SAN FRANCISCO — <\/p>\n
David Ely’s takeaways:<\/p>\n
1)\tCowboys, Eagles lead NFC to comeback win. NFC East rivals banding together for game-winning plays? Only in the Pro Bowl Games. Star players from Dallas and Philadelphia put aside their regular season differences to spearhead a dramatic comeback for the NFC on Tuesday night in San Francisco. A whopping four Cowboys players combined to catch five TDs with \ufeff\ufeffKaVontae Turpin<\/a>\ufeff\ufeff, \ufeff\ufeffGeorge Pickens<\/a>\ufeff\ufeff and \ufeff\ufeffCeeDee Lamb<\/a>\ufeff\ufeff nabbing the final three scores of the game as the NFC roared back from a 52-36 third-quarter deficit to improve to 4-0 in this iteration of the Pro Bowl Games. In the second half, NFC coach Jerry Rice deployed a two-QB system of \ufeff\ufeffJalen Hurts<\/a>\ufeff\ufeff (three TD passes on the night) and \ufeff\ufeffDak Prescott<\/a>\ufeff\ufeff (four TDs) that proved tough for the AFC to stop. On consecutive drives in the second half, Hurts took a red zone snap, quickly pitched the ball to Prescott, who found a Dallas receiver for six. The second of those plays resulted in a Pickens TD that gave the NFC its first lead since the opening stanza and led to Pickens claiming Offensive MVP honors. The AFC had a chance to tie the game on the ensuing possession, but Buccaneers safety \ufeff\ufeffAntoine Winfield Jr.<\/a>\ufeff\ufeff intercepted \ufeff\ufeffJoe Burrow<\/a>\ufeff\ufeff in the end zone to end the AFC\u2019s last threat of the game \u2013 a play that earned Winfield Defensive MVP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO — David Ely’s takeaways: 1) Cowboys, Eagles lead NFC to comeback win. NFC East rivals banding…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":728265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[1227,7,6,609,88592,17981],"class_list":["post-728264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-around-the-nfl","tag-football","tag-nfl","tag-no-minute","tag-pro-bowl-games","tag-what-we-learned"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=728264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/728265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=728264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=728264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=728264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}