Cowboys move closer to NFC East after victory against Falcons

ATLANTA – The Falcons and Cowboys are part of a handful of NFL teams this season that you can not understand, with both teams losing games they should win, and vice versa. Coming up for Sunday's game, the Falcons had just won an incredible loss in Cleveland, while Dallas inspired just enough hope against Philadelphia.

But the Cowboys may have finally taken the turn. After Sunday's 22-19 victory against the Falcons, Dallas won the consecutive season for the first time in the season and beat twice in a row without a setback.

This win gives Dallas a 5-5 lead before Thanksgiving Day after a 6-4 victory in Washington in a competition that would give the Cowboys a run-time share of the NFC East with a victory.

"We now have a great rivalry as strong as in the sport and we do not always play for the title," said Cowboys owner Jerry Jones. "But to some extent, we're playing Thanksgiving for that."

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Before we get there, let's go back to how Dallas got here. It was a clash between two 4 or 5 teams that got unexpected results with a bigger divisional clash coming on Thanksgiving Day. The match was meant to be both close and relatively boring, and for the first 45 minutes it was a kicker fight. Brett Maher and Matt Bryant traded goals each for the first three quarters, and the Falcons led 9-6 before the fourth quarter.

Atlanta spent the first half protecting Matt Ryan. He was fired three times and hit nine times in the first period without being able to enter the red zone. The four Atlanta possessions in the first half were half-way through Dallas and three of them reached at least the 31-yard Cowboys line. But the Falcons had only six points to score. Atlanta would arrive at Dallas' 35-meter line on six of his eight possessions.

That's what the Dallas defense did for most of the season. The Cowboys came in third place on Sunday in defense (19.0 points allowed per game) and in sixth position in red defense (48.15%). But the Falcons tied the game at 19 minutes, after a two-minute warning, when Ryan's bomb was connected to Julio Jones in the endzone.

Then, Dak Prescott, one of his 11 winning circuits in his young career, took a 12th place when he designed a 10-yard, 51-yard circuit that Maher crowned with a 42-yard win. .

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Last year, the Cowboys came here after a run of three wins and a 5-3 record. Ezekiel Elliott was serving his first of six suspension games, but Dallas scored the first points of the game and did not score in the last 51 minutes of the competition, losing 27 to 7. This resulted in a game of three games. which led them to 5-6, a hole they could not get out in December.

Prescott does not want to talk about the shock of last year, he chose to stay focused on the momentum that these Cowboys are building now. As the walls collapsed around Jason Garrett and his team after a defeat Monday night against Tennessee, it seemed that Dallas would miss the playoffs for the second year in a row and Garrett was heading to the country that will soon be busy. by Todd Bowles, Vance Joseph and Mike McCarthy.

Now, the Cowboys have a Washington team playing their quarterback for a short week on the road to take control of the division. As we all expected two weeks ago.

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