{"id":564915,"date":"2026-02-04T05:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T05:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/564915\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T05:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T05:08:10","slug":"what-we-learned-from-nfcs-66-52-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/564915\/","title":{"rendered":"What We Learned from NFC&#8217;s 66-52 win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO &#8212; <\/p>\n<p>David Ely&#8217;s takeaways:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1)\tCowboys, Eagles lead NFC to comeback win.<\/strong> NFC East rivals banding together for game-winning plays? Only in the Pro Bowl Games. Star players from Dallas and Philadelphia put aside their regular season differences to spearhead a dramatic comeback for the NFC on Tuesday night in San Francisco. A whopping four Cowboys players combined to catch five TDs with \ufeff<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/kavontae-turpin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">KaVontae Turpin<\/a>\ufeff, \ufeff<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/george-pickens\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">George Pickens<\/a>\ufeff and \ufeff<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/ceedee-lamb\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CeeDee Lamb<\/a>\ufeff nabbing the final three scores of the game as the NFC roared back from a 52-36 third-quarter deficient to improve to 4-0 in this iteration of the Pro Bowl Games. In the second half, NFC coach Jerry Rice deployed a two-QB system of \ufeff<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/jalen-hurts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jalen Hurts<\/a>\ufeff (three TD passes on the night) and \ufeff<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/dak-prescott\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dak Prescott<\/a>\ufeff (four TDs) that proved tough for the AFC to stop. On consecutive drives in the second half, Hurts took a red zone snap, quickly pitched the ball to Prescott, who found a Dallas receiver for six. The second of those plays resulted in a Pickens TD that gave the NFC its first lead since the opening stanza and led to Pickens claiming Offensive MVP honors. The AFC had a chance to tie the game on the ensuing possession, but Buccaneers safety \ufeff<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/antoine-winfield-jr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Antoine Winfield Jr.<\/a>\ufeff intercepted \ufeff<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/joe-burrow\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Joe Burrow<\/a>\ufeff  in the end zone to end the AFC\u2019s last threat of the game \u2013 a play that Winfield Defensive MVP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO &#8212; David Ely&#8217;s takeaways: 1) Cowboys, Eagles lead NFC to comeback win. NFC East rivals banding&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":564916,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[10],"tags":[43574,530,244511,62,67,132,68,33503],"class_list":["post-564915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-around-the-nfl","tag-no-minute","tag-pro-bowl-games","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-what-we-learned"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116010634625717761","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564915","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=564915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}