Ezekiel Elliott, Cowboys hit divider in victory by Broncos

Ezekiel Elliott, Cowboys hit divider in victory by Broncos 

DENVER – Ezekiel Elliott and the Dallas Cowboys offense vanished in Denver.

Elliott, who drove the NFL in hurrying last season, had only 8 surging yards on nine conveys in the Cowboys' 42-17 misfortune to the Broncos Sunday evening at Sports Authority Field at Mile High.

Until halfway through the second from last quarter, Elliott didn't have a solitary yard.

That is a staggering measurement from an offense that over the previous year had built up itself as extraordinary compared to other running diversions in the NFL, with an effective hostile line and a do-everything star in Elliott. The Cowboys that got extinguished by the Broncos were unrecognizable as that group.

"It just felt like the whole diversion that we were working tough," Cowboys proprietor Jerry Jones. "I don't think this is a photo of what our group is, by any means. We won't acknowledge that."

The misfortune unquestionably uncovered how the Cowboys are defenseless.

Dallas won effectively in Week 1, when they were once in a while tested by the wallowing New York Giants. In a diversion Sunday that was hindered by a 62-minute lightning delay in the main quarter, the Cowboys never found a hostile cadence. That is an a good representative for a forceful Broncos guard that reliably swarmed Elliott and took away outside passing paths from quarterback Dak Prescott. Be that as it may, Dallas flopped likewise neglected to change.

As the Broncos assembled a 21-7 lead by late in the second quarter, the Cowboys were constrained out of the safe place of their ball-control offense. Rather, Prescott was left to toss a profession high 50 times. He was sacked twice by Denver linebacker Von Miller and tossed two capture attempts, which were uncommon stumbles for a quarterback who tossed only four picks as a new kid on the block.

"I essentially didn't influence enough to plays," Prescott said. "There's no reason for it."

Prescott reprimanded himself and said that had he possessed the capacity to hit a greater amount of his tosses to Dez Bryant and Cole Beasley outwardly, it could have constrained the Broncos to play more zone scope and opened up additionally running space for Elliott.

The Cowboys slice the Broncos' prompt 35-17 in the final quarter, yet cornerback Aqib Talib fixed Denver's win with a 103-yard block attempt return for a touchdown in the last moment of the amusement.

"They played superior to anything us, clear as night and day," Bryant said.

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Dallas now remains at 1-1 and should spend the following week making sense of how to better use Elliott – if the running back is undoubtedly permitted to play. The NFL has documented an interest to the fifth Circuit court for a stay of an order issued by a locale court judge that has put Elliott's six-diversion suspension on hold. Elliott was at first rebuffed for an infringement of the individual lead approach after a claim of aggressive behavior at home a year ago.

Hardly any guards in the NFL are worked to recreate the sort of accomplishment the Broncos had against the Cowboys, with corners in Talib and Chris Harris Jr., who additionally had a block attempt, equipped for playing man scope outwardly and in the space, a world class pass rusher in Miller and a shockingly hefty run protection that effectively made Dallas one-dimensional.

In any case, the outline is there. Stuff Elliott early and assemble a major lead, and the Cowboys may forsake the run amusement totally.

"This shows us we have a ton of work to do," Elliott said. "We must watch this film. You need to perceive any reason why you weren't viable."

The Cowboys additionally confront inquiries regarding their resistance in the wake of enabling the Broncos to pile on 380 yards, incorporating 246 in the principal half. Trevor Siemian tossed for 231 yards and four touchdowns, including two to recipient Emmanuel Sanders, alongside the one capture attempt. Running back C.J. Anderson had 118 surging yards and a touchdown.

Cowhands guarded end DeMarcus Lawrence had two sacks to convey his season aggregate to four, yet the Cowboys couldn't reliably produce a pass surge against the Broncos hostile line, leaving Siemian with a lot of time to permit Sanders and recipient Demaryius Thomas to get open.

"I was shocked how well they did unpalatably," Jones said.

The Cowboys lost two cornerbacks in the diversion, with Chidobe Awuzie harming his hamstring and Nolan Carroll enduring a blackout, leaving Dallas to a great degree thin in the auxiliary with starter Orlando Scandrick officially out with a broken hand.