{"id":426074,"date":"2025-12-05T08:42:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T08:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/426074\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T08:42:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T08:42:22","slug":"special-teams-struggles-turnovers-limit-cowboys-in-44-30-loss-to-lions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/426074\/","title":{"rendered":"Special teams struggles, turnovers limit Cowboys in 44-30 loss to Lions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Poorly Timed Penalties<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Penalties have continued to be an issue for the Cowboys this season, and came at some inopportune times for Dallas on Thursday against Detroit. <\/p>\n<p>On Dallas&#8217; second drive of the game, KaVontae Turpin was penalized for an illegal fair catch signal, his second such call in as many weeks, and a holding call stacked on top of that caused the Cowboys to start the drive at their own five. Dak Prescott was nearly brought down for a safety on third down, but was able to keep the ball out of the end zone while sacked by Jack Campbell, allowing Bryan Anger to come on and punt. <\/p>\n<p>Another instance came while the Cowboys were moving down the field approaching the two-minute warning in the first half. George Pickens beat his defender deep, drawing pass interference that would&#8217;ve set Dallas up with goal-to-go. It was nullified by a Jake Ferguson hands to the face penalty, as both fouls offset. <\/p>\n<p>Those were just a pair of examples, as Dallas finished the night with seven penalties for 76 total yards. One call that they didn&#8217;t believe went in their favor was a Jake Ferguson offensive pass interference penalty, which cost them potential points. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m sorry, that was bad,&#8221; QB Dak Prescott said of the call postgame. &#8220;I got to look at the film, maybe I can see it from their vantage point. I know I talked to the ref after, he said [Ferguson] aggressively pulled through. I&#8217;ve never seen a call like that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\n                    \u00a92025 James D. Smith\/Dallas Cowboys\/\u00a92025 James D. Smith\/Dallas Cowboys\n                  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Poorly Timed Penalties Penalties have continued to be an issue for the Cowboys this season, and came at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":426075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,194972,1292,1293,1296,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-426074","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-featured-dalvsdet-2025","11":"tag-news-all-news","12":"tag-news-pic-6-2025","13":"tag-news-tommy-yarrish","14":"tag-texas","15":"tag-tx","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115666075176382163","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}