Elliott finished with a season-high 116 yards on 29 carries in the 35-31 loss to the Green Bay Packers, but it wasn’t a four-quarter effort. Not quite. That remains a wait-and-see proposition.
Almost nine months after he knocked the Cowboys from the NFC playoffs with some late-game quarterbacking magic, Rodgers returned to AT&T Stadium and did it again in a regular season affair. “I told him before the game I have absolutely zero worries about him back there”. “That’s just the case. We’ve got 11 games left”.
Green Bay Packers QB Aaron Rodgers finds WR Jordy Nelson for the 10-yard touchdown on a play-action pass to begin the fourth quarter of Sunday’s matchup in Dallas.
Again, this was the second time in nine months the Cowboys scored with enough time left for Rodgers to engineer a game-winning drive against them in their own building. Your mind-set’s a lot different. When I went to the hospital and saw him the other night, he was back to his normal self, joking around, trying to break out of the hospital. What do you make of the key clock management situations? The Packers won, 34-31, and advanced to the NFC title game.
Green Bay (4-1) returned to do it twice in a year, dropping the Cowboys to 2-3 on the season. The early returns have not been all that promising.
With that, the Cowboys head into their bye week saddled with a two-game losing streak and a 2-3 record. This was the second week in a row they lost a game despite putting up such sensational numbers. It also helped Rodgers and the Packers flip the game in the final minute and 13 seconds. Running the zone read, Prescott pulled down the ball and raced to the end zone, diving past defensive backs Kentrell Brice and Ha Ha Clinton-Dix for the go-ahead score. The secondary has some serious issues, the linebackers without Sean Lee are out of position and not making plays, and the pass rush is really inconsistent. Give them credit. They did. “We’re getting where we want to be”, Prescott said. We’ll stay together. This is a close team. Bryant, not shadowed by a premium corner for the first time all season, got open on in-breaking routes. He added 32 rushing yards including a big 18-yard run for a first down a couple of plays before the game-winning throw. But by the fourth quarter, with 21 running plays in the books, the tables turned.
It was Dak Prescott who would throw touchdown passes on the Cowboy’s first three drives, but similar to last week’s loss, the offense hit a wall once the second half got underway. On top of that, Rodgers has increased his touchdown total each week, and while he likely won’t push it to five this week, he’s a lock for more than one.
“I felt a gap to my left and knew if I could get out, I had a lane to run”, Rodgers told Fox Sports.
Bennett had just three catches but today was about quality over quantity for the outspoken tight end. The Packers had drives of eight, nine, nine, 13 and 14 plays during the game, and some dude named Aaron Jones rushed 19 times for 125 yards. Dallas ate up over 8:30 of clock time before taking the lead, and were seemingly doing anything possible to not give the ball back to No. 12. “So I just switched the formation up a little bit”. “.but Tae came back and said, ‘Call it again.’ He just said with his eyes, ‘throw a better ball'”.