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Dallas Cowboys’ Aldon Smith scoops up Cincinnati Bengals’ fumble, takes it 78 yards to end zone

Williams fumbled after running into the back of left tackle Hakeem Adeniji on a second-and-4 run on the second possession of Sunday’s game at Cincinnati, allowing Cowboys’ Aldon Smith to scoop up the loose ball and run 78 yards for a touchdown and a 10-0 lead. It’s the second defensive touchdown of the season for […]

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NFL Thanksgiving fantasy football inactives watch: Who’s in and who’s out?

Who should you start? Who should you sit? To help you set your fantasy football lineups and to avoid starting a player who won’t be in the lineup, we’ll post fantasy-relevant updates and analysis here as NFL teams release their inactives, typically about 90 minutes before kickoff. Any rankings cited in this column come from […]

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Rams’ Matt Gay, waived by Bucs before season, kicks game winner vs. former team: ‘You can’t write it’

Los Angeles Rams kicker Matt Gay said it was “kind of crazy” to return to Tampa Bay to face his former team on Monday Night Football. Gay kicked a 40-yard field goal with 2:36 remaining in the game to put the Rams ahead 27-24, and Rams safety Jordan Fuller intercepted quarterback Tom Brady with 1:57 […]

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NFL Power Rankings Week 11: 1-32 poll, plus one thing each team wants to take back

As the NFL Power Rankings dive into the second half of the season, we decided to be gluttons for punishment and play the “What if?” game. We asked every NFL Nation reporter one thing that the teams they cover have done in 2020 that they wish they could take back. From clumsy in-game decisions (like […]

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Pittsburgh Steelers reach 8-0 for first time in franchise history with ugly win over Dallas Cowboys

Who else but Minkah Fitzpatrick? For the second week in a row, Fitzpatrick knocked away a pass in the end zone to preserve the Pittsburgh Steelers’ undefeated season. This time, he kept Garrett Gilbert‘s pass from finding CeeDee Lamb to help the Steelers hold on to a 24-19 win against a pesky Dallas Cowboys team […]

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Dak Prescott ankle injury: Answering the biggest questions about the QB, the Cowboys, Andy Dalton and what’s next

On Sunday, a Dallas Cowboys team that was seemingly going through a nightmare season saw its worst fears realized. In the third quarter, Pro Bowl quarterback Dak Prescott suffered a gruesome ankle injury. If you were watching the play, you’re not going to forget what you saw for a long time. If you didn’t see […]

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Dak Prescott of Dallas Cowboys out of surgery for compound fracture, dislocation of right ankle

ARLINGTON, Texas — The emotions of a last-second win against the New York Giants could not overcome the disappointment the Dallas Cowboys felt Sunday after losing quarterback Dak Prescott for the season. Prescott suffered a compound fracture and dislocation of his right ankle that required surgery Sunday night. The injury occurred on a 9-yard run […]

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Atlanta Falcons special-teams coach Ben Kotwica takes blame for onside kick fail vs. Dallas Cowboys

Kicker Greg Zuerlein and the Cowboys perfectly executed the onside kick, which was recovered by Dallas defensive back and former Falcon C.J. Goodwin. Several Falcons — Kotwica singled out tight end Jaeden Graham and wide receiver Olamide Zaccheaus — froze up and failed to aggressively recover the ball before it rolled 10 yards, which allowed […]

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Notable bets: Chiefs’ win equals big loss for bookmakers

The punchline contained in the email was stunning. “Game kicks off in 55 minutes,” Tom Gable, sportsbook director at the Borgata in Atlantic City, New Jersey, wrote of Sunday’s Los Angeles Chargers-Kansas City Chiefs matchup, “and we haven’t taken one single wager on the Chargers on the spread.” The action on the game at other […]

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Atlanta Falcons owner Arthur Blank weighs in on onside kick blunder

Atlanta Falcons owner Arthur Blank and coach Dan Quinn had different takes on the onside kick blunder that led to the Falcons’ stunning 40-39 loss to the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday, a loss that dropped Atlanta to 0-2 and sparked more speculation about Quinn’s future with the team. Falcons players Jaeden Graham, Hayden Hurst, and […]

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