Halftime Report: Cowboys lead Panthers 17-3

The 6-3 Dallas Cowboys lead the Carolina Panthers by a score of 17-3 after the first two quarters.

The offense got the ball first, but went three and out, the defense then ended a Panther drive with a sack from Micah Parsons.

The second drive for Dallas was much better.

A solid ground and passing attack ended with a Dak Prescott pass to Luke Schoonmaker for the touchdown.

Dak Prescott loves the TE seam play

Hits Luke Schoonmaker for a TD! pic.twitter.com/EJqNgRpJZ7
— Tom Downey (@WhatGoingDowney) November 19, 2023

It’s about time Schoonmaker made a play for this offense. It was getting tough to watch him as a second round pick.

The Dallas offense has really looked good since the loss the 49ers.

Yet, today, they should have more than 10 points at half.

Their second drive ended with a 30-yard field goal from the perfect man Brandon Aubrey.

Wow, what a find by the Cowboys in Aubrey, he is still perfect on the year.

I will be the first to admit that I did not think he would make it through the first few weeks of the year.

Parsons ended two Carolina drives in the first half, pushing his total to 7.5 on the season.

Micah Parsons has his second sack of rookie Bryce Young in the first quarter after having no sacks or tackles for first time in career last week vs NYG.

Young is among most sacked QBs in the league. Panthers almost never max protect.

DQ will take that.
— Ed Werder (@WerderEdNFL) November 19, 2023

The defense had been giving Bryce Young some trouble until the last drive of the half.

The Panther offense found points for the first time when Eddy Pineiro connected on a 49-yard field goal.

Cowboys got some help with a flags on during the two minute drill.

Doing so resulted in another touchdown for Dallas.

This time Prescott found CeeDee Lamb. I’ll take a 17-3 lead with how bad this game has looked.

Cowboys take 17-3 lead on Prescott-to-Lamb TD with 24 seconds left in the half. Panthers helped with a kickoff out of bounds and two unnecessary roughness penalties on third down and long.
— Todd Archer (@toddarcher) November 19, 2023

It’s one of those sloppy looking games early, let’s see how well this team comes out of half time.

No reason this game should be close when it’s over.

I would like to see the offense to continue to be aggressive, I don’t think the Panthers offense will score enough on the defense even if Dallas hands them the ball.

Please don’t play with your food in the second half, Dallas, and just put the game away.