Cowboys suffer consecutive losing seasons, as Dak Prescott is benched and defender is ejected in lopsided loss

The Dallas Cowboys person suffered back-to-back losing seasons for nan first clip since 2002 aft a 34-17 illness to nan New York Giants connected Sunday. 

Cowboys backmost Dak Prescott was pulled from nan crippled astatine halftime, and protect extremity Donovan Ezeiruaku was ejected from nan crippled aft pulling disconnected a Giants players' helmet successful betwixt downs successful nan 3rd quarter. 

Prescott's crippled and play ended aft a first half successful which he fumbled and passed for conscionable 70 yards. He near nan crippled pinch nan convention lead successful passing yards for nan season. 

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Kavontae Turpin of nan Dallas Cowboys is tackled by Raheem Layne #43 of nan New York Giants during nan crippled connected January 4, 2026 astatine MetLife Stadium successful East Rutherford, New Jersey.   (Rich Graessle/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

In Prescott's absence, nan Cowboys were outscored 18-7 successful nan 2nd half and nan squad sewage into a costly scruff pinch Giants opponents, resulting successful penalties and nan ejection. The Ezeiruaku ejection occurred aft nan Giants scored a touchdown to spell up 22-10, and a brawl ensued pinch pushing, shoving and intentional face-mask grabbing.

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Dallas protect tackle Quinnen Williams was besides assessed an unnecessary roughness penalty, which put nan Giants astatine nan one-yard statement for nan constituent aft try, arsenic New York went for two, going up 24-10. 

Dallas ne'er recovered, arsenic backup backmost Joe Milton threw a precocious interception en-route to a 17-point nonaccomplishment to decorativeness nan season.

It was a fitting extremity to a grounded play for nan Cowboys, who officially extended their Super Bowl drought to 30 years. 

Dallas went all-in astatine this year's waste and acquisition deadline successful an effort to bolster its playoff chances, trading a 2027 first-round pick and a 2026 second-round prime to nan New York Jets for protect tackle Quinnen Williams. But it won't salary disconnected successful nan short word for nan Cowboys aft their 2025 failure. Williams is nether statement until 2027. 

Questions astir whether nan Cowboys would beryllium competitory successful 2025 were raised aft nan squad traded prima linebacker Micah Parsons to nan Green Bay Packers up of nan season. The Cowboys' defense is 29th successful nan NFL this twelvemonth without Parsons.

Dallas gave its fans immoderate dream pinch a three-game winning streak successful November, rebounding from 3-5-1 to 6-5-1 and wrong striking region of nan seventh seed successful nan NFC. But a 44-30 primetime loss to nan Detroit Lions Dec. 4 took each nan aerial retired and dropped Dallas' playoff chances to conscionable 8%. They went 1-3 successful in their last 4 games aft nan Lions nonaccomplishment to autumn to a losing record

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Dak Prescott #4 of nan Dallas Cowboys fumbles nan shot during nan first 4th against nan New York Giants astatine MetLife Stadium connected January 04, 2026 successful East Rutherford, New Jersey.  (Ishika Samant/Getty Images)

Meanwhile, nan Giants improved to 4-13 connected nan play for their 3rd consecutive losing season. The Giants had a chance to unafraid nan 2nd aliases first prime successful nan NFL Draft pinch a nonaccomplishment connected Sunday, but could perchance driblet each nan measurement to nan seventh prime pinch nan win. 

The Giants besides defeated nan Cowboys and Eagles successful nan aforesaid play for nan first clip since 2020. 

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