Cowboys on top of the East
Same old Dallas Cowboys? Hardly. Tony Romo passed for 307 yards and one touchdown, a 49-yarder to Miles Austin with 8:04 left, and the defense made a key fourth-down stop to propel the Cowboys (6-2) into sole possession of the NFC East lead at the season’s halfway mark with a 20-16 victory over the Philadelphia Eagles (5-3) on Sunday night. The win was the Cowboys’ fourth straight – their longest streak since winning seven in a row in 2007 – and it served notice to the rest of the league that they’re determined to shake their reputation for falling apart in big games. It was also a measure of revenge after the Eagles clobbered Dallas 44-6 in last season’s winner-goes-to-the-playoffs …
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Cowboys on top of the East
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