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4 Takeaways: Yippie Brett Maher lone sad face as Cowboys’ coaches come through

Dak Prescott and Kellen Moore led the way for the Dallas Cowboys in their 31-14 win over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the wild card matchup. | From @BenGrimaldi

It’s just one game, but the Dallas Cowboys exorcised a lot of demons in their 31-14 blowout win over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. A wild-card win isn’t the ultimate goal but the Cowboys showed their mettle in winning a playoff game against one of the league’s best quarterbacks ever to wear a uniform.

Yet the better quarterback in this contest was the one with the star on his helmet. Cowboys QB Dak Prescott outplayed his legendary counterpart in an exquisite performance to help end several franchise droughts. The narrative that Dallas couldn’t win a playoff game on the road, or on grass, or in navy uniforms, or beat Tom Brady were all dispelled. Too many people forgot the Cowboys won 12 games this season, while the Buccaneers struggled to win just eight.

Those sins of the past had nothing to do with what would happen in this playoff game, and the Cowboys proved that this team wouldn’t let history decide the outcome. Here are four more takeaways from the Cowboys’ win over the Buccaneers.

Four takeaways from Texas’ Week 3 win against Rice

Four takeaways from the Week 3 win.

The Longhorns are back in the win column after annihilating Rice in Week 3.

Steve Sarkisian made a change at the quarterback position, but the night consisted of a steady order of running the ball down Rice’s throat. The Longhorns had four different backs tack up a rushing touchdown. Bijan Robinson was the star of the game, no surprise there, as the do it all player finished the game with three touchdowns, all of which came in the first half.

This game was and always should have been out of reach from the jump, the Longhorns were flat out embarrassed against Arkansas last week and needed a fine tuning game. Having a 44-0 lead at halftime is a great way to set the tone that last week’s loss is not resonating with Texas.

The offense was clicking on all cylinders, and the defense resembled the one we saw in Week 1 against Louisiana.

Although this game was not close, we are still able to take away some important notes about the Longhorns.