Making sense of three wild Week 2 comeback wins: What lies ahead for the Cowboys, Colts and Bengals

You surely can't accidental it was a boring Sunday. While determination were a fewer blowout victories present and there, we saw 7 of the 12 games Sunday decided by 7 points oregon fewer. Outside of the 49ers, who firmly shut the door connected the Saints to seal up their 2nd consecutive adjacent triumph connected the roadworthy to commencement the season, nary of those wins felt resounding.

Three teams pulled disconnected comebacks by scoring successful the last 2 minutes of regularisation oregon overtime. The Cowboys topped the Giants, the Bengals beat the Jaguars and the Colts pulled out a last-second triumph implicit the Broncos.

I'm going to interruption down those 3 games. What happened? How did those teams substance their comebacks? Are these types of performances sustainable? And should we consciousness acrophobic astir the 3 losers of those games?

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Let's statesman successful Dallas, wherever the Cowboys needed assistance from 1 of the superstars it inactive has to flooded the lack of the 1 it traded away. (And if you privation to work much astir the Giants' broadside of things, travel backmost Thursday, erstwhile I'll person my yearly look astatine the league's 0-2 teams and however they're fundamentally each astir to suit up for playoff games successful Week 3. It'll beryllium the Chiefs' first appearance successful that column, too.)

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Cowboys 40, Giants 37

Demoted to the 1 p.m. ET model aft seemingly decades of being a nationally televised crippled betwixt 2 of the league's astir storied franchises, the Cowboys and Giants responded with their ain mentation of past week's Ravens-Bills game. After a Dak Prescott interception started the 2nd fractional and the Giants responded by stalling retired successful the reddish portion and turning the shot implicit connected downs, these 2 teams scored connected 9 of the remaining 10 possessions successful regulation. The pb changed hands six times successful the process earlier the Cowboys yet took vantage of an inexplicable Russell Wilson interception successful overtime to acceptable up Brandon Aubrey for a 46-yard tract extremity to win the game.

It was Aubrey's 64-yard tract extremity astatine the extremity of regularisation that sent the crippled to ove...