The Dallas Cowboys need a win to keep their playoff hopes alive, and recovering the opening kickoff when you’re the team kicking is a pretty good way to start the game.
NFL teams typically elect to kick the ball when they start games so they can get the ball to start after halftime. It generally assumed that you won’t start the game with the ball of you kick it off, but then again the Dallas Cowboys are a special kind of interesting when it comes to how they operate each week.
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On the opening kickoff of the Cowboys Sunday night game against the Philadelphia Eagles, Dallas managed to somehow recover the ball after the Eagles kind of sort of forgot to field it.
It was the most bizarre thing you’ll see all week, as the Cowboys started the game deep in Eagles territory and ended up scoring a Demarco Murray touchdown.
That’s not something you see all the time, and it’s not something the Eagles are going to boast about. They have one of the best special teams units in the entire NFL, but gaffes like this at this time of year are the type of plays that cost teams chances to make the playoffs.
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