Elliott exceeding lofty expectations for NFL-leading Cowboys

The Ravens countered with receiver Steve Smith, age 37. “You just can’t say enough about how that’s worked out, good preparation to see the coverages then to capitalize with some big throws”.

“We’ve got a lot of guys we can get it to, and we’ll throw it to any of them”. “You really don’t know when that’s going to be from within a drive to within a game to week in and week out”.

In a physical game not for the faint-hearted, Prescott, Elliott, and the rest of the Dallas Cowboys took Baltimore’s best shot – and kept going. They ran 52 plays vs. the 67 run by Dallas’ offense.

Garrett continued by noting that Prescott’s heroic act of picking up the paper cup and throwing it out reflects the kind of character the Cowboys expected from the rookie when they drafted him.

As for the Ravens, we liked the early smash mouth approach, when it looked like Marshal Yanda and Co. were sick of hearing about Dallas’ offensive line all week.

The next Dallas score, which came with 7:31 left in the third quarter, was aided by a 33-yard pass interference call on Tavon Young that put the ball on the Raven 17.

What happened to the No. 1-ranked defense in the NFL?

“It was a great team effort”, Cowboys safety J.J. Wilcox said.

Again the cries poured out for America’s Team to get a veteran backup and again they decided it was better not to overpay for a guy another team didn’t want.

That’s because they have playmakers.

On 1st down, Prescott did ran for about 12 yards. Prescott grew up rooting for the Cowboys, and like so many families for the past few decades, watching America’s Team play was as much a holiday tradition as carving turkey.

The Dallas Cowboys are riding a nine-game winning streak, and thankfully haven’t needed any contribution from their second-round pick in the 2016 National Football League draft. I guess they can claim to be 9-1, too.

Witten had five catches for 37 yards, and Cole Beasley had five for 59. After an Arizona response to open the third quarter, Cordarrelle Patterson would give Minnesota another 10-point lead with his 104-yard kickoff return touchdown.

The Ravens couldn’t stop him.

Whatever whispers there were as recently as a month ago that Prescott would be replaced in the Dallas Cowboys’ lineup when Tony Romo returned from a back injury, forget about it. Romo is healthy now – and he is most definitely the backup. They don’t have a Tom Brady at quarterback or an Antonio Gates at tight end. The Ravens could not hold on in Sunday’s game and took a 27-10 loss, against a team they had conquered many times.

They came into the Dallas game with the best front seven in the National Football League, and the Cowboys wore them down. “I thought if you go out to our stadium or you go out to The Star, if you go down on the event level or if you’re in the top part with the suites in that area, you’ll see no intellectual clutter and you’ll see all the trash picked up”. It’s been that way for years now.

Linebacker Sean Lee at times is the best defensive player the Cowboys have although that title may belong to Jones now.

Here’s another one: Dallas has several elite players, and the Ravens have only one.