ARLINGTON, Texas – Dak Prescott and the Dallas Cowboys had already answered the question about how they would respond to their worst showing of the season when the star quarterback took off on a fourth-down scramble near the goal line Sunday afternoon.
The powerful and punctuating touchdown finished a blowout of the Atlanta Falcons.
Prescott also threw for two touchdowns, running back Ezekiel Elliott had two touchdowns and Nahshon Wright recovered a blocked punt in the end zone – a week after touching one kept Dallas from getting the ball – as the Cowboys rolled to a 43-3 win.
“Last week just wasn’t us,” said Prescott, who ran through linebacker Mykal Walker at the goal line on his 4-yard touchdown even though he already had the first down. “Everybody in our locker room knows that. It left a bad taste in our mouth. I think it’s a taste we needed in a sense to understand how tough this game is.”
Plenty of things that went wrong for the Cowboys in that blowout loss to the Denver Broncos – which ended a six-game winning streak – went right to help the NFC East leaders get back on track one week later.