However, Cousins put too much mustard on a bullet pass to Jamison Crowder - the ball bounced off his hands and got picked off by Dallas. Unfortunately for the Cowboys, their offense remains stuck in neutral, and they were forced to punt again.Ī roughing-the-passer penalty got Washington into scoring position and Ryan Grant took them inside the red zone. It set up an easy three-and-out for the Cowboys defense.Ĭrowder gave the Cowboys another gift when he muffed a punt at midfield, giving the ball right back to Dallas. Not much in the way of offensive highlights so far, but this beauty of a punt pinned Washington back at its own goal line. Dallas scored the first points of the game when Prescott hit Jason Witten for an 8-yard touchdown. He got carted off the field, leaving Washington without another important player on its line.Ĭowboys 7, Washington 0: The Cowboys finally got the ball moving when Bryant made his first catch of night, setting them up at Washington’s 19-yard line. Offensive lineman Morgan Moses went down after an ugly-looking play where he got his legs rolled up. The injury bug is hitting Washington yet again. Dallas cashed in with a 24-yard field goal by Dan Bailey. Ryan Switzer took a punt 83 yards to the house, and the rout is on.Ĭowboys 10, Washington 0: Things went from bad to worse for Washington when Demarcus Lawrence strip-sacked Cousins and the Cowboys recovered at the 24-yard line. Naturally, he dropped a pass on the next play.Ĭowobys 17, Washington 0: Prescott went into the locker room with an apparent hand injury, but the Cowboys didn’t need him on their next drive. Prescott settled for a failed Hail Mary as the clock hit zeroes.Ĭowboys 17, Washington 7: Washington gets some much-needed momentum at the end of the half, with Cousing hitting Grant for a 20-yard touchdown and the team’s first points of the night.Ĭrowder’s been having a nightmare game, but he made a huge play when it mattered, grabbing a desperate Cousins pass for a 33-yard catch-and-run. He tried getting his team in field goal range before halftime, but Dallas never got close. Prescott came back in the game after not missing an offensive snap. Prescott threw just four passes during the third quarter, completing one, for 11 yards. Prescott remains in the game, with his hand still the center of attention: This time it was Josh Doctson leaping to catch this 14-yarder from Kirk Cousins to keep Washington alive.Ĭousins has completed 25 of 34 passes for 243 yards so far in this game.Ĭowboys 24, Washington 7: The first play of the final quarter featured Dallas with a 3rd-and-8, and Dez Bryant went up and got this touchdown pass from Dak Prescott for a 13-yard score, and another 17-point lead for the Cowboys:īryant now has 72 career receiving touchdowns, passing Hall of Famer Bob Hayes for most in Cowboys history. Washington tried everything, to no avail, including having not 12 but 13 players on the field on one play during the drive:Ĭowboys 24, Washington 14: The fourth quarter is all about jump balls in the end zone. The Cowboys marched 75 yards down the field, culminating in a 1-yard touchdown run by Alfred Morris, and took 6:33 off the clock, giving them a 17-point lead with under five minutes remaining. Brett Maher’s 53-yard kick early in the fourth got Dallas back within three.4 things we learned from Cowboys’ strong 38-14 win over Washington Final score: Cowboys 38, Washington 14Ĭowboys 38, Washington 14: Dallas put this game to bed after an Anthony Brown interception, followed by another touchdown four plays later, this one a Rod Smith plunge from one yard out.Ĭowboys 31, Washington 14: Dallas got exactly what they wanted to answer the Washington touchdown. Pierce’s 24-yard run helped set up Ka’imi Fairbairn’s third field goal, a 54-yarder for a 23-17 lead. Houston stuffed Elliott on fourth-and-goal from the 1 with Dallas in position to retake the lead after Pierce fumbled in the third quarter. He ran once and threw once to start a sequence that ended with rookie Dameon Pierce’s 1-yard scoring run.ĭriskel’s TD pass - a 28-yarder on the run for Amari Rodgers’ first career score - came after Prescott’s first interception and put the Texans up 17-14 on their way to a rare halftime lead, 20-17. Taking over at the Dallas 24-yard line, the Texans brought out Driskel. We have to figure out how to finish.”īoth Houston touchdowns came on short fields after Dallas turnovers, the first when KaVontae Turpin muffed a punt after the Cowboys opened the game by breezing down the field to a 7-0 lead on Pollard’s first touchdown before forcing a three-and-out. “I liked what happened today,” Houston coach Lovie Smith said.
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