Crossing Broad
Talk about a pleasant evening. Not only did the Eagles beat the Cowboys in Dallas for the first time since 2017, but they thrashed ’em pretty good, trailing for a grand total of zero seconds down in Jerry World, where the players needed military-grade glasses to deal with the first half sun glare. Once they settled in, they scored 24 unanswered points and it was Kenny Pickett and Will Shipley time in the Big D.
Dak Prescott didn’t play, but does it matter? It does not. You beat the guys they put in front of you, and in this case it was mostly Cooper Rush with a quarter of Trey Lance thrown in. The Birds’ defense didn’t allow a touchdown, giving up 121 yards and creating four takeaways before garbage time began around the 12:00 mark of the fourth quarter. They picked off Lance from there to make it four Dallas fumbles and an interception.
That’s five wins a row for the Eagles, who are 7-2 and now lead the NFC East after the Washington Commanders lost to the Steelers at home. Now the Commies have to come up to Philly on Thursday night and there’s a quick-turnaround chance to extend the division lead and keep the train rolling. All aboard! Choo choo!
To the observations:
1) I thought it was going to be annoying listening to former Cowboy Tony Romo call a Cowboys/Eagles game in Dallas, but he wasn’t bad. It’s like he knew the Cowboys sucked, so he was somewhat subdued.
2) CJGJ laying the wood on Jalen Tolbert was an appropriate way to start the game. A “tone setter” type of play that provided some foreshadowing of what we’d see from the defense.
3) Jalen Hurts’ ankle looked totally fine. He finished with 56 yards on seven carries, only one of which was a tush push.
4) That first Eagles drive looked promising until 3rd and 33 popped up on the screen. They’ve only scored once on their first possession in nine games this year, which was the field goal in Cincinnati. They have, however, scored in the first quarter two times in a row, after going seven games in a row without doing it.
5) Thank you to Cooper Rush for dropping a snap and giving the Birds the ball on the Cowboys’ 17 yard line. Rush may have had Philadelphia Eagles -7.5 at his favorite Pennsylvania sports betting app.
6) Sounds like Birds fans took over down there:
This is the saddest home crowd I have ever seen. Nothing but Eagle fan chants. I try to get these boys going on Cowboys chants but nada.
— Ernie The Cowboys Fan (@es3_09) November 10, 2024
7) Hurts picked off in the end zone. That was his first turnover since the Tampa game. He killed three of the first four drives with two bad sacks and the red zone interception, then he killed the 5th drive with the fumble. It couldn’t have been easy...
