Yahoo Sports’ Jason Fitz and Caroline Fenton are joined by senior NFL reporter Jori Epstein to discuss the mood around the Dallas Cowboys organization.
Video Transcript
How do you think the Dallas Cowboys front office, Jerry Jones, and company feel about the Micah Parsons trade today?
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Yeah, Caroline, it’s a great question and a very relevant question because the Cowboys’ next game is on Sunday Night Football, hosting the Green Bay Packers.
So the entire country, if not the entire world, will be able to see what Micah Parsons can do against the Cowboys and what the Cowboys are able to do without Micah Parsons.
All that said, I would still argue that Micah Parsons is not the Cowboys’ problem.
They have much deeper problems.
I mean, this is a team that was allowing seven plays of 20 plus yards to Russell Wilson last week, and we saw what Russell Wilson did against the Chiefs last night, or maybe I should say what he didn’t do against the Chiefs last night.
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It was not a pretty sight.
And he threw for 450 yards and three touchdowns against the Cowboys.
Caleb Williams struggled through two weeks, while all of a sudden you got back to back plays, not back to back series, back to back plays that Caleb Williams was in yesterday, a 35 yard touchdown and a 65 yard touchdown.
And to me, what was most striking is when Bears head coach Matt Eberflus gets on the podium after his first win as a head coach and talks about the 65 yard flicker touchdown and why they decided to run that play against the Cowboys.
And he was saying his staff looked at what the Cowboys were doing, saw the film, and essentially it was like, hey, this is a team that can’t handle the deep ball.
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We should run this play.
Well, until the Cowboys can handle the deep ball, it doesn’t really matter if you have Micah Parsons or not.
Would he help?
Maybe on some plays, but they’re not getting to the point where they’re really able to pass rush guys and have three down obvious passing situations because the deep ball is such a problem for that Cowboys defense.
The other problem they may have now is the CD injury.
Any updates there?
How do they, how do they even factor in success without CD?
Yeah, and I, I understand that the Dallas Cowboys offense looked much better when CD Lamb was briefly on the field yesterday and even a little bit afterwards, like, this is a team where they said, hey, we’re going to have Dak, we’re going to have CD, and we’re going to have George Pickens, and that’s going to be our crew.
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And when they have those, the running game has actually looked much better than I think a lot of people expected for Dallas because they’ve been able to have the balance of the run in the past, because they have the threat of C.D.
and the threat of George.
They didn’t respond well to losing C.D.
yesterday.
They didn’t respond well, especially as they fell into, um, more of a hole, a 17-point hole.
It’s looking like a high ankle sprain for C.D.
C.D.
wanted to get back out there yesterday.
Jerry Jones and multiple people on the Cowboys said after the game that, um, it was not as bad as it could have been.
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So, like, it does not appear by all accounts that he broke his ankle or anything.
To me, the question is, if you have a high ankle sprain, I think if they were playing, I don’t know, the Giants or someone next week, C.D.
might take a week off.
But because it’s the Packers on Sunday Night Football, with the Micah Parsons implications, I do worry a little bit of, I’m not saying it’s like medical malpractice, but will this team not give C.D.
the ability to fully heal, and what would allow him to be at 100% or 95% later in the season?
That’s something I think we should keep our eye on, given the way that he’s running his routes and juking the way that he does.
