Cowboys hold slim 10-7 lead at halftime in SoFi Stadium

The Dallas Cowboys have re-entered California for their second straight primetime game of the season.

Monday Night Football features the Dallas Cowboys visiting the Los Angeles Chargers in SoFi Stadium.

Coming off of a horrible loss at the San Francisco 49ers, the Cowboys are hoping to bounce back versus Justin Herbert and the Chargers.

It’s still up in the air after two quarters.

1st Quarter Scoring

After the Cowboys received the opening kickoff and went 3 & out, the Chargers returned the punt 25 yards to the Cowboys’ 42 yard line.

A few short plays later, and Herbert hit a wide open Keenan Allen in the right flat on 3rd & Goal from the one yard line.

Allen motioned across the formation, and CB Jourdan Lewis could not recover before the pass arrived to Allen’s hands.

On the very next drive, Prescott led a nine play 75 yard drive that ended in his first rushing touchdown of the season.

Facing a 4th & 1 from the Chargers’ 18 yard line, McCarthy showed his aggressiveness by foregoing the field goal attempt.

The call was read option, and the Chargers defense swarmed Tony Pollard, but Prescott kept it and ran into the endzone untouched.

2nd Quarter Scoring

Dallas started the final drive of the half from their own 29 yard line.

Seven plays later, Brandon Aubrey knocks through a 32 yard field goal to give the Cowboys a 10-7 halftime lead.

Lowlights

This section is reserved for areas that the Dallas Cowboys need to improve for the 2nd half.

Penalties

The penalty woes for Dallas continue tonight in SoFi Stadium.

Dallas entered the game averaging nearly six penalties per game, and matched that total in the first half alone.

The Cowboys are sitting at six penalties for 45 yards, and that’s six penalties too many.

If Dallas can’t show discipline, the yellow flags might be their downfall in this game.

Third Downs

The Cowboys defense is doing an admirable job on 3rd down outside of the killer penalties.

Los Angeles has been held to just two conversions on five attempts on third down in the first half.

It’s the Cowboys offense that is lacking in that area.

Prescott and the Cowboys have converted just two of seven attempts, and also have a costly failure on 4th down in Chargers’ territory.

Whoever wins the third down battle in the second half will likely come out on top.