{"id":492869,"date":"2026-01-05T00:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T00:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/492869\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T00:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T00:02:10","slug":"penalties-third-down-more-play-role-in-cowboys-34-17-loss-to-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/492869\/","title":{"rendered":"Penalties, third down, more play role in Cowboys&#8217; 34-17 loss to Giants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ \u2013<\/strong> The first season of the Brian Schottenheimer era is officially in the books, with the Cowboys falling to the Giants 34-17 to move Dallas&#8217; record to 7-9-1.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday marked the first time that the Giants had beat Dallas since 2020. It was also the first time Dak Prescott lost as a starting quarterback to the G-Men since his rookie season, although he did not play the full game.<\/p>\n<p>The focus for Dallas now immediately flips to the offseason, starting with player exit meetings on Monday and Tuesday, to go through what Schottenheimer described as a &#8220;laundry list&#8221; of items for improvement ahead of 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s dive into some more news and notes from Week 18:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ \u2013 The first season of the Brian Schottenheimer era is officially in the books, with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":492870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,216429,1292,1293,1296,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-492869","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-dalvsnyg-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\/115839562126752137","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492869","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=492869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}