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A Lack of ‘O’ in Big D

In this year’s Cowboys-Giants opener, Dallas was simply outclassed at QB and unable to run the ball

Sunday featured the latest installment of the annual Week 1 Giants-Cowboys showdown. This time it was the Cowboys who made the costly clock blunder late in the fourth quarter. Wide receiver Terrance Williams’s decision to turn upfield rather than get out of bounds at the 48-yard-line with under 10 seconds remaining ended up expiring the clock and clinching New York’s first Week-1 win since 2010.

But while Williams’s blunder sealed the Cowboys’ fate, it didn’t create it.