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BY ANDREW FRIEDLANDER Special to The Advocate
ARLINGTON, Texas — In an age of high-speed, high-tech passing attacks filled with misdirection and designed to cause confusion, the Dallas Cowboys’ offense is easy to figure out.
It’s all about Ezekiel Elliott, whose 1,074 yards and 97.6 yards per game through Dallas’ first 11 games led the league.
The challenge for the Saints on Thursday night was stopping him — and that is not so easy.
The Cowboys’ running back and offensive centerpiece entered the game on a roll, having run for more than 120 yards and a touchdown in each of his previous three games — not to mention his 137 yards and a TD receiving in that span.
Not coincidentally, the Cowboys won all three of those games.
But for most of Thursday night at AT&T Stadium, the Saints’ defense was very much up to the task.
While the Cowboys kept feeding him the ball, Elliott could do little with it, running into a wall, often led by linebacker Demario Davis, safety Vonn Bell or defensive tackle David Onyemata. ...
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