Cowboys Beat Eagles 38-21, Philadelphia Loses Fifth Straight
Dak Prescott threw three touchdowns and Javonte Williams ran for 155 yards as Dallas won on Monday night and Philadelphia fell to 2-5.
Javonte Williams ran for a career-high 155 yards and a touchdown as the Dallas Cowboys beat the Philadelphia Eagles 38-21 on Monday night. It was the fifth straight loss for Philadelphia, its longest skid since 2016, and left the Eagles at 2-5.
Dak Prescott threw for 212 yards and three touchdowns, two of them to CeeDee Lamb. The Cowboys (3-4) stay in the NFC East race. The New York Giants lead the division at 4-2-1.
How the game turned
Dallas opened with a field goal. Saquon Barkley answered with an eight-yard touchdown run for 7-3. He was back after missing more than two games with a hamstring injury, and he went into the night with 36 rushing yards all season. He still looked bothered by the hamstring and needed treatment in the sideline medical tent. He finished with 62 yards on seven carries.
Prescott found Lamb from nine yards and George Pickens from 21 to make it 20-14 at half-time. Pickens escaped tight coverage from safety Andrew Mukuba and dragged his left foot in the back of the end zone.
The Eagles led 21-20 in the third quarter. Tanner McKee drove them almost 10 minutes down the field and hit rookie Makai Lemon from four yards, their first third-quarter touchdown drive of the season. They did not score again. Lamb answered late in the quarter with a 16-yard floater into the corner of the end zone, and Prescott ran in the two-point conversion for 28-21.
Brandon Aubrey kicked field goals of 55, 27 and 24 yards, the last one making it 31-21. Williams scored the final touchdown from two yards. He is the first Dallas player with 150 rushing yards in a game since Ezekiel Elliott in 2018, and the Cowboys ran for 204 yards as a team. Linebacker DeMarvion Overshown intercepted McKee late in the fourth quarter. McKee, starting for Jalen Hurts, completed 23 of 35 passes for 211 yards with one touchdown and one interception.
Hurts is expected to miss the rest of the season because of blood clots in his lungs. At half-time, owner Jeffrey Lurie was inducted into the Eagles Hall of Fame. He bought the team on 6 May 1994, and the franchise has won its only two titles under his ownership. Lurie did not hold a pre-game news conference. Coach Nick Sirianni has been the only team representative to address Hurts' condition since the injury.
Source: The Guardian