Blogging The Boys
Well done Cowboys fans, you made it. That was one long offseason but football is finally back and the Dallas Cowboys opened the season playing against the Philadelphia Eagles in Lincoln Financial Field.
The team, for the first time in 2025 get ready to take on the season.
Jalen Carter, before the first play of the game is ejected from the game.
The Cowboys first offensive drive of the season ends in a Javonte Williams touchdown and Dallas takes the lead.
Eagles answer right back and drive down the field for an easy touchdown
On the ensuing kickoff we get a fight at the end of the play. Things getting heated.
Dak to Lamb is going to be fun to watch this year.
George Pickens draws a huge DPI down in Eagles territory.
Williams starts the second quarter with a touchdown.
Jalen Hurts rushes with freedom and levels the score.
Dak refuses to get sacked.
Brandon Aubrey hits a field goal to retake the lead. Defense needs to make a stop.
Kaiir Elam lets up a huge pass play.
Defense have no answers, no pressure, missing tackles, and failed to stop on third down.
Penalties on the Eagles defense keep Dallas in the game and moving downfield.
Aubrey gets the score to 20-21 before the half and a good final drive by Dallas before halftime.
HALFTIME
We have our first sack of the season.
Miles Sanders goes off!
Eagles Reed Blankenship hits Jake Ferguson in the end zone as a defenceless player and draws the flag
Then Miles Sanders fumbles the ball.
Before the Eagles could take any momentum from the game’s first turnover, the East Coast weather had a say.
Following the delay, the game script completely flipped and the defenses had all the say.
The Cowboys stiffened up against the run to force three straight punts, and Solomon Thomas was huge on the interior.
A Cowboys offense that scored on their first four possessions of the game had plenty of chances to retake the lead, but let them all slip away.
Lamb did go to the medical tent after the Cowboys’ final turnover on downs.
And the Eagles were able to get the one first down they needed to run out the clock on a 24-20 victory.
Final thoughts on a night where the Cowboys did a lot of encouraging things, but still fell short.
The Cowboys know they need to win and lose with their highest paid players, and saw that unfold in a way that was shocking with Lamb’s crucial drops.
