GDT: Bills at Cowboys

[BriansRams]

He's WAAAAAAY better than that Cleveland QB. WAY BETTER!

 

[Reddog99]

Ok 3 of the next 5 could possibly be a W.

 

[Psycho_X]

Might have a division leader in the playoffs with a losing record if the NFC east tries real hard.

 

[Q729]

Damn. Jerruh left before the game ended.

 

[SuperMan28]

Loved that game.

I have tremendous disdain for Jerruh for a variety of reasons. The fact that he'll be dead before he ever sees them win another Super Bowl makes me happy. His team sucks and they're not gonna get any better with Dak making 35 mil a season.

 

[CGI_Ram]

What we learned from Thursday's Thanksgiving games

Mitchell Trubisky led Chicago back from a second-half deficit to defeat Detroit, and Josh Allen surprised the football world by leading the Bills past the Cowboys. Here's what we learned Thursday.

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Buffalo Bills 26, Dallas Cowboys 15

1. This is it. This is the point in history in which we stop talking seriously about the 2019 Dallas Cowboys. Surprise: a team that hasn't been able to beat a single opponent with a record above .500 wasn't able to beat its Thanksgiving opponent that arrived with a record above .500. And not only did they not beat them, they watched their opponent coast to victory in the second half.

The Cowboys flirted with a win, scoring first before the Bills wrested momentum away from them before halftime. From there, they put the ball in the hands of Dak Prescott, who was forced to throw it 49 times, completing 32 of those attempts for 355 yards, two touchdowns and an interception, which is a stat line that's pretty appealing in a box score but not so much on the tape. The most glaring outcome: At the end of a 69-yard drive, the Cowboys took a shot at the end zone in a play that initially looked like it might be a touchdown. It was overturned, and on the ensuing play -- fourth-and-goal from the Buffalo 6 -- Prescott threw a swing pass to Ezekiel Elliott, who looked to have room to run into the end zone. The attempt went into the dirt.

That play was the 2019 Cowboys in a nutshell: Talented enough to get there, but not good enough to execute. Chalk up another loss to a team above .500.

2. Thursday's result and the fashion in which it was reached brings Jason Garrett's status into serious question. An exasperated Jerry Jones was caught on camera at multiple moments in the second half as the Bills continued to widen the gap on the scoreboard and in the desire category, and he left his visible seat in the final minute as the Bills kneeled out the clock. Videos surfaced on Twitter shortly thereafter of Jones and his son, Stephen, walking with stern expressions into Dallas' locker room. Another video included the muffled sound of a player on a screaming tirade from behind the closed doors of the locker room.

Things aren't looking great in Dallas, and Garrett might not survive long enough to see how it ends. You'd never guess this team is still in first place in its (bad) division.

3. OK, enough about the turmoil in Dallas. I'll be the first to admit that I never thought Josh Allen (and his early penchant for turnovers) would pan out in the NFL, but two seasons in, he's proving me and plenty of other doubters wrong.

Allen was excellent Thursday, leading the Bills offense on multiple scoring drives and doing it with his actions, not words. Allen's desire to win showed in a fumbled QB sneak that the QB recovered and then continued to drive his legs to fight through a defender for two yards and a first down. Allen ran in a touchdown on his own later in the game and finished with a sparkling line: 19-of-24 passing, 231 yards, one touchdown and a 120.7 passer rating.

Allen has evolved from a deep-ball chucker who was always good for a disastrous turnover or two per game to the quarterback evaluators imagined could be possible when drooling over his size and arm. He's extending plays with his feet, gradually becoming more accurate and doing so without a ton of weapons to speak of. We'll see where this road takes him, but right now, it's looking pretty good.

-- Nick Shook

 

[CGI_Ram]

Bills players mock Dak Prescott, Ezekiel Elliott after win

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Bills players mock Dak Prescott, Ezekiel Elliott after win

The Cowboys are known as “America’s Team,” so other NFL squads enjoy piling on when Dallas is struggling.

As such, when the Bills went into AT&T Stadium and destroyed the Cowboys on Thanksgiving, Buffalo’s players made sure to let their opponents know about it.

Dallas scored a touchdown on its first possession, but it was all downhill from then on, as Buffalo dominated throughout, jumping out to a 26-7 lead midway through the fourth quarter. Not only that, a few of their players rubbed some salt in the wound in the game’s waning moments.

Bills defensive linemen Jordan Phillips and Shaq Lawson mocked Ezekiel Elliott’s signature “feed me” celebration.


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