They ended up closing out the game, giving the Giants their first season-opening win since 2010. One of the glaring takeaways form the Dallas Cowboys’ Week 1 loss was the lack of production they got from Dez Bryant, who finished with one catch for eight yards.
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Ultimately the Cowboys would love to get Romo back as soon as possible.
And he is not coming back anytime soon from the compression fracture in his back. “Both quarterbacks are from the great state of MS and Mississippi has a lot to be proud of because they have produced more National Football League athletes than all the other states in the nation”. So when it was over, and his Giants had escaped with a 20-19 win, forgive McAdoo if he wasn’t quite ready to exhale. “Eli Manning played with Ole Miss he was good and Prescott playing for Mississippi State”, said Morgan Redmond of Clinton. The Washington Redskins are going to be waiting for us at their place at 1 o’clock Eastern Time on Sunday. I can not recall any passing game that went down the field, most passes were check downs to Tight-end Jason Witten or a running back circle out of the backfield. And don’t expect Cruz to eclipse his franchise record of 1,536 yards, which he got in 2012 when he was part of the Giants last playoff appearance.
“Everything is fine, not fine, but is on go”, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones recently said about Romo’s status, per Charean Williams of the Star-Telegram.
“Yeah, yeah it did”, said Bryant after the game. “Obviously, with no timeouts and 12 seconds to go, he needs to catch that ball and immediately get out of bounds and we’d reassess the situation from there, as to whether or not we kick it from there or try to get a little closer”. We’ve got more depth and I think we’re better at quarterback than when we didn’t have Romo past year.
Garrett can point to a lot of things the Cowboys did right against NY. They converted on 10 of 17 third-down opportunities. Manning did throw for 207 yards on 19/28 for 3 TDS. They battled all night.
That Prescott handled himself well in the preseason does not change his rookie status nor this being his regular-season debut. They possessed the ball for more than 36 minutes.
But for one week at least the results were the same, largely because the Cowboys had to settle for four field goals and conservative play-calling by coach Jason Garrett. Since the beginning of the 2015 season, the Alabama Crimson Tide have won three games at Cowboys Stadium. We’ve just got to get back to work and get better next week. “Really disappointing. We know we can’t play, we can’t play to that”. Our minds are right.
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“This is not the same team as previous year, and I think we showed that today. No need for it”.
