Dallas Cowboys beat Washington Commanders 30-23 as the NFC East rivals kicked off the NFL’s Christmas schedule.<\/p>\n
The three-match festive slate featured five teams who made the play-offs last season, but four of the six sides went into the day with no chance of reaching the post-season this time while Denver had already secured their berth.<\/p>\n
Broadcasters Netflix still brought out all the stops to give viewers something to look forward to, with Kelly Clarkson and Snoop Dogg lined up for performances.<\/p>\n
And the Commanders and Cowboys managed to offer some entertainment on the field in the opening contest.<\/p>\n
The teams combined for five touchdowns, over 800 yards of offence and 53 points, highlighted by Dallas quarterback Dak Prescott connecting with KaVontae Turpin for an 86-yard touchdown and Washington\u2019s Jacory Croskey-Merritt rushing for a 72-yard score.<\/p>\n
Prescott threw for two touchdowns and 307 yards, with Cowboys running back Javonte Williams recording a rushing score and kicker Brandon Aubrey adding 12 points with his foot to keep the Commanders at bay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas Cowboys beat Washington Commanders 30-23 as the NFC East rivals kicked off the NFL’s Christmas schedule. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-211080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}