Cowboys fall at home again after piece of roof comes down before loss to Texans

by | Nov 19, 2024 | Sports

ARLINGTON, Texas — Things were literally falling from the sky even before the Dallas Cowboys lost yet another home game. The roof at AT&T Stadium can be fixed. As for the problems plaguing the Cowboys this season, especially in their home building, maybe not after a 34-10 loss to the Houston Texans on Monday night.Dallas (3-7) is 0-5 at home for the first time since 1989, the first season Jerry Jones owned the Cowboys when they were 1-15 while not winning any of their eight games game at old Texas Stadium. They have lost six in a row at AT&T Stadium, including that playoff debacle against the Green Bay Packers in January.“In reality, it’s very frustrating. It’s frustrating for everybody, frustrating for players, frustrated for coaches,” coach Mike McCarthy said. “But we just, we have a lot of moving parts going on and we just have to be cleaner and more detailed in certain spots.”A piece of the roof and some debris fell about 300 feet to the field when the retractable roof at the $1.2 billion stadium was being opened at least three hours before Monday night’s game. The 15-year-old stadium was mostly empty then, and team officials said nobody was injured before the roof was closed without incident.Franchise quarterback Dak Prescott, on crutches and safely away from the action five days after season-ending surgery to repair a torn hamstring, could only put both hands on the back of his head after punter Bryan Anger completed a pass on a fake — 5 yards short of a first down — on the Cowboys’ ope …

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