The Dallas Cowboys are not playing good football. After two games where they flashed good play at certain points, the team went up to Chi-town and put together quite the stinker, as the Chicago Bears won handily, 31-14. It was a peculiar game because it felt like the Cowboys, despite playing from behind early, could […] The Dallas Cowboys are not playing good football. After two games where they flashed good play at certain points, the team went up to Chi-town and put together quite the stinker, as the Chicago Bears won handily, 31-14. It was a peculiar game because it felt like the Cowboys, despite playing from behind early, could still assume control, but things never improved for them. Instead, it got worse. Not surprisingly, the defense couldn’t make stops. After forcing a three-and-out on the Bears’ first offensive sequence, Chicago proceeded to score on five of their next six possessions, four of which were touchdowns. The Cowboys’ offense, which looked like it might be able to keep up after they tied the game at 14, suddenly faded, never again putting points on the board. It was a bad display from both sides. We could spend countless hours talking about how bad the defense was, and unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be a clear solution coming anytime soon. A lot of the mistakes are attributed to players not understanding their assignments, and the continued breakdowns are being exploited by opposing teams. Expect this to continue until they can get some things figured out, but it certainly won’t happen overnight. There were other instances where the players just underperformed. They just didn’t have the physical ability to hold up against their opponent. The play of the defense can be summed up by this one play by Trevon Diggs. Yuckie. We know the defense is bad and that feels helpless, but what was a little more surprising is how ineffective the Cowboys’ offense was. The Bears’ defense isn’t good, but they held the Cowboys to their lowest point total of the season. The Cowboys didn’t score a single point on their final six possessions of the game. What went wrong? Can they blame it on not having their star receiver, CeeDee Lamb, or were there other elements in play? The first thing that jumps out is that the Cowboys’ offense kept giving the ball away inside their opponent’s 30-yard line after moving the ball down the field and threatening to score. The first instance came on the team’s first possession, and on the second play of that possession, when running back Javonte Williams had the ball taken away from him as he was finishing off a nice run. Williams never saw the defender as he was navigating through a block from Terence Steele, leaving himself vulnerable. This problem would show itself again later in the game. Early in the fourth quarter, the Cowboys were making one last hurrah at a comeback when a Dak Prescott pass went off the hands of George Pickens and into the arms of a Bears’ defender. Again, a great opportunity to score points ended abruptly. It wasn’t just the turnovers that hurt the Cowboys’ offense. There were other moments where they just couldn’t convert on third down. The frustrating part about it wasn’t just that they failed, but how many times they wouldn’t have converted even if they properly executed the play. Far too many times, Prescott was pulling up short. Overall, Prescott played well. The conservative approach was aggravating at times, but when he did attack downfield, he made good throws. In all, the Cowboys’ offense turned the ball over four times inside their own 30-yard line. The two previously mentioned and two more when the ball was intercepted in the end zone. The last two came when the game was already out of hand, but chalk up more instances where the Cowboys’ offense just couldn’t close the deal. If they keep doing things like this, it’s going to be an ugly season. 0 CommentsSee More: Dallas Cowboys Roster

Dallas’ rookie class took the Soldier Field pop quiz and got a little of everything that include some humbling circled notes. Here’s what popped, what sputtered, and how the rookies grade out after Bears week. OG Tyler Booker  (Game stats- Snaps: 74, Pressures Allowed: 2, Sacks Allowed: 0, Penalties: 1) Note: Tyler Booker is going […] Dallas’ rookie class took the Soldier Field pop quiz and got a little of everything that include some humbling circled notes. Here’s what popped, what sputtered, and how the rookies grade out after Bears week. OG Tyler Booker (Game stats- Snaps: 74, Pressures Allowed: 2, Sacks Allowed: 0, Penalties: 1) Note: Tyler Booker is going to miss some time with injury, so we’ll evaluate this game, then we’ll be without him on the rookie report for a while. It wasn’t flawless from Booker as he did pick up a single flag, but he mostly colored inside the lines and played with grown-man composure. When Dallas pointed the run right behind him, the offense got to the gain line and “right-guard” calls looked like a moving walkway. We saw Booker play with low pads, snug double-teams, and had just enough oomph to keep the offense on schedule. Chicago finished the game with two sacks and seven QB hits, but Booker’s assignment stayed largely intact across a 40-attempt day for Prescott, and that’s a huge plus from the rookie guard. What went wrong with the offensive line came in the form of Dallas’ offense hitting every pothole on pressure downs. The offense went 3-of-11 on third down and was only 1-of-4 in the red zone. Overall, for a first-year guard on foreign turf in Soldier Field, Booker kept the sheet clean and the run game purring, part of a two-sack day that didn’t trace back to right guard. The loss was about situational stumbles, not his gap. We look forward to seeing him back after a month or so. DE Donovan Ezeiruaku (Game stats- Snaps: 27, Total Tackles: 2, Pressures: 1, Sacks: 0) Ezeiruaku wasn’t just an extra this week, he took real shifts in a four-man edge rotation with Fowler, Williams, and Kneeland. He helped nudge Chicago into hurried tosses and a few checkdowns. The snap ledger says it plainly, he was trusted for full series, not just cameos. Chicago’s tackles kept Caleb Williams on schedule and Dallas finished with zero sacks and a lone quarterback graze. For Ezeiruaku, that meant plenty of plays without a credit and not getting on the stat line with any sacks. The whole defensive line struggled against the Bears offensive line, but it was steady work from Ezeiruaku, but no fireworks from him on a day Dallas barely smudged the quarterback. If he can keep the pads low, the patience high, and bolt on a late-finishing counter, Ezeiruaku can turn those ‘almosts’ into decisive pressures on the passer. CB Zion Childress (Game stats- Snaps: 5, Total Tackles: 0) Called up with question marks before the game on Trevon Diggs, Childress got the call to suit up for the clash at Soldier Field. He didn’t play any snaps on defense despite Diggs leaving the game late in the game, but he did get on the field for special teams duty. They were all on field goal attempts but at least he got some action. CB Shavon Revel Jr. Non-Football Injury list RB Jaydon Blue Inactive LB Shemar James Inactive OT Ajani Cornelius Inactive DT Jay Toia Inactive RB Phil Mafah Injured reserve WR Traeshon Holden Practice squad TE Rivaldo Fairweather Practice squad LB Justin Barron Practice squad CB Alijah Clark Practice squad 0 CommentsSee More: Dallas Cowboys Roster

The Cowboys just dropped to 1-2 after an ugly, one-sided road loss to the Chicago Bears. While it is their second loss of the season, it’s the first one where the team looked bad and its followers felt wholly demoralized. For head coach Brian Schottenheimer, it presents a new challenge to get his guys back […] The Cowboys just dropped to 1-2 after an ugly, one-sided road loss to the Chicago Bears. While it is their second loss of the season, it’s the first one where the team looked bad and its followers felt wholly demoralized. For head coach Brian Schottenheimer, it presents a new challenge to get his guys back up off the ground after being pummeled into it. It didn’t feel like this after the season-opening loss to the Eagles. The Cowboys went into Philadelphia as the underdogs, still reeling from the Micah Parsons trade, and nearly hung a loss on the defending champs. Dallas walked out of that game with more respect than they took in. And while they needed overtime and all sorts of heroics to fight off the lowly Giants last week, the team and its coach got credit for showing resilience and gutting out a win. But this one? It was a soul stealer. It all started with that Javonte Williams fumble. After forcing a three-and-out on the Bears’ opening drive, even knocking them backward two yards, Williams took his first carry for seven yards and then rumbled for 22 more on the next one. The day was looking good, the sun was shining bright, and 2-1 felt like an eventuality. But just before going out of bounds on that 22-yarder, Williams had the ball taken away by Chicago’s Tyrique Stevenson. It wasn’t even a struggle; Stevenson ran up and snatched it like Deebo (not Samuel) ripping the chain off Red’s neck. And from there, all that was good and green turned to blackened ash. The Bears scored 14 points on two big plays, reigniting the defensive nightmare of last week, while CeeDee Lamb was lost to injury on the next Dallas possession. Unlike last week with the Giants’ deep bombs, the Cowboys didn’t get back up from the Bears’ offensive haymakers. They seemed listless in the second half, which is why we’re all sitting in the dust from this one with a far different feeling in our tummies. Oddly enough, it all makes sense on paper. Dallas traded away its best defensive player a week before the season, then lost its second-best (DaRon Bland) to injury after Week 1. We’re also waiting on the 2025 debut of DeMarvion Overshown, who may actually be our best defender now, but that won’t be until November at best. Oh, and the guy we got back in the Parsons trade? Kenny Clark? He also missed with an ankle injury. Not only has the talent level gone down, but the current fit of Matt Eberflus’ scheme and the available personnel just isn’t working. Trevon Diggs, Kenneth Murray, and Donovan Wilson aren’t zone guys. And against a guru like Ben Johnson, whose Lions offense dominated Eberflus’ Bears defense during their years together in the NFC North, this broken version in Dallas had little chance. We can’t understate the impact that losing Lamb had on this one, either. The timing was bad at any point, but especially after that first big Bears offensive play following Williams’ fumble. Dallas was already dazed, and that was a rib-breaking punch. And now, more than anything else that happened on Sunday, the effect will likely handicap the Cowboys against Green Bay and perhaps the Jets and Panthers from there. So yeah, bad week to be Brian Schottenheimer. Not only do he and Klayton Adams have to figure out how to ruin Micah Parsons’ return, but they’ll almost certainly have to do it without Lamb. And if that wasn’t enough, he’s got to be worried about the other side of the ball sabotaging anything they can accomplish offensively. And with plenty of media members and fans ready to yell “I told you so” about his being hired in the first place, the pressure is rising quickly on Schotty. This is a different kind of “Welcome to the NFL” moment for Schottenheimer. He’s been around a long time and seen plenty, but never in the big chair. It’s his first time having to coach his team through a demoralizing loss, and perhaps feelings of futility about the season ahead. How his team responds to this new level of adversity will be telling, and may decide how the rest of the season unfolds. 0 CommentsSee More: Dallas Cowboys Roster

Sunday was a pretty rough day for the Dallas Cowboys. In a way the Cowboys lost twice. Obviously they lost to the Chicago Bears, but as we were all doing our best to forget about it Russell Wilson was extremely limited for the New York Giants during the night game. This is the same Russell […] Sunday was a pretty rough day for the Dallas Cowboys. In a way the Cowboys lost twice. Obviously they lost to the Chicago Bears, but as we were all doing our best to forget about it Russell Wilson was extremely limited for the New York Giants during the night game. This is the same Russell Wilson who threw for 450 yards and three touchdowns against the Cowboys. It added insult to injury. Football seasons have these kinds of back and forth. One week everything feels perfect and the next you wonder why you even like this stupid game. The Cowboys may not have experienced perfection in recent history in your estimation, but you get the point. There is no question that right now things feel grim. People are wondering how the Cowboys could ever possibly get out of this mess. How bad are things for the Cowboys in your opinion? We are looking for actual answers here. Do you think they are going to be able to survive this ride? Are they looking at double-digit losses? Let’s put this all into perspective. Let us know your thoughts in the comments below. 0 CommentsSee More: Dallas Cowboys Roster

Dak Prescott Should Not Be the Scapegoat of the 2025 Cowboys – Mark Heaney, Inside The Star The Cowboys defense is hardly even giving their offense a chance to be competitive right now. If yesterday’s game and these first three weeks in total have taught us anything, it should be to stop the blame and […] Dak Prescott Should Not Be the Scapegoat of the 2025 Cowboys – Mark Heaney, Inside The Star The Cowboys defense is hardly even giving their offense a chance to be competitive right now. If yesterday’s game and these first three weeks in total have taught us anything, it should be to stop the blame and focus on Prescott in favor of the real problems facing this slumping franchise. Let’s get serious, folks. The Top Problem: No Defense = Few Wins, No Matter What The Offense Does Simply put, when your defense is bad enough, it really does not matter what the offense does; you are not going to overcome the weak unit all the way to the playoffs. That is what the 2025 Dallas Cowboys are running into. At the end of the day, the defense on this team is so poor that the rare 40-point game will need to become commonplace if the Cowboys want to come away with wins. Unfortunately, that’s just not realistic in the NFL. Dallas got lit up by Caleb Williams and Ben Johnson on Sunday, and that’s an offense that had struggled mightily heading into Week 3. If the Chicago Bears could outright abuse the Cowboys’ defense as badly as they did, imagine what good, great, or elite offenses can and will do. Cowboys’ Prescott: Offense not up to standard but admits, ‘I don’t get to play defense’ – Todd Brock, The Cowboys Wire QB1 still believes in the Cowboys offense, despite the pressure they’re under and now being without CeeDee Lamb. That the Cowboys defense couldn’t get a stop in the critical moments made things tough. But with only a three-and-out from the Dallas offense breaking up the Bears’ scoring drives before intermission, their lone third-quarter possession going nowhere, and interceptions halting their final three drives, Prescott knows his unit also didn’t have any answers. Yet he refused to let that shake his belief in his guys. “I wouldn’t say anything in this game is demoralizing,” he told reporters. “It’s hard. It’s frustrating. But I love that. That’s what life’s about: adversity, fighting back, not being in the best position and trusting yourself and trusting others around you. And I think, just as a team, we’ve got to be better in that position. We’ve got to be better when things get hard. “I believe in our offense and I don’t think people can stop us. I think you can even go back and look at these possessions. We stopped ourselves. … I don’t know if they’ve done a lot to stop us, honestly. And that’s what’s frustrating.” The Cowboys were indeed supremely frustrating to watch- on both sides of the ball- on Sunday. But Prescott knows that he can only worry about affecting his side of the equation, as both the offense and defense search for answers before the season gets out of hand. “I don’t get to play defense. That’s not how this game works. And the guys on offense don’t. We’ve got to play offense to the best of our ability regardless.” George Pickens could be the Cowboys’ top option at wide receiver for multiple weeks now. Cowboys wide receiver CeeDee Lamb could miss 3-4 weeks with a high left ankle sprain, Todd Archer of ESPN reports. Executive vice president Stephen Jones announced the diagnosis Monday morning on 105.3 The Fan. He did not announce a prognosis. The Cowboys will keep Lamb on their active roster in hopes that he will miss fewer than four games, which is the minimum number of games he would miss on injured reserve. Lamb injured his left ankle with 8:39 left in the first quarter on a running play that didn’t even count, because of offsetting penalties. Bears linebacker Noah Sewell inadvertently rolled over Lamb’s left ankle on the first-quarter tackle, with Lamb’s ankle violently twisting underneath Sewell’s body. The Cowboys scheme is not sound under Matt Eberflus, and their banged up secondary has no answers. Stock Down: Matt Eberflus Personally I did not put a lot of stock into the narrative of Flus returning to Chicago to see a Bears organization that fired him in the middle of last season. The NFL sees people fired midseason all of the time. But as one user on Twitter put it so eloquently, it is a tough scene for Flus to get destroyed by a quarterback who looked largely dysfunctional under his watch. To be clear, Flus is a defensive mind and that context matters, but the point at large is difficult to ignore. Forgetting that entire discussion point, the Cowboys defense made Caleb Williams look incredible. He posted arguably the best day of his career, he literally tied his career high in terms of touchdown passes, and he was not sacked a single time. The day was made worse for Flus when the New York Giants looked moribund once more on Sunday night, emphasizing that Dallas was the antidote to their offensive woes. Stock Down: Trevon Diggs We should acknowledge that he appears to be playing hurt. That matters, but he is playing nonetheless. Trevon Diggs was once a great cornerback for this team and but it looks like those days are behind us. He was among the weakest points on the defense on Sunday in Chicago and was being targeted with regularity. Who could blame the Bears when they were doing what was working. The Cowboys appeared ready to acknowledge that this is Diggs’ last season with the team with how Jerry Jones publicly lamented him at the beginning of training camp. Everything involved here feels left-footed and the play on the field is representative of that. Stock

Well, that happened. The Cowboys walked into the Windy City and got absolutely blown over by a winless Bears team. They looked hapless in nearly every facet of the game, but these fives plays were especially impactful in burying the team. Javonte Williams’ inexplicable fumble on opening drive Things started off perfectly for the Cowboys. […] Well, that happened. The Cowboys walked into the Windy City and got absolutely blown over by a winless Bears team. They looked hapless in nearly every facet of the game, but these fives plays were especially impactful in burying the team. Javonte Williams’ inexplicable fumble on opening drive Things started off perfectly for the Cowboys. Their defense forced a three-and-out, and then the offense started rumbling forward. Javonte Williams ripped off a seven-yard run to start, and then plowed forward for 22 yards on the next play. However, as Williams started to go out of bounds, Bears cornerback Tyrique Stevenson came up with the ball, ripping it right from Williams’ arms. It was one of the more bizarre fumble recoveries in recent history, and initially seemed impossible to have actually happened. Still, this early turnover represented a massive shift in confidence for the Bears. CeeDee Lamb gets injured The Bears took advantage of the takeaway, scoring a touchdown on a busted coverage from Trevon Diggs. The Cowboys were hoping to respond, and they went into their bag of tricks early, running the ball with CeeDee Lamb lined up as a running back. The play – a loss of one yard – ended up not even counting thanks to offsetting penalties. The bigger problem is that Lamb came up hobbled with an ankle injury. He left for the remainder of the drive, came back on the next drive for one play, and then took himself out with continued pain. Fans have since become upset with the seemingly needless exposure of Lamb on this play, but of course that’s just hindsight. Lamb could’ve hurt his ankle just as easily on an open tackle after a catch as on that run, and the Cowboys certainly target him enough that he’s exposed no matter what. Still, Lamb’s absence was a huge black cloud hanging over this game. Flea flicker breaks game wide open The Cowboys eventually went down the field and kicked a field goal, making it a 7-3 game. The hope was that their defense could recapture the magic from their first drive and get the ball right back into Dak Prescott’s hands, ideally with Lamb out there, too. That hope was extinguished real fast. Ben Johnson dialed up his first trick play as the Bears head coach, a flea flicker that turned into a 65-yard touchdown bomb, and it fired up the home crowd in a big way. This play was the first real sign of trouble for the Cowboys, signaling early on that this defense was powerless to stop Chicago and, with Lamb hurt, the offense wouldn’t be able to keep up. Caleb Williams finds Rome Odunze on third down Credit where it’s due – though not much is due this week – the Cowboys battled their way back into this game. Prescott hit George Pickens for a touchdown and then found Jalen Tolbert on the two-point try, tying things up. The Bears added a field goal, and the Cowboys punted down 17-14 as halftime approached. Faced with a third and short on their own 48-yard line, Chicago needed to convert to avoid giving the Cowboys the ball back before the break. Caleb Williams dropped back and hesitated as his initial reads were taken away. Then he surveyed the field and found Rome Odunze come wide open on the corner, and hit him for an easy first down. If Dallas gets a stop there, they have the ball back with roughly 40 seconds and one timeout, enough to get in range for a game-tying field goal. Instead, the Bears moved the chains and scored a touchdown two plays later. D.J. Moore gets wide open in the endzone on fourth and goal The Cowboys started with the ball in the third quarter, but ultimately wound up punting. That sent out their defense, who felt like they had addressed the issues that plagued them in the first half. What followed was a 19-play drive – featuring 11 straight runs – that ate up nearly 10 whole minutes of game time. Even still, the Cowboys nearly rendered it meaningless. Chicago went for it on fourth and goal from the four after being stopped short on third down. Williams had nowhere to go, and was flushed out of the pocket, but then he found D.J. Moore standing at the back of the endzone, not a single soul within even five yards of him. It was the stake-through-the-heart moment for the Cowboys. They had a chance to escape that hellish drive with zero points surrendered, but giving up a wide open touchdown like that was both crushing as far as the deficit it created and for the soul of the team. From then on, it was just a matter of padding stats (which the Cowboys didn’t actually do anyway) before the clock ran out. 0 CommentsSee More: Dallas Cowboys Roster

The injuries for the Dallas Cowboys have taken a turn for the worse. On Monday, it was reported that wide receiver CeeDee Lamb will be sidelined for up to four weeks due to a high ankle sprain he sustained during Sunday’s loss to the Chicago Bears. Lamb won’t be the only one rehabbing a high ankle sprain. […] The injuries for the Dallas Cowboys have taken a turn for the worse. On Monday, it was reported that wide receiver CeeDee Lamb will be sidelined for up to four weeks due to a high ankle sprain he sustained during Sunday’s loss to the Chicago Bears. Lamb won’t be the only one rehabbing a high ankle sprain. Along with Cooper Beebe, who suffered his own ankle injury after Week 2, rookie right guard Tyler Booker is expected to miss four to six weeks with the same injury as Lamb. This is not an ideal situation for the Cowboys’ offense, which is trying to get back on track after a rough outing this weekend in which they scored just 14 points, the lowest total of the season. Booker has performed well to start the season and has been praised for his run blocking and pass protection. Now Brian Schottenheimer will be forced to go with a backup offensive lineman for the second week in a row. Brock Hoffman has taken over at center for Beebe, which means it could be T.J. Bass that will now fill in for Booker. To compound things even more, Dallas is welcoming Micah Parsons and the Green Bay Packers to AT&T Stadium on Sunday night. Parsons is currently second in the league among defenders with 19 per NFL Pro. An offensive line that looked to be a strength of the Cowboys’ offense after Week 1 has turned into a five-alarm fire, with no reinforcements coming soon. 0 CommentsSee More:

It appears as if the New York Giants win was a mirage. That was definitely a worry after the contest, but the offense looked so good in that game. It stood to reason that that could be a proper formula week in and week out. Maybe not a sustainable formula, but it could have been […] It appears as if the New York Giants win was a mirage. That was definitely a worry after the contest, but the offense looked so good in that game. It stood to reason that that could be a proper formula week in and week out. Maybe not a sustainable formula, but it could have been one nonetheless. That was definitely not the case on Sunday in Chicago. The Cowboys were out-witted, out-played, and out-lasted by the Bears in a performance that Jeff Probst would have been proud of had the game been on CBS instead of FOX. It was embarrassment of the highest order, and that it is all leading to Micah Parsons’ return to AT&T Stadium with a Green Bay Packers team ready to prove they are the proper fit for him feels just wonderful. Before we can look to next week (through our hands as we try to shield from it all) we have to put Sunday in the Windy City in perspective. So begins the autopsy. Here is this week’s Stock Report. Stock Down: Matt Eberflus Personally I did not put a lot of stock into the narrative of Flus returning to Chicago to see a Bears organization that fired him in the middle of last season. The NFL sees people fired midseason all of the time. But as one user on Twitter put it so eloquently, it is a tough scene for Flus to get destroyed by a quarterback who looked largely dysfunctional under his watch. To be clear, Flus is a defensive mind and that context matters, but the point at large is difficult to ignore. Forgetting that entire discussion point, the Cowboys defense made Caleb Williams look incredible. He posted arguably the best day of his career, he literally tied his career high in terms of touchdown passes, and he was not sacked a single time. The day was made worse for Flus when the New York Giants looked moribund once more on Sunday night, emphasizing that Dallas was the antidote to their offensive woes. Stock Down: Trevon Diggs We should acknowledge that he appears to be playing hurt. That matters, but he is playing nonetheless. Trevon Diggs was once a great cornerback for this team and but it looks like those days are behind us. He was among the weakest points on the defense on Sunday in Chicago and was being targeted with regularity. Who could blame the Bears when they were doing what was working. The Cowboys appeared ready to acknowledge that this is Diggs’ last season with the team with how Jerry Jones publicly lamented him at the beginning of training camp. Everything involved here feels left-footed and the play on the field is representative of that. Stock Down: Kaiir Elam We have spoken a lot about how the Cowboys love former first-round picks and they have a track record of uncovering solid production in that realm. It stood to reason that Kaiir Elam could be of that ilk. Three games in that certainly does not look to be the case. Elam has really struggled in the secondary and was equally picked on by Caleb Williams (a crazy sentence to type). DaRon Bland has been out and Elam’s role has therefore not been exactly what it was supposed to be. None of that helps the play on the field, though. Stock Down: Donovan Wilson Dan Quinn revitalized the safety position for the Cowboys and it was such an incredible three-year run. Within that success was a career turnaround for Donovan Wilson as he thrived under DQ. Wilson looks lost on defense. He is a hard hitter and that is great, but he is among those getting most beat in coverage by all sorts of pass-catchers from every team the Cowboys have played to date. He had the moment of heroism against the Giants when Russell Wilson chucked up an arm punt, but that was pretty hard to mess up. It is one thing to get continually beat in the passing game, but Wilson is not enforcing anything on the ground either. There are a lot of weak points on this defense so saying one is bigger than another feels unfair, but if we are looking for that spot it might be here. Stock Down: Kenneth Murray This is partly another indictment against Matt Eberlfus as his thing has always been strong linebacker play from his group. There is absolutely none of that happening right now. Context matters everywhere and the team is without DeMarvion Overshown who is clearly the best player at this position, but they made the decision to move forward with this bunch and specifically thought highly enough of Kenneth Murray to trade for him (another former first-round pick to the Kaiir Elam point). We are three games in and that is a legitimate sample size. What about Murray has proven that he can help this defense? To be clear the same can be said for Jack Sanborn. It is hard to understand why Marist Liufau isn’t playing more, at the very least from the perspective of aiding the future. Stock Down: Jalen Tolbert When the Cowboys traded for George Pickens, they clearly did so with intent on upgrading their WR2 spot. They had to do this because Jalen Tolbert could not become the player that they needed over the course of his first three seasons with the team. CeeDee Lamb left this game early which changed everything for the Cowboys offense. It pushed Tolbert into a more critical role and he was unable to do anything with it. That is a huge issue. We are in the fourth year of Tolbert