Dallas Crushes Washington, Moves to .500
Dak Prescott is playing the best football of his career. On Sunday, he threw 21 completions on 30 attempts for 264 yards and three touchdowns, and again no turnovers – a monster game in CeeDee Lamb’s return.
Adam Schefter, ESPN’s Senior NFL Reporter, tweeted that Prescott is now the 6th QB in history to throw 3+ TDs with no interceptions in 4 consecutive games. He joins elite company: Brady (2007), Peyton (2013-14), Rodgers (2014), Russ (2015), and Brees (2019).
Rookie HC Brian Schottenheimer is doing a fantastic job running the offense. With CeeDee Lamb and George Pickens in the lineup, the cowboys are running an aggressive offense, pushing the ball down-field which is exactly what fans have been wanting to see for years. Dak can drop the ball in a bucket from a mile out for these guys, which ends up opening up the run game for Javonte Williams and leaving TE Jake Ferguson open underneath – especially in the red zone. He ended the day with two TDs on SEVEN catches.
Lamb went NUTS on Sunday, coming off 3 weeks of being inactive from an ankle sprain. Lamb caught 5/8 targets for 110 yards, including a 74-yard touchdown in the first half. Pickens had a quieter day (4 catches for 82 yards), but still came down with a couple wild catches and drew some pass interference calls.
Lastly, our defense ACTUALLY WAS RESPECTABLE! Even without Trevon Diggs, our $97M man, we made stops, got FOUR sacks on the day (!!!!) and forced two turnovers: a strip sack on Jayden Daniels and a pick-six from CB DaRon Bland that was reminiscent of his record-breaking 2023 campaign.
DC Matt Eberflus must be a reader here on Fan Feed Network, because I threatened his job if he didn’t start running some man coverage. Now, the Commanders came into the game hurt on the offensive side of the ball, which only was made worse by QB Jayden Daniels’ injury on the play he got strip-sacked on. But, it worked! WOULD YOU LOOK AT THAT!
Insidethestar.com clocked the cowboys running man-to-man coverage at a 45% clip vs. Washington, a complete 180 in the game script from the Cowboys 2-3-1 start. Eberflus needs to keep running some sort of variety so that we can use our DBs to their strengths, in the schemes we have seen them dominate at before. Sunday was the first time we’ve gotten serious pressure in a game so far, you can’t let NFL QBs pick you apart if they’ve got all day.
After a rocky start to the year, we’re getting some things to break right for us. Our offense is FINALLY healthy – we’re only missing center Cooper Beebe, who should be returning in the next couple weeks. Matt Eberflus finally turned his play sheet over to the man coverage side, and maybe we don’t need to send him to the unemployment office quite yet. Dak is BALLING. We’ve got two games before the bye week: in Denver, where Brandon Aubrey will probably kick a 75-yard field goal as smooth as Steph Curry shoots from the foul line, and Arizona at home. Let’s stay healthy, win these two, keep trusting our guys on defense to win on an island and let Dak take his MVP. .500 isn’t the worst place to be, but we’ve got a lot of work to do, with a brutal stretch from Weeks 12-17 (PHI, KC, @DET, MIN, LAC, @WAS).
Keep it rolling. Go Cowboys!