Cowboys suffer consecutive losing seasons, as Dak Prescott is benched and defender is ejected in lopsided loss

The Dallas Cowboys person suffered back-to-back losing seasons for the archetypal clip since 2002 aft a 34-17 illness to the New York Giants connected Sunday. 

Cowboys backmost Dak Prescott was pulled from the crippled astatine halftime, and antiaircraft extremity Donovan Ezeiruaku was ejected from the crippled aft pulling disconnected a Giants players' helmet successful betwixt downs successful the 3rd quarter. 

Prescott's crippled and play ended aft a archetypal fractional successful which helium fumbled and passed for conscionable 70 yards. He near the crippled with the league pb successful passing yards for the season. 

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Kavontae Turpin of the Dallas Cowboys is tackled by Raheem Layne #43 of the New York Giants during the crippled connected January 4, 2026 astatine MetLife Stadium successful East Rutherford, New Jersey.   (Rich Graessle/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

In Prescott's absence, the Cowboys were outscored 18-7 successful the 2nd fractional and the squad got into a costly scruff with Giants opponents, resulting successful penalties and the ejection. The Ezeiruaku ejection occurred aft the Giants scored a touchdown to spell up 22-10, and a brawl ensued with pushing, shoving and intentional face-mask grabbing.

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Dallas antiaircraft tackle Quinnen Williams was besides assessed an unnecessary roughness penalty, which enactment the Giants astatine the one-yard enactment for the constituent aft try, arsenic New York went for two, going up 24-10. 

Dallas ne'er recovered, arsenic backup backmost Joe Milton threw a precocious interception en-route to a 17-point nonaccomplishment to decorativeness the season.

It was a fitting extremity to a failed play for the Cowboys, who officially extended their Super Bowl drought to 30 years. 

Dallas went all-in astatine this year's commercialized deadline successful an effort to bolster its playoff chances, trading a 2027 first-round prime and a 2026 second-round prime to the New York Jets for antiaircraft tackle Quinnen Williams. But it won't wage disconnected successful the abbreviated word for the Cowboys aft their 2025 failure. Williams is nether declaration until 2027. 

Questions astir whether the Cowboys would beryllium competitory successful 2025 were raised aft the squad traded prima linebacker Micah Parsons to the Green Bay Packers up of the season. The Cowboys' defence is 29th successful the NFL this twelvemonth without Parsons.

Dallas gave its fans immoderate anticipation with a three-game winning streak successful November, rebounding from 3-5-1 to 6-5-1 and wrong striking region of the seventh effect successful the NFC. But a 44-30 primetime nonaccomplishment to the Detroit Lions Dec. 4 took each the aerial retired and dropped Dallas' playoff chances to conscionable 8%. They went 1-3 successful in their last 4 games aft the Lions nonaccomplishment to autumn to a losing record

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Dak Prescott #4 of the Dallas Cowboys fumbles the shot during the archetypal 4th against the New York Giants astatine MetLife Stadium connected January 04, 2026 successful East Rutherford, New Jersey.  (Ishika Samant/Getty Images)

Meanwhile, the Giants improved to 4-13 connected the play for their 3rd consecutive losing season. The Giants had a accidental to unafraid the 2nd oregon archetypal prime successful the NFL Draft with a nonaccomplishment connected Sunday, but could perchance driblet each the mode to the seventh prime with the win. 

The Giants besides defeated the Cowboys and Eagles successful the aforesaid play for the archetypal clip since 2020. 

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