Jameis Winston Fumble at the Goal Line Negated by Cowboys Penalty, Winston

The next play, Winston executed the fake perfectly and strolled into the end zone for the only touchdown in the game.

The Cowboys travel to the city of Tampa to take on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday.

This game was ugly. In five of these seven games (two went to overtime) they’ve had leads or been tied in the fourth quarter, and they’ve lost them all in different ways.

However, most of it was a strong defensive outing by Lovie Smith’s maligned unit.

Mike Evans was huge for the Bucs this week, as he had to be with Vincent Jackson and Austin Seferian-Jenkins still out.

Today was his third consecutive 100 yard receiving day, tallying 126 yards on eight catches. They do enough things right to be there in the end, but they can’t get over the hump.

The Cowboys and Buccaneers both entered Sunday’s matchup among the league’s worst defenses, so it was only fitting Tampa Bay (4-5) squeaked by with a 10-6 victory, handing Dallas its seventh straight loss for the first time since 1989. This past Sunday against Tampa might have been rock-bottom, as the Cowboys surrendered game-winning drive to Jameis Winston in the final seconds.

The Bucs will most certainly try to get back to running the football effectively, although they could be without G Ali Marpet.

If there is a football heaven, we have to believe the occupants are celebrating, This was the good guys over the bad guys in the minds of most people. Four of the first six opposing quarterbacks have won Super Bowls, and Jameis Winston, as talented as he is, has the most inexperience.

Romo is slated to return as the starter next week in Miami against the Dolphins. The Bucs then relied on Doug Martin, who looked back to form after disappointing last week, to get into field goal range and tie the game at 3-3.

“We had the ball down there a couple other times when turnovers hurt us”, Smith said about Sunday’s game.

Credit Winston, Evans and his patchwork quilt of receivers for putting together the biggest drive of the game Sunday when they absolutely needed it. The Bucs marched 56 yards in nine plays for the winning touchdown – a 1-yard bootleg by Winston. Dan Bailey finally proved human by missing a field goal, but he also snuck in a 53-yarder. Meanwhile, the Bucs’ defense had three sacks, held the Cowboys to 42 yards rushing, and limited Bryant to five receptions for 45 yards.

Romo briskly jogged onto the practice field a few minutes late Friday, with All-Pro receiver Dez Bryant just behind him, and eagerly called for a ball before he had reached the quarterback group making soft warm-up tosses.

As the score indicates, the Bucs struggled offensively.

“I’m always confident”, Winston said after scoring the victor with 54 seconds remaining. “He’s a great player”. Cowboys quarterback Matt Cassel was 19-for-30 passing for 186 yards and no touchdowns.

It nearly ended with a fumble, but a Cowboys penalty helped give the Buccaneers another chance at the win. But Dez couldn’t make his opportunity count and he had two crucial drops as well as a lackadaisical effort on the very last offensive play when Cassel went to him deep.