Raiders Beat Cowboys 36-33 In OT On Field Goal After Penalty

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Derek Carr and the Las Vegas Raiders got the third-down assistance they needed from Dallas cornerback Anthony Brown.

Daniel Carlson kicked a 29-yard tract extremity successful overtime aft Brown’s 4th pass-interference punishment kept the thrust alive, and the Raiders ended a three-game losing streak by beating the Cowboys 36-33 connected Thursday.

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Carlson’s career-best 5th tract extremity came aft Brown was called for interference connected Zay Jones connected third-and-18. All 4 of Brown’s interference penalties came connected third-down incompletions.

“The penalties evidently helped,” said Carr, whose 373 yards passing included a 56-yard touchdown to DeSean Jackson for the archetypal points. “If they weren’t holding, we astir apt would person deed those plays.”

The Raiders had conscionable 2 third-down conversions full the erstwhile 2 games and were 3 of 13 successful this one. But Brown topped that full each by himself.

“Just 1 of them days,” Brown said. “I consciousness similar I was successful presumption for each of them, tried to crook my head. On immoderate of them I did person my caput turned. Just effort to get better.”

Both teams had play highs successful penalties and yards. Dallas, the NFL person successful punishment yards coming in, had 14 for a franchise-record 166 yards and Las Vegas 14 for 110.

A holding telephone connected perennial Pro Bowl near tackle Tyron Smith successful his archetypal crippled backmost aft missing 3 with an ankle wounded negated a Dallas touchdown aboriginal successful the 4th quarter. The Cowboys settled for a tract goal.

“Twenty-eight penalties, I don’t cognize what the hellhole you privation maine to say,” Dallas manager Mike McCarthy said. “Write what you want. I’m each for it.”

The Raiders (6-5) won connected Thanksgiving for the archetypal clip since 1968. It was their 4th quality connected the vacation since then, with the erstwhile 2 losses coming astatine the Cowboys.

“It benignant of gave maine goose bumps, I’m not going to lie,” Carr said. “When that footwear went through, I had a batch of memories arsenic a kid.”

Dak Prescott had 209 of his 375 yards passing successful the 4th quarter. His 32-yard touchdown walk to Dalton Schultz and 2-point conversion flip to the choky extremity pulled the Cowboys (7-4) adjacent astatine 30 with 2:54 remaining aft they trailed astir from the start.

Carlson enactment Las Vegas up 33-30 with a career-long 56-yarder with 1:52 remaining. Greg Zuerlein, who missed an other constituent aft the archetypal Dallas TD, answered with a 45-yarder with 19 seconds to go.

Tony Pollard had a 100-yard kickoff instrumentality for Dallas successful the 3rd quarter, but was stopped wrong the 15 to commencement overtime. The Cowboys went three-and-out aft a punishment pushed them backmost to the 7, and the Raiders finished disconnected the 3rd triumph for the AFC West against the NFC East-leading Cowboys successful the past 4 games.

Brown had his backmost to Jones erstwhile Carr threw the walk with Las Vegas astatine its 43. The punishment enactment the Raiders astatine the Dallas 24, and the winning footwear came aft the Cowboys were penalized doubly for rushing past the enactment of scrimmage earlier the snap.

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Carr was 24 of 39 without an interception, and Hunter Renfrow had vocation highs successful catches (eight) and yards (134). Marcus Mariota scored from the 3 connected a shotgun keeper.

The Dallas discourtesy struggled aboriginal without apical receivers Amari Cooper (COVID-19 protocols) and CeeDee Lamb (concussion) and moving backmost Ezekiel Elliott nursing a close genu injury. The NFL’s No. 1 discourtesy bounced backmost to decorativeness with 437 yards, but the Raiders had a season-high 509.

“We had immoderate explosive plays and we gave up immoderate explosive plays,” said interim manager Rich Bisaccia, who near aft 5 seasons with the Cowboys to articulation the Raiders successful 2018.

Jackson tip-toed successfully connected the sideline to unfastened the scoring and drew 1 of the interference penalties against Brown successful the extremity portion to acceptable up Josh Jacobs’ 1-yard TD.

Sean McKeon had his archetypal vocation touchdown, a 10-yard drawback for the Cowboys’ archetypal points. Elliott, who was constricted to 9 carries for 25 yards, had a 1-yard TD.

PAIR OF EJECTIONS

Kelvin Joseph of Dallas and Roderic Teamer of the Raiders were ejected aft getting idiosyncratic foul penalties astatine the extremity of a Las Vegas punt connected the archetypal possession of the 2nd half. Field justice Tom Hill ended up with a tiny chopped connected his chin during the fracas connected the Raiders’ sideline.

It was the 2nd consecutive week the Cowboys had a run-in with the hostile during a punt. And the rookie Joseph ended up with the remainder of the crippled disconnected a week aft staying location for idiosyncratic reasons.

GO LONG

Jackson, who spent the archetypal six of his 14 years with Philadelphia, has six vocation TD catches against his erstwhile NFC East rival. Five of those person covered astatine slightest 56 yards, including a 91-yarder with the Eagles successful 2010 and an 81-yarder successful his 2nd stint with Philadelphia past season.

INJURIES

Raiders TE Darren Waller was ruled retired aft leaving the crippled twice, archetypal with a backmost wounded and past a genu issue. … DE Carl Nassib besides injured a genu and didn’t return, portion CB Brandon Facyson was ruled retired with a concussion.

UP NEXT

Raiders: Another NFC East opponent, this clip astatine location against Washington connected Dec. 5.

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Cowboys: At New Orleans adjacent Thursday. It’s the sixth clip successful 8 seasons Dallas has followed Thanksgiving with different Thursday game.