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The Dallas Cowboys played a football game at AT&T Stadium on Saturday night and provided us with a lot of opportunities to evaluate and analyze them in different ways.
We are still talking about preseason football, but it is football nonetheless. The finalization of the 53-man roster (not to mention the season opener) is quickly approaching so these games are important sets of data to mine through.
In the name of doing that we have set our latest Stock Report to discuss which Cowboys improved or weakened their position on the team through the group’s latest outing.
Here we go.
Andrew Booth has had a rough Cowboys career to date with his name surfacing more for negative things than it has for positive. Sometimes that is simply the way that things go. But you have to keep scratching and clawing, and sometimes if you do things can turn your way. This happened for Booth as he caught an interception early in the game on Saturday and was even able to take it back for a score.
The state of the cornerback room is an interesting one with Trevon Diggs still on PUP and rookie Shavon Revel on NFI. It is going to take someone giving the coaching staff a reason to keep them around and who knows if Booth did that with this play. It certainly couldn’t hurt, though.
We all knew that Matt Eberflus was going to get the most out of the Dallas Cowboys linebackers when he took over as defensive coordinator. Rookie Shemar James and second-year man Marist Liufau popped in the preseason opener at Los Angeles.
Damone Clark had his moment against Baltimore. And then some.
This is an interesting season for Clark as he is a bit of a holdover from previous staffs. With DeMarvion Overshown on ice for a little while he has a chance to really carve out a role and we know that Flus can be instrumental in that as noted.
Roster battles are very much a thing in the middle of the preseason and Kemon Hall did what he could to try and lock down one himself.
This was definitely a right-place-right-time sort of interception, but those count just as much as beautiful breaks on the ball. You have to make your presence known and Kemon Hall has done a great job of that outside of this particular moment.
Saturday marked the first time that Tyler Booker suited up for the Cowboys, and while he did not exactly stonewall anybody, he looked the part. That matters very much.
It was great to see the Cowboys make sure that Cooper Beebe was out to rock and roll with Booker. The state of the quarterback play (more on that in a moment) did not exactly help them out, but they certainly did all they could.
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