After a rough start, the Dallas defense buckled down in the Cowboys' wild Week 12 win over the Eagles.
Last Monday night, the Dallas Cowboys' defense played its best game of this 2025 campaign, surrendering a season-low 17 first downs, a season-low 236 total yards, a season-low 27 rushing yards, and a season-low 16 points. But that was against the lowly Las Vegas Raiders.
Facing a far tougher test on Sunday afternoon at AT&T Stadium in the defending Super Bowl champion and NFC East-leading Philadelphia Eagles, Matt Eberflus' unit looked more like the liability it had been for the vast majority of the season, allowing the Birds to embark on touchdown drives of 50, 76, and 66 yards on their first three offensive possessions, thus putting America's Team in a 21-0 hole just three and a half minutes into the second quarter.