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ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) \u2014 Jerry Jones had his fingers entwined in front of him as he glanced up toward the big video board with a concerned look on his face. Right after his Dallas Cowboys fell behind against winless Tampa Bay, Dak Prescott threw an interception.<\/p>\n

Things were just starting to really unravel for the Cowboys, and the owner’s expression would only get more bleak<\/a>, even though they had a chance late to escape without a loss.<\/p>\n

The Cowboys (2-3) lost 24-16 on Thursday night to a Bucs team with undrafted rookie quarterback Jalon Daniels filling in for the injured Baker Mayfield. Prescott had another interception with 1:16 left when his throw deflected off tight end Jake Ferguson at the Bucs 12.<\/p>\n

Playing at home for the only time in October, and in primetime for all to see, this was a chance for the Cowboys to build some momentum in the NFC East. And the opportunity for a second win in five days against another winless team before a bit of a break.<\/p>\n

Instead, there will only be more questions in the nine-day break before going to Green Bay, and then Philadelphia. The Cowboys don’t play at home again until Nov. 1 against Arizona.<\/p>\n

The Bucs (1-4), whose only touchdown before halftime was a 15-play drive that took just shy of 11 minutes, started must faster after the break. They went ahead to stay on two big runs that took only a minute. Bucky Irving ran for 72 yards, immediately followed by Emeka Egbuka’s 14-yard TD run that gave them a 14-10 lead.<\/p>\n

Then came the first pick by Prescott deep in Tampa Bay territory, and Irving added a 1-yard TD run before KaVontae Turpin fumbled the ensuing kickoff return. The Bucs then converted a third-and-21 on the drive that ended with Chase McLaughlin’s 41-yard field for a 24-10 lead.<\/p>\n

The Cowboys played their third game in 12 days, a stretch that began with 10-hour flights to and from Rio de Janeiro, where they lost 34-31 to Baltimore after the Ravens got a big play and game-ending field goal in the final 7 seconds.<\/p>\n

Dallas rebounded last Sunday with a 34-30 victory at winless Houston, when CeeDee Lamb capped his career-high 17 catches for 189 yards with a 12-yard TD<\/a> in the final minute.<\/p>\n

But Lamb had only two catches for 9 yards against the Bucs before getting sidelined by a quad injury.<\/p>\n

After Tampa Bay bypassed a field goal chance and was stopped on fourth-and-goal from the 1 with 8 1\/2 minutes left, the Cowboys went 99 yards in 10 plays for Prescott’s 18-yard TD to George Pickens before they failed on a 2-point conversion.<\/p>\n

They got one more chance after a defensive stop, but that ended with the last pick.<\/p>\n

See AP\u2019s full NFL coverage here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) \u2014 Jerry Jones had his fingers entwined in front of him as he glanced up…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151,13271,157570,6348,157576,157575,114,102,48421,5962,10061,13431,2638,8634,23681,202,196,42093,42094,1033,942],"class_list":["post-460847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news","tag-baker-mayfield","tag-bucky-irving","tag-ceedee-lamb","tag-chase-mclaughlin","tag-cowboys-nfl-jerry-jones","tag-dak-prescott","tag-dallas","tag-emeka-egbuka","tag-george-pickens","tag-jake-ferguson","tag-jalon-daniels","tag-jerry-jones","tag-kavontae-turpin","tag-package-100024-ap-online","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-32000-ap-online-football-news","tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","tag-product-40780-ap-florida-sports-only","tag-product-40815-ap-texas-sports-only"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460847","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=460847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}