The Dallas Cowboys notched their 5th victory, defeating the Detroit Lions 24 to 6 Sunday afternoon.
With the help of five turnovers in the second half from the Lions, the Cowboys scored 21 unanswered points to close the door on any upset some thought may have been brewing.
After looking like a junior-varsity team on offense and letting the Lions move seamlessly in the first half — both personnel groups made a statement to start the second half.
On the Detroit opening drive, quarterback Jared Goff launched it downfield and ball-hawk cornerback Trevon Diggs got an interception, which led to the Dallas offense driving the field and finally putting some points on the board.
It was good to see Ezekiel Elliott find the end zone twice in the second half, a much-needed effort after he was banged up early in the game.
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Elliott finished with 57 yards on 15 carries. Tony Pollard added to the mix producing 83 yards on 12 carries.
Dak Prescott made his return for the first time since the injury in week one. He shook the rust off and played well enough in the second half with the help of the rushing attack and stellar defense to win the game.
He needs to improve, we all see that, but he settled in and did enough in his first start since opening night to close the game in the second half.
The defense did their thing again and created five turnovers, that allowed them to continue to run the ball and open up easy throws for Prescott.
We saw the offense and Kellen Moore try to get cute again with some questionable play calls with the running game.
The Cowboys are 5-2, and at the end of the day, guess what? That is all that matters.
Plenty of work is still needed to be done, and I’m not going to harp on all things negative right now, because they are winning football games they normally lose.
A few players got a little banged up throughout the game, including Jourdan Lewis; that is an injury they need to keep an eye on going forward.
The Cowboys are at home again next week against the Bears, then roll into the bye week and have a real chance to be sitting pretty moving into maybe the most challenging part of their schedule.
Kellen Moore is a drag on this team’s offense. His play calling is getting steadily worse with each game. On 2nd down am one, we couldn’t get a first down basically because of his knuckle head ass making bad call after bad call. On second and one, how about a quarterback sneak. Dak is big enough to get in behind Zack Martin and get 1 yard. McCarthy should keep his eye on Kellen Moore’s bumbling ass in the future. I think next year the Cowboys need to replace him with a true OC. If not McCarthy should take over the play calling before Moore gets him fired! By the way, that’s exactly what I think he’s trying to do.
Lawrence –
I completely agree with you, Daks first game back and yet again we see Moore try to get CUTE on offense and put them behind the sticks a few times.
We did not see one wide receiver reverse type play in the absence of Prescott, and he tried to run it with Turpin and Lamb…
He also tried to run Zeke on a stretch play on a 3rd and 1 twice, it just makes no sense.
Moore has to be better, the Run Pass Option, etc. allowing Dak to run or pitch the ball to Pollard worked well and Moore only ran it once or twice.
With the luxury of getting five turnovers, one at the Cowboy’s one yard line, they beat the one-win lowly Lions, which they should have even without the turnovers. Franky their first half performance was underwhelming and if the Lions don’t fumble on the one-yard line, things may have been a bit different. But five TOs and ensuing short fields put them in the driver seat. This game and maybe next week’s Bears game are probably the easiest games of the season.
Vam –
And the same thing can be said about Noah Brown’s fumble at the two-yard line as the first half is coming to a close this game could have been 30-6. Don’t forget about that one, has to hang onto that ball.
Moore tired to get cute again running two or three wide receiver reverse type plays to Turpin and Lamb putting them behind the sticks.. He also tried to run Zeke on a stretch play on a 3rd and 1 twice..
He needs to be better, the offense needs to be better, and it starts with Moore he just makes me scratch my head.