Prescott and Cowboys rally, stop Seahawks
ARLINGTON, Texas — Dak Prescott threw three touchdown passes and the Cowboys extended their home winning streak to 14 games, rallying for a 41-35 victory over the Seahawks on Thursday night.
Prescott’s 12-yard pass to Jake Ferguson put Dallas in front with 4½ minutes remaining as the Cowboys (9-3) set up a rematch with NFC East rival Philadelphia by escaping what would have been their first loss since falling to the Eagles, 2823, to start November.
Geno Smith threw three touchdown passes to D.K. Metcalf, including a 73-yarder, as the Seahawks (6-6) got their offense going again. But Seattle couldn’t avoid a third consecutive loss to drop to .500 for the first time since splitting its first two games of the season.
Dallas’s Brandon Aubrey kicked four field goals to extend the 28-year-old rookie’s NFL record to 26 consecutive makes to start a career.
Neither team punted, the fifth time in NFL history that’s happened. But the Dallas defense, ranked third in the NFL coming in, got fourth-down stops on the Seahawks’ final three possessions as the Cowboys kept alive their best home winning streak since an 18game run at old Texas Stadium from 1979-81.
The Cowboys trailed, 35-30, when Zach Charbonnet was stopped on fourth and 1 from the Dallas 46. Seven plays later, Ferguson scored, and Prescott hit Brandin Cooks for the 2point conversion. Cooks also had a TD catch in the second.
CeeDee Lamb had the other touchdown catch and finished with 12 catches for 116 yards, and his 24-yard run on a jet sweep helped set up Aubrey’s final field goal to put Dallas ahead by 6. That came after Smith threw incomplete on fourth down near midfield with 3:11 to go.
The Seahawks reached midfield with 1:11 left, but Micah Parsons’s pressure on fourth down forced Smith to throw the ball into the ground, sealing the Dallas victory.
Metcalf had a season-high 134 yards on six catches in his second career three-TD game as the Seahawks scored touchdowns on five of their first seven drives after coming in with 20 consecutive possessions without an offensive TD.
Smith also ran for a score while throwing for 334 yards with an interception.
Seattle’s stretch without an offensive TD ended on its third play — and longest on offense this season — when Metcalf beat DaRon Bland a week after the cornerback set an NFL record with his fifth interception return for a TD this season.
Metcalf was left free up the middle to reach 22.23 m.p.h., the fastest for a ball carrier since early in the 2020 season, on the way to a 7-3 lead.