Honestly, this was a pretty easy win for the Birds.
OK, I lied. It was actually incredibly stressful, especially at the end!
The Eagles came entirely too close to giving this game away.
With a chance to ice the game by getting a first down, the Eagles went conservative and ran three straight times to burn the Cowboys’ timeouts. They nearly gave the ball to Dallas by fumbling on a third down run where players ran into each other at the handoff.
Managing to survive that miscue, they were seemingly in position to win the game with Dallas needing to go 85 yards in 45 seconds with zero timeouts. The Cowboys managed to get as far as the Eagles’ 6-yard line before Josh Sweat ultimately saved the day to bail out an all too leaky defense with a big sack on Dak Prescott.
The Eagles started off the score with a touchdown by Gainwell and Dallas immediately answered with a touchdown of their own by Ferguson. The Cowboys then took the lead on a Turpin TD and the Eagles evened the score again on a Hurts TD, result of the ever-controversial tush push. It was the Cowboys who led at halftime after an Aubrey field goal put them up by 3. The Eagles had another chance to score but Hurts was sacked by Parsons and looked to be hurt after the hit by Lawrence to the knee.
In the second half, the Cowboys struggled to keep up and Hurts looked just fine. Dallas ended up down 28-17 after the Eagles scored two touchdowns by Smith and Brown. Their defense kept the Cowboys from scoring when they stopped Prescott with a flip by Cunningham at the 1-yard line on 4th down. A pass to Schoonmaker in the end zone was initially called a touchdown but was finally overturned and ruled just an inch short as his knee was down.
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