Joe Mixon ran right through the Dallas Cowboys' defense to power the Houston Texans to a 34-10 demolishing of the Cowboys on Monday Night Football. The rout win marked the first time in Texans' franchise history that they won on the road in Dallas.
Here, DAZN lists five takeaways from the Texans snapping their two-game skid by destroying the Cowboys.
Too much Joe Mixon
Mixon, playing in his first year with the Texans, had himself a game on Monday Night Football.
The veteran running back rushed for 109 yards and three touchdowns, while adding another 44 yards receiving out the backfield.
Two of Mixon's touchdowns came in the first quarter, including this 45-yard TD he busted out in the game's opening three minutes as the Texans never looked back.
C.J. Stroud with a returning Nico Collins will be a problem for most secondaries
Playing in his first game since October 6 due to a hamstring injury, Collins instantly showed Texans' fans and the NFL what they were missing.
On Houston's very first play, C.J. Stroud found the game-changing wide receiver for a 77-yard touchdown, though the TD was nullified due to a Texans' penalty.
The four times that Stroud did link up with Collins for 54 yards did show how much of a threat they can be, especially during this six-game stretch to end the regular season.
Stroud has his big-play wide receiver back!
How did the Cowboys manage to do this (Part I)?
On a 4th & 20 from Houston's 46 in the third quarter, Cowboys kicker Brandon Aubrey impressively made this 64-yard field goal.
However, an unnecessary roughness penalty on the Texans' nullified the field goal and extended the Cowboys' drive. They'd take it all the way to Houston's eight-yard line, where on a 4th & 2, Cooper Rush's pass was incomplete.
That means the Cowboys went from making a 64-yard field goal to coming up empty after turning it over on downs.
How did the Cowboys manage to do this (Part II)?
Give the Texans' defense credit for forcing two fumbles on this one play early in the fourth quarter. However, on the other end, fumbling twice on the same play is just inexcusable.
It will give Cowboys' haters plenty of ammo and for good reason — this just can't happen under any circumstances.
That fumble recovery touchdown from the Texans took the deficit from a manageable 10 points for the Cowboys to an out of reach 17 points.
Cowboys make unenviable NFL history
In suffering their fifth straight loss, the Cowboys made the kind of NFL history that teams would like to avoid.
It marked their sixth straight home game that they trailed by 20 points or more, spelling the longest streak in NFL history.
For the Cowboys, who have lost all five of their home games this season, the NFL history-making mark stems from their home playoff loss to the Green Bay Packers last season.