The Morning After: Cowboys outlast Lions with fourth-quarter fireworks
By Bob Sturm Oct 1, 2018 25
Noon starts in the NFL sometimes result in sleepy football early in the proceedings. That's especially for teams that rarely play the early games. Sunday was no exception. The Cowboys and Lions traded punts until Dak Prescott started the fireworks with his second- and third-longest pass plays of the season midway through the first quarter.
First, it was the play-action bootleg drive-starter that they love so much (but to the right side instead of the left!) as Prescott found Geoff Swaim for a healthy 31 yards. Then, two plays later, they used play action on a second-and-short deep pass to Michael Gallup down the sideline for another 37 yards. These two passes, seemingly from Scott Linehan's opening script again, showed the ability to execute on something the Cowboys haven't done in the first month of the season — with the rare exception of the 64-yard touchdown to Tavon Austin in Week 2: find big plays through the...