The win ends a three-game losing streak for the Raiders and is their first Thanksgiving win since 1968.
It’s a crushing defeat for the Cowboys who are aspiring for the Super Bowl this season.
After the game, as is Thanksgiving NFL tradition, a player from the winning team celebrates in style—a turkey bitten by the leg. And this time after the clutch kick it was Carlsen’s turn.
But this time around, he entered the shorthand game, missing two of his best wide receivers in Amari Cooper and CD Lamb.
And it resulted in a slow start to the Cowboys’ offense, as the Raiders raced to a 17-13 halftime lead.
Despite injuring star tight end Darren Waller during the game, the Raiders continued to score and advance to Dallas.
Carlsen hit his fourth field goal of the game with 1:57 in the fourth quarter, giving the Raiders a three-point cushion, but Dallas kicker Greg Zurlen hit a 45-yard field goal to tie the game at 33. There were only a few seconds left. -33 and send it overtime.
After the Cowboys’ drive was halted in overtime, the big pass interference game on Brown – the fourth called him into the game – set up Carlson’s game-winning kick on third and 18.
The defeat is the Cowboys’ fourth of their last five Thanksgiving games.
Carr threw for 373 yards and one touchdown, while Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott finished with 375 yards and two touchdowns.
There were an extraordinary 28 penalties in 276 yards of play, as well as a scuffle between the two teams that resulted in two ejections and an official getting a bloody chin in the third quarter.
Lions’ drought continues
The Detroit Lions will have to wait a bit longer for their first win of the season after losing 16-14 to the Chicago Bears on Thanksgiving.
A last-second field goal from Bears kicker Cairo Santos ensured a winless start to the season for the disappointing Lions, meaning they slipped to 0-10-1 in the season.
The game started with a strange coin, where the Lions won the toss and decided to avoid. When asked by officials if they wanted the ball, the Bears players chose to postpone, which they were told they could not do, as the Lions had already chosen to postpone.
But the win could prove to be a significant victory under pressure from Bears head coach Matt Nagy, whose future of the franchise has been the subject of speculation this week.
“When there’s a distraction—which happens in every sport, in all facts of life—it’s always going to be a distraction,” he told the media, as his team improved their record to 4-7 with the win. took.
“That’s how you handle them. And then, we got the win today, and it could have been many different ways. But the reason we got the win is because of how he handled the distractions, you know?
“That’s it for me, when you’re in this business and you lead people, it’s my job to ensure honest and open communication. Right here, as for me, I can’t tell you it’s a win.” How much it matters to me today. Because of the work he did to me.”
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