Dak Prescott questions timing of final Green Bay play in tie with Dallas: 'Felt funny'

After a Sunday Night Football game between the Dallas Cowboys and the Green Bay Packers ended in a 40-40 tie, Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott appeared to question the officiating. Specifically, he questioned the game’s deciding play.

Green Bay drove down the field in overtime, trailing 40-37. The Packers needed at least a field goal to tie the game and a touchdown to win it.

After running a play to get to third down with about 20 seconds remaining on the clock, Green Bay attempted to get one more play off. Quarterback Bryce Love snapped the ball and fired a pass to the end zone as the clock ticked down, and the ball landed on the turf in the end zone with about one second left. At least, that’s how the officials ruled it.

“Trying to wrap my head around a tie. One second left on the clock felt funny,” Prescott told NBC sideline reporter Melissa Stark. “It was a great game, great competition. That’s why you’ve got to love Sundays. Great job by them, great job by us competing. Wish we would have came out with the win.”

The end-game sequence from Green Bay was chaotic enough that the NBC broadcast booth was questioning it after the game. And surely there were Packers fans holding their breath throughout.

“Here we are with 22 seconds and the clock is just running,” broadcaster Cris Collinsworth said. “And so now the decision — if you spike it then it’s fourth down, you’ve got to try and kick the field goal. So they’re going to try to get one more play off, but look they’re not even on the line of scrimmage. They’re not lined up at all.

“It very easily could have been a 10-second run-off there. If they had called a penalty when they’re moving around that clock would have been a 10-second run-off and ended the game. They got very lucky A) they pulled that off in five seconds, and B) that they didn’t get a penalty out of it.”

While Prescott and the Cowboys would certainly have preferred the win over Green Bay, the quarterback still managed to find some positives after the game. He pointed them out to Stark.

“So many, just being resilient,” Prescott said. “Obviously getting in another high-scoring shootout, offense just stayed focused. We’re able to have each others’ back. Obviously defense didn’t let them score there, we kept it to a tie. A lot to build from.”