Buccaneers-Cowboys Week 5 TNF Recap: Are the Cowboys in trouble?

SPEAKER_1 (0:00)

Snapped to Prescott with under a minute and a half to go. Prescott in the pocket, fires downfield, busted up into.

SPEAKER_2 (0:05)

The air, picked off by Alex Anzalone with 1.16 to go. Tampa Bay with an eight-point lead and Alex Anzalone dives for the football and hauls it in to force a third turnover today against the Cowboys.

Gregg Rosenthal (0:20)

Oh, that's Tony Catrioni for the first time on WXTV.

SPEAKER_4 (0:26)

Missed Gene Deckerhoff, but good to have Tony aboard.

Gregg Rosenthal (0:28)

And good to have a massive upset on Thursday Night Football. The Buccaneers went into Jerry World as eight and a half point underdogs with an undrafted rookie at quarterback. And they leave with their first victory of the season, 24-16.

A disastrous loss for the Cowboys. And very nervous Todd Bowles at the end of this game, sweating out a Dak Prescott drive at the end that, yes, is finished off with an Anzalone interception.

SPEAKER_4 (1:03)

Really a drop by Jake Ferguson.

Gregg Rosenthal (1:05)

That gets popped up in the air and the bucks survive after some questionable decisions down the stretch. We'll get to all that tonight. Ended up being a fun game. The Cowboys fall to two and three bucks at one and four. Nick shook wearing his guardians cap on a big night in the entire sports world. But what surprised you the most out of this Buccaneers victory, Nick?

Nick Shook (1:32)

It was what I was least surprised about, which is all the haters who said Jalen Daniels couldn't do it.

SPEAKER_4 (1:38)

Well, guess what? You were wrong.

Nick Shook (1:40)

I need you to take this L right now. Hold this L because Jalen just delivered it to you. Man, he was so effective on that marathon drive that they put together to score a touchdown to tie the game at seven. There were multiple situations in which this could have gone so much worse for the Buccaneers.

Um, like essentially after that first touchdown score by the Cowboys, they could have crumbled and they didn't, they put together this long drive, uh, This long, methodical drive to tie the game up, and then it becomes a bit of a rock fight. And then we get to the second half, and it was less about Jalen Daniels and more about Bucky Irving, the guy that everybody's wanted the Buccaneers, wanted to have somebody do something for the Buccaneers. They've wanted him to be the guy, and he hasn't until this point. He's going off, and then you find a very balanced offense. And yeah, it's a bad loss for the Cowboys. We can admit that it's a bad loss, but I think it's because they held on. Things got hairy at the end, but because they held on, it's a really nice win for the Buccaneers, who had every reason in the world to go in there and get stomped.

Gregg Rosenthal (2:42)

Yeah, there's a sneaky amount of things coming out of this game that matter, including, like, who's going to win the NFC East? Like, would it be the Giants? Are the Buccaneers, you know, back in this mix overall? But I'm glad you brought up Bucky Irving. I thought his run in the second half, which I believe went for 72 yards, was one of the best runs ever Of the season, certainly. I mean, I think this is as good a run as you're going to see.

The overhead view, if you were watching on Prime Vision, was just absolutely outrageous. I've been talking up in general that Bucky Irving, I think, has had the juice this year. If you watch him, he is back to the guy that makes you miss almost every time that he touches the ball. Also had a touchdown as a receiver in this game. And it wasn't just the 72-yard run, but that single play, Change the entire game.

SPEAKER_4 (3:35)

They are trailing at that moment.

Gregg Rosenthal (3:38)

He breaks off like a run that I just don't think many players in the NFL could possibly do. Makes five Cowboys look silly. The very next play, Abuka runs it in. Good call by Zach Robinson there on an end around. And they then kind of control the clock. You mentioned how they did. in the first half with that crazy 11 minute drive.

But after that, in the second half, they also had an eight minute drive that they ended up turning it over on downs, a nearly a five minute drive in the first half that went for a pun and then like a four and a half minute long field goal drive. And I, and I thought like the matchup of Jalen Daniels and this offense that had been struggling so much against this Cowboys defense should, Should have been the Cowboys defense get right game?