The Cowboys maintain that they want to be playing their best football this time of year, but they’re getting injury scares from some of their best players ahead of Week 17. Micah Parsons is sporting a hand wrap and was limited Tuesday, even as he tries to make a push for the Defensive Player of the Year honors. And Tony Pollard missed his second straight day with a thigh issue.
Elsewhere, the Cowboys are prepping a brand-new set of uniforms for Thursday night’s primetime tilt, Jerry Jones is still defending his decision to not have curtains in his stadium, Sam Williams shares more about that scary car wreck, and Brett Maher is sitting at the top of the scoring heap. We’re looking at the latest power rankings, we’re putting together an early list of potential free agents, and we’re keeping an eye on a former Cowboy who may be set to return to action wearing enemy colors. Also, Randy Gregory gets in trouble, and Luka Doncic is using the Cowboys in his latest on-the-court trash talk. That’s all up in News and Notes.
NFL.com, Fox Sports, and The Ringer are all agreed. The Cowboys are the 6th-best team in the league, even after handing the vaunted Eagles their second loss of the season. The division win apparently didn’t have any effect on the team’s standing in any of the rankings from the previous week.
The linebacker had his left hand wrapped on Tuesday, but told reporters there would be no X-ray or MRI and that he was good to go for Thursday night. He was listed as limited on the day’s practice report, and invited anyone who thinks he should easily have more sacks on the season to step into his bruised and battered shoes.
The Cowboys head coach believes Parsons’s total productivity and versatility as well as the relentless nature he plays the game with should give him the edge over the 49ers’ Nick Bosa as frontrunner for Defensive Player of the Year honors. “A couple of those scrambles the past week, the way he closes down and runs down a quarterback” were things McCarthy pointed out about Parsons’s game specifically. “He can make plays all over the field.”
The league’s ninth-leading rusher missed a second straight day of practice with a thigh injury, even though Jerry Jones expressed optimism that he would play. Mike McCarthy promised that Malik Davis would take some practice reps, perhaps hinting that…
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