Dallas Cowboys: The Cowboys have asked a lot of Ezekiel Elliott against the Lions. That's what he proved with his career day

ARLINGTON – With two minutes remaining on Sunday, Ezekiel Elliott has already raked more than 200 yards. He had scored on a 38-yard pass. He took the NFL lead with 148 yards rushing.

What more can the Cowboys ask for?

Well, they asked. The Cowboys asked for more because the second long touchdown of the Golden Tate's day had just pushed Detroit 24-23, ahead of the two-minute warning.

But Elliott also asked.

"I've been trying to play this game for a while," Elliott said. "Once I saw that they were playing man-to-man and that I was going to have a linebacker on me, I would tell them:" Give me it to me. " Melted inside. & # 39; & # 39;

With 1:23 to play and the ball on the Dallas 41, Elliott s' aligned in the slot on the right side and faded to the right side line. Dak Prescott dropped a pass in the perfect spot to allow Elliott to take a 34-yard pass and score Brett Maher's 38-yard winning kick.

The Cowboys won 26-24 at the end of the allotted time. The only surprise is that Elliott has not expired too.

This team reinstated its dormant attack by returning to the basics – Elliott wore 25 times for 152 yards – but the Cowboys also featured in the attack passing while he was caught the four balls thrown on a 88-yard path. The total of 240 yards rushing and receiving is the biggest of his professional career.

"We all remember that taking over the shoulder," said Jerry Jones, owner of The Cowboys. "I'm happy to have seen it – I've never seen it play better than it's played today."

The Cowboys needed every one of his 240 yards to secure a two-point home win against a Detroit team with a losing record. That may be the reality of a win that brought the Cowboys back to the .500 mark, now a half-game away from Washington (2-1) in the NFC East.

Prescott had a pretty decent day, placing the ball around 255 yards for the pass, which is without a doubt his best score of the 2018 season. DeMarcus Lawrence, the very complete defensive end, added three sacks while he continues to postpone its next contract in the stratosphere.

And it was always a tough win because the Cowboys allowed Matt Stafford to complete 80% of his passes for more than 300 yards. When the Cowboys did not exert extreme pressure on a quarter of the Lions, he made them pay.

As a result, Elliott was about to break the 200-yard mark for the first time as a loser. He had 219 last year in a 40-10 loss to San Francisco and 209 in a wild 35-30 win at Pittsburgh in his rookie season.

But we heard coaches congratulate Zeke's skills while seeing very little. He had 363 yards as a rookie, 269 as a second year suspended player. And in the first three games of 2018, Elliott's 11 catches for a tiny 37-yard total are among the most surprising features of the stumble offense.

Elliott broke free on a perfectly executed screen in the second quarter, with center Joe Looney and guards Zack Martin and Connor Williams escorting him to the end zone at 38 meters. Needing more time, while time was running out in the most desperate moments, the Cowboys finally found a defining moment for Zeke the Receiver.

"You have Zeke on a linebacker, I'm going to do this game every day of the week, whoever the linebacker is," said Prescott.

Zeke has no doubts about his runner status since his arrival at Draft Day 2016. He led the league as a rookie. He is again the leader in 2018. But could he play the race and race on par with the Steelers' The Vein Bell (at least when Bell presents himself) or Todd Gurley of the Rams?

That's what we did not know.

Elliott now has a chance of reaching 60 catches over 500 yards and can play the role of a two-dimensional player in an attack on a man.

Lions head coach Matt Patricia, the former New England defensive coordinator, recognized Elliott as the center of the Cowboys team.

"What's wrong?" "He's an excellent player in this league." He leaves a lot of people missing tackles, we need to do a better job of removing him. to do, "said Patricia.

The Cowboys did it on Sunday. It would not have happened without Zeke, and it hardly happened with 200 meters of Zeke

"It was not perfect, but we fought until the end and we got the double," said Elliott.

Give this team two duplicates and two more at the quarter pole and see what awaits us.