The Cowboys lost Sunday against a team that had been struggling until facing Dallas. Let’s dive into the numbers.
Three - boneheaded plays that doomed the Cowboys
Dallas played a sloppy, undisciplined game. There were more dumb mistakes than could be counted but three stood out as pivotal, game-changing plays.
The first came when Ezekiel Elliott simply lost track of the boundary and stepped out of bounds right before catching a would-be game-tying, 31-yard, second-quarter touchdown. It’s hard to understand how such a thing can happen. Elliott wasn’t covered or pressured in any way and turned what should have been an easy score into a penalty and loss of down.