ARLINGTON, Texas -- wasn't trying to look like .The 34-year-old Dallas quarterback instead showed everyone that his surgically repaired back is coming along just fine.Romo threw three touchdown pa ses and Murray ran for a pair of scores in another 100-yard game - one of
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Cal Adomitis Jersey the end zone and found him again for 23 yards to put Dallas up 24-0 with 19 seconds left in the first half.Williams led Dallas with 77 yards receiving, and Bryant had an 18-yard scoring catch late in the fourth quarter to secure the second win for Dallas in the past 10 games against New Orleans.Murray's first touchdown, a 15-yard run virtually untouched around right end, was set up when tipped Brees' pa s and intercepted it at the New Orleans 39.The NFL's leading rusher joined Emmitt Smith as the only Dallas running backs with 100 yards in the first four games of a season, and he didn't fumble in the first quarter for the first time this season. He had 149 yards to push his season total to 534."DeMarco is inspirational," owner Jerry Jones said. "Glad to see him have a game that he didn't turn the ball over
Josh Malone Jersey . About the time New Orleans was thinking about getting some life, he'd go out and make those yards."Brees had 256 yards pa sing after halftime, and the ended up with 438 total yards. But New Orleans had three turnovers to none for Dallas."We had our chances in the second half," Brees said. "But at the end of the day when you look at this game, the entire game, we got beat. We got beat in every facet of it."After pulling to 31-17 early in the fourth quarter, the had a chance to get closer, but a drive stalled and punter was tackled for a 2-yard lo s while trying to throw a pa s on a fake punt. That set up Bryant's clinching touchdown."Hindsight's probably 20-20," Payton said. "It was on the hash mark that we wanted, and they covered it pretty well."NOTES: K 's 51-yard field goal in the second quarter was 29th in a row. He broke Chris Boniol's franchise record of 27 last week at St. Louis. ... RB had 87 yards rushing, 62 of them on a run that set up the touchdown to Hill. ... CB left in the first quarter with a left knee
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