Dak Prescott didn’t need much time after the Cowboys’ 34-31 loss to the Ravens to pinpoint what stung most.
Dallas had Baltimore backed up and the game within reach late in the fourth quarter in Rio De Janeiro, but the finish fell apart. After Nate Wiggins was flagged for pass interference on CeeDee Lamb with 0:28 left, the Cowboys got the ball to the Ravens’ 2-yard line and came away with only a 23-yard Brandon Aubrey field goal. Prescott missed on two throws and was stopped on a two-yard run, and a chance to seize control slipped away.
"Frustrated," Prescott, who threw for 276 yards and one TD, said postgame, via Tommy Yarrish of the team website. "Frustrated as hell.
Excuse me. We don't call ourselves the best offense, GOTI [Greatest Offense There Is], and get down to the one-yard line and don't put it in.
Yeah, it just sucks. Not a lot of words or full explanation of it.
Defense shouldn't have been in that position. Those guys were over there saying, 'It's on us,' absolutely not.
We've got to put the game away, period."
That red-zone sequence became the night’s defining failure, but it wasn’t the only one. On a 3rd-and-goal, Prescott had a shot to find George Pickens, yet he sailed the pass out of bounds. Head coach Brian Schottenheimer said after the game that he wanted Prescott to either get the ball to Pickens or simply get rid of it.
"I probably overcoached Dak on that one because we had the points," Schottenheimer said postgame. "And I probably overcoached him on that because, with the time, no timeouts, it had to go to [Pickens] or throw it away."
Prescott said Pickens had beaten his defender on the play, but he locked in too early on the read and regretted not being more patient.
The Cowboys also paid for what happened after their own field goal. They kicked deep, the Ravens got a touchback to their 35-yard line, and Lamar Jackson had just enough time to work magic. With 0:07 left, he hit Zay Flowers for 27 yards, Baltimore used its final timeout, and Tyler Loop drilled the game-winner.
That sequence left Dallas with a loss that now sends it into Week 4 at 1-2, while the Ravens improved to 2-1. The Cowboys head to face the 0-3 Houston Texans on the road, and Prescott made it clear he’d rather be talking about a 2-1 record than the one that got away.
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