Eagles maintain NFC East superiority
The Philadelphia Eagles and Dallas Cowboys game had all the drama you could ask for as they went back and forth until the very end, a thrilling finish that saw Philadelphia hold on to the lead and beat Dallas 28-23.
Hurts battled through injury
Just as the Cowboys were able to maintain a lead after a sack on Jalen Hurts, the Eagles QB hobbled off as his left knee took a direct hit just before halftime. He came right back on though and in the second half, started it off with two touchdown passes and ended the game with 207 yards and two touchdowns plus a tush push TD.
Nailbiter of a game
The Eagles started off the score with a touchdown by Gainwell and Dallas immediately answered with a touchdown of their own by Ferguson. The Cowboys then took the lead on a Turpin TD and the Eagles evened the score again on a Hurts TD, result of the ever-controversial tush push. It was the Cowboys who led at halftime after an Aubrey field goal put them up by 3. The Eagles had another chance to score but Hurts was sacked by Parsons and looked to be hurt after the hit by Lawrence to the knee.
In the second half, the Cowboys struggled to keep up and Hurts looked just fine. Dallas ended up down 28-17 after the Eagles scored two touchdowns by Smith and Brown. Their defense kept the Cowboys from scoring when they stopped Prescott with a flip by Cunningham at the 1-yard line on 4th down. A pass to Schoonmaker in the end zone was initially called a touchdown but was finally overturned and ruled just an inch short as his knee was down.
The Cowboys were able to recover from the deficit with a touchdown pass to Tolbert, but failed to make a 2-point conversion attempt and that’s where it all went downhill for Dallas. There was still 6:23 left in the game when they went for 2 and looked like they got it when Prescott ran it into the end zone, but it was reviewed and showed that he stepped out of bounds, keeping it a 5-point game at 28-23. The Cowboys then had two more opportunities to score after holding the Eagles to back-to-back three and outs, but failed to do so with several penalties in the way and a few defining mistakes.
The pivotal finish
In the end, the Cowboys had a chance to pull off a comeback. After Prescott was sacked not once, but twice by Graham and Carter for a combined loss of 11 yards, they went for it on 4th and 8, but were stopped. They then held off the Eagles and ended up needing just 86 yards in a doable 46 seconds and the Eagles easily gave them 56 of those with penalties. The Cowboys were at the 6, but instead of scoring the winning TD, Prescott was sacked again, keeping the clock moving and pulling a hurry-up spike. They ended up at 3rd and 21 with five seconds left and Prescott’s pass to Lamb was not enough to get the score. They fell to 5-3 and the Eagles became the only team to have an 8-1 record in the league.
Next up
The Cowboys will host the New York Giants for yet another NFC East battle on Sunday next week.
The Eagles will have their bye week next week before heading to Kansas City for Monday Night Football where they’ll meet their 2022 Super Bowl nemesis in hopes of revenge.
