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Ladies and gentlemen, the 2024 NFL Preseason is finally upon us and, believe it or not, there is Dallas Cowboys football today! It’s a Dallas Cowboys game day. I’ve been at my new house for approximately 60 days now and my barbecue pit has been patiently waiting for me to prepare it for the big day. …
Things are heating up in the NFL world. Training camp is here, the preseason is on deck, and with that the Cowboys fantasy football rankings are starting to get some attention. It is almost time for fantasy drafts, after all. It’s no surprise that Dallas has some of the top players in fantasy football. Despite this …
The Dallas Cowboys defense in Madden 25 leaves much to be desired. The defense has one of, if not the best, defenders in the league, but there isn’t much love for the defensive players after him. The defense from top to bottom looks like a top-10 defense in real life. Madden 25, on the other hand, …
Last night’s Hall of Fame preseason game marked the first appearance of the league’s new kickoff rules. The NFL adopted the kickoff format championed in recent years by the spring football leagues. They’ve even tweaked the onside kick rules too. Thursday night’s game was halted late in the third quarter due to thunderstorms in the Canton, …
The NFL will utilize new technology in a few preseason games to assess its impact on the games. The technology in question is a Sony product called Hawk-Eye, which could potentially replace chain gangs in measuring line-to-gain. Several games over the years have hinged on the exact placement of the ball on the field. The Hawk-Eye …
[This is the second part of a two-part series.] In the first part of this series, we looked at the rash of ACL tears that have plagued the Dallas Cowboys this decade. So far, after four full seasons, plus one week of training camp, 10 of Dallas’ players have had this specific season-ending injury. That compares …
Once NFL training camps are concluded and rosters become final, 1,696 players are officially members of one of the 32 NFL teams. The turnover from season to season is incredible, and when you mix in free agency and the draft for each offseason, that turnover is multiplied tenfold. Make no mistake. It is extremely difficult to …
By the time you read this, the Dallas Cowboys will have already taken a flight out of Texas, heading to Oxnard, California for training camp. It has been a long and exhausting offseason filled with angst and frustration from a fanbase that only wants to see team success, but instead must watch each season end in …
I love NFL football. Specifically, I love Dallas Cowboys football. I feel incredibly fortunate to be able to sit down five times a week to write about my favorite team. When I started playing tackle football in junior high, the coaches chose me to quarterback the defense as the free safety making the pre-snap calls. That …
This is the final weekend before the NFL season starts to roll around, and we can leave the non-football portion of our summer behind us. We can all look forward to seeing the Cowboys take the field for 2024 after yet another disappointing playoff exit. This time, it was an embarrassing 48-32 beat down at the …
This point in the NFL offseason is the season of lists and rankings. Every Tom, Dick, and Harry in the sports universe is using the absence of football for the impossible task of ranking players. ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler is currently in the middle of a series where several NFL executives, coaches, and scouts are voting for …
The calendar in July keeps ticking days away as we draw closer to real, live NFL football. Everyone should have July 25th circled on those calendars as the first day of Dallas Cowboys training camp in Oxnard, California. Fans are chomping at the bit. Can you imagine the players? They long for the days when they …
When you step back and think about it, it’s really unfair how harshly NFL general managers are judged when it comes to team-building skills. There are so many variables that need to be taken into account. Some teams constantly make sure their offense maintains top-tier talent, i.e. the Baltimore Ravens and Philadelphia Eagles. Other teams prioritize …
The Cowboys had a large exodus of players from the 2023 roster after their contracts were allowed to expire without new deals offered. One of those players was RB Tony Pollard. Pollard left for his home state of Tennessee to play for the Titans and split carries with second-year player Tyjae Spears, leaving Rico Dowdle as …
Cowboys Nation is now officially just a fortnight away from the Dallas Cowboys taking to the practice field in Oxnard, California for the 2024 edition of training camp. Many questions surround this year’s version of the team after three consecutive seasons with 12 regular season wins, plus an early playoff exit. An unacceptable loss to the …
There has not been a division in football that has had more turnover than the NFC East in the last 20 years. The talk of the summer has been how bad the Cowboys front office is, the contract situations with CeeDee Lamb and Dak Prescott, followed by Micah Parsons’ comments on Twitter. I know I have …
If you had told me at the beginning of the offseason that a former Cowboys wide receiver would take to Twitter/X to criticize Dallas’ current top wide receiver, I’d probably laugh you out of the room. However, that’s exactly what has happened and Cowboys Nation is all too eager to share the latest drama in this …
The 2023 Dallas Cowboys schedule saw seven matchups with postseason teams, and to say they struggled in those seven critical games is an understatement. Dallas went 3-5 in total, including that embarrassing playoff loss to the Green Bay Packers. This trend has stuck around for the Cowboys in recent years. The Cowboys beat up on the …
When it comes to coaching staffs in the NFC East, the Dallas Cowboys have arguably the best overall among the top three positions. Mike McCarthy has won a Super Bowl and has led Dallas to three straight 12–5 seasons. Of the division’s head coaches, he’s the only one with a ring. Washington’s Dan Quinn led the …
The Draft is the most highly anticipated event of the offseason, and going into the 2024-2025 season, a lot of first-round picks will have massive impacts on their new teams and may even push those same teams into Super Bowl contention. Read on to break down the top draft picks from this past 2024 NFL Draft …
Every team in the NFC East shares one thing in common — they will start the 2024 season with different offensive lines than those with which they ended the 2023 season. All four teams in the NFL’s NFC East division have large question marks hanging overhead as the season begins. How these changes, in particular, play …
