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The Dallas Cowboys began their 2025 season on Thursday night in Philadelphia and the game featured both a player getting ejected for spitting and a lightning delay. It had action to say the least.
While the Cowboys offense was fully alive in the first half and the defense was struggling, matters flipped in the second half. The Cowboys offense was given the ball by their defense and faced a four-point deficit on three occasions as the game wound down and could not put a single point up on those possessions. That was the difference.
There is no question that the Cowboys showed fight and serious promise for the season overall. Time will tell what that translates to, but for now this is officially an 0-1 football team (0-1 in division as well).
Below you will find our breakdown of the game by quarter.
Football is back.
The Philadelphia Eagles won the opening coin toss and deferred to the second half. Officially speaking, the Dallas Cowboys offense was the first group in the NFL to touch a football in 2025.
But chaos broke out before the offense even took a snap. Eagles defensive tackle Jalen Carter appeared to spit on Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott and was ejected. For real.
Needless to say this got things off on quite the foot for all involved. Ultimately things stabilized and the Cowboys offense went to work.
But went to work they really did. Dak Prescott, Javonte Williams, CeeDee Lamb and George Pickens all looked great. It was Williams who finished things off though with the first touchdown of the NFL season.
That lead was short-lived, though. Philadelphia began to move and did so with relative ease against the Cowboys defense.
They capped it off with a Jalen Hurts rushing touchdown on third and goal to tie it up at 7-7.
The Cowboys began marching down the field and looked to be on the verge of repeating their first drive.
Unfortunately a bit before the quarter ended Tyelr Smith got called for a holding penalty which looked like it was going to derail things… and then George Pickens showed up.
Technically a penalty did as Pickens drew a huge pass interference to put Dallas inside the redzone.
Ultimately the quarter ended with Dallas on the goal line with things square at 7-7.
The Cowboys ended the first quarter knocking on the door. As the second one started, they opened it as Javonte Williams scored another touchdown.
The battle kept going, though. The Eagles offense kept their form and put together an incredible drive the featured some spectacular rushing efforts from Hurts. It may have featured some non-called holding penalties with Lane Johnson and Marshawn Kneeland as well.
Ultimately the Eagles cashed in and even things up at 14-14.
Back on offense the Cowboys went and it was going to be interesting to see if the touchdown sequence continued.
The Eagles defense began to show a little teeth and...
