The Dallas Cowboys had a game-winning touchdown in front of them on Sunday. They threw it away because their head coach told them to.

Schottenheimer took the blame in the aftermath of the 34-31 defeat to the Baltimore Ravens, admitting he had coached Dak Prescott into a throwaway on third and goal with the game on the line.

“That’s on me. I overcoached him.”

“I probably overcoached Dak on that one because we had the points.”

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The setup was as good as an NFL offense gets in the final minute. A defensive pass interference call had given Dallas first and goal from the Baltimore two-yard line with the game tied at 28. A false start pushed the Cowboys back to the seven, and a Prescott scramble on second down left it third and goal from the five with 14 seconds left. Schottenheimer called a quick out and told his quarterback that protecting the ball trumped chasing the endzone, because a field goal would still win it. Prescott simply flung the ball out of bounds.

Prescott wanted the front pylon

The problem, as Prescott admitted afterward, was that George Pickens was open behind the throwaway.

“The coverage that they were playing, 99 out of 100 times they’re supposed to cover GP. That corner is supposed to be outside leverage, funneling him inside to the safety, GP’s GP. He did a great job of winning regardless. I said, I wish I would have just sank on my back foot and just threw it to the front pylon and trusted it. But it’s one of those things you read the coverage, you say, well, they’re not giving you that. And unfortunately, I threw the ball away,” Prescott told reporters.

Pickens, the wide receiver Prescott refers to as “GP,” had beaten his cornerback into the end zone. Prescott, drilled to avoid a turnover, discarded the ball rather than trust what he had seen.

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Loop wins it from 56

Dallas kicked the tying field goal to make it 31-31. Baltimore needed only seven seconds: a 27-yard completion moved the Ravens into field-goal range, and kicker Tyler Loop drilled a 56-yard walk-off to make it 34-31 as time expired.

The game was the first NFL regular-season fixture ever played in Rio de Janeiro, at the Maracanã. The result dropped the Cowboys to 1-2.

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