Overshown’s pick-6 boosts Cowboys in Thanksgiving win over Giants – Orange County Register

ARLINGTON, Texas – DeMarvion Overshown wasn’t sure he could convert the pass he tipped into an interception for a touchdown.

The Dallas linebacker did it, and now it’s time for the Cowboys to dig themselves out of a deep hole and make it to the playoffs for the fourth straight year, this time without franchise quarterback Dak Prescott.

Overshown’s dynamic 23-yard pick-6 gave Dallas the lead for good, Rico Dowdle ran for a score in his first 100-yard game of his career, and the Cowboys held on for a 27-20 victory over the New York Giants on Thanksgiving Day.

Cooper Rush threw a TD pass and Dowdle finished with 112 yards in Thursday’s game, ending a six-game losing streak for the Cowboys (5-7) dating back to a wild-card playoff loss to Green Bay last season.

Dallas has rattled off consecutive wins after a five-game losing streak, but still has a lot of work to do to get back into postseason position. Prescott suffered a torn hamstring in Week 9 of an already tumultuous season.

“We just needed that last week to get the ball rolling and felt that winning feeling in the locker postgame last week,” Rush said of Washington’s wild 34-26 win. “Everything kind of comes together and it feels good.”

Drew Lock, starting in place of the injured Tommy DeVito a week after the benching and subsequent firing of Daniel Jones, lost a fumble after Overshown’s pick-6, marking the Giants’ seventh straight loss (2-10).

Lock ran for 57 yards and a touchdown late in the game to prevent New York’s eighth straight loss to its NFC East rival as the Giants were eliminated from playoff contention.

“This is the first time for me to be able to play a whole game with these guys and show them what I can do,” Lock said. “Minus the turnovers and a few other things, it was up and down. Some good ones. Some bad.”

The Giants had their first lead since Week 5 before Overshown put the Cowboys back in front after they had led by just 2 minutes, 15 seconds during their six-game loss at AT&T Stadium.

Leading 7-6, Lock tried to throw a screen pass to Devin Singletary after the running back was overwhelmed trying to block Overshown.

The second-year linebacker landed between Lock and Singletary, redirected the pass into the air toward the end zone, used his speed to knock it off and scored untouched.

“I thought, ‘Hey, this is a good time to get the afterburners going,'” said Overshown, who missed his rookie season with a knee injury. “I was able to inject some nitrous oxide and then we danced in the end zone.”

Overshown also recovered Lock’s fumble on the first possession of the second half and set up Rush’s 2-yard touchdown pass to Brandin Cooks.

He threw the ball into one of the Salvation Army’s oversized red cauldrons, made famous by Ezekiel Elliott nearly a decade ago, and isn’t sure what happened to it. The TD ball could go to his son.

“Before the game, I told myself that this time last year I was just waiting to show people what I said,” Overshown said. “Just being healthy on the field is all I could ask for.”

Rush — now 2-2 as a starter for Prescott this season and 7-3 in his career — threw the game-winning pass to Cooks after the quarterback’s apparent fumble into the end zone was overturned on review.

Cooks, who sealed the win with a diving first-down catch in the final two minutes, was playing for the first time since Dallas’ 20-15 win over the Giants in Week 4. He suffered a knee infection after suffering a knee infection Stroke had an injection in New York the day after the Dallas victory.