The Cowboys’ offense is putting up points like usual.\u00a0But the Cowboys’ defense is giving up points like usual.<\/p>\n
ARLINGTON, Texas \u2014 The Dallas Cowboys trail the Los Angeles Chargers 21-17 at halftime of their Week 16 tilt at AT&T Stadium, as Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert has thrown for a pair of touchdowns and rushed for another, holding a near-perfect passer rating of 151.3.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Herbert led three successive touchdown drives in the Chargers’ three first-half possessions, going 65, 87, and 81 yards to score on the Cowboys’ defense with ease.<\/p>\n
Dallas answered with three scoring drives of their own, and if not for a holding penalty on Tyler Smith, would likely sit in a 21-21 tie at halftime. Dak Prescott’s touchdown pass to Ryan Flournoy in the second quarter was negated by a Smith holding penalty, leading to a 33-yard Brandon Aubrey field goal. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Prescott still threw for a pair of touchdowns, hitting Flournoy in the first quarter to open the scoring, and hitting George Pickens on a beautiful deep ball up the left sideline for a 38-yard touchdown.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Prescott completed 14 of 18 passes for 156 yards and a pair of touchdowns, and had his own glitzy passer rating of 139.8.<\/p>\n
Herbert was every bit as effective, completing 14 of his 16 passes for 173 yards and the 2 touchdown passes – one to Ladd McConkey, the other to Quentin Johnston. \u00a0The TCU product, Johnston, made a dazzling one-handed catch to tie the game at 7-7. He beat Shavon Revel up the left sideline and caught the nose of the football with one hand for a mesmerizing touchdown.<\/p>\n
Omarion Hampton leads the way for the Chargers’ ground attack, with 48 yards on seven carries. Javonte Williams has 33 yards on 7 carries for Dallas.\u00a0<\/p>\n
George Pickens has had a profound bounce-back performance after a couple of down weeks. He has 86 yards and a touchdown on four receptions in the first half. \u00a0CeeDee Lamb was also effective, catching four passes in the first half.<\/p>\n
Dallas had the ball to start, so it will be the Chargers’ ball to open the third quarter.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cowboys’ offense is putting up points like usual.\u00a0But the Cowboys’ defense is giving up points like usual.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96425,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151],"class_list":{"0":"post-96424","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arlington","8":"tag-arlington","9":"tag-arlington-headlines","10":"tag-arlington-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96424","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=96424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}