{"id":286593,"date":"2026-05-10T05:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T05:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/286593\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T05:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T05:35:08","slug":"renegades-continue-their-spiral-fall-to-birmingham-in-overtime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/286593\/","title":{"rendered":"Renegades continue their spiral, fall to Birmingham in overtime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Dallas Renegades <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/other-sports\/article\/dallas-renegades-dc-defenders-score-ufl-football-22238153.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">continued their spiral<\/a> with perhaps their most crushing loss yet, falling in overtime to the Birmingham Stallions on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>The Renegades coughed up a fourth-quarter lead before falling in the shootout-style overtime. Dallas has now lost four straight games after starting off its season 3-0.<\/p>\n<p>With the game tied 10-10 in the fourth quarter, Dallas RB Ellis Merriweather broke off a 15-yard touchdown run to give the Renegades a 17-10 lead. But Birmingham, with former Browns and Eagles quarterback Dorian Thompson-Robinson under center, led a game-tying drive with under five minutes remaining.<\/p>\n<p>Dallas put together a two-minute drill behind QB Austin Reed and was able to push into Birmingham territory, but a potential game-winning 53-yard field goal was blocked at the buzzer.<\/p>\n<p>UFL overtime alternates two-point conversion attempts in a shootout-style format with the best team two-out-of-three claiming the win.<\/p>\n<p>Dallas was unable to convert even one of its attempts in OT, coming up short on a Merriweather run and a sack of Reed.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile Thompson-Robinson scrambled into the end zone on Birmingham&#8217;s first attempt, then found former NFL journeyman\u00a0Jaydon Mickens in the end zone on the second attempt for the win.<\/p>\n<p>The loss drops Dallas to 3-4 after its sterling start. Head coach Rick Neuheisel will look to right the ship before the Renegades next matchup on Friday against the Orlando Storm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dallas Renegades continued their spiral with perhaps their most crushing loss yet, falling in overtime to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,27026],"class_list":["post-286593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-dallas-renegades"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286593","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=286593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}