Blogging The Boys
All the way back in week one the game was tied at 14 when Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts ran for his second touchdown of the game against the Dallas Cowboys, and the Eagles had scored their third straight touchdown in as many drives. This fast start matched the visiting Cowboys’ fast start, and by the time the Matt Eberflus defense stiffened up enough to get three stops in a row, the Eagles already had the four=point lead they needed to hang onto a 24-20 victory.
On Sunday, Hurts’ second rushing touchdown put the Eagles up 21-0, again capping off three straight touchdown drives that took full advantage of the Cowboys turning the ball over on downs, going three and out, and fumbling, and it felt like nothing the Eberflus defense could do would matter on a brutal afternoon from AT&T Stadium. Not only was the defense not putting up much resistance to the Eagles’ drives, but the offense couldn’t get out of it’s own way, even well into the second half when after the defense forced a punt on the Eagles’ first two drives, the Cowboys went three and out and missed a field goal.
The anatomy of a comeback was simply not in place deep into a game where an Eagles team that’s only given up 16 combined points in their last two wins held a 21-0 lead. The Cowboys would have to tie their largest comeback in franchise history to avoid being swept by the Eagles for the second year in a row, and looked way more interested in committing backbreaking penalties, dropping passes, and fumbling the ball than they did in sparking this comeback to win back-to-back games for the first time in 2025. Then, something miraculous happened, and as the defense continued to get stops to pitch a second half shutout, the Cowboys overcame coming up empty on goal-to-go situations twice to win the game with their best players on the field and score 24 unanswered points.
This game marked the first time the Eagles lost after leading by 21 since 1999, their second-largest blown lead in franchise history. In their two second half performances against the Cowboys this season, the Eagles scored a total of three points in their home win. In the most improbable fashion, the Cowboys rallying to hold serve at home made this a clear advantage in the game of adjustments between Eberflus and first-year play caller Kevin Patullo for the Eagles – the exact type of coaching win the Cowboys expected to get out of Eberflus when rehiring him.
On the day where quarterback Dak Prescott surpassed Tony Romo for the franchise’s all-time passing yards lead, he did so while earning an improbable, bizarre, and frankly unexpected win that will go as a signature one early in Brian Schottenheimer’s tenure. With wins against all three division rivals now, Schottenheimer’s guidance of the offense with Prescott has seen Dak’s home winning streak against the NFC East grow to 19 games. With...
