Cowboys, Deion Sanders start discussions about head coach opening K.D. Drummond The Dallas Cowboys‘ opening for head coach hasn’t even been listed on LinkdIn yet, but that hasn’t stopped people from being linked to the job. One such name is farfetched, as ESPN’s Adam Schefter name dropped former tight end Jason Witten on Monday night. A more convential name emerged later in the evening though, one that has been considered for much of the season. ESPN’s Todd Archer has reported that Jerry Jones and Colorado Buffaloes head coach Deion Sanders discussed the open position on Monday. A source said Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones and Sanders spoke Monday, and while an interview has not been scheduled, the two are expected to continue their dialogue. Fox Sports first reported the conversation between the two sides. Sanders was linked to a Cowboys job that was not even open in the fall. Sanders has spent the last half decade proving his coaching and recruiting chops, first turning HBCU Jackson State into a powerhouse and parlaying that into resurrecting the Buffaloes’ program. A doormat for a long time, it took Sanders just one year to turn a losing team into a 9-4 campaign and a bowl appearance. His recruiting top talent, including his quarterback son Shedeur Sanders and Heisman Trophy winner Travis Hunter, has had a lot to do with it, but Sanders has proven himself to be a no-nonsense leader of young men. He’s bristled at the idea of coaching millionaire professionals before, so it would be interesting to see if he was seriously considering a move to the pros. Sanders was a famous two-sport athlete who jined the Cowboys’ circus in the middle of their vaunted run in the 1990s.  After winning a Super Bowl with San Francisco in 1994, he joined the Cowboys as the most famous free-agent signing in history at the time and helped Dallas win their third Lombardi trophy in four seasons. One of the best cornerbacks in league history who also spent time in Major League Baseball, Sanders played on both defense and offense for the Cowboys, much like Hunter did in his time under Sanders’ tutelage. Sanders has been linked to a potential Cowboys opening for a while and has always enjoyed a high ranking in Cowboys Wire’s weekly regular season replacement rankings.

Here’s why the Cowboys should hire Joe Brady to be their next head coach reidhanson After months of speculation, weeks of conflicting reports and days of misinformation it has finally become clear, the Dallas Cowboys are moving from their head coach Mike McCarthy. The Cowboys will no doubt have plenty of proven coaching candidates to choose from, as well a handful of young up-and-comers. One of those up-and-comers could be exactly what the Cowboys need, and his name is Joe Brady. Brady, the Buffalo Bills offensive mastermind and coordinator extraordinaire, is a hot name on the coaching market these days. His ability to turn the Bills into one of the league’s most dangerous offenses has put him at the top of many teams’ lists this offseason. Brady doesn’t have head coaching experience and that may cause some teams to shy away from him as an option, but he’s a coach whose star is on the rise and someone who, at age 35, is on the right trajectory for a top NFL coaching candidate. In all fairness, this could be a tough pill to swallow for Cowboys owner Jerry Jones. Jones made it a point to highlight McCarthy’s work experience as a head coach when selling his previous hire to fans and media. Jones knows the window in Dallas is closing, and at age 82, his own time at the helm is fleeting. He’ll be extra motivated to get this hire right. Jones, a speculator by nature, also knows a thing or two about projection. Waiting until a bright young offensive coordinator proves himself as head coach is already too late. Those types of coaches rarely break loose and when they do, they typically come with strings attached. What Brady lacks in head coaching experience he makes up for in proven offensive success. Brady got his start in the NFL as an offensive assistant for the New Orleans Saints. Coming from the Sean Payton coaching tree Brady pivoted to LSU in 2019, serving as passing game coordinator and receivers coach. Brady practically ran the offense at LSU, building it into a juggernaut on the way to a National Championship. From there Brady jumped at an opportunity to lead an NFL offense. His time as offensive coordinator with the Carolina Panthers didn’t go well and the rising star found himself knocked down a peg. Was it simply a matter of coaching a poor team in Carolina or did it have more to do with Brady’s limitations? His next stop would likely provide the answer. And answer, it did. In 2022 Brady latched on with the Bills, taking on the coveted role of quarterback’s coach. A bit more than halfway through the 2023 season Brady took over the offensive coordinator role in Buffalo. He fundamentally changed the offense overnight, going from an offense that force-fed the ball to Stephon Diggs, to an offense that spreads the ball around. His balanced and opportunistic approach led the Bills to offensive turnaround in 2023. It set him on a path for 2024, eventually producing the NFL’s second-best offense (based on EPA standards). Brady would appeal to Jones and the Cowboys because the similar situation he faces coming to Dallas. Like Buffalo, the Cowboys have been dependent on a Dak-Prescott-to-CeeDee-Lamb connection. Like Buffalo, the offense has been predictable, unbalanced and unimaginative. Jones, being someone obsessed with a balanced approach to offense, will fall in love with Brady’s commitment to the ground game. The analytics department in Dallas will fall in love with Brady’s efficiency in his balance, use of read options, personnel diversification, and lust for the big play. Brady wouldn’t be able to use Prescott much as a runner, but he would be able to make up for it with more RPOs (which don’t involve the QB rushing) and more designed runs to receivers. Ranking No. 6 on recent play caller rankings, Brady would take the Cowboys offense to the next level and do it in a way Jones would appreciate. Maximizing Prescott should be Priority No. 1 for whoever comes to Dallas. The fact Brady helped develop Joe Burrow into a Heisman winner and currently has Josh Allen on track for an All Pro, even MVP, season, speaks volumes about his ability to get the most from his signal callers. Related articles [affiliatewidget_smgtolocal]

The Dallas Cowboys are allowing the contract of head coach Mike McCarthy to expire without an extension. The contract actually was completed on January 7, but the team had exclusive negotiating rights with McCarthy through Tuesday, January 14. After initially denying the Chicago Bears the chance to talk to McCarthy about their opening, and then opening the door for negotiations on his return, the team closed that chapter of their franchise history on Monday. McCarthy is now free to pursue employment elsewhere, and it makes sense that he is under consideration for the Bears gig still, as well as other teams. McCarthy’s assistants are also now free to interview in other places for any level of job. Hired to replace Jason Garrett, McCarthy was charged with making Dallas into annual contenders and also finding the playoff success that has avoided them even during the good seasons. The former had been achieved; three healthy quarterback years delivering three seasons of 12-5 performance. The latter still avoided them, with just one playoff victory in five years and lackluster performances in three of their four contests. Perhaps watching former defensive coordinator Dan Quinn match McCarthy’s postseason win total in his first attempt as head coach of the Washington Commanders on Sunday helped sway Jerry Jones’ decision. The last hiring cycle took a while to get going just as this one did, as Dallas waited over a week from the end of the regular season before hiring McCarthy. While Jerry Jones has generally focused on experience in his last four hires, where do things go this cycle? There’s a ton of guys with various amounts of experience as coordinators, though it’s hard to envision Jones hiring a Liam Coen of Tampa, whose called plays in the NFL just for one season, or Frank Smith of Miami who hasn’t done it at all. There are assistants who have been head coaches before, like Kliff Kingsbury and Brian Flores. There are former Cowboys assistants like Kellen Moore and Wes Phillips, and Al Harris could emerge as a dark horse candidate, and that’s before the young gun coordinators like Ben Johnson, Bobby Slowik, Joe Brady and others are even mentioned. It’s going to be a crazy upheaval in the NFL coaching ranks and now that Dallas has thrown their hats in the ring, they will be the biggest tent at the circus. Bills OC Joe Brady Jan 8, 2023; Orchard Park, New York, USA; Buffalo Bills quarterbacks coach Joe Brady poses for a picture with fans prior to the game against the New England Patriots at Highmark Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Gregory Fisher-USA TODAY Sports The job Joe Brady has done with Buffalo offense in 2024 has been incredible. After trading away their top target in Stefon Diggs, the Bills offense went from great to elite, ramping up their production and scoring. After the strong work at LSU with Joe Burrow, Brady has been throwing haymakers in the NFL the last three seasons coordinating the Josh Allen Buffalo Bills. The Bills finished second in offensive DVOA in 2022, third in 2023 and are currently second in 2024. Lions offensive coordinator Ben Johnson Detroit Lions offensive coordinator Ben Johnson watches warm up before the Dallas Cowboys game at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas on Saturday, Dec. 30, 2023. What Ben Johnson’s offense and tutelage has been able to do for Jared Goff has been amazing. In the Stafford trade, Goff was expected to be a placeholder until the Lions drafted their guy. Now the clearly limited passer is running one of the league’s best and most innovative offenses. The Lions are competing for the NFC’s best record heading into the final game of the season and are doing so with a scotch-tape defense. The offense refuses to allow this to stop them and Johnson’s creativity and aggressiveness are the primary reasons why. There’s a rumor out there that Johnson asked for $15 million a season last cycle. That could be a baseline number, or it could’ve been a number he gave to a franchise he wasn’t truly interested in. Fans should beware taking such reports without the unavailable context. Ravens offensive coordinator Todd Monken Jul 27, 2023; Owings Mills, MD, USA; Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson (8) smiles at a fan with Baltimore Ravens offensive coordinator Todd Monken standing in the background following training camp practice at Under Armour Performance Center. Mandatory Credit: Brent Skeen-USA TODAY Sports The evolution of the Ravens’ passing attack, and the under-center autonomy placed on Lamar Jackson’s shoulders over the last season and a half have been incredible. He’s one of one as a QB, but Monken deserves a ton of credit for recognizing how to unlock this team. The 2024 Ravens, after adding Derrick Henry to the mix, now have a historic offense in terms of DVOA. Their 42.0% rating through 17 weeks is among the best ever, and it’s floated by their No. 1 36.0% offensive rating. Minnesota VIkings DC Brian Flores Jan 9, 2022; Miami Gardens, Florida, USA; Miami Dolphins head coach Brian Flores watches from the sideline during the second quarter of the game against the New England Patriots at Hard Rock Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Sam Navarro-USA TODAY Sports Will Flores get another shot at a head coach gig? He was dumped by the Dolphins in their owner’s “I’m rich I can do what I want” attempt to lure Sean Payton and Tom Brady to South Beach. The revelation about trying to have a coach to tank games may have pulled the curtain back on the inner workings of the league, but it likely didn’t do Flores much favor. What has though, is the job he’s done righting the ship in Minnesota with their defense. The relentless attacking nature of the Vikings defense where blitzing is a lifestyle is an intriguing head coach hire waiting to happen. Texans offensive coordinator Bobby Slowik Dec 31, 2023; Houston, Texas, USA; Houston Texans offensive coordinator Bobby Slowik on the sideline during the

Trade Block: ESPN predicts Kyle Pitts, Breece Hall available, Cowboys should consider both K.D. Drummond Sooner or later, the Dallas Cowboys are going to settle on a head coach. Whether that’s Mike McCarthy returning for Year 6 or someone from the outside, there will be a direction forged for the 2025 offseason. Once that shell is outlined, the front office will then turn their attention to veteran additions to the 2025 roster. Dallas has a ton of internal free agents to consider, but they also have positions where upgrades to the roster must be considered. Many will look at the season as a whole and point to a team decimated by injuries, but things were off from the beginning. This is especially true on offense, where after years atop the league, things plummeted in 2024. Dallas lacked explosiveness from the offense, and that was especially true at running back and tight end. While Rico Dowdle enjoyed the limelight down the back stretch of the season and ended up with over 1,000 yards on the ground, he didn’t have any breakaway runs. Meanwhile tight end Jake Ferguson regressed from his breakout 2023 campaign, and once again leaves the position as a huge question mark. And while Dallas has been hesitant to spend in free agency, they have shown a willingness to trade draft picks for young, unrealized talent. If that’s the case this year, there may be prime targets at each position. ESPN+ (paywall recently put out their offseason predictions for each NFL team that has been eliminated. For the Atlanta Falcons, they predicted trading TE Kyle Pitts. For the New York Jets, they predicted trading RB Breece Hall. The Cowboys should absolutely be in on both. New York Jets Big prediction for the offseason: While receiver Garrett Wilson is the buzzy trade candidate these days, the Jets will end up trading their other young offensive star, Breece Hall. It’s a bad year for free agent running backs, but some teams will be looking for a similar veteran boost to those the Eagles, Ravens and Packers found on the veteran market last offseason. Hall’s injuries are starting to catch up to him, and the Jets would be wise to move on from him early, while he still has some value leaguewide — especially with young backs Braelon Allen and Isaiah Davis showing promise. — Solak The NFL has seen running backs with high draft pedigree take a few years to get passed their injury-prone ways. Christian McCaffrey was somewhat this guy in Carolina and Saquon Barkley was this guy in New York. Hall had the big injury his rookie season, but he’s played through the smaller injuries for the most part his last two seasons. If the Jets are looking to offload the former second-round pick, Dallas should find out the asking price. The 2025 draft is seen as one deep in running backs, but Dallas will likely have four fifth-round picks. Hall has just one year remaining on his rookie deal before free agency, and may not command much in return. Atlanta Falcons Big prediction for the offseason: Tight end Kyle Pitts is due $10.8 million on the final year of his deal in 2025. Can the Falcons get more for him in a trade than they would in a compensatory pick after he leaves in free agency? I think they could, as he has a rosier future on an offense that actually fits his skill set. My prediction: Pitts will get dealt to the Bengals for a Day 3 pick. — Solak Pitts is set to play on the fifth-year option in 2025 as a former first-round pick. His rookie season was sensational, catching over 1,000 yards and making the Pro Bowl, but he hasn’t approached that level since. The 6-foot-6 Florida product was seen as a unicorn entering the 2021 draft but hasn’t been a great fit for the Falcons. What he could bring to Dallas and Dak Prescott, who adores passing to the tight end down the seams, could be incredible.

Cowboys predicted to award $175 million contract in 2025, highest ever to non-QB K.D. Drummond Here things go again. It has now been a full calendar year since the Dallas Cowboys were eliminated from the 2023 playoffs in inglorious fashion. Wild-card weekend was not kind to Dallas last January, as the Green Bay Packers dumped them out of the playoffs and ruined the vibe for all of 2024. Following the loss, the number one topic was whether or not the Cowboys would bring back head coach Mike McCarthy for another season and one of their biggest stars were one season away from first-time free agency. January 2025 is looking back like, “Samesies.” Dallas is once again wondering about McCarthy’s future, and once again they have a superstar who is entering the final year of his rookie contract. It took Dallas all offseason and most of training camp to succumb to WR CeeDee Lamb’s contract demands, and now they are gearing up for negotiations with edge rusher extraordinaire, Micah Parsons. While Parsons has said publicly he’d be willing to take a hometown discount if, and only if, the club was going to use the savings to bring in outside talent, it’s expected he will be paid handsomely. How handsomely? Most-money-ever-for-a-non-quarterback type money. ESPN+’s recent look at the offseason for all eliminated clubs, and in their section on the Cowboys, predict that Parsons will surpass Nick Bosa’s contract from 2023, and clock in at $175 million total new money. Big prediction for the offseason: Despite some public consternation between edge rusher Micah Parsons and the Cowboys’ brass, an extension will get done this offseason, and it’ll be the biggest one a defensive player has ever seen. Nick Bosa got $170 million over five years; Parsons will get $175 million over the same length, along with $125 million in total guaranteed money to exceed Bosa’s $122.5 million figure. Parsons has been the league’s best defender when on the field this season. He deserves every penny. — Solak Parsons is of course off to a sensational start to his career. He’s the first player since Reggie White with 12 sacks or more in his first four seasons in the league, and as White started in the USFL, is the first to do so starting in his rookie season. Parsons is recession proof; even in a season where he missed four contests, he still ended up with 12.5 sacks. He’s dominated and looks to be getting better every season, commanding double and triple teams at alarming rates and still ranking among league leaders in pass rush win rate.

2025 Free Agency: Former Longhorns star, UDFA, projected as great fit for Cowboys defense K.D. Drummond The Dallas Cowboys aren’t known to be big spenders in free agency, and there’s little reason to think the 2025 offseason will be much different. The Cowboys don’t trust outsiders, a vibe that has seeped into their head coaching search as they have an opportunity to interview some of the league’s creative young minds, but instead seem content to run things back with head coach Mike McCarthy. Once the dust settles on whom the club will have leading the team, the next focus will be on free agency. While other clubs will be looking for big-ticket items to fill their holes first, the Cowboys are likely going to again bargain shop for players who could  make an impact for far lower costs. Dallas will check for solutions internally first, among their pending free agents, but they will eventually look externally for budget fits. One such player could be an interior defensive presence who spent his collegiate years in state, at the University of Texas. Pro Football Focus recently suggested DT Poona Ford should be the top free agent target for the Cowboys. With the Cowboys finishing the regular season 29th in defensive EPA per play, 21st in success rate and 30th in team PFF run-defense grade, it’s clear that Dallas needs to invest more on that side of the ball. The team’s defensive line could get a makeover with DeMarcus Lawrence and Osa Odighizuwa set to hit the market, plus Mazi Smith potentially being on the trade block. Ford isn’t one of the most touted free agents, but he had a terrific resurgence with the Chargers. His 85.1 PFF overall grade in 2024 ranked fifth among qualified defensive linemen, while his 78.8 PFF run-defense grade placed sixth. Even if Dallas can keep Odighizuwa, adding the 29-year-old Ford would make for a great tandem on the inside. Ford was originally an undrafted free agent, signing with the Seattle Seahawks after not being selected in the 2018 exercise. He spent the first five years of his career in the Pacific Northwest, he’s been a full-time starter in all but two of his seven seasons in the league. This year he tied three different career highs in sacks (3), tackles for loss (8) and QB hits (9) while being a dominant run stuffer; something Dallas has lacked for a long time. At just 29 years old, he presumably has some tread on his tires, and he has yet to command much of a salary historically. There’s only been one year in his seven seasons where he’s had a cap hit over $2.7 million; right up Stephen Jones’ alley.

Cowboys currently have 3 players among top-10 cap hits in 2025 who won’t be on the team K.D. Drummond While the NFL increases the amount of the cap by leaps and bounds every season, teams can often find themselves up against the ceiling on a regular basis. The Dallas Cowboys generally have preferred to exist right up against the cap routinely. For the last decade plus, since the last CBA was agreed to, Dallas has preferred to give their big-money players lengthy deals with a ton of years, which gives them the wiggle room to manipulate the cap as they see fit, but still be as close to the cap limit as possible. Manipulating the salary cap in any given year is easy. The Cowboys put language in their player’s contracts that allow the club to convert a season’s base salary into a restructure bonus and take advantage of league accounting rules that then spread that money across future year’s caps, even though the player gets the money in that same season. Over the last decade, they’ve used void years in the contracts to place the cap hits on seasons the player isn’t even going to be on the team. This is one of two ways of having dead money on a specific year’s cap ledger, along with more common way when a team releases a player who still has unallocated bonus money that hasn’t yet hit the cap. In 2025, Dallas is going to run into both situations in a major way. Out of their top 10 salary cap hits already on the books for 2025, according to Over the Cap, three of those are dead money hits. Zack Martin (3rd) and DeMarcus Lawrence (10th) are both set to be unrestricted free agents in 2025 after 11 years, each, with the club. Their expiring contracts contained void years into the future, cap loopholes that allow a player to have a salary for a season that will be voided no matter what. It’s literally cap cheating and is a ridiculous benefit the owners have given themselves to skirt their own rules. Martin is scheduled to count over $27 million against the cap in 2025 for money that was paid to him already. Lawrence is on the books for just under $7.5 million. Even if the Cowboys use the June 1 rule they included in Martin’s deal to split his dead money across both 2024 and 2025, the $10 million would rank him sixth in cap hits this coming season. Meanwhile, Michael Gallup (7th) still exists on the Dallas books as well. The former third-round wide receiver was released this past offseason and has retired, but he will count $8.7 million against the Cowboys’ cap in 2025 because he was a June 1 release that split his cap hit over two seasons. Often referred to as kicking the can down the road, there’s an argument to be made that it makes a lot of sense to use future year’s cap hits to account for a player’s salary. If a team pays a player $10 million in 2024, but they don’t have to account for it against the cap until a future year when the salary cap is higher, it gives the team more bang for the buck because it takes up a lower percentage of the cap. But that can only be realized if the team is winning, which the Cowboys are not. If the team isn’t good enough to compete for a championship, then using future cap space is an impediment to the club improving. That feels like the situation the 2025 Cowboys will find themselves in.

2025 Free Agency: Cowboys $40 million star projected as great fit for Commanders K.D. Drummond The first week of the Dallas Cowboys‘ 2025 offseason has been focused on internal talent, much to the chagrin of a lot of fans. The front office appears set to try and run things back with head coach Mike McCarthy in 2025. entering into negotiations after a 7-10 season that wasn’t going anywhere before a myriad of injury issues reigned down on their roster. In a situation where the coach is no longer under contract, but with an exclusive negotiating window keeping McCarthy from talking to other teams until January 14, Dallas could be reaching out to perspective coaching candidates, but has yet to do so. Eventually, once the coaching situation is resolved, the next step will be to focus on another faction of internal talent, their pending free agents. Defensive end DeMarcus Lawrence is  set to hit free agency come March, and it’s a real possibility he will not be returning to America’s Team. If Lawrence walks, it’s expected for him to have heavy interest despite missing the three-fourths of the season with a foot injury. Lawrence started the season in strong fashion after appearing in back-to-back Pro Bowls in 2022 and 2023. There hasn’t been any apparent slippage in his play, so he could command a hefty salary as a hired gun, and that could be for his former defensive coordinator Dan Quinn who is now the head coach in Washington. Pro Football Focus recently suggested Lawrence should be the top free agent target for the Commanders. Even as the Commanders surged past all expectations to a playoff berth this season, their defense needs legitimate upgrades across the board. That rings true along the defensive front, where Dante Fowler Jr. will be a free agent and only Dorance Armstrong produced a pass-rush win rate above 11%. Lawrence was sidelined for most of 2024 due to a foot injury, but the 32-year-old was sensational in 2023. A season ago, Lawrence’s 91.0 PFF overall grade was tied for ninth among defensive players with 500 or more snaps. To illustrate how well-rounded Lawrence’s game is, he was one of three players with a 91.0-plus pass-rushing grade and a 79.0-plus run-defense grade. Reuniting with Dan Quinn to beef up the Commanders’ pass rush and run defense would be a perfect fit. Quinn’s Commanders were a surprise this season thanks to rookie QB Jayden Daniels, but the defense also rounded into shape. Their pass rush is anchored by two of Lawrence’s understudies the last few years in Texas, Dorance Armstrong and Dante Fowler, with the latter finishing 12th in the NFL in sacks in a reserve role. Lawrence has been with the Cowboys since being drafted in the second round of the 2014 class. He’s completed thee contracts with the club, most recently signing a three-year deal in 2022 for a total of $40 million. The structure of the deal currently has over $8.5 million in dead money on Dallas’ books for the 2025 season.

Cowboys O-lineman draws curious fine for Week 18 moment that penalized Commanders Todd Brock “Big-Time Brock” has drawn a big-time fine… for something that seemed awfully small when it went down in the Cowboys’ season-finale loss. Brock Hoffman, starting at right guard since the late-November injury to Zack Martin, is being fined $5,472 for unsportsmanlike conduct following a fairly innocuous play in the Cowboys’ Week 18 meeting with Washington. The moment came just two minutes into the second quarter, on Brandon Aubrey’s 41-yard field goal that put Dallas up 6-0. After the kick sailed through the uprights, officials threw a penalty flag and called Commanders defensive end Daron Payne for unnecessary roughness. Replays showed Payne had taken a swing at Hoffman’s head as the two untangled themselves from their blocking duties. What Hoffman might have done is mysteriously unclear. Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott gave the 6-foot-4-inch offensive lineman the nickname “Big-Time Brock” last season, saying, “He’s kind of an enforcer in that group, a guy that has a lot of attitude, huge passion for this game, wears it everyday. You can see it.” But it’s tough to see what, if anything, Hoffman did to incite Payne’s vicious reaction on this play. Even more bizarrely, Payne’s punch- egregious enough to cost the Commanders 15 yards during the game- did not incur a monetary fine at all for the veteran defender. Only Hoffman was docked for whatever happened. [affiliatewidget_smgtolocal] Hoffman can appeal the fine, but the moment that will likely cost him over five thousand bucks drew far more attention for what happened after the 15 yards were walked off. The penalty on Payne put the Cowboys’ ensuing kickoff at the 50. Due to the rules of the new dynamic kickoff, a kick landing out of bounds would be advantageous, pinning Washington at their own 25 after the penalty yardage. Cowboys special teams coordinator John Fassel instructed Aubrey to do exactly that, but Aubrey’s purposely-errant boot ended up striking Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders squad member Michelle Siemienowski in the back of the head as she performed on the sideline. Aubrey sent an handwritten apology to Siemienowski after the game; the rookie cheerleader laughed off the incident, explaining she was fine. Out of everyone involved, it seems Hoffman will end up getting the worst of the moment, with a sizable hit right to the wallet… even though it’s hard to say why. Read all the best Cowboys coverage at the Austin American-Statesman and Cowboys Wire.