Cowboys overcome 21-point deficit to defeat visiting Eagles - ESPN

ARLINGTON, Texas — Coach Brian Schottenheimer likes to tell his Dallas Cowboys team that a game can't be won in the first, second or third quarters. It can only be won in the fourth quarter.

The Cowboys certainly tried to show that a game can be lost in the first two quarters Sunday, going down, 21-0, to the Philadelphia Eagles with the game barely 18 minutes old.

But in the final 42 minutes, the Cowboys put together a franchise-record tying comeback to beat the Eagles, 24-21, on a 42-yard field goal by Brandon Aubrey as time expired.

As music blared from the speakers inside the locker room, defensive tackle Osa Odighizuwa waved a flag with Marshawn Kneeland's name and No. 94 on it. Eighteen days earlier, Kneeland died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.

In the last seven days, the Cowboys have won their last two games.

«Brian has got this team with no quit in their vocabulary,» owner and general manager Jerry Jones said. «They will not quit. They've obviously had a real setback from the loss of a teammate. And they've had a setback from not being the team that we wanted to be in the early part of the year. But I hope all of our fans agree with me that they showed a lot of grit. They showed a lot of want to. And they certainly showed they haven't given up as far as giving us a chance to actually get in the playoffs this year.»

At 5-5-1, the Cowboys remain on the outside of the playoff chase at the moment. Their path to winning the NFC East will likely need a collapse from the 8-3 Eagles that matched what happened Sunday. A path to a wild-card spot is no sure thing either.

On Thursday, the Cowboys play the Kansas City Chiefs, now 6-5 after an overtime win against Indianapolis Colts.

How the Cowboys won —