On Sunday night at AT&T Stadium, the Dallas Cowboys and Green Bay Packers produced one of the wildest games in recent memory, a 40-40 overtime tie that felt like a near carbon copy of the Philadelphia Eagles’ unforgettable 37-34 victory over the Buffalo Bills in November 2023.
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From the opening whistle, Jordan Love and Dak Prescott traded blows like heavyweight fighters. Love came out sharp, guiding Green Bay to a 13-0 lead before Prescott and the Cowboys stormed back with 16 unanswered points to close the half. The second half was pure chaos: seven consecutive lead-changing touchdowns, capped off by Prescott’s 62-second march to a 37-34 Dallas lead late in regulation.
But as Josh Allen had done against the Eagles, Love responded, driving the Packers into range for Brandon McManus’ 53-yard field goal as time expired.
That sequence drew eerie parallels to 2023’s Eagles-Bills thriller, where Jake Elliott drilled a 59-yard kick to force overtime and Jalen Hurts sealed the win with a walk-off 12-yard quarterback draw. Much like that duel, Sunday’s game showcased quarterbacks at their absolute peak.
In 2023, Hurts accounted for five total touchdowns while Allen threw for 339 yards and added two scores on the ground. On this night, Prescott and Love matched each other with three touchdown passes apiece, repeatedly seizing momentum only to see it swing back moments later.
The similarities didn’t stop there: both contests were decided (or nearly decided) by a razor-thin margin, both featured defenses unable to corral elite quarterbacks, and both demanded late-game heroics to extend the drama. Yet there were differences.
The Eagles-Bills clash had a definitive ending, while the Cowboys-Packers matchup ended unfinished, the overtime clock expiring before either team could land a decisive strike. Philadelphia’s win solidified their status as the NFL’s best at 10-1; Dallas and Green Bay, by contrast, walked away with a result destined for trivia history as the second-highest scoring tie in NFL history, behind only the Raiders’ 43-43 draw with the Boston Patriots in 1964.
And then there was the added subplot by Micah Parsons. Exactly a month after Dallas traded him to Green Bay, the star pass rusher left his mark again, chasing down Prescott in overtime to prevent a walk-off scramble and forcing Dallas to settle for a field goal.
The night ended without a winner, but in every sense, the game delivered. Prescott and Love went toe-to-toe in a duel that echoed Hurts versus Allen, the scoreboard lit up with relentless swings, and fans were left with a primetime memory as chaotic, dramatic, and unforgettable as anything the NFL has produced.
