Watch: Cowboys RB Rico Dowdle opens Thanksgiving scoring

The Cowboys opened up the Thanksgiving scoring with a screen pass that went for six.

The Dallas Cowboys have slowly been working their running game into shape over the last several weeks. Run-game coordinator Jeff Blasko returned from a six-game absence at the end of November, and there’s been a steady improvement from the running game. Dak Prescott is taking off more, Tony Pollard is looking more and more like his old self and backup Rico Dowdle is finally getting a decent amount of touches.

And when the referees aren’t calling phantom holds to bring back his big runs, Dowdle is really effective. Just like he was opening up the Week 12 scoring with this screen to the right side inside a downfield block from Zack Martin and Tyler Biadasz.

Dallas leads 7-0 through the opening stanza.