No, you didn't see any superstars field in this one for the Dallas Cowboys and Jacksonville Jaguars, unless you've crowned Trevor Lawrence as one, quite lethal to his team's 34-14 Cowboys in the shell. Seen seen. at AT&T Stadium on Sunday. The rookie first-overall pick ignited the Cowboys backup for two touchdowns in the first half, and his accuracy was stellar—very little work was done by his receiver to reach the intended position. Days after being named a starter and seeing Gardner Minshoo traded to the Philadelphia Eagles, Lawrence is making Meyer brilliant.
Toss in some great early game play from backup Jake Luton and, well, Meyer has to be pleased. The Cowboys fought back after pulling a struggling Cooper Rush from the game to start the second quarter, sending in Garrett Gilbert, who had prepared an 80-yard drive for the Cowboys with the day's first touchdown. After applying pressure by Rush with a strong outing a week ago against Rush in a bid for backup quarterback behind Duck Prescott, it pushes back.
For the Jaguars, it's about keeping Lawrence healthy (so far, so good) and for Meyer to start refining his overall depth charts in hopes of success right out of the gate in his 2021 NFL coaching debut. For the Cowboys, the tone is very different, as hopes for this coming season are again through the roof with the return of Dak Prescott and several other key players, but this is how Mike McCarthy whizzes down the middle of the roster to disappoint. Equally important in their race to bounceback from 6-10 to 2020.
They will now begin to forget about the 0-4 preseason, especially one that ends with Dinucci helping the defense to end the month of August by embarrassing them on their own territory. He improved a bit late in the game, but by then it was too late.
Why jaguars live
Simply put? It's because they needed to. To their credit, they did, and you shouldn't take that from them. But when you're playing starters against backup, you'll have a lot to worry about if you do anything other than dust them. The good news for the Jaguars is that they're leaving AT&T Stadium with nothing but a smile, and that's in large part due to Lawrence's aforementioned performance, who finished with 139 passing yards and two touchdowns and 12 Only one of the attempts was incomplete - for a 154.5 passer rating. From there, Jake Luton also worked his way up with the Cowboys defense, throwing for 128 passing yards and 15 touchdowns on completions in 17 pass attempts and a pointless passing touchdown.
It didn't matter that the Jaguars couldn't advance to the ground game, because they've never actually had to, so they didn't really try to do so—in a game in which the Cowboys had to take a secondary as a major. Moved along to the woodshed. Lawrence, Luton, and receiver Jake Cotton's game, a little show with Cotton, as you'll see below. It was quite a hit by the Jaguars, who have to feel great in September.
Why did the cowboys lose
Simply put? That's because they were supposed to, or at least on paper. But they could still at least try to make the game interesting. I wish it was more than the many people who struggled in camp and in Precision to make a name for themselves — going on to do the same in the Preseason finale. There were standouts such as Ron'Dell Carter and rookie safety Israel Mukumu caught an INT (aided by QB pressure from Carter), and linebacker Luke Gifford was seen flying to the tune of 10 combined tackles (a team-high). , but there's a lot more to see if you're a cowboy than it would be more regret to fawn over there.
Cooper Rush lost some of the pressure applied to Garrett Gilbert in the QB2 race, but Gilbert didn't last long in the game to save the day, as it was Ben Dinucci who entered the second half and... . DiNucci was once again a foul down the center, dodging the ball erratically, which had been misguided, a week after throwing three against the Cardinals, leaving at least two interceptions. Should have ended truthfully (he'd get a TD toss with at least two minutes to play).
Mostly poor QB play combined with mostly poor defense to give the Cowboys their fourth presidential loss of 2021.