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Former Cowboys, XFL QB Ben DiNucci signs with Denver Broncos – SportsDay Staff, DMN
The Nooch’s NFL journey continues.
Former Cowboys backup quarterback and XFL standout Ben DiNucci signed with the Denver Broncos, his agent Joe Linta announced Sunday afternoon.
DiNucci is fresh off a season in the XFL with the Seattle Sea Dragons in which he passed for 2,671 yards (XFL best), 20 touchdowns and 13 interceptions in 10 games. DiNucci was a backup for the Cowboys during the 2020 season in which he played in three games and passed for 219 yards.
The Broncos already have quarterbacks Russell Wilson, Jarrett Stidham and Jarrett Guarantano on the roster.
Congratulations to client QB @B_DiNucci6 on agreeing to a contract with the @Broncos
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NFL FILMS AND SKYDANCE SPORTS TO COLLABORATE ON JERRY JONES DOCU-SERIES – Jazz Monet, Inside The Star
Jerry is going Hollywood.
Earlier this month, it was announced that NFL Films and Skydance Sports, a division of Skydance Media, would be developing a docu-series chronicling the story of Jerry Jones, the owner, president, and general manager of the Dallas Cowboys.
The Jones Family is also partnering with the two companies on the series. It will be the first project from the newly-established partnership between the NFL and Skydance Media.
According to NFL Communications, the series, which is still untitled, will make use of NFL Films’ vast archive of never-before-seen content. It will also spotlight some of the notable sports icons that have played a role along Jerry Jones’ journey including (but of course not limited to) Troy Aikman, Michael Irvin, Emmitt Smith, Phil Knight, and even Jimmy Johnson.
Reportedly, the series will tell the complete story of how Jerry Jones rose from being the son of a community store owner in Arkansas to being considered one of the most innovative and influential sports business legends in the world.
Jerry Jones took a big risk when he purchased the Cowboys in 1989. At the time, the team was coming off of a 13-loss season, and the organization was losing about $1 million monthly.
Within a decade of Jones’ purchase, the team won three NFL titles and captivated new fans worldwide. Simultaneously, Jones re-invented the NFL’s business equation. The way the Dallas Cowboys approached marketing, branding, and broadcasting changed the game for clubs and franchises across the world of sports.
7 most compelling storylines of Cowboys 2023 schedule – Matt Owen, Cowboys Wire
Amidst one of the harder 2023 NFL schedules arises a few interesting storylines.
Kellen Moore, hello old friend.
Week 6 features two of the best quarterbacks in the NFL in Dak Prescott and Justin Herbert, but let’s not kid ourselves. This game will be all about the Cowboys’ decision to move on from playcaller Kellen Moore.
Moore was quickly scooped up by the Los Angeles Chargers and looks to guide an offense with a ton of playmakers. Was a fresh start the right move for both sides? Did the Cowboys need to prove “less is Moore”?
Who’s the king of the East?
Week 9 features the Cowboys on the road facing off with last year’s NFC Champion, Philadelphia Eagles. This year the Eagles opened up their checkbooks for quarterback Jalen Hurts, brought back cornerbacks Darius Slay and James Bradberry and traded for running back D’Andre Swift in addition to drafting half of the Georgia Bulldogs roster. Kidding.
If the Cowboys want to regain the NFC East title, this is a good moment to put the NFC on notice. The Cowboys went into this offseason with a plan to stop the run and drafted defensive tackle, Mazi Smith, from the University of Michigan, with the No. 26 pick of the draft. This is a game the Cowboys could use Smith to limit the Eagles’ dynamic running game.
3 potential trap games on the Cowboys 2023 schedule – Randy Guzi, The Landry Hat
Which of these seemingly winnable games poses the biggest threat?
Cowboys at Panthers, Week 11
It’s easy to act as though the Carolina Panthers were awful in 2022 but the truth is, they actually finished out rather well. They started out just 1-4 under Matt Rhule, but then went 6-6 with Steve Wilks as the interim coach.
There were those who wanted Dallas to hire Rhule when he was looking to break into the NFL but it’s safe to say Mike McCarthy was the better choice — Rhule had just 11 wins in 38 games whereas McCarthy won 12 in 2021 and 12 in 2022.
While it’s safe to say a bullet was dodged, the Cowboys can’t go into their Week 11 contest against the Panthers expecting things to be easy.
Sure, they’ll be trying to get No. 1 overall pick Bryce Young acclimated to the NFL and they did trade D.J. Moore away which weakened their receiving corps. He was replaced with D.J. Chark and Adam Thielen — who should be given an MRI after saying the Panthers had a better shot at the Super Bowl than Dallas — which is a downgrade.
Even with all that being said, this is an NFL franchise and they have enough talent to make things hard on any team that takes them lightly. Defensively, Jaycee Horn, Vonn Bell, Xavier Woods, and Jeremy Chinn give them a tough secondary. There’s also Shaq Thompson and Brian Burns, who are strong in the front seven.
‘Asim’ First Impression! Cowboys Fifth-Round Pick Richards ‘Awesome’ Enough in Rookie Minicamp – Riley Sheppard, FanNation
While it is still early, the Cowboys might have found yet another solid contributor on the offensive line post-day two of the draft.
Dallas Cowboys rookie Asim Richards – pronounced “Ah-sum,’’ which is close enough to “Awesome” – is one of 29 players who participated in rookie minicamp this weekend with a simple goal: “Fly around.’’
A fifth-round pick out of North Carolina, the offensive lineman says that in a non-contact setting it’s about making a strong impression in other ways.
“You really just have to go out there and give effort,” Richards said. “Go out there and run and fly around. I know they try and keep us fresh, but really go out there and fly around, give effort, and if you show that then you’re gonna be just fine and that’s what I’m trying to do.”
At 6-4, 309 pounds, Richards played primarily at left tackle over his four seasons at North Carolina – earning third-team All-ACC honors in 2022 – but could transition to guard at the next level.
“I’m versatile so I’m comfortable at a lot of places,” Richards said. “I played left tackle in college so that’s naturally going to be my most comfortable position. I like other positions and I got a little taste at the Senior Bowl so I’ve been working on it for sure.”
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- Monday: 1st and 10 with Tony Catalina & Aidan Davis
- Monday: Hidden Yardage with Mark Lane and Sean Martin
- Tuesday: The Writer’s Block with Jess Nevarez and Brandon Loree
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Like every offseason, changes are certain for the Dallas Cowboys. New faces will take place of old ones via free agency and the NFL draft, but this year the biggest change will be who steps in as the new head coach replacing Mike McCarthy.
As of right now there is no clear favorite to become McCarthy’s replacement. But, the one thing we know for sure is whoever takes over as the new HC will try to implement what he deems best for the organization moving forward. Coming off an injury-plagued 7-10 losing season, whoever is in charge has their work cut out for them.
Today, we identify and discuss three of the Cowboys biggest problem areas during McCarthy’s tenure in Dallas that the new head coach needs to fix. If the new HC can fix these problem areas, he may be able to accomplish what McCarthy couldn’t by ending the Cowboys playoff curse in the not-too-distant future.
Cut down the penalties
The Cowboys were the most penalized team in the entire league in 2024. This of course isn’t a new problem for them. In Mike McCarthy’s five season as the HC in Dallas they’ve averaged a league-high 6.8 penalties per game, but where whistled for the eighth fewest penalties per game in the three seasons prior to his arrival. It’s already hard to win games in the NFL, even harder when continuously shooting yourself in the foot.
Penalties of course are going to happen, but it was obvious they happened more often for the Cowboys in McCarthy’s era as HC over the last half decade. Whoever takes over as the new HC in Dallas will have to figure out eliminating the amount of yellow laundry. It is a top priority for the next HC.
Fix red zone woes
It’s no secret the Cowboys struggled mightily this year in the red zone both offensively and defensively. Offensively, they ended up ranked 31st overall in red zone scoring efficiency at 46%. The fact that they also led the league in red zone turnover’s didn’t help either. The lack of innovative, creative play-calling and poor execution often times resulted in a Brandon Aubrey field goal instead of a touchdown.
Defensively they weren’t any better. They finished 32nd in the league in the red zone, allowing an opponents red zone scoring efficiency of 75%. Injuries of course played a big part in all of this, but it’s also been a problem area for them in the past as well. Hopefully whoever takes over for McCarthy finds some way to improve this problem area on both the offensive and defensive side of the ball moving forward.
Cultural change
There’s little to nothing a new HC can do about the chaotic, zoo-like atmosphere Jerry Jones has created for his team, but there is something he can do behind closed doors in the locker room to change the culture for his players. Look no further than what Dan Campbell did to the Detroit Lions when he took over as their HC. He demanded toughness and accountability from his players and it turned them from the laughingstock of the NFL to one of the better teams in just a few years time.
“Toughness” and “accountability” just so happens to be two things this organization seems to have been lacking under both Mike McCarthy’s and Jason Garrett’s tenure as HC. This is a team that has been called “soft” on numerous occasions in the past and hopefully that changes with whoever replaces McCarthy. While personnel changes via free agency and the draft will help, it mostly has to do with an attitude adjustment. After all, “attitude reflects leadership”, at least according to the movie Remember the Titans.
One early morning last week, just before sunrise, I heard a strange sound as if someone was yelling in intervals. At first, I thought it was a cry for help, and then I thought, after all, it wasn’t the sound of a person.
I walked to the dining room window, and then I looked out to the street. Nothing to the right. Nothing straight ahead toward my neighbor’s house, and then I saw a sudden movement to the left beyond some bushes. The wind? A loose piece of rust-colored paper rolling onto the street? It was a fox, a red fox with his famous tail. It looked to its left and right and then, like an athlete, it ran along the road in a sudden dash, past the bushes, past my neighbor’s house, and then it ran past my window. I expected it to stop for a moment and wave hello.
I always feel sorry for foxes. They do eat berries, but they depend mostly on meat: mice, squirrels, birds and worms. It must be easy being a rabbit. It doesn’t have to work hard to find grass or clover, even twigs, bark, flowers and shrubs. But a fox has to hunt and hope there will be a meal just beyond the next rock or next patch of woods.
The quick visit of the fox running in the neighborhood has stayed with me these last few days: the movement of its tail, the way its legs moved in a gallop, the earth color of its fur. We preserve the image of things in our private memoirs, quick moments like the visit from the fox, and we also preserve forever moments: our wedding days, vacations, the memory of our children’s first day of school, the memory of the homes where we grew up.
One of the great things about our culture is that we have established our collective public memories in our museums: works of art, dinosaur skeletons, pottery, Lincoln’s hat, the Wright Brothers’ plane.
The Dallas Museum of Art has a painting by Gustave Courbet, one of the most influential French artists from the 19th century. Courbet led the realism movement, abandoning the romantic painters and their idolized notion of the world. Courbet painted what we see and expected us to come away with our own sense of meaning from the snapshot of reality.
When you visit the Dallas Museum of Art, look for Courbet’s Fox in the Snow. As you look at the painting you might feel the cold air in your imagination. You will get to see the hungry animal devouring a mouse. There is nothing romantic about that image. It is an unsentimental moment of reality, and yet in that reality, there is beauty. There is always hidden beauty in what we see in our ordinary days.
According to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, “the entire red fox population of Central Texas probably descended from 40 foxes released between 1890 and 1895 near Waco.”
It seems as if one is hanging in the museum in Dallas.
In Paris on Dec. 25, 1861, Courbet wrote a Realist Manifesto, and in it, he wrote, “The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it.” And, like Courbet’s fox, it also belongs to our collective encounters thanks to the DMA.
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DALLAS — Oklahoma City Thunder superstar Shai Gilgeous-Alexander sat out Friday’s game against the Dallas Mavericks due to a sprained right wrist.
Gilgeous-Alexander, the NBA’s scoring leader and an MVP front-runner, was a late addition to the injury report.
The Thunder opted to sit Gilgeous-Alexander after he had an abbreviated warmup routine.
Gilgeous-Alexander wore a wrap on the wrist after Thursday’s home win over the Cleveland Cavaliers. He said he felt some pain after falling during his 40-point performance.
“Was fine this morning and then came to the arena and was a little bit sore,” Thunder coach Mark Daigneault said before Gilgeous-Alexander tested the wrist during his warmup.
Gilgeous-Alexander played in all 40 games during Oklahoma City’s 34-6 start, averaging 31.6 points, 6.0 assists, 5.4 rebounds, 2.0 steals and 1.1 blocks.
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