PHILADELPHIA — The Dallas Cowboys made things more interesting than they had any right to, but the Philadelphia Eagles ultimately remained perfect on Sunday night, improving their record to 6-0 by defeating their division rivals, 26-17.
The Eagles used a monster second quarter to power their way to victory, with 20 of their points coming in that period. Philadelphia intercepted Cooper Rush three times on the evening, holding him to 18 of 38 passing for 181 yards and one score in addition to the trio of picks.
Dallas bullied its way back into the game in the third quarter and early in the fourth behind a strong dose of the run game and play-action passing, but a 13-play, 75-yard Eagles touchdown drive that took 7:37 off the clock ended up pretty much putting things away. If that didn’t do it, then Rush’s third interception — which came on the following drive — certainly did.
Jalen Hurts didn’t all that get much going through the air (15 of 25 for 155 yards), but he did good work neutralizing the pass rush with his legs and the threat of him taking off led to multiple quality runs by the running backs, particularly Miles Sanders. He also found both A.J. Brown and DeVonta Smith for touchdowns on well-designed plays from Nick Sirianni.
Philadelphia maintained sole possession of first place in the NFC East with the victory, while the loss dropped Dallas to 4-2 and into third place, behind the Giants.