On Thursday night, November 30, 2023, the Dallas Cowboys beat the Seattle Seahawks 41-35 at AT&T Stadium after trailing by five points with seven minutes left. DK Metcalf caught three touchdown passes for Seattle, but Dallas scored the last 11 points of the game. Dak Prescott threw three touchdown passes without an interception, Tony Pollard ran for a score, Brandon Aubrey kicked four field goals, and CeeDee Lamb caught 12 passes. The turning point was a fourth-and-1 stop by DeMarcus Lawrence that kept Seattle’s 35-30 lead from growing.
Dallas entered at 8-3 and left at 9-3. Seattle, 6-5 coming in, fell to 6-6.
Metcalf hits a 73-yard touchdown, and Dallas keeps answering
Aubrey opened the scoring with a 30-yard field goal. Geno Smith then found Metcalf deep up the middle for a 73-yard touchdown with 7:37 left in the first quarter. Prescott answered with a 15-yard touchdown pass to Lamb, and in the second quarter he threw 7 yards to Brandin Cooks to make it 17-7. Zach Charbonnet ran it in from a yard out for Seattle, Aubrey added a 31-yard field goal, and Smith hit Metcalf again for a 1-yard score with 7 seconds left in the half. Halftime: Seahawks 21, Cowboys 20.
Official NFL highlights of Seattle at Dallas in Week 13.
A scramble, a Pollard run, and one interception
Smith scrambled 5 yards for a touchdown midway through the third quarter, and Seattle led 28-20. Pollard answered with a 6-yard touchdown run, and Dallas was back within a point. Then Smith’s pass intended for Tyler Lockett was intercepted by DaRon Bland near the Seattle 38 — the only turnover of the night. Dallas could not cash it in. On fourth-and-2 Prescott’s pass to Lamb fell incomplete, and the quarter ended with Seattle ahead 28-27.
Metcalf made it 35-27 with a 3-yard catch on the second play of the fourth quarter, his third touchdown. Aubrey kicked a 38-yard field goal to make it 35-30, and the game came down to the next Seattle possession.
Fourth-and-1, then Dallas takes the lead
Seattle started at its own 25 and worked to the Dallas 46 with 7:08 left. On fourth-and-1, Charbonnet ran left and Lawrence met him for no gain. The Cowboys took over. Our fourth-down guide covers how teams weigh a punt, a field goal and a try; here a conversion would have let Seattle keep running the clock with a five-point lead, and a failure handed Prescott the ball at midfield.
Dallas needed only a few minutes. Lamb caught a 10-yarder, Pollard ran 16 yards, and Prescott scrambled for 8 to the Seattle 7. After a delay-of-game penalty, Prescott hit Jake Ferguson for a 12-yard touchdown with 4:41 left. The Cowboys went for two, and Prescott found Cooks to make it 38-35.
Seattle’s last two drives both ended on fourth down. At 3:16, Smith’s deep throw to Jaxon Smith-Njigba fell incomplete on fourth-and-4 from the Seattle 49. Aubrey then kicked a 32-yard field goal with 1:46 left to make it 41-35. Seattle got the ball back at its own 25 and moved to midfield with completions to Lockett (17 yards) and Noah Fant (8), but a fourth-and-2 pass at 1:11 fell incomplete. Prescott knelt twice to finish it.
Every scoring play
| Time | Play | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1st, 9:13 | Aubrey kicks a 30-yard field goal | Cowboys 3, Seahawks 0 |
| 1st, 7:37 | Smith passes 73 yards to Metcalf for a touchdown | Seahawks 7, Cowboys 3 |
| 1st, 4:52 | Prescott passes 15 yards to Lamb for a touchdown | Cowboys 10, Seahawks 7 |
| 2nd, 11:40 | Prescott passes 7 yards to Cooks for a touchdown | Cowboys 17, Seahawks 7 |
| 2nd, 8:56 | Charbonnet runs 1 yard for a touchdown | Cowboys 17, Seahawks 14 |
| 2nd, 1:33 | Aubrey kicks a 31-yard field goal | Cowboys 20, Seahawks 14 |
| 2nd, 0:07 | Smith passes 1 yard to Metcalf for a touchdown | Seahawks 21, Cowboys 20 |
| 3rd, 10:05 | Smith runs 5 yards for a touchdown | Seahawks 28, Cowboys 20 |
| 3rd, 3:46 | Pollard runs 6 yards for a touchdown | Seahawks 28, Cowboys 27 |
| 4th, 14:22 | Smith passes 3 yards to Metcalf for a touchdown | Seahawks 35, Cowboys 27 |
| 4th, 11:27 | Aubrey kicks a 38-yard field goal | Seahawks 35, Cowboys 30 |
| 4th, 4:41 | Prescott passes 12 yards to Ferguson, then to Cooks for two | Cowboys 38, Seahawks 35 |
| 4th, 1:46 | Aubrey kicks a 32-yard field goal | Cowboys 41, Seahawks 35 |
By the numbers
| Cowboys | Seahawks | |
|---|---|---|
| Quarterback | Dak Prescott, 29 of 46, 299 yards, 3 touchdowns, 0 interceptions; 5 carries, 24 yards | Geno Smith, 23 of 40, 334 yards, 3 touchdowns, 1 interception; 2 carries, 6 yards, 1 touchdown |
| Top receivers | CeeDee Lamb, 12 catches, 116 yards, 1 touchdown; Jake Ferguson, 6 catches, 77 yards, 1 touchdown; Brandin Cooks, 4 catches, 45 yards, 1 touchdown | DK Metcalf, 6 catches, 134 yards, 3 touchdowns; Jaxon Smith-Njigba, 7 catches, 62 yards; Tyler Lockett, 5 catches, 47 yards |
| Rushing leaders | Tony Pollard, 20 carries, 68 yards, 1 touchdown; Lamb, 2 carries, 30 yards | Zach Charbonnet, 19 carries, 60 yards, 1 touchdown |
| Fourth downs | 1 of 2 | 0 of 3 (all in the fourth quarter) |
| Turnovers | 0 | 1 (interception) |
What came next
Dallas beat Philadelphia 33-13 on Sunday night a week and a half later, then lost at Buffalo and at Miami before closing with wins over Detroit and Washington to finish 12-5. In the wild-card round Green Bay beat the Cowboys 48-32. Seattle lost at San Francisco, beat Philadelphia and Tennessee, lost to Pittsburgh, and beat Arizona 21-20 in the finale to finish 9-8 and miss the playoffs.
The scoring plays, drive notes and player numbers above come from the official play-by-play and game data.
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