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The Dallas Cowboys managed the Las Vegas Raiders all through the “Monday Night time Soccer” recreation and rolled to a 33-16 win.
Dallas quarterback Dak Prescott threw 4 TD passes and completed with 268 passing yards. George Pickens tallied 144 yards receiving and one landing. Las Vegas had simply 237 complete yards.
Dallas snapped a two-game shedding streak to enhance to 4-5-1, whereas Las Vegas dropped to 2-8 with its fourth straight loss.
Cowboys coach Brian Schottenheimer on new Dallas DT Quinnen Williams: “Q’s a very good soccer participant. We must always hold him.”
Listed here are the most recent NFC East standings. The Cowboys are in second place after their dominant win over the Raiders.
Dallas is 4 wins behind the division-leading Philadelphia Eagles. The Eagles are 1-0 towards the Cowboys after beating their division rivals on opening night time of the season. The 2 groups sq. off subsequent week, basically a must-win for the Cowboys.
Dallas is second within the division in level differential at plus-3.
Listed here are the most recent AFC West standings. The Las Vegas Raiders are firmly in final place with their loss tonight to the Dallas Cowboys.
The Raiders are three video games again of third place, held by the 5-5 Kansas Metropolis Chiefs. Las Vegas has the worst level differential within the division at minus-98.
The Cowboys’ schedule is about to get much more troublesome. They host the defending Tremendous Bowl champion Eagles in a rivalry matchup on Sunday, adopted by a Thanksgiving recreation towards the Chiefs and a “Thursday Night time Soccer” matchup towards the Lions in Detroit.
The Raiders will try and snap a four-game shedding streak on Sunday as they host one other struggling AFC group — Cleveland, which additionally presently sits at 2-8 on the season.
Issues get tougher for Las Vegas from there, with matchups towards the playoff-contending Chargers, Broncos and Eagles looming after that.
Though the Cowboys had a powerful victory over the Raiders, their probabilities of making the playoffs are slim. With the victory, Dallas' odds to make the playoffs are 6 p.c, according to The Athletic’s playoff predictor.
In the event that they one way or the other defeat the Philadelphia Eagles subsequent week, the Cowboys' playoff chance jumps to 12 p.c.
Cowboys coach Brian Schottenheimer stated there have been “a pair issues missed” that led to CeeDee Lamb and George Pickens not taking part in on the primary sequence. Nothing past that.
The Raiders are a multitude, particularly on offense. They’ve misplaced 4 straight video games to fall to 2-8, and in seven of their video games, they’ve scored 20 factors or fewer.
Geno Smith received a pleasant contract to come back over from Seattle, and he hasn’t been nice, however the points aren’t all on him. The offensive line is a multitude. The operating recreation is nonexistent. And the weapons don’t scare defenses, aside from Brock Bowers.
Getting into tonight, the Raiders had a 5 p.c likelihood to get the No. 1 decide within the 2026 NFL Draft, per The Athletic’s playoff simulator. With the loss tonight to Dallas, the Raiders' chance jumps to eight p.c to get the primary decide.
The Raiders moved from Oakland to Las Vegas in 2020. It hasn't been fairly for the black and silver.
The Raiders have a .409 profitable share since relocating to Las Vegas (twenty fourth in NFL). They solely have one profitable season and playoff look, which occurred in 2021, earlier than shedding to the Cincinnati Bengals.
After the Cowboys win, Dak Prescott was requested how he and his teammates dealt with the feelings of tonight's recreation.
💬 "I believe we did a fantastic job of it. Telling the blokes early management the issues you could management in honoring Marshawn and that's our effort, our depth and the best way that we end each play. I believe on either side of the ball and particular groups, everyone exemplified that.
“I’ve no higher peace than being on this discipline. I do know this [is true] for lots of men out right here. It’s important to take into consideration quite a bit, you bought to focus in so it was a blessing to be out right here. That is the place therapeutic occurs for me. We love Marshawn. We're gonna proceed to shine gentle for him, and we're blessed to hold his gentle for him.”
Taking part in Las Vegas is strictly what the Dallas offense wanted. That aspect of the ball hasn’t appeared nice within the final two video games. Perhaps a nasty opponent will get the offense again on monitor.
Dak Prescott was taking part in at an elite stage the primary seven weeks. He got here again all the way down to earth the earlier two earlier than the bye week. He was wonderful once more Monday night time together with his thirteenth profession recreation with at the very least 4 landing passes, a franchise report. He additionally moved previous Tony Romo because the franchise chief with 41 profession video games with at the very least 3 passing touchdowns.
If there was one defensive participant for the Cowboys who jumped out, it was DaRon Bland. He's struggled at instances this season so it was good to see him return to type.
Bland was distinctive in masking the Raiders receivers. He recorded 10 tackles, six of them solo. Bland had two go deflections tonight.
The Raiders needed no a part of making an attempt to run towards Dallas entrance. It’ll be fascinating to see how opponents recreation plan going ahead now that Dallas has Quinnen Williams within the center.
The Cowboys have been making an attempt to repair their run protection for some time. May they lastly have a solution with their strongest defensive deal with group in over 15 years?
Under are a few of your postgame views from tonight's Cowboys victory over the Raiders:
Cowboys QB Dak Prescott has 41 profession video games with at the very least three passing touchdowns, passing Tony Romo for essentially the most three-touchdown video games in franchise historical past.
Prescott has 4 passing touchdowns tonight, and his 13 video games with 4 or extra passing touchdowns are essentially the most in franchise historical past.
After having only one catch for 31 yards final week towards Denver, Raiders tight finish Brock Bowers was featured closely tonight towards the Cowboys, main the group with 12 targets, catching seven passes for 72 yards.
The 22-year-old continues to be utilized in quite a lot of methods and is clearly Geno Smith's go-to goal, however Bowers' productiveness continues to be being capped by the general struggles of Las Vegas' offense.
The Raiders can not execute a handoff with out Ashton Jeanty being swarmed by Dallas defenders within the backfield. The rookie operating again was solely capable of muster 7 yards speeding on six carries.
This isn’t only a one-night challenge for Las Vegas.
Geno Smith's final play of the sport was a sack on fourth-and-1. It was a microcosm of his efficiency tonight.
The Raiders' QB completed 27-of-42 passing for 238 yards and one landing with one interception. He was sacked 4 instances tonight.
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