Cowboys Game: Dallas Beats the Colts 27-23 on Williams' Late Score and Downs' Interception
Down 23-20 with 97 seconds left, Dallas went 65 yards in under 30 seconds. Javonte Williams scored with 1:08 to play, and rookie Caleb Downs intercepted Daniel Jones with 35 seconds left — a 27-23 win that moves the Cowboys to 4-5.
INDIANAPOLIS — The Cowboys spent Sunday afternoon beating the Colts and beating themselves, and in the last two minutes they finally stopped doing the second one. Trailing 23-20 after Spencer Shrader's 50-yard field goal with 1:37 to play, Dallas needed less than 30 seconds to cover 65 yards, and Javonte Williams scored from 1 yard out with 1:08 remaining to put the Cowboys ahead 27-23, Reuters reported. Rookie safety Caleb Downs then intercepted Daniel Jones with 35 seconds left to seal the win.
The numbers say Dallas controlled the game it nearly gave away. Dak Prescott passed for 335 yards, CeeDee Lamb caught 10 passes for 195 yards and a touchdown, and Williams ran for 101 yards on 20 carries as Dallas outgained Indianapolis 508-271 and rushed for 179 yards. Against that, the Cowboys were penalized 14 times for 153 yards and lost two fumbles — the self-inflicted wounds, as Reuters put it, that kept Indianapolis close until the final drive. Shrader had tied the game at 20 with a career-long 59-yard field goal with 5:56 left before his 50-yarder briefly gave the Colts the lead.
Dallas did it short-handed. The team ruled out wide receiver George Pickens, cornerback Joey Porter Jr. and linebacker DeMarvion Overshown before kickoff, the Cowboys announced Sunday morning, with KaVontae Turpin, Tyrus Wheat, Ajani Cornelius and Luke Schoonmaker also inactive. The win moves Dallas to 4-5; Indianapolis falls to 2-7 with a fifth straight loss. Next for the Cowboys, per the day's coverage, is San Francisco at AT&T Stadium on Sunday, November 15 — and the search traffic tells the local story plainly: 'cowboys game' was one of the United States' trending searches on Sunday.
