{"id":449799,"date":"2026-09-28T03:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T03:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/449799\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T03:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T03:30:09","slug":"schottenheimer-explains-cowboys-touchback-that-left-time-for-ravens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/449799\/","title":{"rendered":"Schottenheimer explains Cowboys&#8217; touchback that left time for Ravens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RIO DE JANEIRO \u2014 One of many questions about the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/cowboys\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cowboys<\/a>&#8216; 34-31 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/cowboys\/article\/cowboys-ravens-takeaways-rio-de-janeiro-22447631.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">loss to the Ravens on Sunday<\/a> was coach Brian Schottenheimer\u2019s decision not to kick off short of the goal line late in the game.<\/p>\n<p>After the Cowboys had tied the score at 31, kicker Brandon Aubrey sent the ensuing kickoff into the end zone for a touchback. The Ravens started their last drive of the game at their 35 with seven seconds to play.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If Aubrey had kicked short, it would have forced a return and taken seconds off the clock.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, it gave quarterback Lamar Jackson a chance at one play to get his team into field goal range. Jackson completed a 27-yard pass to receiver Zay Flowers with one second left.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So why wouldn\u2019t\u00a0Schottenheimer force the Ravens to return a kick?<\/p>\n<p>Schottenheimer said two shorter kicks by Aubrey\u00a0that went out of bounds for penalties gave him pause.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAgain, it happens occasionally,\u201d\u00a0Schottenheimer said. \u201cIt can\u2019t happen twice in a game. We don\u2019t expect that from Brandon. We know how talented Brandon is but like I said, no one coaches or played a perfect game and because of that, we ended up coming up short to a good football team\u00a0and a team that played well tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RIO DE JANEIRO \u2014 One of many questions about the\u00a0Cowboys&#8216; 34-31 loss to the Ravens on Sunday was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1638,102,104,103,97114,88227],"class_list":["post-449799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-brief","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-tp-brandon-aubrey","tag-tp-brian-schottenheimer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449799","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=449799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}