ARLINGTON, Texas– The Dallas Cowboys lead the Washington Commanders by a 6-3 rating at halftime of their normal period ending at AT&T Arena in Arlington, as Trey Lance has actually provided a rather sharp initial fifty percent in his initial begin as a Cowboy.
Lance has actually finished 11-of-20 masquerade 125 lawns, leading the Cowboy’s crime on a number of lengthy basket drives, revealing the capacity to experience his reviews and locate open targets downfield. His initial 2 passes of the day chose 31 and 33 lawns to Jalen Tolbert and Kavontae Turpin, to break his method right into the football video game and infuse some very early self-confidence.
The Cowboy’s protection likewise has actually played great round, holding back Jayden Daniels and a high quality Leaders crime with half an hour. Micah Parsons has 2.5 sacks on the day, consisting of 2 on the initial 3 plays of the video game, to provide him 12 for the year. With 12 sacks in this 2024 period, he signs up with Reggie White as the only gamers in NFL background to tape 12 or even more sacks in each of their initial 4 years in the organization.
Dallas has actually held Washington to simply 65 lawns on 24 offensive plays, in maintaining the Leaders to those 3 first-half factors. 34 of those lawns began the last belongings of the fifty percent for Washington, when they lastly rounded up the single basket.
Dallas transformed a vital fourth & & 1 late in the second quarter, with a Seeker Luepke dive to relocate the chains, and established a Rico Dowdle turn pass that gained one more initially down. Trey Lance after that had a quarterback draw that got 9 lawns and obtained Dallas to the Washington 11. Dowdle got the initial down with a two-yard dive, to provide Dallas 1st and Objective. 3 plays later on, Dallas went all out on fourth & & Objective, Lance escaped stress in the pocket, rolled to his left and tossed for Dowdle that was open in the endzone. Yet Lance underthrew the pass and jumped it simply shy of Dowdle for the incompletion and the turn over on downs.
Dallas has the round initially in the 3rd quarter, wanting to contribute to their lead.
