Richard Paolinelli
2024 Roster Review: Starting Linebackers – Part 13 of 17. Click here to view all articles in this series. For the first four games of the 2023 season, the linebacker room was as rock solid as any in the NFL. Then came Trent Williams’ dirty play in a Week 5 loss to the 49ers. The offensive …
2024 Roster Review: Backup Defensive Line – Part 12 of 17. Click here to view all articles in this series. There is no debate when it comes to the Dallas Cowboys’ defensive line in 2023. It was clearly the weakest unit on the team. Especially in stopping the run up the middle as teams continually gashed …
2024 Roster Review: Starting Defensive Line – Part 11 of 17. Click here to view all articles in this series. The Dallas Cowboys’ pass rush was one of – if not the most – feared in the NFL in 2023. Unfortunately for Dallas, opposing offenses found the defensive line’s Achillies heel. They couldn’t stop the run. …
2024 Roster Review: Backup Offensive Line – Part 10 of 17. Click here to view all articles in this series. Perhaps the biggest news connected to the Dallas Cowboys out of last weekend’s combine didn’t involve any prospects. With the Cowboys letting left tackle Tyron Smith explore free agency, the door is wide open for at …
2024 Roster Review: Starting Offensive Line – Part 9 of 17. Click here to view all articles in this series. The Dallas Cowboys’ offensive line had its moments during the 2023 season. Unfortunately, not all of them were good. The starting five did not start every game together. Injuries have taken their toll at both ends …
In a few hours the NFL’s annual scouting combine will open the doors at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana. At 2 p.m. this afternoon, the drills will begin for the defensive lineman and linebackers. Friday will see the defensive backs and tight ends hit the field at 2 p.m. The offense takes over on Saturday …
2024 Roster Review: Backup Tight Ends – Part 8 of 17. Click here to view all articles in this series. Tight end Jake Ferguson was targeted 102 times in the 2023 season. The other three tight ends on the Cowboys’ roster were thrown at just 24 times all year. Among Dallas’ tight ends, Ferguson drew 81 …
2024 Roster Review: Starting Tight End – Part 7 of 17. Click here to view all articles in this series. Last year when the Dallas Cowboys parted ways with tight end Dalton Schultz, panic set it everywhere. The fan base was sure the Cowboys would regret Schultz’s absence in 2023. The front office panicked and reach …
Over the weekend news broke of the passing of former Cowboys receiver Golden Richards at the age of 73. The cause of his death — at his home in Murray, Utah – was given as congestive heart failure. Richards’ nephew, Lance Richards, broke the news in a Facebook post on Friday. Richards had been 10 years …
2024 Roster Review: Back-up wide receivers – Part 6 of 17. Click here to view all articles in this series. It has long been a known strategy in fantasy football to keep an eye on a wide receiver entering his third year. For whatever reason, a switch is thrown and they ignite. Dallas’ Jalen Tolbert will …
Former Cowboys’ quarterback Danny White was in Fort Worth on Monday night as part of the presentation of the annual Davey O’Brien Award. The award is presented to the best quarterback in college football. This year it went to Heisman Trophy winner Jayden Daniels of LSU. White was on hand to receive the Davey O’Brien Legends …
2024 Roster Review: Starting wide receivers – Part 5 of 17. Click here to view all articles in this series. CeeDee Lamb is the clear WR1 in Dallas. His contract extension should be the top priority at The Star. Which begs the question: Who will be WR2 for the Cowboys going into 2024? It certainly isn’t …
2024 Roster Review: Backup running backs – Part 4 of 17. Click here to view all articles in this series. No matter how it plays out – the Cowboys manage to resign Tony Pollard or he leaves in free agency – Dallas is somewhat thin at backup running back. Rico Dowdle, Hunter Luepke, and Deuce Vaughn …
2024 Roster Review: Starting running backs – Part 3 of 17. Click here to view all articles in this series. Last year the Dallas Cowboys bade farewell to Ezekiel Elliott, handing the starting job to Tony Pollard. Elliott had been the team’s first round pick in 2016. But Elliott had clearly lost a step and he …
2024 Roster Review: Backup Quarterbacks – Part 2 of 17. Click here to view all articles in this series. Assuming Dak Prescott is the starter in 2024 – either with an extension or playing out his contract’s final year – the Cowboys may have a critical decision to make. Who to keep as the backup in …
2024 Roster Review: Starting Quarterback – Part 1 of 17. Click here to view all articles in this series. For the most part, Dak Prescott had a solid season in 2023, especially when compared to the disaster film that was his 2022 season. Coming into the year, Prescott needed to take better care of the football. …
This won’t come as a shock to longtime fans of the Dallas Cowboys: The entire franchise is undisciplined. And it has been since a certain Hall of Fame Head Coach was run out of town after the 1993 season. That lack of discipline is the primary reason why the team has failed to play in a …
My colleague Mario Herrera Jr. discussed this year’s dreadful snubbing of three of the Cowboys’ stars for this year’s end-of-season awards. DaRon Bland, Micah Parsons, and Dak Prescott were in the running for some of the league’s regular season honors. Of the three, Bland got the worst of it. Leading the league in interceptions and setting …
Randy Gregory was just a little over seven minutes away from completing a strange odyssey. The Cowboys’ second round pick of the 2015 Draft – 60th overall – was a promising young defensive lineman out of Nebraska. That promise went up in smoke – literally. Dallas drafted him despite his positive test for marijuana at the …
With the kickoff of Super Bowl LVIII set for tomorrow we conclude our recap of the eight Super Bowl games played by the Dallas Cowboys. It would be the second time Dallas would face a previous opponent in the Super Bowl. And the third time overall for the Cowboys to play Pittsburgh for the title. It …
With the kickoff of Super Bowl LVIII two days away we continue our recap of the eight Super Bowl games played by the Dallas Cowboys. It would be the second time the Cowboys faced an opponent in the Super Bowl for the second time. The first came in Super Bowls X and XIII against the Steelers. …