The Dallas Cowboys left Green Bay with more than a loss on Sunday night. They left with a 2-4 record, a frustrated coach, and a quarterback admitting the offense hasn’t done its part.
Dallas fell 23-13 to the Packers in a game that was never really as tight as the final score suggested. The Cowboys managed just seven points until a touchdown with 44 seconds remaining, and the night fit the kind of sloppy stretch Brian Schottenheimer said has been dragging the team down.
“The effort is right, the fight is right, but mistakes are killing us,” Schottenheimer said, per Tommy Yarrish of the Cowboys' website. “Repeating mistakes is not what we're about.
We've got to protect the football. Five turnovers in two games, not very good.
Got to find a running game. That starts with myself and the offensive staff.
Got to get off the field on third down on defense…We've got to clean it up. Lost two games in a row, haven't played well, got to take a hard look at it, and that starts with me.”
Dak Prescott’s postgame message carried the same blunt tone. The Cowboys quarterback, who had earlier described the Dallas attack as the “greatest offense there is,” struggled through another uneven outing, throwing two interceptions as the offense never found much traction against Green Bay.
“We have a great process,” Prescott said after the loss, per Todd Archer of ESPN. “We practice the right way.
We're just not executing what we need to win games. The defense, to me, played a good enough game for us to go out there and win this.
And we just didn't hold our own on offense and that's what ultimately sucks about it. But that's the NFL, and we've got to figure out a way to get better and to get out of this rut or hole or whatever it is that we've been in these last two games.”
Prescott finished 34-of-54 for 258 yards, with the late touchdown and the two picks. Dallas had just 29 total points over its last two games, the fewest in a two-game span Prescott has started since Weeks 5 and 6 of the 2024 season, according to Archer.
The Packers game came on the heels of a 24-16 upset loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who dropped to 1-5 on Sunday. Prescott said the next step is straightforward.
“It starts with watching this film,” Prescott added about how the Dallas offense can fix correctable mistakes, as shared by Patrik Walker of the Cowboys' website. “And then, fortunately, we've got an extra day or two, and we'll get those answers in the next day or two.”
Now the Cowboys turn to a Monday Night Football trip to face the rival Philadelphia Eagles on Oct. 26. As of Monday morning, DraftKings Sportsbook listed Dallas as a 4.5-point road favorite, even with the Eagles dealing with injuries.
There is at least a sliver of comfort in the NFC East standings, where the 3-2-1 New York Giants began Monday in first place. The Giants beat the Cowboys in Week 1.
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