The Cowboys were down one point at their own 41-yard line with no timeouts and 12 seconds remaining on the clock. Jason Garrett didn’t excuse it, but it wasn’t the reason the Cowboys are 0-1. The theory is rested defenses perform better.
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Dallas got the ball with around 11 minutes left in the fourth quarter up six points in position to put the game out of reach.
If Prescott is going to be the man, the offense has to open up. Vernon’s pass rush has been a big topic of conversation, but he is an excellent two-way player and showed it over and over again in the team’s first game against Dallas.
Still, the lack of awareness from Williams couldn’t have come at a worse time. “It’s a learning experience for us and something we can build off this week”. “And now that I have a chance to just sit back and think on it, I should have just gone out of bounds”. Winning the first game is nice, and it certainly takes the pressure off a rookie head coach who breaks the ice on his first attempt.
“The NFL, win or lose, there’s somebody up next week waiting for you”, he added. Those types of runs in late-game situations were missing in 2015, which impacted the Giants’ ability to close out games. But that’s probably not going to be the case here.
Despite a 20-19 losing effort against the division-rival New York Giants on Sunday, Prescott turned in a solid performance in his first career National Football League start.
“Go back and see what we can do to get that yard”, Newhouse said.
His new title seems to fit just fine, “America’s Quarterback”. On third-and-15, the Giants allowed slot receiver Cole Beasley to run to the sticks, turn and make a relatively easy first-down catch.
“I got Dez on Sunday, and I’ll take him to the bank on Sunday”, Bayless said last week. It was by far the loudest crowd I have ever heard at a Cowboy game either here, or at the old Texas Stadium in Irving or the Cotton Bowl in Dallas where the Cowboys began playing in 1960.
The loss didn’t fall on him, it wasn’t his fault the defense was gashed on big runs at the most inopportune times.
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On two separate occasions, the Dallas Cowboys occupied space inside of the Giants ten-yard line. His backup. Alfred Morris, was more powerful with 35 yards on seven carries. “I’m sure he’s excited. A lot of people go through it and don’t get through it, don’t get this opportunity to claim what they once were or they once had”. They can hold the ball on offense for as long as they would like (they won that battle on Sunday) but if the other team can march down and score at will, we are in for a long season in 2016. “It was just something that I was just thinking of, and it was like a bang-bang moment”. The Giants defense will have to play better than it did against Prescott, who flashed he had the goods last week against a weak defensive middle. He had five passes thrown his way yet caught just one, for eight yards. This game felt just as important as one with poseason implications. You can’t win every game.
