DETROIT — It was a pass Dallas needed on a drive it had to have in a game that would have been a disaster to lose.
Leading by six in the fourth quarter, second-and-10 from his own 49-yard line, Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott looked right, 16 yards down field, toward his favorite target, Amari Cooper.
Except just after Prescott released the pass, Cooper was no longer open. Detroit’s best coverman, Darius Slay Jr., jumped the route.
Here, in an instant, seemed to rest the Cowboys’ season. So much promise.