Dak Prescott threw a 32-yard fourth-down touchdown pass to Cole Beasley and the hit Michael Gallup with the winning 2-point conversion in a 36-35 Dallas win.
Don’t tell Dak Prescott and the Dallas Cowboys their regular-season finale against the New York Giants was a meaningless game.
They played it to the end and got momentum for the playoffs.
Prescott threw a 32-yard fourth-down touchdown pass to Cole Beasley on a play that was reversed by video replay and added a winning 2-point conversion pass to Michael Gallup with 1:12 to play as the NFC East champion Cowboys rallied twice in the final 10 minutes to beat the New York Giants 36-35 on Sunday.
« You saw it out there, the intensity that we played with, the ups and the downs and how we stayed through it, » Prescott said after going 27 of 44 for 387 yards and a season-high four touchdowns, three to tight end Blake Jarwin. « We stayed positive, knowing we were going to give ourselves a chance to come out on the end. It was a great win. »
The win was the seventh in eight games for the Cowboys and it has them looking forward to next weekend’s wild-card game at home.
Dallas coach Jason Garrett downplayed the meaningless angle, even though he rested NFL leading rusher Ezekiel Elliott and two of his top offensive linemen.
« That might be for people outside our building, talking about the meaningful or meaningless nature of a game, » Garrett said. « They’re all very meaningful to us. It’s opportunity for us to improve as a football team, to finish strong, to have some momentum going into the playoffs. »
For the Giants (5-11), it was another late loss. They lost eight games by seven points or less in Pat Shurmur’s first season, the last two by a total of two points.
