The 2007 Dallas Cowboys won their first five games of the regular season and 12 of 13 on their way to a 13-and-3 regular. The team, under the guidance of Wade Phillips in his first season as Cowboys head coach, lost a 21-17 divisional-round playoff game to the eventual Super Bowl champions, the New York Giants.
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The 2008 Dallas Cowboys beat their first three opponents -- the Cleveland Browns, the Philadelphia Eagles and the Green Bay Packers, respectively. But they ended the season with a 9-and-7 record and failed to qualify for the playoffs.
The last Dallas Cowboys team to begin a season with a 4-and-0 record was the 2007 edition, which won its first six games before losing one. That team went 13-3, but lost a divisional playoff game to the eventual 2007 Super Bowl champions, the New York Giants.
Through Week 10 of the 2009 season, that was November 16, 2003 when the Cowboys lost to the New England Patriots, 12-0, in New England.