The situation: Cowboys\u2019 ball, fourth-and-4 at Dallas\u2019 32-yard line.<\/p>\n
The score: Texans 30, Cowboys 27<\/p>\n
Time remaining: 1 minutes, 34 seconds in fourth quarter.<\/p>\n
The sequence: The Cowboys faced what essentially was a do-or-die situation with fourth down in their own territory after Kamari Ramsey stopped CeeDee Lamb for a 3-yard loss on third down. But\u00a0Dak Prescott found tight end Jake Ferguson in a soft spot in the middle of the Texans’ defense for a 7-yard gain to keep the drive alive.<\/p>\n
The aftermath: Prescott went to work after the fourth-down conversion. A 15-yard pass to\u00a0Lamb \u2014 the Foster High School graduate who had a monster game with 17 catches for 189 yards\u00a0\u2014 got Dallas into Houston territory and a 22-yarder to George Pickens later moved the Cowboys to the Texans\u2019 12, from where they scored the winning touchdown two plays later. That plunged the Texans to 0-4, from which only one team in NFL history has recovered to make the playoffs.<\/p>\n
What might\u2019ve been: Had they got a fourth-down stop, the Texans would\u2019ve had the ball deep in Dallas territory with the Cowboys holding two timeouts. That meant one more Houston first down would\u2019ve ended the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The situation: Cowboys\u2019 ball, fourth-and-4 at Dallas\u2019 32-yard line. The score: Texans 30, Cowboys 27 Time remaining: 1…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-456485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456485","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=456485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}