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Dak Prescott reflected on the fine margins that cost Dallas the game against the Eagles on Sunday.
Football is often a game of inches, and the Cowboys found that out the hard way against the Eagles on Sunday in their 28-23 loss.
The Cowboys came within inches of beating their NFC East rivals in front of a packed out Lincoln Financial Field, but were on the wrong side of several agonisingly close calls.
Cowboys were inches away from coming back
With 10:10 left in the game, and down 28-17, the Eagles thought they had a touchdown on a fourth-and-goal at the one-yard line. Dak Prescott threw a pass to Luke Schoonmaker that was called a touchdown before a review showed Schoonmaker’s knee was just short of the end zone.
Dallas then got the ball back moments later after forcing a Philly three-and-out. Prescott threw a touchdown pass to Jalen Tolbert to make the score 28-23. Dallas decided to go for two and thought they had done when Dak ran in to make it 28-25. However, that play was also reviewed, with the officials reversing the call after determining that Prescott had stepped out of bounds prior to running in.
Dak: “There’s a lot of good we can take”
In the end, the Cowboys couldn’t overcome the Eagles, and the headlines will invariably be about the team coming short once again.
What will get lost is the many positives from the game, which included Dak throwing for 374 yards and three touchdowns and CeeDee Lamb’s eleven receptions and 191 receiving yards.
However, Dak knows it’s a game of fine margins, and rued the “inches” that ultimately cost Dallas the game.
“It sucks in the moment, but there’s a lot of good we can take (from this game)” he said via Jon Machota of The Athletic. “We’re doing things the right way. It’s just an inch here, an inch there. We gotta find a way to gain that.”
He referenced those ‘inches’ at various other times to reporters after the game too. “You have three different plays where you’re talking about inches that change the way that game unfolds near the end of the game,” Prescott said. “I mean, he’s [Mike McCarthy] not wrong. We did [play well enough to win]. And that’s what even hurts more.
“There’s no moral victories in this, I can promise you that, not by any means. But being inches away, we know we’re doing the right thing.”
As of now, the Cowboys are the sixth-seed wild card and face the New York Giants next week.