EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Micah Parsons used to be no longer stunned by the Dallas Cowboys’ 40-0 throttling of the Recent York Giants on Sunday.
“No question in my mind,” Parsons said. “I seen it before anybody. I said, ‘I cannot wait to win to Recent York.’ I already knew we used to be coming. Lawful due to when preparation meets execution, I ticket no longer mediate there might perchance be no person that can per chance per chance beat us.”
Sunday marked:
* The largest shutout win in franchise historical past. Earlier than Sunday, that distinction belonged to a 38-0 win against the Baltimore Colts in 1978.
* The 2d-largest margin of victory against the Giants in 122 matchups. In 1966, the Cowboys opened the season with a 56-7 win over Recent York. And in 1995, the Cowboys opened the twelve months with a 35-0 win against the Giants.
* The Cowboys grew to turn out to be the fifth group to open their season with a shutout of 40-plus factors at streetlevel, in response to ESPN Stats & Files. The closing such event came in 1999, when the Pittsburgh Steelers defeated the Cleveland Browns 43-0.
* The Cowboys sacked Daniel Jones seven situations. It used to be essentially the most sacks in a season opener by a Dallas defense since it had 9 in 1994.
* Cowboys running assist Tony Pollard used to be the fifth Cowboy previously 50 years with extra than one dashing touchdowns in a season opener and the first since Marion Barber in 2008.
The 1978 Cowboys misplaced to the Pittsburgh Steelers in Perfect Bowl XIII. The 1966 Cowboys made it to the NFL Championship Game, shedding to the Inexperienced Bay Packers. The 1995 Cowboys received Perfect Bowl XXX. The 1994 Cowboys made it to the NFC Championship Game.
Because the Cowboys originate 2023, they’re taking a witness to win to a Perfect Bowl for the first time since 1995.
“Yeah, or no longer it’s factual one win, or no longer it’s the open of the season, nonetheless positively feel devour we put aside the league on peep, that we’re for accurate, that we’re coming,” defensive stop DeMarcus Lawrence said. “But we got reasonably about a work to enact.”
Particular groups and the defense started the Cowboys’ success, with Noah Igbinoghene returning a blocked field purpose try from Juanyeh Thomas on Recent York’s first possession for a landing, and DaRon Bland returning a Jones interception for a score after a extensive hit on Saquon Barkley.
“I mediate from there we took the existence out of them,” said Parsons, who used to be one in all 5 Cowboys defenders with at the least one sack.
The Giants received 38 yards on their first pressure nonetheless would manufacture extra than that on factual one in all their final 11 drives. They’d three drives that resulted in unfavorable yardage.
“The defense used to be relentless,” said coach Mike McCarthy, who received his first season opener as Cowboys coach in four tries.
With the victory, Dak Prescott received his 11th straight open against the Giants; he has no longer misplaced to the Giants since 2016, his rookie twelve months. Hall of Famer Roger Staubach had an 11-sport win race against Recent York in the 1970s. For the rationale that 1970 merger, only Tom Brady has a longer win race against a divisional opponent, beating the Buffalo Bills 13 straight situations from Dec. 27, 2003, to Dec. 26, 2010. Patrick Mahomes at the 2d has an 11-sport win race for the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs against the Denver Broncos.
But Prescott, who accomplished 13 of 24 passes for 143 yards in the rain-soaked sport, wasn’t pondering the win from now on or much less assertion.
“That’s y’all’s job to write down whatever assertion it wants to be,” Prescott said. “For us, or no longer it’s about no longer getting sooner than ourselves, continuing to preserve disciplined, present that self-discipline, no longer only what we did through these four quarters nonetheless taking that and guaranteeing we dispute that in our preparation after which involving forward subsequent week going home against one other Recent York group, a correct group.
“It be the NFL. You enjoy gotten to expose up week in and week out and be ready. You ticket no longer ogle reasonably about a wins devour this, so we’re no longer going to win sooner than ourselves on this.”
