{"id":442501,"date":"2026-09-21T01:48:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T01:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/442501\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T01:48:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T01:48:32","slug":"national-reaction-to-cowboys-commanders-dak-deals-defense-struggles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/442501\/","title":{"rendered":"National reaction to Cowboys-Commanders: Dak deals, defense struggles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a disappointing season-opening loss on the road against the New York Giants, the Cowboys returned to AT&amp;T Stadium for their home opener against the Washington Commanders and treated fans to some offensive fireworks.<\/p>\n<p>However, questions still remain for the Cowboys defense. Commanders quarterback Jayden Daniels was carving Dallas up through the air and with his legs until <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/cowboys\/article\/jayden-daniels-carted-off-cowboys-commanders-22441041.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">he exited with a gruesome elbow injury on the final play of the first half<\/a>. The defense was able to slow down backup quarterback Marcus Mariota in the second half, but there were still many difficult moments for Christian Parker&#8217;s unit.<\/p>\n<p>The dichotomy of Prescott&#8217;s performance and another spotty outing from the defense led to some mixed reviews .<\/p>\n<p>See how people reacted to Dallas&#8217; victory over Washington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a disappointing season-opening loss on the road against the New York Giants, the Cowboys returned to AT&amp;T&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":442502,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,5964,88346,88776],"class_list":["post-442501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-listicle","tag-tp-att-stadium","tag-tp-dak-prescott"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442501","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=442501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}