{"id":419861,"date":"2026-08-29T03:50:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T03:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/419861\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T03:50:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T03:50:13","slug":"halftime-update-new-orleans-saints-17-dallas-cowboys-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/419861\/","title":{"rendered":"Halftime Update: New Orleans Saints 17, Dallas Cowboys 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New Orleans Saints looked sharp in the first half of their preseason finale against the Dallas Cowboys as they took a 17-9 halftime lead on Friday at AT&amp;T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>With quarterback Tyler Shough and the rest of the starters resting, <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break:break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.neworleanssaints.com\/team\/players-roster\/spencer-rattler\/\" title=\"Spencer Rattler\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spencer Rattler<\/a>\u00a0got the start at quarterback and led the team on two scoring drives to start the game and then ended the half with an 8-yard touchdown run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New Orleans Saints looked sharp in the first half of their preseason finale against the Dallas Cowboys&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[145102,102,104,103,9858,146236,1194],"class_list":["post-419861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-2026-pre-week3","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-gameday","tag-halftime-update","tag-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419861","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=419861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}