READ MORE: To Combat Injuries Along DL, Cowboys Move Rookie Parsons to DEĢ. If not a sack, however, the play should've been called intentional grounding. The Chargers had two touchdown passes deleted in the second half, and were forced to kick a game-tying field goal after a ridiculously bad 'sack' ruling when Parsons kinda, sorta had control of a back-pedaling Herbert. STRANGE 'SACK' - On an afternoon littered with yellow flags, the Cowboys shouldn't complain. There have been almost 17,000 games in NFL history and, fittingly, this weird one was the first to have a score of 14-11 at halftime.ģ. And there was almost a colossal botch of time management in the final seconds. San Diego fielded a punt at its own 2-yard line.
The Cowboys attempted high-risk fourth downs and inexplicably rushed - and roughed - the punter at midfield two minutes before halftime. In fact, at times it was as disjointed and mind-boggling as CBS trying to convince us that Queen Latifah is properly cast as The Equalizer. There were 20 combined penalties, including two on the Chargers that wiped out touchdown passes. EXCHANGING ERRORS - Though entertaining and good to the last drop, this wasn't a well-played game. If the Cowboys can somehow make it to Super Bowl LVI back at SoFi Stadium in 21 weeks, they could have a home-field advantage.
That's a result, of course, of the Cowboys holding training camp in southern California (Thousand Oaks and Oxnard) for decades. CALIFORNIA COWBOYS - Sure sounded like at least half of the sellout crowd for this Chargers' home game was cheering for the boys in blue. READ MORE: Cowboys break ugly streak by scoring early TDĦ. The pressure and various look failed to ruffle Herbert, who at one point in the first half completed 16 consecutive passes and threw for 338 yards. The Cowboys, who failed to sack Tom Brady on 50 dropbacks in Week 1, finally got one by Leighton Vander Esch in the second quarter. Either standing up or with his hand on the ground, Parsons produced decent pressure on Chargers' quarterback Justin Herbert and was credited with a huge sack late in the fourth quarter.
A linebacker by trade, Micah Parsons spent the entire afternoon as Dallas' edge rusher. Or, he merely turned to a talented defender playing in his second NFL game. MOVIN' MICAH - Down his best two pass rushers with Randy Gregory and DeMarcus Lawrence injured, defensive coordinator Dan Quinn had to get creative.
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