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A tough and tight victory for the Dallas Cowboys over the New York Giants kept Dak Prescott and company out of crisis mode — for now.
The Cowboys did the same thing twice last season on the way to a third consecutive 12-win season and trip to the playoffs. It remains to be seen how the latest nerve-settling win translates.
Dallas (2-2) gets extra rest coming off the 20-15 victory over the Giants before a trip to Pittsburgh for another prime-time game on Oct. 6, but this one clouded by star pass rusher Micah Parsons being diagnosed with a high ankle sprain, NFL Network reported on Friday.
“I think we do a really good job internally focusing on what we’re doing every day,” head coach Mike McCarthy said. “I think sometimes our guys give honest answers to the questions from the externals and sometimes there [are] things that are said that really don’t reflect the way it is internally.”
After consecutive home losses to New Orleans and Baltimore with big first-half deficits and little resistance from the defense, Prescott wasn’t alone in questioning the professionalism, focus and practice habits of the team.
The star quarterback’s 13th consecutive victory over the Giants wasn’t necessarily shiny.
But it was similar to last season’s 20-17 win at the Los Angeles Chargers a week after another trip to California ended with a blowout loss in San Francisco. And a 20-19 victory at home against Detroit late in the season after the Cowboys had lost consecutive road games to Buffalo and Miami.
Granted, Dallas got a gift in the final seconds against the Lions when officials negated a 2-point conversion by Detroit that should have counted.
The Cowboys weren’t apologizing then, and they’re not apologizing now.
“Huge, especially when you compare it to the alternative,” Prescott said. “What that would have been like.”
Next on the list of important things after the victory for Dallas is the status of Parsons’ left ankle, which was injured in the fourth quarter when the two-time All-Pro…
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