The Philadelphia Eagles won the opening coin toss and deferred to the second half. Officially speaking, the Dallas Cowboys offense was the first group in the NFL to touch a football in 2025.
But chaos broke out before the offense even took a snap. Eagles defensive tackle Jalen Carter appeared to spit on Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott and was ejected. For real.
Needless to say this got things off on quite the foot for all involved. Ultimately things stabilized and the Cowboys offense went to work.
But went to work they really did. Dak Prescott, Javonte Williams, CeeDee Lamb and George Pickens all looked great. It was Williams who finished things off though with the first touchdown of the NFL season.
That lead was short-lived, though. Philadelphia began to move and did so with relative ease against the Cowboys defense.
They capped it off with a Jalen Hurts rushing touchdown on third and goal to tie it up at 7-7.
The Cowboys began marching down the field and looked to be on the verge of repeating their first drive.
Unfortunately a bit before the quarter ended Tyelr Smith got called for a holding penalty which looked like it was going to derail things… and then George Pickens showed up.
Technically a penalty did as Pickens drew a huge pass interference to put Dallas inside the redzone.
Ultimately the quarter ended with Dallas on the goal line with things square at 7-7.
