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The Rams did not face a third down on their first drive until they reached the Dallas seven-yard line. Jared Goff ’s third-down pass was errant as the Cowboys’ Leighton Vander Esch applied pressure.

The Cowboys’ Ezekiel Elliott gained only three yards in his first five carries. He finished with 47 yards, averaging 2.4 per carry.

Dallas’ Amari Cooper faked an outside route, fooling Rams safety Lamarcus Joyner, who turned the wrong way and was left in the dust as the receiver scored the first touchdown on a 29-yard crossing pattern. Fellow safety John Johnson also was unable to run Cooper down despite playing deep center field on the play.

When the Rams kicked a field goal in the second quarter but were behind 7-6, they already had outgained Dallas 127-56 and held the ball for 12:39 compared with 3:41 for the visitors.

Dallas’ Jaylon Smith met C.J. Anderson in the hole at the three-yard line on the Rams’ first touchdown play, but the running back bowled over the linebacker for the one-yard score.

Rams linemen John Sullivan and Rodger Saffold shoved and collapsed the Cowboys’ defensive line to the right as Todd Gurley cut back behind them on his 35-yard touchdown run.

With 45 seconds left in the first half, the Rams were given a sack on an “in-thegrasp” call even though it was Dallas offensive lineman La’el Collins who had his arms around quarterback Dak Prescott and had pulled him clear when the whistle was blown.

The Rams’ Aaron Donald made his first tackle on the first play of the second half.

Ndamukong Suh was the first Ram to hit Elliott when the Cowboys were stopped on fourth-and-one with 14:52 remaining.

Rams left tackle Andrew Whitworth shoved Dallas end Demarcus Lawrence to the ground, opening the way for Anderson’s TD run on fourth down with 7:36 to go.

No Cowboy accounted for Jared Goff when the quarterback ran on a critical third down for a first down with 1:51 to go.