was the 51st season the team was in the

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. The team improved on their previous output of 4–9–1, winning eight games.1970 St. Louis Cardinals
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, without a touchdown in a 6–6 draw), they failed to reach the playoffs for the 22nd straight season, thanks to three consecutive losses in December. The Cardinals entered their regular season finale at Washington needing to defeat the Redskins, plus for losses by the Cowboys (to the Oilers) and the Giants (to the Rams), to reach the playoffs. It all became academic after the Cardinals lost 28-27 to the Redskins and the Cowboys mauled the Oilers 52-10 to win the NFC East. Prior to the season-ending skid, the Cardinals swept the Dallas Cowboys, with the second victory a 38–0 destruction on

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at the Cotton Bowl. Dallas did not lose again until it fell to the Baltimore Colts in

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. The Cardinals swept the Cowboys only one other time, in

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, (one year after the Cardinals' relocation to

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), when Dallas went 1-15 under first-year coach Jimmy Johnson. (The Cardinals and Cowboys have not been division rivals since

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