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LIVE BLOG: Follow Lions’ Week 6 Game at Cowboys
The Detroit Lions are looking to stay on a roll after taking the bye week to get healthy.
Next in line for the Lions are the Dallas Cowboys in a nationally televised showdown Sunday. It marks the first meeting between the two teams since last year’s thriller in the same venue.
The Cowboys have historically held the upper hand over the Lions, with 19 wins to Detroit’s 12 in 31 total meetings. Dallas has won the last six meetings, and Detroit’s last win against them came in 2013.
It carries a similar amount of weight to the Lions’ Week 4 game against Seattle, with the victory snapping a lengthy losing streak against that opponent. Now, Detroit gets the chance to snap another losing streak.
“The fact is, we want this game. And we — you want to win this game,” coach Dan Campbell said on Fox 2’s Game Day Live Sunday. “We’ve had an opportunity, we’re gonna get an opportunity here. We’ve got to play clean football and we’ve got to go earn it, just like we do every week.”
The Lions are looking to keep pace in the NFC North, which has been the most competitive division in football to this point. Minnesota is on its bye week after a 5-0 start, while Chicago won Sunday morning in London to improve to 4-2 on the year.
Follow along all throughout Sunday’s game between the Lions and Cowboys for live updates.
4:32 p.m. — The Lions’ defense holds Dallas to a field goal. Brandon Aubrey converts the 34-yard attempt, putting the Cowboys in front 3-0 with 11:21 remaining in the first quarter.
4:30 p.m. — A Kerby Joseph interception is negated by a defensive holding penalty on Alex Anzalone. The Cowboys have a first-and-10 on Detroit’s 18-yard line.
4:27 p.m. — The Cowboys’ first big play comes courtesy of a deflection by Alex Anzalone that lands in the hands of Rico Dowdle. Dallas has the ball at Detroit’s 27-yard line.
4:23 p.m. — The Cowboys won the toss and elected to receive.
4:00 p.m. — The Lions announced five inactives for Sunday’s game: DE James Houston, S Loren Strickland, OL Giovanni Manu, OL Colby Sorsdal and WR Isaiah Williams.
FRISCO, Texas — After 12 seasons in the NFL and the last eight with the Dallas Cowboys, defensive back CJ Goodwin has announced his retirement.
Goodwin, 36, has played in 108 games for the Cowboys since he joined the team in 2018. He was the second longest-tenured Cowboy on the roster behind only Dak Prescott, who preceded Goodwin by two seasons.
Since 2019, Goodwin has been one of Dallas’ key players on special teams, recording 69 tackles with the Cowboys [ninth in Cowboys history] and 87 in his NFL career. In 2021, Goodwin became the first player in franchise history to lead the team in special teams tackles for three consecutive seasons.
After going undrafted in 2014, Goodwin received a tryout with the Pittsburgh Steelers after Steelers Hall of Fame cornerback Mel Blount, whose son attended high school with Goodwin and who Goodwin had worked for as a farm hand, urged the team to give him an opportunity. Pittsburgh would sign him as an undrafted free agent afterwards.
Following time with the Steelers, Falcons, Cardinals, Giants, 49ers and Bengals, the Cowboys signed Goodwin off of Cincinnati’s practice squad in October of 2018.
In his eight seasons with Dallas, Goodwin notched 2,211 snaps on special teams. He worked primarily as a gunner on punt coverage and was one of Dallas’ most impactful defenders on kickoff coverage during his career with the team.
Goodwin was named one of the Cowboys’ six captains in 2025, and the second captain on special teams alongside Brandon Aubrey. He finished the year with 18 special teams tackles.
In 2026, the Cowboys will now have to look to fill Goodwin’s shoes on special teams. Some of their offseason signings, like safety P.J. Locke, have a strong history as defenders on special teams and could end up being crucial for special teams coordinator Nick Sorensen in his second season in Dallas.
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