Eagles Cowboys 21 Point Lead Jalen Hurts

Eagles blow a 21-point lead, hand the Cowboys dumbest win of the season

The Philadelphia Eagles walked into AT&T Stadium on Sunday afternoon, punched the Cowboys in the mouth for twenty straight minutes, took a 21-0 lead, and then spent the next 42 minutes looking like they had never played football before.

Dallas stormed back and won 24-21 on a Brandon Aubrey walk off field goal, tying the largest comeback in franchise history and handing the Eagles arguably their worst loss of the season.

It was also the first loss that The Liberty Line ever suffered on the road when traveling with Phans of Philly. Let’s just say it was a long walk out of Jerry’s World for me and the boys, dealing with a ton of Cowboys fans who thought they just won the Super Bowl.

It sounds bad because it was.

The Cowboys were dead. Down 21-0 with less than two minutes left in the first half. Dak had already thrown an end zone pick to Reed Blankenship.

ESPN’s win probability had the Eagles at 96 percent. Jerry Jones was probably planning which wine glass he wanted to toast the season’s funeral with at halftime. Instead, the Eagles offense died on the field and never came back.

Dallas somehow scored the next twenty four points. Philadelphia scored zero. That is the whole game. The defending champs put up three touchdowns in eighteen minutes and then spent the next forty two gifting the Cowboys life out of pure incompetence.

Here is the worst part…

The Cowboys needed this to keep their season alive. They have been grieving the tragic death of Marshawn Kneeland for weeks, they were 4-5-1 coming into this game, and the Eagles still let them hang around long enough to believe in miracles.

Brian Schottenheimer told his team that football games are only won in the fourth quarter. The Eagles certainly proved every word of that quote right.

The Collapse: A Detailed Crime Scene

The Eagles offense scored touchdowns on their first three drives. Jalen Hurts looked like the Super Bowl MVP again. Two rushing touchdowns. One passing touchdown. The Cowboys could not stop anything.

Jalen Hurts to AJ Brown:

Jalen Hurts Takes It Himself

Jalen Hurts Tush Push

Then the switch flipped. By that I mean Sirianni unplugged the offense and walked away. Philadelphia punted five straight times. Then they missed a 56 yard field goal. Then Saquon Barkley fumbled in Dallas territory. Then Xavier Gipson fumbled a punt return at the five yard line. Fourteen penalties, which tied the most in Sirianni’s entire tenure.

By the time the dust settled, the Eagles had the same number of second half points as their beat writers on press row.

Meanwhile Dak Prescott had the game of his season.

A touchdown to George Pickens before halftime. An Elway style dive into the end zone to tie the game early in the fourth quarter. And then the final drive: 1:35 on the clock, needing about forty yards, and the Eagles secondary held together by crutches and athletic tape. Dak marched them down the field like it was a 7 on 7 drill.

Brandon Aubrey lined up from 42 yards. He missed a kick earlier in the third quarter. When he got his chance again, it found the diddle of the net.

Cowboys win.

Eagles are 8-3.

They still control the NFC East. They still have everything in front of them but there are losses that expose cracks and losses that rip the entire blueprint off the wall.

This one was the second kind.

You cannot blow a 21 point lead to a team has an opportunity to bury the Dallas Cowboys on the road. You cannot let your offense go ice cold for forty minutes. You cannot commit fourteen penalties. You cannot leave your defense hanging while it loses three starters in the secondary and you definitely cannot pretend everything is fine after this.

Friday against the Bears will say everything about who this team is.

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