Cowboys injury report: Jake Ferguson ‘close to coming back’; Trevon Diggs progressing :: Dallas Morning News
After missing two games, Diggs might “progress to do more at the end of the week,” McCarthy said Monday. Tyler Guyton is slated to work with the rehab group; Zack Martin will be limited. Ferguson is “close to coming back” from concussion protocol, the coach explained, but DeMarcus Lawrence reportedly has “a whole other threshold he needs to get over” before he can return for his first action wince Week 4.
Pro Bowl fan voting reveals 6 Cowboys within top 10 at position; none from defense :: Cowboys Wire
Brandon Aubrey and CeeDee Lamb could be looking at Pro Bowl nods; KaVontae Turpin leads all return specialists in the fan vote. Zack Martin, Hunter Leupke, and Trent Sieg are in the top 10 at their positions, too. Not a single Cowboys defender is represented as of yet, as most of the unit’s best players have all missed time due to injury.
Cowboys-Bengals tickets for just $28? What to know about the Monday night game :: Fort Worth Star-Telegram
The Cowboys will try for their first three-game win streak in a year in front of a primetime audience next Monday. Fans interested in attending in person can find tickets starting at just $28 apiece on StubHub.
Cowboys return to Michigan DL well in latest 2025 first-round mock draft :: Cowboys Wire
Mazi Smith had huge expectations to live up to as a first-round draft pick. The Taco Charlton debacle from five years earlier certainly didn’t help. The Cowboys wouldn’t possibly spend another opening-night selection on a defensive tackle from Michigan, would they? According to Draft Wire’s latest mock draft, they just might. At a projected No. 11 overall, Kenneth Grant stands 6-foot-3, weighs 339, and draws comparisons to Detroit’s DJ Reader.
Cowboys’ defense revitalized since Micah Parsons’s return :: ESPN
The 2024 Cowboys were- fairly recently- on pace to be one of the worst defenses in NFL history, but the stats show something has changed over the last five outings. “We all see a difference, don’t we?” Parsons said. “The film’s not lying. Everybody’s staying in their gaps. We’re playing honest and true. That just goes to show that we’re just starting to believe in each other, really buying into the program and understanding that we really can be good.” They’re still giving up a lot of points, though, with opponents beating them too often on opening drives as well as late in games.
Cowboys’ playoff scenarios and chances: Are the Cowboys in or out of the playoff race? :: Pro Football Network
At 5-7, Dallas has just a 4.4% chance of sneaking into the postseason, with almost no mathematical shot at anything higher than the No. 7 seed. The Buccaneers, Cardinals, Rams, and 49ers all have an edge over the Cowboys in making the seven-team NFC bracket. It’s not officially over, but the Cowboys basically have to win out and get a lot of additional help.
Jimmy Johnson says Cowboys will give fans ‘false hope’ in playoff run :: SI.com
Johnson knows a pretender when he sees one, and he’s seen this movie before. “I’m just saying they’re gonna get on a run,” Johnson said Thursday before the Thanksgiving Day game. “They’re gonna win today [against the Giants], they’re gonna win next week, they’re gonna win the week after that, they’re gonna get on a run and they’re gonna have a little bit of false hope.”
Two Reasons: Cowboys only have selves to blame for disappointing 2024 :: Cowboys WIre
The Cowboys’ inactivity over the offseason can’t be understated as a root cause of this underachieving season. Mike McCarthy’s poor performance as a play caller has compounded the issue, as has a failure to get the ball into the hands of the offense’s best playmakers.
Cowboys make 35th annual children’s hospital visits :: The Mothership
Cowboys players and cheerleaders stopped by four different children’s hospitals in the Dallas-Fort Worth area on Monday in what has become an annual tradition. “I always wanted to be the type of person to, whenever I’m in the room, just light up somebody’s day,” Jourdan Lewis said, as players passed out stocking gift bags and visited with young patients and their families. As Rico Dowdle added, “So honored to be able to have this platform and get out there and do that for the kids, great experience.”
Brandon Aubrey introduces first children’s book :: The Mothership
Collegiate soccer star. Two-time USFL champ. Record-setting Pro Bowl kicker for the Cowboys. Now Aubrey is on the verge of being a published children’s author, too. One Dream in Front of the Other! is available for pre-order. The 32-page book takes young readers on an inspiring journey that resembles Aubrey’s life story and teaches the lesson that when one door is closed, another could be opening.
AC/DC is coming to Dallas for the first time in nine years. Here’s when tickets go on sale :: WFAA
The legendary rock band is coming to AT&T Stadium, it was announced Monday. The show will be one of 14 concerts held at North American stadiums on the band’s upcoming tour. (For years, the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders have famously performed an elaborate routine to “Thunderstruck,” one of AC/DC’s biggest hit songs, leading some to wonder if the squad will make a guest appearance on stage during the April 14 show.) Tickets will go on sale Dec. 6.
The Texanist: Why are the Dallas Cowboys America’s Team? :: Texas Monthly
The nickname was born in 1979, just before the Cowboys’ season-opening game in St. Louis. The scripted narration in a short NFL Films production recapping the previous season (which ended in a loss in Super Bowl XII) compared the Cowboys to Notre Dame, to movie stars, even to U.S. presidents in terms of popularity and recognizability. They were everywhere in the late ’70s, in both the sporting world and mainstream popular culture. But with the Cowboys’ championship drought continuing toward 30 years, it could be argued that today’s real “America’s Team” is the team that’s won three of the last five Super Bowls, the team of Patrick Mahomes, the team of Taylor Swift.
