Kevin Brady
The NFL will start the new decade with two of their most storied franchises, with the Dallas Cowboys and Pittsburgh Steelers battling out in the Hall of Fame game. The selection of these teams makes perfect sense, and most saw it coming from a mile away. Long time Steelers head coach Bill Cowher and safety Troy …
Yes, it’s time for more Cowboys contract talk! The main story surrounding America’s Team this offseason is what their game plan will be to re-sign their current free agents. But while the focus remains on those without deals, it’s worth taking a look at those with deals to see how the Cowboys got to this point. …
NFL.com’s Cynthia Frelund has been doing some super interesting analytics based work for a while now, and she took a stab at building a mock draft this week. Cynthia says this simulation is data and context driven, built on years of information with each pick attempting to improve the teams’ win total in the very next …
The NFL combine matters. Often dismissed as the “underwear olympics” which prove nothing about a player’s ability to play actual football, the athletic thresholds which are tested at the combine do matter. We’ve seen good athletes who don’t turn out to be bad football players at times, but we almost never see bad athletes who become …
Disappointment and the Dallas Cowboys have gone hand in hand since 1996. Seemingly every season the Cowboys are considered Super Bowl favorites nationally, and yet they’ve failed to reach the NFC championship game year after year. So, will 2020 be different? That same national media doesn’t seem convinced. Chris Roling of Bleacher Report named the Cowboys …
If you ask your average Cowboys fan, they’d tell you Connor Williams has been a disappointment. And on the surface, it might be hard to argue this at first. After all, Williams went from the alleged next great piece on an already established offensive line, to someone who was in and out of the lineup his …
It’s now March of 2020, and Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott is still without a contract extension. In fact, in a couple weeks, it may be “free agent quarterback” Dak Prescott if the two can’t come to an agreement. Prescott doesn’t seem phased. When speaking with USA Today’s Jori Epstein this week, Prescott said that he’s …
It’s no secret the Dallas Cowboys are looking to bolster their safety position this offseason. After largely bargain shopping at safety over the past couple of years, Mike McCarthy and company may need to invest heavy resources into finding their long term answer. Maybe even a first round pick. If they do use pick 17 on …
It’s been quite a long time since the Cowboys draft strategy felt this unpredictable. Under Jason Garrett’s leadership, certain positions and physical thresholds had been targeted in particular rounds. Of course, things changed a bit year to year based on need, but you basically new what Garrett and company were looking for in their draft class. …
It’s NFL combine week, which means we get to read into hundreds of quotes from the Cowboys braintrust during the offseason downtime. Cowboys owner Jerry Jones finally gave us some of those quotes on Thursday, discussing everything from the league’s new CBA proposal to the Cowboys’ own big time free agents. Jones said that he voted …
How did Mike McCarthy improve as a head coach during his football gap year? This question looms large ahead of McCarthy’s return to the NFL with the Dallas Cowboys. Things grew stale between himself and quarterback Aaron Rodgers back in Green Bay, with the team plummeting and missing the postseason in 2018. McCarthy’s firing felt justified …
Football is a dangerous game. There’s no way around it. So when we discuss these players battling through injury to play in a sport which may (or may not but definitely seems to) cause long term health defects, we do need to have a level of sensitivity. And Leighton Vander Esch’s situation seems to require that …
Formerly thought of as one of the team’s deepest units, the cornerback room in Dallas has a chance to be super thin by the time the 2020 NFL Draft comes around. Byron Jones and Anthony Brown are both entering unrestricted free agency, and Chidobe Awuzie’s inconsistent play makes cornerback an immediate draft need in Dallas. Holding …
I’m sure you’ve heard about the Cowboys upcoming free agent class. Dak Prescott, Amari Cooper, Byron Jones, and Robert Quinn just to name a few. Dallas has a busy Spring ahead of them as they look to retain some of their most key roster talent. But as they focus on those big name parts, other free …
I don’t know if you’ve been watching, but we have entertaining professional football during the NFL’s offseason. The XFL 2.0 is three weeks in, and each week has better than the last. Electric stars like PJ Walker are carrying the league from the sport’s most important positions, but the Cowboys could have their eyes set on …
The Cowboys leading sack getter in 2019 wasn’t who fans would’ve expected it to be. Rather than the dominant DeMarcus Lawrence taking the team-lead, it was offseason acquisition Robert Quinn leading the way with 11.5 sacks. Quinn, after a very successful single season in Dallas, now enters unrestricted free agency as a hot commodity. In 2019 …
The sports world seemed to completely stop what it was doing Sunday night, turning it’s collective attention to a previously unlikely event. The NBA All Star game. Usually an alley-oop filled, defense-less affair, Sunday’s All Star game was quite literally the best I’ve ever seen. Across any sport. The NBA experimented with the “Elam Ending,” setting a …
If there’s one thing the Cowboys have been consistently good at the last decade – it’s drafting. Dallas has found All Pro first rounders in multiple years, as well as maximizing day three picks like Dak Prescott as well. 2019, however, was a very different year for the Cowboys in terms of their draft results. NFL.com …
For all the arguments centered around players like Dak Prescott and Jaylon Smith, the Dallas Cowboys’ biggest weakness in 2019 was their special teams unit. Dallas was 30th in special teams DVOA in 2019, above only the Panthers and Chargers. Rarely did they provide their offense with short fields, and too often they committed costly mistakes …
It’s been quite the week of Cowboys rumors, huh? Beginning with Tom Brady and ending with draft day trade up scenarios, the world loves a good crazy Jerry Jones story. A few days ago, Pro Football Network’s Tony Pauline hinted at a big Cowboys rumor in his mailbag post, saying that sources close to the team …
Was there a bigger disappointment in 2019 than the Dallas Cowboys? While some may argue the Cleveland Browns stole that crown, no one inside of the Cowboys’ fandom would feel that way. The Cowboys came into last August as one of the league’s premier Super Bowl contenders, expected to be in a season long battle with …