{"id":442617,"date":"2026-09-21T04:40:41","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T04:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/442617\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T04:40:41","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T04:40:41","slug":"tim-cowlishaws-cowboys-commanders-report-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/442617\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Cowlishaw’s Cowboys-Commanders report card"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0A 37-20 destruction of the Commanders<\/a> got the Cowboys<\/a> back to the .500 level and at least removed the sour taste that had remained from Sunday night in the Meadowlands. The game was one yard shy of being 17-17 at halftime, and that\u2019s important to remember as the club goes about the business of getting ready for Baltimore on the strange road to Brazil<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Dak Prescott<\/a> completes 84 percent of his passes and breaks Tony Romo\u2019s club touchdown record, CeeDee Lamb<\/a> hauls in passes for 153 yards and a pair of scores, and the team can\u2019t get an A? Not when the running game is stopped cold again as happened Sunday. Javonte Williams finished with 12 carries for 30 yards. He barely beat Dak\u2019s scrambles (26 yards) in rushing. This line protects Dak fairly well but it is opening no holes up the middle for Williams.<\/p>\n

The big touchdown that wasn\u2019t record-setting (Jake Ferguson<\/a>\u2019s 12-yard catch on a 13-yard drive) came after the rare great play by linebackers, veteran Dee Winters recovering a fumble forced by rookie Jaishawn Barham. The Dallas front caused a reasonable amount of pressure even if Daniels and Marcus Mariota avoided actual sacks. Washington was limited in its big play pass ability. Even the vaunted Eagles defense gave up two more points to the Commanders last week than Dallas did.<\/p>\n

The A stands largely for Aubrey as Brandon hit a 60-yard field goal that might have been on its way up as it cleared the bar. Maybe not that high but it was certainly going to be good from beyond 65. KaVontae Turpin\u2019s kick returns averaged 30.5 yards on his four tries while Dallas held Jaylin Lane to a 20-yard average on six returns. Huge disparity that makes a difference in field position.<\/p>\n

Brian Schottenheimer said the intention was to come out throwing. Give him credit for understanding Dallas would struggle to run against this Washington D but could find plenty of openings in the secondary. Obviously, it\u2019s a different game if Daniels doesn\u2019t go down<\/a> or if replay allows a third quarter Washington TD that looked like it should have counted. But in a world where things rarely go smoothly for either team, Cowboys coaches had the club positioned for a nice win.<\/p>\n

They get an A if they beat the Ravens with Lamar Jackson playing a full game. Too much of a drop off from\u00a0Daniels to the 12-year vet Mariota to consider this any kind of great defensive performance. Cowboys allowed 182 Washington rushing yards, but the club gets credit for keeping the run game out of the end zone and pulling away in the third quarter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0A 37-20 destruction of the Commanders got the Cowboys back to the .500 level and at least removed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":442618,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,100199,93042,88227,88776,88229],"class_list":["post-442617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-tp-ceedee-lamb","tag-tp-dallas-cowboys","tag-tp-brian-schottenheimer","tag-tp-dak-prescott","tag-tp-nfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442617","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=442617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}