ARLINGTON, Texas \u2013 Dak Prescott wasn’t having it when teammates started congratulating Dallas’ star quarterback for breaking one of Tony Romo’s records as the Cowboys were trying to rally from 21 points down against the defending Super Bowl champs.<\/p>\n
Save it for the win, he said.<\/p>\n
Cue the celebration.<\/p>\n
Prescott threw two touchdown passes, ran for the tying score and led the drive to Brandon Aubrey’s 42-yard field goal as time expired as the Cowboys beat the Philadelphia Eagles 24-21 in a mistake-filled thriller Sunday.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow I can enjoy that a little bit,\u201d Prescott said of topping Romo’s career franchise record for yards passing, throwing for 354 yards to end the day with 34,378. \u201cI can tell you initially when I looked up and saw my name up there and saw that, there was a little emotion that hit me that I damn sure wasn’t ready for and didn’t know that would come. <\/p>\n
“And I think that’s why I countered that with anger of, \u2018No, no no, let that go. We\u2019ll celebrate this later.’\u201d<\/p>\n
Prescott also broke a tie with Romo by leading his 25th winning drive when tied or trailing in the fourth quarter or overtime. <\/p>\n
The Cowboys (5-5-1) converted on their third tiebreaking chance in the fourth quarter to extend Prescott’s home winning streak against NFC East opponents to 19 in their first game at AT&T Stadium since the death of defensive end Marshawn Kneeland.<\/p>\n
The Eagles (8-3) are still in good shape to be the first repeat winners in the NFC East since they won four in a row from 2001-04, but the offense reverted to the form that has frustrated A.J. Brown after the star receiver had a big hand in the 21-0 lead early in the second quarter.<\/p>\n
Philadelphia lost with a lead of at least 21 points for the first time since 1999, when Arizona beat the Eagles 25-24. It was the first win for Dallas when trailing by three touchdowns since the Cowboys beat the Rams 34-31 in 2014.<\/p>\n
\u201cI’m not going to make any sweeping judgments at this particular time,” Eagles coach Nick Sirianni said. \u201cWhen there’s a lot of mistakes that we had, some of the self-inflicted wounds that we had today, I’m always going to put that on me as the head coach.\u201d <\/p>\n
Prescott broke Romo’s record<\/a> on a 9-yard pass to George Pickens on his first throw of the second half, with Dallas down 21-7. Romo, the 10-year starter before Prescott’s current run that is just as long, had 34,183 yards passing.<\/p>\n The Cowboys made all the mistakes early, including two penalties to keep alive Philadelphia’s second touchdown drive and Tyler Guyton’s false start from the 1 that led to Prescott’s interception in the end zone that kept the deficit at 21-0.<\/p>\n The Eagles had all the miscues late, starting with Saquon Barkley’s first fumble of the season. After Dallas failed to convert that chance, Xavier Gipson fumbled inside the 10 on a punt return after unwisely fielding the ball at the Philadelphia 2.<\/p>\n