In this episode of Between the Lines we flip the attention to the defensive line, where chaos meets strategy. This is where the Cowboys’ games are won and lost so let’s dive in.

Interior Defensive Line

Osa Odighizuwa

(2025 Stats: 255 Total snaps, 18 Total Tackles, 2 TFL, 19 Pressures, 1 Sack)

Grade: 63.5

Solomon Thomas

(2025 Stats: 184 Total snaps, 16 Total Tackles, 2 TFL, 7 Pressures, 0 Sacks)

Grade: 61.5

Kenny Clark

(2025 Stats: 272 Total snaps, 15 Total Tackles, 2 TFL, 18 Pressures, 2 Sacks)

Grade: 56.5

Mazi Smith

*(2025 Stats: 51...

The Dallas Cowboys have been ravaged with injuries in 2025. On Friday, it was announced they have yet another one in their secondary, and it’s certainly a head scratcher. According to Nick Harris of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, cornerback Trevon Diggs will miss Sunday’s game against the Washington Commanders due to suffering a concussion at home.

Diggs has had his fair share of setbacks the last few years. He tore his ACL in 2023 after two games and missed the rest of the season. Last December, it was announced that Diggs would miss the remainder of the season and would...

When CeeDee Lamb went down with a multi-week ankle injury in a Week 3 loss in Chicago, it felt like the sky was going to fall for the Dallas offense. Instead, we’ve seen George Pickens, Jake Ferguson, and an unexpected Cowboys rising star emerge.

Ryan Flournoy, the team’s sixth-round pick in the 2024 NFL Draft, finally saw the field consistently and took advantage of the opportunity.

The former Southeast Missouri State Seahawk seemingly became the Cowboys’ WR2 with Lamb and KaVontae Turpin on the sidelines. In total, he reeled in 11 catches for 158 yards in his three games as...

The Dallas Cowboys are hosting their NFC East rival, the Washington Commanders, on Sunday. We checked in with our sister site, Hogs Haven, for a little knowledge on the enemy. We asked five questions and got five answers.

Blogging The Boys: How has Year 2 looked for Jayden Daniels? What has he improved on over his rookie year, and what does he still need to work on?

Hogs Haven: We have somewhat of a small sample size because he missed weeks 3 & 4 due to injury. However, I’d say he’s following a similar pattern to last year of...

It’s hard to say a Week 7 matchup can make or break a team’s season, but this week’s game against the Washington Commanders will do just that for the Dallas Cowboys. If the Cowboys win, they will stay in the playoff hunt. If they lose, it’s time to start prepping for the 2026 NFL Draft.

Before the two teams square off in this season-changing matchup, here are three bold predictions for the game.

1) Javonte Williams and the Cowboys’ rushing attack bounces back, totaling over 145 rushing yards as a team

Since Week 4, Washington’s defense has been one of...

The Dallas Cowboys are coming off of a frustrating loss against the Carolina Panthers, but in the NFL things like that can quickly be forgotten.

It goes without saying that if you could have picked only one game beginning with the Carolina game for Dallas to win over their next two, you would have picked this week’s game. The Washington Commanders are a division rival and a win against them means significantly more.

How would you feel if the Cowboys pulled it off? Obviously it would depend how the win happened, but would you be a little bit bought back...

The Dallas Cowboys and Washington Commanders meet this Sunday in another classic NFC East clash, and both teams are fighting to steer their seasons back on track.

The Cowboys, sitting in the middle of the pack, have been plagued by inconsistency; one week looking like contenders, the next struggling to find rhythm on either side of the ball.

The Commanders, led by QB Jayden Daniels, have also faced their share of growing pains.

Despite showing flashes of potential, they’ve yet to fully find their offensive identity, especially during Jayden Daniels’ absence due to injury.

With a victory, either team would...

The Dallas Cowboys will play on both Thanksgiving and Christmas this season in the coming months, but through six games, the only thing fans know for sure about this team is they have a defense more suited for the upcoming holiday of Halloween – one sure to provide scares, spooks, and frights to followers of America’s Team. The scariest thing of all is the type of season on offense this defense is already on the verge of totally ruining, with Dak Prescott returning to MVP-level performance immediately in Brian Schottenheimer’s offense.

Schottenheimer’s scheme has proven to be a natural fit...

The 2025 NFL season is officially at the 1/3rd pole now. For the Dallas Cowboys and Green Bay Packers, it has been shaped by “The Trade”.

Just one week before Dallas was to open the season against the Philadelphia Eagles, Jerry Jones traded Micah Parsons off to the Green Bay Packers.

In exchange, the Cowboys received defensive tackle Kenny Clark and two first round picks. So how does the trade stack up after the first six weeks?

A Tale Of Two Franchises

The Green Bay Packers are 3-1-1. The Dallas Cowboys are 2-3-1.

Clearly it is the best of...

CeeDee Lamb happy with ankle, ready to return for Cowboys – Todd Archer, ESPN

CeeDee Lamb sounds like he’ll be ready to play on Sunday.

FRISCO, Texas — Dallas Cowboys Pro Bowl wide receiver CeeDee Lamb said he is ready to return to the lineup Sunday against the Washington Commanders after missing the past three games with a high left ankle sprain.

Lamb went through a limited practice for the second straight day Thursday, but he said it won’t take him long to get back up to speed.

“I feel like I’m moving around,...

Week 7 kicks off with the Steelers and the Bengals.

This is an open thread for game chat.

The Dallas Cowboys and Washington Commanders enter this Week 7 matchup in a similar state. Both teams have been dealing with injuries and are coming off a loss in which they lost by a last-second field goal. It’s always a physical game when these two teams play and there’s no reason to expect any different this week.

There are certain matchups this week that could help sway the game one way or the another for both the Cowboys and the Commanders. Both organizations will try to exploit any and every matchup to help lead them to victory. These are matchup’s...