It will likely be an attention-grabbing week for the Dallas Cowboys’ quarterback deliberations as they put together for Sunday night time’s high-profile NFC East matchup in Philadelphia towards the unbeaten Eagles.
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Cowboys proprietor Jerry Jones stated throughout his weekly radio look Tuesday that Prescott has made “large enchancment” however should reveal in observe that he can grip the ball correctly and throw it along with his regular velocity and accuracy.
“He’s received to essentially spin the ball,” Jones stated on 105.3 The Fan. “… Can he zip the ball on the market and make the throw? We’ll begin engaged on that Wednesday actual exhausting. … We all know Dak Prescott can play. And we all know he’ll be able to play the minute he will get an opportunity to go within the sport. Can he spin the ball? We’ll see.”
Rush has saved the Cowboys’ season, totaling 4 landing passes and no interceptions as Dallas (4-1) has crushed the Cincinnati Bengals, New York Giants, Washington Commanders and Los Angeles Rams. However principally, he has completed that by staying out of the best way, avoiding errors and permitting the protection to win video games. The Cowboys are seventh within the NFL in complete protection and third in scoring protection; they’re twenty seventh in complete offense and tied for twenty fourth in scoring offense.
In Sunday’s 22-10 triumph at SoFi Stadium, Dallas’s protection pressured three turnovers, scored a landing on a return of a fumble restoration and sacked Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford 5 occasions. Rush tried solely 16 passes and threw for a modest 102 yards. The Cowboys ran for 163 yards and went turnover-free.
“Should you can run the ball and punt good and don’t flip the ball over, you’re a hard-to-beat staff,” Jones stated. “You might be very exhausting to beat for those who don’t make errors. … Even in right this moment’s NFL, you’re exhausting to beat. I believe that’s what we’re speaking about. Now we have the talents to play like that. And, candidly, throughout this time when Dak has been absent, we’ve form of performed that means.”
That definitely is a successful system on most weeks. However in some unspecified time in the future, the Cowboys in all probability should rev up their offense to compete with the higher groups. Prescott is a two-time Professional Bowl choice. He’s within the midst of a four-year, $160 million contract. He led the best way final season because the Cowboys had the league’s highest-scoring offense.
“Do we want that further spurt and with the ability to make a game-winning play, one of many huge performs over 20 yards?” Jones stated. “Do we want that at quarterback? Sure, we do. Thank goodness we’re in a scenario the place we’re profitable having actually not had that dimension. After we get him again, that’ll be an actual additive.”
So put apart Jones’s earlier public musings that he would relish seeing Rush play effectively sufficient and win sufficient video games to create a quarterback challenge for the staff. It’s Prescott’s job and Prescott’s staff, at any time when he’s capable of step again in. Coach Mike McCarthy has stated that every one alongside. Jones subsequently stated Prescott is the Cowboys’ quarterback when he’s wholesome.
However whether or not meaning he’ll play this week stays to be seen. The stakes are comparatively excessive — by mid-October requirements. The Eagles are the NFL’s solely unbeaten staff. The Cowboys and Giants are 4-1. The sudden and sudden revival of the NFC East shall be below the “Sunday Evening Soccer” highlight.
“This has impressed us,” Jones stated. “It definitely impressed me for these gamers to reply to adversity this manner. I believe you’ll see our quarterbacks, definitely Dak … responding to this staff enjoying, getting collectively in a tough time, bonding collectively, dealing with from inside and changing into a greater staff due to it.”
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They have been lucky in Arizona, because the Cardinals managed the clock poorly and missed a FG. There undoubtedly shall be a big-game ambiance Sunday night time in Philadelphia with the Cowboys on the town. |
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Josh Allen had an enormous sport within the first half alone towards the Steelers, and the Payments coasted from there. A lot for needing to win shut video games. This was far simpler. |
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Travis Kelce got here up huge, and the Chiefs overcame a 17-0 deficit — to not point out a debatable roughing-the-passer name — to beat the Raiders on Monday night time. |
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The protection made the large play late to seal a win over the Bears. Opponents could be clever to make somebody aside from extensive receiver Justin Jefferson beat them. |
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Thou shalt not sort out Tom Brady. |
The Miami Dolphins have two quarterbacks, Tua Tagovailoa and Teddy Bridgewater, being evaluated and handled below the league’s concussion protocols.
Bridgewater was dominated out of Sunday’s loss to the New York Jets in East Rutherford, N.J., below the brand new provision to the protocols that the NFL and the NFL Gamers Affiliation enacted Saturday as they accomplished their joint evaluation of the Tagovailoa case.
Underneath that change, the league and union added ataxia — which they outlined as “abnormality of stability/stability, motor coordination or dysfunctional speech attributable to a neurological challenge” — to the record of necessary “no-go” signs below the protocols. So when a spotter assigned to Sunday’s sport stated Bridgewater stumbled after being hit and apparently hanging his head on the turf, the quarterback was ineligible to reenter the sport and routinely was handled below the protocols as if he had a concussion.
Bridgewater stays below the protocols this week, so he should be cleared below the step-by-step analysis course of to be allowed to play in Sunday’s sport towards the Minnesota Vikings in Miami Gardens, Fla. Coach Mike McDaniel stated Monday that Bridgewater didn’t have any concussion signs to that time.
In line with McDaniel, Tagovailoa is being reevaluated each 12 to 24 hours. The Dolphins haven’t stated when Tagovailoa is anticipated to have the ability to play.
Rookie quarterback Skylar Thompson completed the defeat to the Jets and presumably would begin Sunday if neither Tagovailoa nor Bridgewater is cleared to play.
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The push for the exits by the followers as additional time started Thursday night time was fairly the assertion in regards to the stage of confidence in Coach Nathaniel Hackett and QB Russell Wilson. |
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With the sport — and maybe their season — on the road Monday, two Raiders extensive receivers collided on their ultimate failed fourth-down play. And what was flawed with kicking an additional level to tie the rating with 4 1/2 minutes left? |
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The Lions lastly put collectively an entire efficiency Sunday towards New England — a very unhealthy efficiency. Even the beforehand productive offense was dreadful. |
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Carson Wentz hasn’t been good. However anybody who anticipated him to be a franchise QB in Washington wasn’t paying consideration the previous few years. And it’s definitely not all on him. |
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The excellent news for Steve Wilks is he’s getting one other head teaching likelihood. The unhealthy information is … effectively, go searching. |
Quarterback Deshaun Watson returned to the Cleveland Browns’ facility Monday. That was the primary day he was eligible to rejoin the staff below the phrases of his 11-game suspension for violating the NFL’s private conduct coverage.
Watson could resume training Nov. 14. He’s eligible to play in a sport Dec. 4 when the Browns are in Houston to face the Texans, Watson’s former staff.
The NFL may delay Watson’s reinstatement if he doesn’t adjust to the phrases of his suspension, a number of individuals acquainted with the scenario stated when the league and the NFLPA reached the settlement by which Watson was suspended and fined $5 million primarily based on allegations of sexual misconduct. The settlement required Watson to endure knowledgeable analysis and remedy plan. There isn’t any indication at this level that Watson has didn’t comply.
Watson’s suspension formally took impact Aug. 30.
The Browns are doing their greatest to be related on the sphere when Watson can be part of the lineup. They’re 2-3 with Jacoby Brissett filling in, they usually’re on a two-game shedding streak getting into Sunday’s sport at dwelling towards the New England Patriots.