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This week on Cowboys Overtime, Mac Engel and Nick Harris break down Dallas' loss to the Denver Broncos, discuss whether Dak Prescott can save the team and talk changes that must be made before the game against the Arizona Cardinals.
Dallas' injury-plagued defense got picked apart by Nix, and the Cowboys' offensive line got pummeled by Denver's pass rush
Dallas’ high-octane offense struggled to get anything going, while the defense couldn’t find ways to stop Bo Nix and the Broncos’ offense. The Cowboys stumbled 44-24 at Empower Field at Mile High, falling to 3-4-1 on the season.
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Dallas Cowboys QB1 Dak Prescott says he's surprised, frustrated after loss to Denver Broncos
Dak Prescott and the Dallas Cowboys turned in another up-and-down performance in a 44-24 loss to the Denver Broncos.
The Dallas Cowboys as a team were awful in Week 8, and even Dak Prescott is feeling the heat after the loss to the Denver Broncos.
The pre-snap penalties killed the Cowboys in Denver, with Vance Joseph's defense the best in the league when it comes to third-down stops (allowing a conversion just 29 percent of the time). With one game to go before the bye week, the Cowboys will not want to head into it on the back of two straight losses.
Kristi Scales is the sideline reporter for the Dallas Cowboys Radio Network. She writes this column for The Dallas Morning News after each Cowboys game.
The Dallas Cowboys were forced to reshuffle their secondary in Week 8 against the Broncos, and while it was a disaster, there may be one diamond in the rough.
The Cowboys haven't lost consecutive games this season and Brian Schottenheimer stressed they can't let this loss turn into two or three.
Surtain left the Broncos' 44-24 win over Dallas just before halftime and didn't return for the second half. Also, kick returner Marvin Mims Jr. suffered a concussion on a runback when he was no longer supposed to be in the game.