{"id":438111,"date":"2026-09-16T21:46:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T21:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/438111\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T21:46:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T21:46:13","slug":"2026-nfl-week-2-dallas-cowboys-vs-washington-commanders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/438111\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 NFL Week 2: Dallas Cowboys vs. Washington Commanders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Welcome to Week 2 of the Dallas Cowboys season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">For the first, and hopefully last, time the Cowboys are looking to bounce back from a loss. This past Sunday was a humbling experience for the Cowboys as they had an enormous amount of positivity heading into the season opener, but football is a meritocracy and the New York Giants earned the right to win that game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">This week the Cowboys will have to out work and out earn another division rival in the Washington Commanders. Like Dallas, Washington lost in Week 1 to a division rival in the Philadelphia Eagles. This means that the loser of this game is going to be sitting at 0-2 overall and within the NFC East.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Dak Prescott, CeeDee Lamb, George Pickens, Javonte Williams and the rest of Brian Schottenheimer\u2019s \u201cGOTI\u201d offense are going to have to be more consistent if they want to change the team\u2019s fortunes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">What\u2019s more is that the defense is going to need more than Caleb Downs to shine. Quinnen Williams, Donovan Ezeriuaku, DaRon Bland, and specifically Christian Parker are going to have to make sure last week was an aberration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">This post will serve as our story stream for the week. All articles related to the game will cycle through.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome to Week 2 of the Dallas Cowboys season. For the first, and hopefully last, time the Cowboys&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438112,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,669,104,103],"class_list":["post-438111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-cowboys-roster","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438111","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=438111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}