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The Dallas Cowboys have played six games so far this season and have two wins to show for their work. Technically speaking you could say 2.5 given the tie from a few weeks back.
Understanding that ties are rare we can note that the Cowboys are in fairly uncharted waters at the moment. They are now the 15th team in franchise history to have two or fewer wins through the first six games of the season. None of the previous 14 made the playoffs.
Obviously this team’s story is still being written, but what we saw on Sunday in Carolina suggests that the genre of the story is more horror than rom-com.
Here is our stock report from the brutal loss.
The Cowboys have a superstar on their hands in George Pickens. It is a shame that his performance did not end in a win. It deserved one.
On Sunday, Pickens caught a touchdown for the fifth game in a row and as it was his sixth one overall he set a new career high for a season (the Pittsburgh Steelers have to feel some type of way about letting him go). If there is any negative associated with what we are seeing from him it is that all of these statistical accolades will serve as ammunition for him and his representation in contract negotiations next spring.
Sunday specifically wasn’t a massive day for Jake Ferguson, but he caught a touchdown for the third game in a row. It is funny to consider that he was experiencing quite the drought before that. This is easily the best season of Ferguson’s career to date and that it is happening right after Dallas gave him an extension is great to see (imagine if we had this feeling with Pickens!).
During the sequence where Xavier Legette had a lateral that is difficult to explain even with the Panthers having won, Donovan Ezeiruaku had a fantastic punch out against Rico Dowdle.
The play was undone by a penalty, and while we aren’t here to celebrate something that technically didn’t happen, it was pretty cool nonetheless. Ezeiruaku had an enormous amount of hype during training camp and we have yet to see that translate. This could be representative of the fact that it is starting to take legitimate root.
This is said somewhat in jest, but we are going to be so grateful for whoever is the new defensive coordinator. Consider that last time we felt the way we do the Cowboys swapped out Mike Nolan for Dan Quinn. We have reached this point with this situation.
Ah… the situation.
I am a big fan of Matt Eberflus. I celebrated his return as he had a lot of success as the Cowboys linebackers coach before leaving the team...
