Cowboys Pregame Three Thoughts for Week 9
An opportunity to see how much the Cowboys coaching staff has learned this month.
Huge games don’t happen every week, but we’ve got one on Sunday.
It is the annual trip to Philadelphia to deal with those Eagles – and this time, it is a virtual battle for first place in the NFC East. By extension, it is dangerously close to a battle for first place in the entire NFL.
Dallas has fallen on their face in two road games already and lost their first “showdown” by five touchdowns. This explains, along with a World Series run by their next-door neighbors, why nobody is willing to tell the world this Cowboys team is a great team right now.
They need validation before anyone wants to argue very hard on their behalf. And Sunday at 3:25 central at the Linc would be a fine place to start.
Here are my Cowboys-Eagles Three Thoughts:
– The QB Narrative has pretty much been nothing but talk so far. This rivalry needs more Dak Prescott vs Jalen Hurts.
It is pretty fascinating to consider the fact that so many people love to discuss these teams by standard of their QBs and yet we have only one meeting of Dak vs Hurts. Hurts hasn’t been around very long and between the bumps and bruises on both sides to both QBs, they have just the one meeting back early in 2021 (an easy Cowboys win).
Here are the 14 meetings listed in chronological order between the two sides since Dak was drafted:
Dallas is 9-5 in these games since 2016 and Dak Prescott is 6-2 against the Eagles if we eliminate all of the times they have played in the final week of the season, when starters either don’t play, or do play but for a short about of time.
Jalen Hurts is 1-2 against Dallas as a starter, with his one win last October at home against Cooper Rush. In other words, this rivalry has not happened. It has been a ton of hot air and sports radio, but no substance yet. They just haven’t crossed paths and the argument might be that Prescott has played much longer and is now 30, but Hurts has gone further in the playoffs already and now makes significantly more money. He also was close to winning a Super Bowl at the age of 24.