His 141 rushing yards led the National Football League in Week 3, and his 193 combined yards were 43 more than the next closest player.
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The dominance Julio Jones displayed against the gave Jerry Jones an idea.
After his first three games as the offensive coordinator of the Falcons, it seems clear that a big part of Kyle Shanahan’s plan is to get the ball into Julio Jones’s hands and let Jones do the rest. Dallas’ ultimate demise had a lot to do with wide receiver Julio Jones, who torched the Cowboys for 164 yards and a pair of touchdowns on 12 receptions.
In each of the three games this season, they’ve come from behind to pull of a win, leading analysts to suspect that this might not be the Falcons of the last few seasons. “I think that betrayed us”, Jerry Jones told KRLD-FM, via the Dallas Morning News.
The Cowboys (2-1) had a six-game winning streak in the regular season snapped in backup quarterback Brandon Weeden’s ninth straight loss as a starter going back to his two-year stint in Cleveland.
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But the run ended with a second-quarter interception that turned the game in the Falcons’ favor. “But I don’t think we feel like that’s going to happen”.
