Bleeding Green Nation
Highlights and lowlights from Philadelphia’s Week 10 win.
This answered the pleas for a “style-points” win. The Eagles stomped on an injury-riddled, inferior Dallas Cowboys team the way they should have Cleveland and Jacksonville in previous weeks.
The Eagles splattered Dallas, 34-6, and backup quarterback Cooper Rush, playing for the injured Dak Prescott, at AT&T Stadium on Sunday for their fifth-straight victory. The Eagles’ win gives them sole possession of first place in the NFC East with a 7-2 record, a half-game better than the 7-3 Washington Commanders, who the Eagles will host on Thursday night.
In the process of winning, the Eagles also made a striking point in denying the depleted 3-6 Cowboys from making the playoffs for the first time since 2020.
Jalen Hurts completed 14 of 20 for 202 yards, throwing for two touchdowns and rushing for two scores, while the defense had five takeaways and held Rush to a scant 45 yards passing and the Dallas offense to 146 total yards, with an average of 2.6 yards a play (1.5 yards average per pass).
The Eagles’ five takeaways (4 fumble recoveries/1 INT) matched the most ever by the Eagles in a game at Dallas.
On a personal note, Saquon Barkley, who rushed for 66 yards on 14 carries, beat Dallas for the first time in his career, after going 0-5 against the Cowboys when he was a New York Giant.
The Eagles did what they were supposed to do against an inferior team. Let’s see where this team truly is on Thursday night against Commanders’ electric rookie quarterback Jayden Daniels and a team that will punch back.
There was a healthy dose of good, some bad, and a pinch of ugly, in the Eagles’ dominant 34-6 victory over the Dallas Cowboys.
Things were so bad for the Cowboys that Bryce “just call me Reggie White” Huff made another guest appearance, with a strip sack on the Cowboys’ last play of the third quarter. It resulted in an Eagles’ field goal and a 31-6 lead.
The Eagles’ third quarter. In a word “dominant.” The Eagles scored 14 points, amassed 116 total yards of offense, and had eight first downs to zero points for Dallas, three yards of offense and one turnover. Through three quarters, Dallas had 45 yards passing on 23 attempts, averaging 1.9 yards a throw.
Right guard Mekhi Becton and right tackle Lane Johnson pulling and pushing away Dallas linebacker Damone Clark (Becton) and cornerback Jourdan Lewis (Johnson) on Hurts’ 8-yard TD run with 2:56 left in the third quarter. The score put the Cowboys out of their misery.
Hurts’ arcing 44-yard completion to A.J. Brown on the first play of the Eagles’ third drive of the second half. It led to the Eagles scoring a touchdown for the second time on their first three drives of the second half.
Rookie safety Cooper DeSean, already with a fumble recovery in the end zone, taking Dallas’ first punt of the second half for...
