The outcome of an NFL game can hinge on so many things. This Saturday’s meeting with Detroit will no doubt be influenced by which players are unable to take the field (like Johnathan Hankins and Rico Dowdle), but there are a few hidden keys to success, too. The Prescott-to-Lamb connection could be huge in this one, for instance, and don’t discount the importance of what happens in “the middle eight.” We’ll also discuss Dallas’s penalty problem, the hard lesson they still haven’t learned about one specific positional group, why Brandin Cooks is more than his stats suggest, and how the Cowboys can solve the equation for momentum heading into the playoffs.
Meanwhile, is Jerry Jones already eyeing Jason Witten as the Cowboys’ head coach someday? What did Tony Pollard admit about that failed touchdown run of his last week in Miami? And what critical piece of their offensive role-sort do the Cowboys still not have figured out 16 games into the season? All that and more, in this edition of News and Notes.
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