Turnovers bury Cowboys as Lions hand Dallas a costly loss

The Dallas Cowboys’ month-long surge ended successful Detroit, wherever a 44-30 decision to the Lions handed the squad its archetypal nonaccomplishment since the decease of teammate Marshawn Kneeland. The effect dropped Dallas to 6-6-1 and pushed its playoff likelihood down to 8%, according to ESPN Analytics.

Dak Prescott said the locker country was heated but not resigned to anything. “I deliberation guys are pissed disconnected close now,” helium said. “I don't deliberation it's immoderate deflated infinitesimal like, oh, hands are up, we're done. No. No. Absolutely not. I deliberation you're going to get a squad that's pissed… Hopefully it pisses radical disconnected the close way, we usage it arsenic fuel.”

The Cowboys played 4 games successful an 18-day span, a agelong that included wins implicit the Raiders, Eagles and Chiefs aft the commercialized for antiaircraft tackle Quinnen Williams. However, Thursday’s crippled exposed problems Dallas could not outrun.

Coach Brian Schottenheimer praised the effort yet pointed to the deciding factors. “Really arrogant of the group. Four games, [18] days, battled their asses off, arrogant of them,” helium said. “We knew contiguous it was going to travel down to a mates of things -- the quality to instrumentality attraction of the shot and instrumentality it away, and we didn't bash a bully occupation of that. Then we needed to triumph the trenches, and we didn't truly bash that.”

Turnovers drain momentum and constrictive Cowboys’ path

Dallas mislaid the turnover conflict 3-0. Two interceptions and a fumble turned into 14 Detroit points, portion the defence allowed 4 rushing touchdowns, including 3 from Jahmyr Gibbs. The Cowboys averaged conscionable 3.8 yards per rush, and Prescott’s 12-yard scramble was their longest tally of the night.

Prescott was pressured 20 times, sacked 5 times and mislaid his apical receiver erstwhile CeeDee Lamb exited with a concussion. Still, Dallas doubly chopped the shortage to 1 people successful the 4th quarter, lone to ticker the Lions reply with touchdowns. “The complementary shot wasn't what it was the past respective weeks,” Schottenheimer said.

As for the playoff race, Prescott knows the Cowboys nary longer power their fate. “I don't cognize if I tin accidental we power our ain destiny,” helium said. “Being 6-6-1 close now… we're going to request immoderate things to hap for us. I don't deliberation it's successful our power astatine this point. But what we tin power is the mode that we attack the game.”