{"id":449811,"date":"2026-09-28T03:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T03:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/449811\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T03:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T03:54:09","slug":"photos-how-cowboys-struggles-led-to-tyler-loops-game-winning-fg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/449811\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: How Cowboys&#8217; struggles led to Tyler Loop&#8217;s game-winning FG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/cowboys\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Cowboys&#8217;<\/a> first trip to Rio de Janeiro will end with a few question marks.<\/p>\n<p>While Dallas made things interesting late in the matchup, the team couldn&#8217;t keep the Baltimore Ravens off the board and suffered <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\">a 34-31 Week 3 loss.<\/a> The biggest question for the Cowboys will likely revolve around their handling of the game&#8217;s final seconds.<\/p>\n<p>With seven seconds left in a 31-31 game, Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson found receiver Zay Flowers for a pivotal 27-yard connection. Flowers went down in the middle of the field, and Jackson quickly called for a timeout to set Tyler Loop up for the 56-yard game-winning field goal. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/cowboys\/article\/watch-lovejoy-tyler-loop-rio-game-winning-fg-22451867.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Loop, a Lovejoy product, drilled the final kick as time expired.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Why did Jackson have enough time to find Flowers? Should Dallas have used more time before kicking the ball back to Baltimore? The Cowboys will have to answer these questions throughout the upcoming week.<\/p>\n<p>Dallas Morning News photographer Smiley Pool captured the defining sequence of Cowboys-Ravens at Maracan\u00e3 Stadium. Take a look at his photos of the sequence below:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dallas Cowboys&#8217; first trip to Rio de Janeiro will end with a few question marks. While Dallas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[732,102,104,103,93042,88229],"class_list":["post-449811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-article","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-tp-dallas-cowboys","tag-tp-nfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449811","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=449811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}