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Ezekiel Elliott made the $21 donation after his touchdown. Amari Cooper took the freebie following the first of his two scores.The bonus for the Dallas Cowboys: They’re all the way back in the NFC East race.Cooper had a 90-yard touchdown after celebrating with a free throw following his first scoring catch Youth Rico Gathers Jersey , Elliott ran for 121 yards with his TD and the Cowboys pulled even with Washington atop the division with a 31-23 Thanksgiving win over the Redskins on Thursday.The Cowboys (6-5) won their third straight game since the first home loss, to Tennessee in the Dallas debut of Cooper following a trade dropped them two games under .500.Dallas’ eighth win in nine Thanksgiving games against Washington, and second in three seasons, earned a season split.The Redskins (6-5) lost for the third time in four games in Colt McCoy’s first start in four years coming off Alex Smith’s season-ending leg injury.The former Texas Longhorns star threw three interceptions to offset two touchdown passes. McCoy won his two previous starts at the home of the Cowboys, one for the 2009 Big 12 championship and the other his most recent NFL victory with the Redskins in 2014.Cooper, the former Oakland receiver had much more fun in his second home game, finishing with a Dallas Thanksgiving-best 180 yards receiving — 105 of those coming after the catch on his two touchdowns.First, Cooper ran away from Quinton Dunbar after the Washington cornerback slipped on a short pass, turning it into a 40-yard TD for a 17-13 lead. Cooper celebrated by mimicking a free throw , shooting the football through the goal post.On the 90-yarder, Cooper made the catch just outside the Dallas 30, spun out of the arms of Fabian Moreau and won the race to the pylon against Ha Ha Clinton-Dix, who tried to shove him out of bounds around the 5. It was his longest career catch and the longest completion in Dak Prescott’s three seasons.McCoy looked as if he hadn’t started a game in a long time early Rico Gathers Jersey Stitched , throwing into double coverage on his first play and fumbling while trying to scramble on his third, with the Redskins recovering and punting.But McCoy settled in with a couple of third-down passes to Jordan Reed to keep drives going, then hit Vernon Davis in stride on a 53-yard touchdown — the longest Washington completion of the season — for a 7-7 tie.The Cowboys were having all the fun before the Redskins pulled even, with Elliott scoring on a 16-yard run and dropping $21 into a giant Salvation Army red kettle behind the end zone. The cash was handed to him by a team photographer.As a rookie in 2016, Elliott jumped into the kettle on the same part of the field after a touchdown in a 31-26 win over the Redskins. That season’s NFL rushing champion, who wears No. 21, was fined for the stunt and later donated $21,000 to the Salvation Army.After scoring on a scrambling 5-yard run for the third Dallas touchdown in less than eight minutes and a 31-13 lead, Prescott let Elliott help him into another kettle on the other end of the field, drawing the same unsportsmanlike conduct penalty Elliott did two years ago.Elliott missed the Thanksgiving game last year on his six-game suspension over domestic violence allegations.MISSING PRO BOWLERRedskins defensive end Preston Smith had seven QB pressures before halftime, the most in the NFL in the first half this season. All of them came against Cameron Fleming, who was filling in for Tyron Smith. The five-time Pro Bowler Smith was active but didn’t play after saying he experienced a stinger in the previous game against Atlanta. Smith was listed as questionable with a neck injury coming in.Smith finished with 1½ of the four sacks of Prescott — all in the first half — and had four QB hits.MR. IRREVELANTWashington receiver Trey Quinn, the final pick of this year’s draft at the home of the Cowboys and a former player at nearby SMU Youth Byron Jones Jersey , set up his own 14-yard touchdown catch for Washington’s only lead at 13-10 in the third quarter with a 30-yard punt return to the Dallas 25.INJURIESRedskins running back Adrian Peterson left briefly in the first quarter with a shoulder injury but returned. Still, he wasn’t nearly as effective as he was in Washington’s 20-17 win in the first meeting. The four-time All-Pro finished with 35 yards on 12 carries after going for 99 yards at home.UP NEXTRedskins: First of two meetings in the final five games against the defending champion Eagles, at Philadelphia on Monday, Dec. 3.Cowboys: Face New Orleans in the second of three straight home games next Thursday. A BLOCKBUSTER TRADE! Those are words we don’t normally use when describing transactions the Cowboys’ front office makes. But boy did they finally decide to pick up the phone and make an all-in move at a position of need that desperately needed upgrading. It was announced on Monday that the Cowboys had traded their 2019 first-round pick to the Oakland Raiders for 24-year old receiver Amari Cooper. Since entering the league in 2015, Cooper has hauled in 225 receptions, 3,183 yards, and 19 touchdowns. Let’s take a look at the film to see exactly what the Cowboys are getting in their new shiny toy, that will try to get the Cowboys offense back on track.Cooper brings something the Cowboys lack... separation The one thing that stands out with Amari Cooper is how good of a route runner he is. Cooper creates consistent separation using his route running ability, and his physicality at the top of his routes. The Cowboys receivers have struggled to create consistent separation throughout the year, and the addition of Amari Cooper will certainly help make things easier for quarterback Dak Prescott.Though his numbers have been down in 2017 and 2018, Cooper’s route-running level hasn’t dropped. Cooper still does an amazing job creating separation, and picking up yards after the catch. Cooper does most of his damage in the middle of the field out of the slot Byron Jones Jersey Stitched , but also does a very good job of making big plays lined up on the outside, down the field. What makes Amari Cooper most effective is that he is not a one-trick-pony. Cooper makes plays in all three levels of the field and can make plays after the catch.As you can see from the clip above, the Browns are lined up to stop the run with an eight-man box. That leaves Cooper on an island with Browns’ cornerback Terrance Mitchell. Cooper is able to win his matchup on a nice “post route” using great hand placement at the top of his route. The Cowboys offense sees a ton of loaded boxes, and so far this year they have yet to find a receiver that can consistently win one-on-one against man coverage, Cooper can do just that.Cooper runs a variety of routes that Dallas must incorporateThere are few receivers in the NFL who have developed route trees. A lot of guys nowadays win using their speed, size, or the ability to perfect just a few routes. Cooper brings in a developed route tree that will allow him to get open in a variety of ways. One of Amari Cooper’s best routes is the “sluggo”, which stands for slant-and-go. The concept around this route is similar to the simple double move that Michael Gallup scored on against the Redskins. During the route, Cooper does an excellent job of selling the inside slant with a quick stutter (forcing the DB to play the slant), selling the slant with shoulder turn, and head/eye sell to the middle of the field, then he’s able to plant off his inside foot and turn upfield in a hurry. Cooper is able to find so much success with this “sluggo” route because of how well he runs the normal slant route.Here is another example of Cooper making a big play running the “sluggo”. We rarely see this route ran in Dallas, but hopefully they are watching his film as well and see how successful he is running the route. This route will make defenses fear the deeper level of the field Youth Randy Gregory Jersey , but also have to respect the slant route as well that Cooper also likes to run.Here is another scenario where Cooper wins one-on-one coverage against a loaded Chargers defensive front. Cooper doesn’t do anything special here, but he’s able to round the route off nicely and uses his upper body to protect the football and shade the defender away from his catch radius. The slant was a big part of the Cowboys offense for years, but the lack of success with it recently has led the Cowboys to shy away from attacking the middle of the field. Let’s hope that changes now that they have a receiver that is comfortable in the middle of the field hauling in the football.The threat of Cooper, should help Dak, Zeke, and the offensive lineThere’s no denying the lack of weapons at receiver for the Cowboys through the first seven weeks of the season. Cole Beasley has been very good, but his damage normally comes underneath, and converting on third downs. Michael Gallup has started to play with much more confidence, but has yet to be consistent enough to be considered a weapon just yet.With Cooper, they now have a true weapon that defenses must respect. Even with his numbers being down over the last few seasons defenses still show him a ton of respect. They do so by shading a deep safety over to his side of the field, which will take an extra man out of the box, or by using a linebacker who will also take an extra man out of the box. While this doesn’t happen on every snap, it happens enough to where Ezekiel Elliott will have one less man to make miss when running the football. With less men in the box Randy Gregory Jersey Stitched , that also makes it easier for Dak Prescott to read the field without dealing with as much pressure. Taking defenders out of the box opens up the middle of the field which is where Cole Beasley and Ezekiel Elliott do their most damage. Not only was the Amari Cooper trade made to help out the Cowboys receiving corps, but it was put in place to help the offense as a whole. Yes, trading a first-round pick for a guy whose numbers have been trending down is always a risk, but Cooper has loads of talent, is only 24-years old, and plays a position that just wasn’t performing well enough to get it done. The Cowboys are trying to win now, while also setting themselves up for future success with a young talented wide receiver.