{"id":110736,"date":"2026-01-04T23:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T23:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/110736\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T23:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T23:08:08","slug":"penalties-third-down-more-play-role-in-cowboys-34-17-loss-to-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/110736\/","title":{"rendered":"Penalties, third down, more play role in Cowboys&#8217; 34-17 loss to Giants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ \u2013 The first season of the Brian Schottenheimer era is officially in the books, with the Cowboys falling to the Giants 34-17 to move Dallas&#8217; record to 7-9-1.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday marked the first time that the Giants had beat Dallas since 2020. It was also the first time Dak Prescott lost as a starting quarterback to the G-Men since his rookie season, although he did not play the full game.<\/p>\n<p>The focus for Dallas now immediately flips to the offseason, starting with player exit meetings on Monday and Tuesday, to go through what Schottenheimer described as a &#8220;laundry list&#8221; of items for improvement ahead of 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s dive into some more news and notes from Week 18:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ \u2013 The first season of the Brian Schottenheimer era is officially in the books, with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,46887,1090,16332,3592],"class_list":["post-110736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-featured-dalvsnyg-2025","tag-news-all-news","tag-news-pic-6-2025","tag-news-tommy-yarrish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}