That was a lot more like it.
Coming off the disappointing loss to the Eagles the concern for a Dallas letdown was there. The Cowboys showed few signs of a letdown on Sunday.
The redzone play-calling – and personnel – was concerning in the early going.
Tony Pollard might not be the back to hand the ball to on the goal line. Rico Dowdle looks better suited for that duty.
Maybe even a look or two by the team’s fullback, Hunter Luepke, ala Daryl “Moose” Johnston?
But once Dallas did find the endzone they never stopped. A 49-17 beatdown of the Giants was just what they needed.
The Cowboys schedule remains favorable and the Eagles still have some tough sledding ahead.
The battle for the NFC East is on and Dallas needs eight more games just like this one.
Giant Punching Bag
The Cowboys have outscored the Giants 89-17 this season. They had a scoreless streak of 97:01 snapped by the Giants’ score with 8:07 left in the third quarter.
The last time the Giants had put points on the board prior to that touchdown came with eight seconds left in the game on Nov. 24, 2022.
The 72-point margin of victory is the highest in a season-sweep of an NFC East rival.
The old mark was set in 1969 with 66 points against the Eagles. In 1966 Dallas swept the Giants by 55 points.
Dallas has now won 13 of the last 14 meetings with the Giants and six in a row overall.
The Cowboys have won the last seven home games and 10 of the last 11.
Dallas leads the overall series 75-47-2 and are 41-21-1 at home against the Giants. It was also Dallas’ 12th straight home win overall.
Empire State Blues
The Cowboys are now 3-0 against teams from the Empire State this season.
In addition to the two-game sweep over the Giants, Dallas defeated the Jets 30-10 in Week 2.
The Cowboys can finish the New York sweep with a win over the Bills in Buffalo next month.
By The Numbers
The Cowboys are now 33-26-1 all-time in Week 10 games, with the bye weeks and one game lost to a strike in 64 seasons.
Dallas is 14-11-1 at home in Week 10. They also improved to 7-3 over the Giants and 21-10-1 against the NFC East in Week 10.
Dak Prescott was nearly flawless with 404 yards and four touchdown passes. He also ran for a score.
His only blemish was an early interception but the Giants failed to cash in on the error.
CeeDee Lamb became the first receiver in NFL history to record three straight games with 10 or more catches for more than 150 yards.
Lamb finished with 11 catches for 151 yards and a touchdown.
Well, Hello There, Where Ya Been?
Brandin Cooks had a breakout game with 173 yards and a touchdown on nine catches. Michael Gallup had two catches for 70 yards and a score.
Coming into Sunday’s game Cooks had 17 receptions for 165 yards and two touchdowns for the season.
Gallup hadn’t scored a touchdown all year before Sunday and struggled on 50-50 balls. His two catches were contested and he went after both balls.
It was nice to see both receivers in the mix.
Why Do We Even Have Replay?
The purpose of instant replay is to get the call correct. Far too often though, the “no conclusive evidence” excuse is aired to let a call stand.
Personally, I think they’re trying not to show up the officials.
The only change I’d like to see in the NFL is to adopt the college system of letting the official in the booth call for a review.
But college football had a bad weekend with replay in my opinion. Two calls were allowed to “stand” and both should have been overturned.
The only saving grace is that neither impacted the outcome. That doesn’t excuse the replay officials in the slightest.
In the Texas Tech-Kansas game on Saturday, Kansas quarterback Cole Ballard was awarded a first down at the 30.
The problem was he was knocked down with his back facing the 30 and there was green grass between his body and the line.
The football was tucked into his belly, well short of the line to gain. Replay upheld the spot.
Later on Saturday, Miami’s defense sacked Florida State quarterback Jordan Travis in the endzone.
The ball was not past the goal line. Instead of Miami getting two points and the ball in great position, replay ruled that somehow the ball should be spotted at the one.
There have been similar missed calls in the NFL over the years. They need to fix the system.
Either get the calls right without leaning on ambiguity and “inconclusive evidence” or scrap it and live with the human error.
Because sometimes it seems the decisions are based on who it impacts more than what actually happened.
Just as it should have been against a sorry Giants team. Little tougher schedule coming up.
We won’t get the same results over the next few games. We’re actually not that good offensively, and we’ll be facing some way tougher defenses.
Mike Johnson exactly 2 teams have a better point spread and last 4 games Dak 14 tds and 2 picks name a team doing better.
Offense was lousy until Dak and Lamb went to clown McCarthy and told him to stop this run 1st BS.
They have gone from 68 to 38% runs and the offense has taken off
Doug Mackenzie So you’re more concerned with the point spread over won/loss record? Can this offense put up numbers? Sometimes. It doesn’t seem like they can on 4th and goal.
Dak and McCarthy don’t have the intangibles to ever get us to a Super Bowl.
Mike Johnson Wrong McCarthy and the defense don’t, name 1 good team that the defense has stood out against in the last 27 years? And don’t say Niners playoff game where they allowed Mr. Irevelant to convert 67% of 3rd downs when allowing 50% to Mahomes would have been bad, allowed him to complete 65% of passes and Niners to outrush Dallas again. Remember Dak is the ONLY Cowboys QB to put up 30 points in a playoff game and lose
Mike Johnson I said NOTHING about point spread only about performance and percentage of RUN plays retake grade 3 reading comprehension
Mike Johnson wrong wording on my part I meant total points scored vs given up Goddamn auto fill
Mike Johnson yeah thinking point spread is important is dumb so get your post but being 3rd in point differential shows Dallas is good offensively. Oh and over last 4 games since someone slapped intelligence into McCarthy Dak has been #1 QB in every category
yep. now if we could complete the season with games like this we’ll have another shot at the playoffs. GO COWBOYS!!!!
Let’s goooo Dallas Cowboys great team win alright against the 2-8 New York Giants alright at AT&T Stadium before we go on the road.Enjoed this win but it’s now time for us to turn our preparation to the 1-8 Carolina Panthers this Sunday evening at 12:00pm at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina.Now got to keep on foot on the gas and beat bad teams we focus to beat alright but we got to learn to be great teams like this also and play up to our standards on what’s cowboys team we want to be and that’s the Dallas cowboys team that’s came out in handle our business and come out hit first punch mentality mindset to be the aggressive hunger toughness resiliency dominant impose our will mindset and go out there and set the tone and have that’s killer instinct to put the claps down on this teams on all 3 phases of the football alright on the offensive side of the football keep on running the football and on the defensive hit these panthers players in the mouth and come out with hit first punch set the tone purpose mentality mindset to affect there best players on not getting the ball alright.All game long for 60 minutes for 4 quarters alright.We to show up and show out Dallas Cowboys Nation and bring that’s MF rowiness loudest proudest roaring nosies with 38,000 screaming fans taking over there freaking and helping players feed off our energy game long for 60 minutes for 4 quarters alright until the end of the game.There already favoring us by -10.5 to win this game big but that’s don’t mean a darn thing if we take this team for granted and come out slow and we need to come and break the will from the opening kickoff to let’s them we here and we want be stop for 60 minutes and keep our foot on there necks and throats until the end of the game alright and go out there and seize everything and handle our business tho!!!!
Nothing but haters on this page. Never sure if the comments are from fans of the team or fans of rivals just trolling. Winning 49-17 in the NFL is hard. I don’t care who you’re playing, or every good team would blow out the bad teams. The Bills only beat the Giants 14-9 and should have lost. Dallas beat them 40-0 and 49-17 which was really 49-10 until Dallas sat players and NY got a last second TD, that they even struggled to convert at that. And Dak threw for 400 yards, 4 TDs and ran for one and didn’t take a snap in the 4th qtr.
Dallas has played one bad game all season, SF. AZ was a one off. Team was missing 3 lineman and just lost Diggs 2 days before the game and the D didn’t make all the adjustments and was lost out there. Dallas beats that team 9/10.
Or “wait until they beat a good team.” What team will that finally be? I’m curious. Because no matter who Dallas beats or how bad they beat them, it’s never enough. They didn’t just squeak by the bad teams. Phily lost to the Jets, barely beat NE and Minn and Wash 2x. How many teams in this league have that many better wins? SF? They also have 3 losses. Phily hasn’t beaten anyone either, except Dallas. And Dallas outplayed Phily.
People saying the competition was bad or making excuses have no idea, saying wait until some better defenses. What if that never comes? Who has a good Def? Phily?? No. Carolina? Wash? Seattle? Buff? Miami? Det? Truth is none of those teams really have a good Def. LAC just put 38 on Det. Phily and Wash can’t stop anyone. On and on. So when Dallas offense keeps scoring, I guess we will just keep hearing the excuses as to why. I’m not saying they will win all those games because it’s a team sport and maybe they get in a shootout and lose. Or a defensive game. Who the F knows. But the negativity and haters after every win don’t have a clue.
Tom LoPinto let’s see Seattle at present is at 6-3 .. there’s a good start right there… BEAT THEM .. even if by 1 do it… Philly best record in football at present .. another great test .. beat them .. Detroit.. another good one … buffalo? Yes a good one beT them too … Miami yes beat them … do that and it will go a long ways in shutting up the doubters ..
Even better, beat them on the road and on natural grass. That seems to be the Cowboys’ Kryptonite this season, especially the natural grass. This team is all about speed and explosiveness, natural grass saps some of that.
John Smith You would think so. But even WHEN Dallas beats Seattle in a couple of weeks people will say they’re really not that good. Their Def isn’t good. It’s just Geno. Etc. Personally I don’t give 2 shits what people think as long as the team wins. All that matters is your record, not how you got there. And definitely not what outsiders think.
Finally Cooks got into the action and Dowdle is being used more. The offense was clicking.
But let’s be real, The Giants with that QB are a horrible team. No offense to the kid but he is not NFL QB material even as a third stringer. I starting to think they picked him up as an UDFA mainly b/c he is a local kid out of NJ.
Sure, DP had a great stat line, and he should have against this slug team, that could be the worst team in the NFL right now. Next up another slug team, the one-win Panthers, and another game to pad his stats.
BTW, if that INT by DP early on was against a good team, the score probably would have been tied up at that point. But the inept Giant did nothing with that short field TO. And he had another potential INT later when the defender just dropped the pass, but it would not have mattered as the Giants have no offense.
So, they did what they should have done vs an irrelevant bad team. Great, but I’m still waiting for a win vs a quality team. Maybe that is not fair b/c the schedule is what the schedule is, and DP has played very well against the majority of the schedule, but that all changes once playoff time comes around. And that is where it all counts. Unfortunately, he is 17-27 against playoff team in his career.
But looking at this year so far, they beat one decent team with a quality QB, by three points, the Chargers. The other wins have been vs the 2-8 Giants now twice, the 2-8 Pats, 3-6 the Rams, the 4-5 Jets. UGH.
Nonetheless, it’s definitely good to see Cooks, Dowdle, and Gallup getting more involved.