Cowboys Snore, Packers Soar: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Week Five

A few observations from the Dallas Cowboys loss to the Green Bay Packers. There was some good, some bad and some downright ugly play.

The Dallas Cowboys lost their second game of the season on Sunday to the Green Bay Packers. The first half was mostly ugly for the Cowboys and it didn’t get much better in the second half.

The Week Five contest against the Packers was like most football games with plays you loved and plays you would love to forget. Below we’ll breakdown the good, the bad, and the downright ugly of the Cowboys’ second loss of the season.

The Good

The offensive stats look good. Quarterback Dak Prescott threw for a career-high 463 yards. Wide receiver Amari Cooper had a career-high 226 receiving yards.

While it is nice that the quarterback and the number one receiver were in sync for career days, the achievements are hollow as the Cowboys were playing catch up from the six-minute mark of the first quarter.

The score flatters Dallas as the Packers were in complete control throughout the game. The Cowboys did not put much into the good category for the game.

Maybe running back Ezekiel Elliot’s 27-yard reception on the last play of the third quarter qualifies. The play dug the Cowboys out of a first and 25 as a result of head coach Jason Garrett‘s unsportsmanlike penalty on the prior play when he challenged an Amari Cooper reception.

Cooper’s 53-yard touchdown catch in the fourth quarter was pretty to watch. His spin move at the ten-yard line embarrassed safety Will Redmond.

Both of these plays were good plays for the Cowboys. But Dallas could not find a way to dig themselves out of their first-half hole.