RECAP: Lions at Cowboys

Game Recap: Cowboys welcome back Dak Prescott in 24-6 win over Lions

RECAP: Lions at Cowboys

A protective fight featured the initial 30 minutes of Sunday’s matchup among Detroit and Dallas, with Detroit’s guard driving the charge to a 6-3 halftime lead.

It kept on being a protective confrontation into the final quarter, yet eventually, Dallas gained by four final quarter turnovers by the Lions’ offense to lead a 24-6 win. The misfortune drops Detroit to 1-5 on the season.

Sunday’s misfortune wasn’t on the Lions’ protection. Briefly straight game the Lions’ offense neglected to record a score and had basic turnovers. Detroit was in need of help obnoxiously with running back D’Andre Quick (latent) and wide collector DJ Chark (IR) out, and opening beneficiary Amon-Ra St. Earthy colored left with a blackout in the principal quarter, yet that is not a good reason for how unfortunate they’ve played the most recent fourteen days.

Dallas scored the game’s most memorable score following Lions quarterback Jared Goff’s fifth capture of the time on the Lions’ initial ownership of the last part at the Dallas 18-yard line. Trevon Diggs got the pick.

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Dallas went 82 yards in seven plays and scored on an Ezekiel Elliott 1-yard touchdown run to give the Cowboys the first lead of the day at 10-6.

The Lions were in position to retake the lead early in the fourth quarter after a terrific drive positioned them with a 1st and goal at the Dallas 1-yard line. But running back Jamaal Williams fumbled the ball and it was recovered by linebacker Anthony Barr at the half yard line.

Detroit’s defense did a nice job to force a punt and give the offense another chance, but Goff was intercepted again, this time by cornerback Jourdan Lewis at the Dallas 47-yard line. Dallas turned that into another Elliott 1-yard touchdown with 2:46 left to give the Cowboys a 17-6 lead.

Dallas chilled the game on Goff’s third turnover, a strip-sack bungle at the Detroit 23-yard line they transformed into a 2-yard Peyton Hendershot score to give them a 24-6 lead.

Fittingly, the game finished on a couple kneeldowns after another Goff bungle, Detroit’s fifth turnover of the game.

QB examination: It was a forgettable day for Goff, who wound up turning the ball more than three times. He completed 21-of-26 passing for 228 yards without any scores, two block attempts and two bobbles. He was sacked multiple times and got done with a 71.2 passer rating.

Ranchers quarterback Dak Prescott was playing in his most memorable game since harming his thumb Week 1. He was an effective 19-of-25 passing for 207 yards with one score and no interferences for a 113.2 rating.

Actually quite important: Cornerback Jeff Okudah was all around the AT&T Arena turf Sunday. He was marvelous supporting the run and completed the day with 15 handles, including a tackle for misfortune that constrained a first-half dropkick. It was Okudah’s most impressive showing of the year.

Lions tenderfoot pass rusher Aidan Hutchinson scored sacks No. 4 and 5 on the year. He wrapped up with three handles, two sacks, three quarterback hits and a tackle for misfortune.

No. 2 tight end Brock Wright got every one of the four of his objectives for 57 yards. Wright came into the game with only one catch on the season for 25 yards.

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Rookie debut: Second-round pick Josh Paschal made his NFL debut Sunday after sitting out the first five games of the season rehabbing a sports hernia surgery he had over the summer.

Paschal got good push along the interior and totaled two tackles in the contest.

Injury report: St. Brown caught a 4-yard pass on a 2nd and 11 play at the Dallas 21-yard line late in the first quarter and took a shot to the back of the head as he was going to the ground.

As he got to his knees, St. Brown shook his head a bit. He got to his feet and an official took him out of the game to be evaluated. St. Brown went into the medical tent on the sideline for a number of minutes and then emerged and went right to the locker room. Shortly after, the team ruled him out with a concussion.

Talk about getting a break when they needed it most. The Cowboys had their backs against the wall when the Lions traveled 79 yards all the way down to the Dallas 1-yard line, where they had first and goal. But on the very next snap, running back Jamaal Williams had the ball knocked loose by defensive end DeMarcus Lawrence, linebacker Anthony Barr falling on the fumble to give the Cowboys possession.

The Dallas safeguard got itself another turnover presently. Albeit the Cowpoke offense needed to dropkick after that objective line recuperation, they got the ball right back when cornerback Jourdan Lewis dove before a Goff proposing to give his side belonging at their own 46-yard line. Lewis was harmed on the play and must be offed the field. He didn’t return.

This time, in any case, the Ranchers had the option to exploit the turnover. In eating up 5:39 of clock north of 11 plays and 54 yards, Prescott associated with Sheep for 15 yards, two times with Brown for a joined 25 and afterward again with Schultz for one more 7 to arrive at the 2-yard line. Two plays later, Elliott was again in the end zone.

Any expectations of a rebound were then immediately crushed when on the Lions’ second play of their next series, youngster protective end Sam Williams fired Goff, thumped the ball free and recuperated it for the trifecta. After Pollard dashed up the center for 25 yards, the possible score came on a 2-yard pass from Prescott to tight end Peyton Hendershot, the youngster’s most memorable vocation score.

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When Parsons strip-fired Goff once more on the Lions’ next series, this time Dorance Armstrong getting the recuperation, nothing remained for the Cattle rustlers to do yet the triumph arrangement.

As the clock ticked over into the subsequent edge, Prescott and his soldiers went on the walk. The quarterback had associations of 15 and 11 yards to Schultz with a decent 24-yard fulfillment to in the middle between. The Ranchers had the option to arrive at the Detroit 3-yard line and gave hard thought to making it work on fourth-and-2, just to call a break and make the chip-effort 22-yard field objective.

Notwithstanding star wideout Amon-Ra St. Earthy colored passing on the game because of a blackout, the Lions were again ready to move the ball into field-objective reach. Obviously, they were helped by a sketchy roughing the passer punishment on Micah Parsons that attached 15 yards to a generally 9-yard finishing for Goff. However, the Dallas safeguard had the option to put on the brakes, Detroit this time getting a 53-yard field objective from Michael Badgley to backpedal on top.

The Cowpokes had one more chance for focuses not long before the half, moving from their own 24-yard line to the Lions’ 20. In any case, after Brown pulled in a 14-yard pass at the 6, the wideout was finishing overturned, bumbling the ball as he somersaulted to the ground. Detroit recuperated the award at the 3-yard line, finishing the danger.

Everybody held their aggregate expansiveness during the drive when Elliott endured a hard shot to his right knee, seeming to sprain it. Be that as it may, he returned out for the final part.

 

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