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    Cowboys starting rookie Terence Steele at right tackle

    Getty Images The Cowboys’ depth chart lists veteran Cameron Erving as the starter at right tackle with starter La'el Collins on injured reserve. But Erving, a former first-round choice of the Browns who has made 42 career starts, won’t start Sunday night. Neither will Brandon Knight, who...
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    NFL still plans to play in California, despite air quality concerns

    Getty Images Despite raging wildfires leading to poor air quality, the NFL still plans to play two games in California on Sunday. The league is continuing to monitor the situation but currently still expects to be able to play the Cardinals-49ers game in Santa Clara on Sunday afternoon and the...
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    Air quality may be a problem for both Cardinals-49ers and Cowboys-Rams

    Getty Images On Friday, Rams coach Sean McVay said that air quality for Sunday night’s stadium-opening season opener “shouldn’t be an issue.” It still could be. The Air Quality Index currently sits at 146 in Inglewood, site of the new Rams stadium. The threshold for potential NFL...
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    Stephen Jones: Dak Prescott bet on himself and bet wisely

    USA TODAY Sports The Cowboys have never let a player whom they really, really, REALLY wanted to keep leave in free agency. They sometimes overpay to make it happen, but they always get their man. They signed Dez Bryant at the 11th hour in 2014. They signed DeMarcus Lawrence in 2019. They...
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    Week One injury report roundup

    Getty Images The 2020 NFL season kicked off on Thursday with a win by the Chiefs and it continues with 13 more games on Sunday, which means that the 26 teams in those games submitted their final injury reports of the week on Friday. The teams playing on Monday night won’t release their final...
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    Jalen Ramsey hopes to spend the rest of his career with Rams

    Getty Images The Rams reached a five-year, $105 million extension with Jalen Ramsey, the most lucrative contract ever for an NFL defensive back. Ramsey expressed relief at getting it signed before the season opener. “I started, as the season got closer to being here, I started to think about...
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    Mike McCarthy: Dak Prescott showed tremendous strength talking about depression

    Getty Images Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott revealed recently that he sought help for depression and anxiety this offseason, and that made Cowboys coach Mike McCarthy admire Prescott even more. McCarthy said today that he has been impressed with everything he has seen from Prescott since...
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    Cowboys rule out Jourdan Lewis

    Getty Images The Cowboys will have receiver Amari Cooper for Sunday’s opener against the Rams. Cooper was a full participant all week with a hamstring injury that limited him during training camp. Cornerback Chidobe Awuzie (knee) also is good to go after three full practices, which included...
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    Rams running back Darrell Henderson struggling with hamstring injury

    Getty Images Rams coach Sean McVay wants to use a three-man weave at running back. With Week One looming, one of their three men is banged up. Darrell Henderson appears on the injury report this week as having a hamstring injury. Although he fully participated in practice on Wednesday and...
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    Cowboys add voidable year to DeMarcus Lawrence’s contract for cap purposes

    Getty Images The Cowboys are continuing to create cap space. Tom Pelissero of NFL Media reports that the team has added a one-year voidable extension to defensive end DeMarcus Lawrence‘s contract. They did that by converting $15 million of his $16.9 million salary to a signing bonus. Dallas...
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    Jason Garrett says he doesn’t have advice for Joe Judge

    Getty Images New York Giants offensive coordinator Jason Garrett will coach his first game alongside head coach Joe Judge on Monday night against the Pittsburgh Steelers. Garrett is coming off 10 seasons as the head coach of the Dallas Cowboys while Judge is getting his first opportunity as a...
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    Dak Prescott sought help for anxiety, depression in the offseason

    Getty Images After Dak Prescott‘s older brother, Jace, died in April, the Cowboys quarterback sank into an anxiety and a depression he had never previously felt. Prescott talked at length Thursday about seeking help. “When you have thoughts that you’ve never had, I think that’s more so than...
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    Considering the candidates for offensive player of the year, with a twist

    Getty Images Wednesday’s PFT Live included a draft with a slight twist: Offensive player of the year candidates, but with quarterbacks omitted. Not that the quarterbacks historically have dominated the award. Over the last 48 years, quarterbacks have won it 20 times and running backs have won...
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    Amari Cooper has full practice despite hamstring

    USA TODAY Sports Amari Cooper spent much of last season on the Cowboys’ injury report. He begins this season on their injury report, too, but the good news is that he had a full practice Wednesday. The receiver missed the last four full practices of training camp with an unknown injury. The...
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    Who will be the defensive player of the year in 2020?

    Getty Images Tuesday’s PFT Live featured a three-man draft for one of the top individual awards eventually to be named after the NFL season ends. Defensive player of the year. Won in 2019 by Patriots cornerback Stephon Gilmore, who will win it this time around? Peter King, Chris Simms, and I...
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    “Everything is on go” for Xavier Woods for Week One

    Getty Images Cowboys safety Xavier Woods has not practiced in a while because of a groin injury, but the team does not believe that he will miss Sunday’s opener against the Rams. That was the word from team owner Jerry Jones during his Tuesday appearance on 105.3 The Fan. Jones said Woods...
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    Cowboys restructure Zack Martin’s contract to free up cap space

    Getty Images The Cowboys and offensive lineman Zack Martin have agreed to a restructured contract that lessens his cap hit for this year. Martin’s new deal cuts his cap hit by $8 million and pushes it to future years, Ian Rapoport of NFL Network reports. Martin had been slated to have a $15...
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    Report: Cowboys extend Randy Gregory’s contract through 2021

    Getty Images The NFL conditionally reinstated defensive end Randy Gregory last week. The Cowboys extended his contract Tuesday. Todd Archer of ESPN reports the one-year extension, which will tie Gregory to the Cowboys through 2021, includes a $200,000 signing bonus. Gregory can make up to $2.1...
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    Ezekiel Elliott: Some Cowboys will kneel on Sunday

    Getty Images Despite Cowboys owner Jerry Jones’ long-held stance that players are to stand for the national anthem, some Cowboys players will be kneeling during the “Star-Spangled Banner” on Sunday night. That’s the word from Ezekiel Elliott, who said in an interview for today’s PFTPM Podcast...
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    Jerry Jones: Player protests, even during anthem, are “genuine ask for help”

    USA TODAY Sports The Cowboys have never had a player protest during the national anthem, with the players having adhered to owner Jerry Jones’ edict to stand “with toes on the line.” That will change Sunday. Defensive tackle Dontari Poe, who signed with the Cowboys during the offseason...
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