Cowboys Seek Revenge for Week 3 Loss at Seattle
Old-timers maintain that the hardest thing to do in football is to beat a team that you have already beaten. Given how the Dallas Cowboys have progressed from early autumn to January, the adage may prove to be all-too true for the 2018-19 Seattle Seahawks.
Big D fell at on 24-13 at CenturyLink field in September. The loss would set the ‘Boys spiraling further into a 3-5 first-half mark that nearly knocked them out of contention in the NFC East, a race that the Silver Star would eventually win.
Chatter about Dak Prescott being ill-suited to the NFL style reached a fever-pitch as the QB went only 19-of-34 for 168 yards, 1 touchdown and 2 interceptions. But Prescott wasn’t the only member of the visiting team who had a bad go-around in Week 3.
Pass protection was a major issue as the Cowboys allowed 5 sacks on less than 40 drop-backs. Seattle DT Jarran Reed crumpled Prescott twice as the interior line struggled to hold off the hosts in a noisy environment.
Though Leighton Vander Esch and the Dallas defense held the Seahawk ground game to a paltry 2.9 yards per carry, Russell Wilson was deadly on the short fields provided by Dak’s 2 interceptions and played far more efficiently than his counterpart. Seattle punter Michael Dickson landed multiple kicks inside the Cowboy 20 yard-line to give the visitors poor field position.
The match-up at Jerry World on Saturday could look very different. The Cowboys are a hot team, having won 7 of their last 8 games. WR Amari Cooper has become an instant star in the Metroplex and will face a banged-up Seattle secondary which may be missing cornerback Shaquill Griffin and safeties Bradley McDougald and Delano Hill.
Wilson threw a pick in Seattle’s too-close-for-comfort 27-24 win over lowly Arizona last weekend. Will Dak take advantage of a few short-field opportunities of his own when the pair of 10-6 teams battle in prime-time?
