Garrett: Cowboys Need To 'Refresh, Regroup' In Bye Week
The Dallas Cowboys were beaten and battered heading into Sunday night's game against the Saints. They left New Orleans in even worse shape.
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The Dallas Cowboys were beaten and battered heading into Sunday night's game against the Saints. They left New Orleans in even worse shape.
With multiple reports this past week of Cowboys WR Dez Bryant having issues with a possible herniated disc, GM/Owner Jerry Jones made it clear he has no idea where a report like that came from.
At the end of the 2012 NFL season, the Dallas Cowboys fired defensive coordinator Rob Ryan. This week, Ryan brings a defense he improved from the worst in the NFL into one of the best to a big game with the team who gave up on him.
Jerry Jones said on his radio show Tuesday on 105.3 The Fan that defensive end DeMarcus Ware was likely to return after missing the first three games of his nine-career with a thigh injury.
On Sunday, Bryant threw fuel on the fire after receiving an unsportsmanlike penalty in the second half for removing his helmet while arguing with officials.
The Cowboys will need a consistent pass rush to disrupt the NFC's top passing attack on Sunday in New Orleans. They're expecting help from a familiar face.
As painful as a loss in Detroit was a week earlier, Tony Romo and the Dallas Cowboys put their season in jeopardy when they fell behind one-win Minnesota in the fourth quarter at home.
The narratives are so often repeated now that they go beyond "cliché.'' They've created grooves so deep in the Dallas Cowboys' long-playing record that the needle stabs through the wax.
Tony Romo threw for 337 yards and two touchdowns, including the go-ahead score to Dwayne Harris with 35 seconds left, and the Dallas Cowboys beat the Minnesota Vikings 27-23 Sunday.
Straight out of the gate Cowboys owner Jerry Jones tells 105.3 The Fan's GBag Nation "We did not play well" referring to the last minute 31-30 loss to the Detroit Lions last week.
It's a little hard to figure out what the Cowboys have on defense. They've won games with takeaways and flashes of dominance but now carry the distinction of the only unit in NFL history to allow four 400-yard passers in one year.
The battered Dallas Cowboys are absorbing another injury blow as guard Brian Waters is likely out for the year due to a collection of injuries including a triceps problem.
Bryant's antics are the least of the problems for Dallas with a defense facing more injury issues after allowing a last-second touchdown and the most yards in franchise history in Detroit's 31-30 win.
Admiral Jonas H. Ingram, a key figure in World War II and then a director of athletics at Annapolis, once observed, - The closest thing to war in time of peace is football.
The Cowboys are a complete oxymoron. Who else flames out so huge and in so many ways? The Cowboys sure do know how to do it don't they?
The vocal, aggregate angst from Cowboys fans is quite understandable. While you would be right to direct your anger at some well-heeled Cowboys, Tony Romo isn't one of them. In fact, he is the reason you really matter.
When it is all over we may very well have a legal opinion and settlement that defines who was in the right, who was in the wrong and to what extent. But this is what I believe is the real reason things went crazy.
Ratliff, the former four-time Cowboys Pro Bowler released last week after 11 months of tiresome inactivity, has found a miracle cure in the form of an exit from Valley Ranch.
As the Cowboys prepare for a Week 8 matchup with the Lions, the comparisons between Dez Bryant and Calvin Johnson have already begun.
George Selvie had the most sacks, and Kyle Wilber had the most snaps for the Dallas defensive line. Somehow, life in the first game without DeMarcus Ware was just fine for the Cowboys.
Titans owner K.S. "Bud" Adams Jr. has died in his Houston home. He was 90.
Calculators all over Cowboys Nation are spitting sparks and being enveloped in smoke as a result of the ESPN report that alleged Dallas' 2014 cap is going to be a "train wreck.''
On Sunday morning various sports media outlets, including the NFL Network's Ian Rapoport, reported that the Dallas Cowboys are no longer sold on DMarco Murray
Cowboys owner Jerry Jones joined 105.3 The Fan for his weekly show and kicked-off the conversation remembering the career of Jay Ratliff, who was cut from the Cowboys this week after sitting out all of the 2013 season due to injury.
In the immediacy of the moment, some Dallas Cowboys observers believe the five-year, $40-million extension given now-departed Jay Ratliff two years ago ranks as Jerry Jones' worst-ever gaffe.
