Coming into the San Francisco 49ers game, the Dallas Cowboys were without starting running back Ezekiel Elliott. He is the straw that stirs the drink. The team would be in dire straits without him. At least, that is the way he has been described by certain influential persons with the Dallas organization named Jones.
But what we got was a rare convincing win. Yes, it was against another team that has been struggling. Yes, this one was, like the previous week’s victory over the Cincinnati Bengals, largely because of the sudden flurry of takeaways, with seven over the past two weeks for a team that was getting almost none in the first dozen games of the season.