Bengals offense cuts to the Chase as Cowboys are doomed by their own blocked punt
CNN
The Dallas Cowboys were doomed by their own blocked punt in a wild Monday night game against the Cincinnati Bengals.
The Week 14 edition of Monday Night Football featured a pair of teams struggling through disappointing seasons. With both teams’ hopes of making the playoffs all but evaporated, the Dallas Cowboys and Cincinnati Bengals played like a couple teams with nothing left to lose. In the end, it was a Dallas blocked punt that actually doomed the Cowboys, who lost the game 27-20 in stunning fashion at home. Things looked to be going the Cowboys’ way in Big D when the Dallas defense got a clutch stop to force a Bengals’ punt with just two minutes remaining and the game tied. The Cowboys fans at AT&T Stadium erupted as Nick Vigil blocked the Bengals’ punt, but delight turned to despair when the Cowboys’ Amani Oruwariye mishandled the blocked ball. Because Oruwariye touched the ball beyond the line of scrimmage, it was a live ball and Maema Njongmeta recovered for the Bengals. With a new lease on life, the Bengals wasted no time getting into the endzone.
