The latest Dallas Cowboys news off of a primetime loss.
Texans-Cowboys on ‘Monday Night Football’: What We Learned from Houston’s 34-10 win – Nick Shook, NFL.com
The opportunities for the Cowboys to get a home win are slipping away.
A two-touchdown first half from running back Joe Mixon and a stellar defensive showing, keyed by a Derek Barnett strip-sack that he turned into a score, got the Houston Texans back on the winning track.
Snapping a two-game skid, the Texans won the Battle of Texas on Monday night, defeating the host Dallas Cowboys, 34-10.
While Houston got back to its winning ways, the Cowboys continued a trying season, losing their fifth in a row and falling to 0-5 at home.
Cowboys close AT&T Stadium roof for MNF after piece of metal falls onto field – Staff, 105.3 The Fan
The night went from bad to worse before the game even began for the Cowboys on Monday night.
The Cowboys’ staff began to open the retractable roof just after 4:00 p.m. central on Monday. About 20-25 minutes into its opening, a piece of sheet metal “about five yards long and a yard-and-a-half wide” came down from the roof and landed near one of the end zones, Cowboys sideline reporter Kristi Scales told Eric Chiofalo and Bryan Broaddus on the Cowboys pregame show on 105.3 The Fan.
Scales said she saw the piece of metal wafting down from the sky and land in a corner of the field between one of the goal lines and the 10-yard line. No one was injured.
The Cowboys elected to close the roof for the rest of the night as a precaution due to high winds North Texas was experiencing on Monday afternoon. This would have been the 8th time the team played with an open roof and closed doors.
Cowboys’ Jake Ferguson suffers concussion against Texans – Todd Archer, ESPN.com
Already very limited on offense, the Cowboys were without TE Jake Ferguson for most of the night after he suffered a concussion.
Ferguson had one catch for 11 yards on the Cowboys’ first possession and was not targeted again before his injury was announced. Ferguson entered the game as the Cowboys’ second-leading pass catcher behind wide receiver CeeDee Lamb.
Without Ferguson, the Cowboys have Luke Schoonmaker, Brevyn Spann-Ford and Princeton Fant at tight end. They combined for 10 catches in the first nine games of the season. Fant was elevated from the practice squad Monday with fullback Hunter Luepke inactive because of a calf injury.
Ferguson suffered a sprained knee in the season opener against the Cleveland Browns and did not play in the Week 2 loss to the New Orleans Saints.
Of the Cowboys’ 22 starters in the season opener, 11 players have missed games because of injuries, including quarterback Dak Prescott, who was placed on injured reserve Monday after undergoing season-ending hamstring surgery last week.
3 thoughts on Dallas Cowboys inevitable loss to Texans: 5th straight setback, still winless at home – Clarence Hill, AllDLLS.com
The Cowboys were forced into a hopeless, one-dimensional passing offense versus the Texans defense.
Here are three thoughts on the loss to the Texans:
1. The passing stats of Cooper Rush made no sense.
Rush completed 32 of 55 passes for 355 yards with one touchdown and one interception in the game. That would seem logical in a game that was long out of reach.
But going into the fourth quarter, Rush had 39 pass attempts to just 13 rushing attempts for the team. And the Cowboys were down just 20-10 after three quarters.
While most of the attempts were short passes, that is simply not the kind of game Rush is going to win.
He had an awful interception in the first quarter that took points off the board and many off target throws that were simply out of his wheel house.
It didn’t help that the Cowboys had little success when they did run the ball.
Rico Dowdle had 28 yards on 10 attempts.
Of course, as the Cowboys have said many times this season. He didn’t enough opportunities.
Dallas Cowboys vs Houston Texans: Dallas blown out again 34-10 for fifth straight loss – Jess Haynie, Blogging The Boys
It’s copy and paste for the Dallas Cowboys amidst their five-game losing streak right now.
4th Quarter
Things went from bad to worse in the final quarter. Houston’s offense was held to another punt, but then the Cowboys shot themselves in both feet. Cooper Rush was sacked by Derek Barnett and fumbled, which OT Tyler Guyton grabbed and tried to run with. He was quickly swarmed and had the ball knocked out again, and Barnett finished the play with a recovery and touchdown.
That was about it for meaningful moments in this game. The teams traded punts, Dallas turned it over on downs, and the Texans took advantage of a short field with Mixon’s third touchdown of the night.
The beat-up Cowboys suffered more injuries in garbage time. Tyler Guyton left the game with a shoulder injury after that failed fumble recovery, and then both Zack Martin and Tyler Smith went down on a later drive.
Dak Prescott’s reaction to terrible fake punt sums up laughingstock Cowboys – Mike Luciano, The Landry Hat
For the second time in three weeks, the Cowboys failed on an early fake punt that reeked of desperation.
Prescott, watching from the stands as he recovers from his injury, had a look of stunned silence on his face. The Cowboys season isn’t just getting flushed away, but it’s getting flushed in utterly comedic fashion, making it all the more painful.
Dak’s reaction to the fake punt from the ESPN broadcast pic.twitter.com/XrwwmxqeIB
— Nick Harris (@NickHarrisFWST) November 19, 2024
The Cowboys got immediately bailed out on the next possession, as CJ Stroud threw an interception on fourth down. That doesn’t mean that Dallas is in a position to take over this game, as Houston punched them in the mouth as soon as they came out of the game in this contest.
The Texans nearly gave the recently healthy Nico Collins a 77-yard touchdown on the first play of the game, but it was called back due to a penalty. The Texans were unbothered, as they managed to score via a Joe Mixon 45-yard touchdown run that gave the interstate rivals a quick 7-0 advantage.
Updated 2025 NFL Draft Order After Sunday’s Week 11 Results – Joe Tansey, Bleacher Report
The Cowboys are now inside the top ten of the 2025 NFL Draft order.
The AFC South will be the primary focus of the race for the No. 1 overall pick in December since the Jags and Titans play twice.
All of the other two-win teams will hope for a split, but a sweep by either team would take them far out of contention for the top pick in April.
1. Jacksonville (2-9)
2. Tennessee (2-8)
3. Cleveland (2-8)
4. Las Vegas (2-8)
5. New York Giants (2-8)
6. New England (3-8)
7. New York Jets (3-8)
8. Carolina (3-7)
9. Dallas (3-6)
10. New Orleans (4-7)
