Cowboys

Cowboys LB DeMarvion Overshown returned from injured reserve ahead of Week 11’s Monday Night win over the Raiders. He reflected on playing with a heavy heart following the death of his teammate and close friend Marshawn Kneeland.

“Being around my brothers helped a lot. It kept me smiling the whole game and I was doing what I do — keeping the energy up and running around,” Overshown said, via Patrik Walker of the team’s site. “We’ve been telling ourselves for the past week and a half that we’re playing for him. If it takes seeing that jersey on the sideline to remember what we’re doing, our brother is on the sideline with us, whether that’s figuratively or spiritually. He’s there, so having his jersey out there is the least we can do. We know Marshawn is out there on the field with us.”

As for his return from a torn ACL, Overshown said he remained confident in his abilities and understands he needs to make plays.

“That was the first time the defense played together,” Overshown said. “It’s only up from here. I already know what our offense is gonna do, but the defense is only up from here.”

Eagles

The Eagles failed to convert another bold fourth-down decision that didn’t come back to bite them in their Week 11 win over the Lions. Philadelphia HC Nick Sirianni explained his trust in the process of making those decisions

“I’ve talked to you guys about this,” Sirianni said, via Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk. “Again, there’s a lot of different factors that go into it. It always starts with the players and the play that you’re calling first. Do you have faith in the players that you have? The analytics can say what it wants, but if you don’t have faith in the players to go execute it, that doesn’t give you a lot of confidence. So then, what play do you have, the players that you have and then you do it. Analytics is a piece of the puzzle. All these different things are a piece of the puzzle. Your past successes, the league studies that you do, all these things play into that. I love our process.”

“Just because you have a great process doesn’t automatically mean that you’re going to convert every fourth down. I completely understand that. But we’ve got a great process with our coaches, great process figuring out how we go about attacking there, and when we go for it, I have to make those tough calls and be able to have that conviction. When you don’t convert on fourth down, it is always going to be on you as the head coach. You ultimately made that decision, and you’re not going to get a lot of praise when you get it on fourth down like, ‘Coach, great job on that decision.’ That just doesn’t go that way and that’s okay.”

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